New Bits and Bobs No 13

A place to chat about anything you like, including non-gardening related subjects. Just keep it clean, please!

Moderators: KG Steve, Chantal, Tigger, peter, Chief Spud

Post Reply Previous topicNext topic
User avatar
glallotments
KG Regular
Posts: 2167
Joined: Sat Dec 01, 2007 4:27 pm
Location: West Yorkshire
Contact:
Contact glallotments

Monika wrote:I am not sure I could eat an animal I have looked after! We kept rabbits during the war to supplement our meagre rations and I could never eat them when they were killed. In fact, it still turns my stomach to smell cooked rabbits now, more than 60 years on!

Funny that I never feel like that about the poor little carrots, sprouts, parsnips ... ... ... ...



I'd have the same problem Monika - I'd just see it looking at me!
Top
User avatar
snooky
KG Regular
Posts: 1033
Joined: Sun Aug 31, 2008 5:03 pm
Location: Farnborough
Has thanked: 16 times
Been thanked: 65 times

We have a standing order with our Butcher for two rabbits every month and when I pick them up I get funny looks from other customers.And when I collect my veal escalopes that can be a different story,even been followed out of shop and asked very aggressively 'how could I eat baby cows?'The answer is 'very easily,with a caper sauce!'
Neither rabbit or veal is on display probably because of bad reactions,not P.C. people are too easily upset these days something to do with the sensation seeking wind-up merchants on the television telling us what we should and shouldn't be eating,I suspect.
Regards snooky

---------------------------------
A balanced diet is a beer in both hands!
WARNING.!!... The above post may contain an opinion
Top
Monika
KG Regular
Posts: 4546
Joined: Thu Jul 06, 2006 8:13 pm
Location: Yorkshire Dales

It wasn't their "cuddliness" which put me off eating our rabbits, snooky, but the fact that I had cleaned their hutches, seen their babies born, picked juicy dandelion leaves for them and now I was expected to eat them - almost like eating your own relatives!

I am not at all fussy about eating tasty lamb whose live specimen are gambolling all around us every spring.

By the way, my husband loves rabbit but he does understand my reluctance to cook it and restricts it to eating out, when he can get it.
Top
User avatar
Johnboy
KG Regular
Posts: 5824
Joined: Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:15 pm
Location: NW Herefordshire

Hi Snooky,
Butchers hereabouts display Veal, Rabbits and one takes orders for squirrels.
With regards Veal the people know very well that Veal Crates are illegal and that Veal is now classified as Pink Veal. So where is their problem?
With regards Rabbits these are shot and is it better to simply discard them or eat them? Without Rabbits on the menu during WW2 we would have starved.
JB.
Top
User avatar
glallotments
KG Regular
Posts: 2167
Joined: Sat Dec 01, 2007 4:27 pm
Location: West Yorkshire
Contact:
Contact glallotments

I'm like Monika - it would be MY animals I would have aproblem with - it would be like eating my dog!
Top
User avatar
alan refail
KG Regular
Posts: 7254
Joined: Sun Nov 27, 2005 7:00 am
Location: Chwilog Gogledd Orllewin Cymru Northwest Wales
Been thanked: 7 times

glallotments wrote:I'm like Monika - it would be MY animals I would have aproblem with - it would be like eating my dog!


I bet my cockerel tasted better than dog :roll:
Top
User avatar
oldherbaceous
KG Regular
Posts: 14435
Joined: Tue Jan 24, 2006 1:52 pm
Location: Beautiful Bedfordshire
Has thanked: 713 times
Been thanked: 712 times

Now why have i got this funny feeling that i have missed something, or is it that i have gained something. :wink: :)
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.

There's no fool like an old fool.
Top
User avatar
alan refail
KG Regular
Posts: 7254
Joined: Sun Nov 27, 2005 7:00 am
Location: Chwilog Gogledd Orllewin Cymru Northwest Wales
Been thanked: 7 times

Morning OH

Well, I've done mine :lol: :lol:

man-and-clock-photo-771341.jpg
man-and-clock-photo-771341.jpg (12.92 KiB) Viewed 3714 times
Last edited by alan refail on Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:16 am, edited 1 time in total.
Top
User avatar
oldherbaceous
KG Regular
Posts: 14435
Joined: Tue Jan 24, 2006 1:52 pm
Location: Beautiful Bedfordshire
Has thanked: 713 times
Been thanked: 712 times

Morning Alan, i'm unable to get the image to come up on the screen, i hate to think i'm missing something. :)
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.

There's no fool like an old fool.
Top
User avatar
alan refail
KG Regular
Posts: 7254
Joined: Sun Nov 27, 2005 7:00 am
Location: Chwilog Gogledd Orllewin Cymru Northwest Wales
Been thanked: 7 times

sorted :)
Top
User avatar
oldherbaceous
KG Regular
Posts: 14435
Joined: Tue Jan 24, 2006 1:52 pm
Location: Beautiful Bedfordshire
Has thanked: 713 times
Been thanked: 712 times

That's my mate, Big Ben. :)
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.

There's no fool like an old fool.
Top
User avatar
donedigging
KG Regular
Posts: 963
Joined: Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:13 pm
Location: Bristol

OH,
Hope you have remembered to wind the clock tower up, as well as change the hour, :wink:
donedigging
Top
User avatar
oldherbaceous
KG Regular
Posts: 14435
Joined: Tue Jan 24, 2006 1:52 pm
Location: Beautiful Bedfordshire
Has thanked: 713 times
Been thanked: 712 times

Dear Donedigging, Mr Reliable, that's me. :)

It was dark and spooky up the tower this morning. :wink:
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.

There's no fool like an old fool.
Top
User avatar
donedigging
KG Regular
Posts: 963
Joined: Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:13 pm
Location: Bristol

Dear OH,

A small tip for the winter months ahead,

Leave a torch at the bottom of the ladder :)
donedigging
Top
User avatar
oldherbaceous
KG Regular
Posts: 14435
Joined: Tue Jan 24, 2006 1:52 pm
Location: Beautiful Bedfordshire
Has thanked: 713 times
Been thanked: 712 times

Dear Donedigging, won't it still be dark up the tower, if i leave the torch at the bottom of the ladder. :? :wink: :)
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.

There's no fool like an old fool.
Top
Post Reply Previous topicNext topic

Return to “General chatter”