tired of being called a redneck

[onedoodle3]

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When I told my 6 year old daughter we were going to get chickens this year, she asked me why. I told her so we could get eggs from them. She looked at me with one eyebrow raised, hand on hip, and said "Moooommmm...eggs come from Walmart, not chickens!"

This from the same child that thinks ATM's give free money. Everytime I tell her I don't have the money to buy something, she tells me to get it from "the big machine that eats your credit card and spits it back out". She's a nut...

On another note: my son's AFJROTC Major and I were talking last week about some trouble my son had gotten into. I told him I was gonna work my son's butt off while he was suspended from school this week. Major asked what he would be doing, to which I replied, : Well, I'm going to build a chicken coop... that is all I got out..His Major busted out laughing and said thanks for keeping the stereotype. I was born and raised in Fayetteville, NC, a city. I moved to WV about 5 years ago to the middle of nowhere. The nearest Walmart is 45 minutes away, the nearest movie theater an hour and a half away. It doesn't matter that I am not from here originally...people still think because I am living in WV, I am an ignorant, backwoods, in-bred, hillbilly.

I happen to love where I live now so who cares what those people think?

 

[OverEggstended]

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Oh MY!!

She has a thing coming, if a natural disastor happens, and you are the one with the eggs

Its very sad how so many people are indoctrinated this way.

Wow. I wonder if she knows how dirty and gross meat producing plants are usually. Not to mention packing plants. When there are actual written laws as to how much feces can be in a particular amount of food... you just KNOW it isn't good! LOL

Not to mention the newest research that shows that backyard and especially range fed chickens' eggs have twice the vitamins and minerals, more protein, and half the bad fats!

She probably thinks that if you want a good puppy then the only place to go is the petstore! UGH!

 

[Tala]

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If people really think that food is MADE at the grocery store....wonder what they think is being hauled around in all those semi trucks that say WalMart on the side?

lol
Everyone I know seems to at least know that trucks bring the food to the grocery store from *somewhere*

Although, one year they polled 5--7 year olds about their Thanksgiving dinner and put the answers in the paper. At least half of the entries started with "First, go to WalMart and get a turkey"
while the other half started with "Go out in the deer woods and find a turkey"
I'm pretty sure that both answers would qualify you as "redneck" since they specified WalMart instead of just saying "the store"

 

[Chook-A-Holic]

I don't care what they call me...I do know who they call when they are trying to figure out/fix something.

Hank Williams Jr. says it best "A Country Boy Can Survive"!!!

 

[debilorrah]

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A person trying to get the Country too!!! We keep moving further and further away.

 

[Chick_a_dee]

Another one I just LOVE is

We live 30 minutes from a fairly large regional city and people from the city think we're way out there in the sticks.. we're a 30 minute drive down a regional highway! They come cottaging up in our area!! THIRTY MINUTES AWAY!!! What the heck?!

 

[catfish/okie]

Im a red necked long haired country boy that wears a blue coller. And people like us is what makes this world go. And people that make fun of us wouldnt have a life like they have if it werent for us. Even though life would be tougher for us with out them we could still survive.

 

[Stumpy]

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You just need to leave Calli-fornie altogether, hun!

 

[speckledhen]

Folks who think chickens are dirty have never met one. Seriously, have you ever seen how much time a chicken spends grooming itself? And they don't lick their own butts, either.

I love to bury my nose in the hackles of a chicken I'm holding--no bad smell there! My chickens smell better than my dog most of the time.

The self sufficient folks, often called rednecks, are the ones who will be rich in food and warmth when things that are now circling the toilet bowl are flushed. The ones with the acreage to grow food are the wealthy, not the ones in their 3000 sf houses on 1/4 acre lots in swim/tennis subdivisions where covenants often prevent you from growing a dang tomato plant. So, let them call all the names they like-in the end, they won't be so quick to turn up their noses at your chickens and your compost pile.

 

[usschicago1]

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