Posted: 11/2/2012 7:11:38 AM EDT
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I work in a rural hospital and we have a sulphur spring that feeds a large pond in front of hospital. Pond is full of ducks and geese right now.
One of the employees from another department made a comment about the ducks/geese and how she would love a couple of "those". I agreed and stated I would love a half dozen or so for my freezer. oops... she looked at me like the anti-christ and stated she meant she wanted them for her yard/garden as they are "really pretty" It reminded me of 20+ years ago at a public market, there were several butchers who would set up shop. One used to have lamb/goat/rabbit all fresh and cut to order. He would actually slaughter them right then and there and you would go back 10 minutes to an hour or two later and pick it up depending on what you ordered. This market becam hugely popular in later years with the yuppie suburban crowds. One of the last times I was there (20+ years ago) a young well dressed woman noted the rabbits in cages under the display and told her husband she wanted one. She pointed it out and butcher pulled out of cage and snapped it's neck, told her to come back in 10 minutes and he'd have it skinned and dressed and packaged up. The women looked like she had shit herself and started swearing and screaming calling him a f'in murderer etc... butcher told her "holy shit lady, where do you THINK your food comes from?" She thought she was buying a pet...from a butcher... |
Your back story reminds me of when I was on Crete, back in '06. A bunch of us rode motorcycles back into the country, and stopped at a little village for lunch. Waiter brings a table next to us a rather tasty looking plate. I said that I'd like to have that, and he says that was the last plate, but they could have some ready in about 30 minutes. Okay, I don't mind waiting. Then I see the chef go out back, grab a goat and lead him to the back of the restaraunt. I say, that was the freshest goat plate that I ever had! 
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we go to a butcher a few miles from our house now, rural area, guy butchers all the animals on-site. Last year we stopped in and I made mistake of parking my truck off to the side of the building. Wife and daughter stayed in car (they both hate the smell inside the butcher shop). Little did I know they were butchering a couple cows so my wife and daughter got treated to the "show" while I was inside. My daughter LOVES cow's. (The living, white and black, dairy cow type...not the steer getting it's brains blown out and throat slit to bleed out type)
Let's just say my wife and daughter were NOT happy with me for several days.... 
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The women looked like she had shit herself and started swearing and screaming calling him a f'in murderer etc... butcher told her "holy shit lady, where do you THINK your food comes from?" She thought she was buying a pet...from a butcher... This could be made up, could be true. Because part of me says "people aren't really that stupid". But then ... part of me KNOWS that "people really ARE that stupid". But I admit it, this actually made me laugh out loud. I can really picture it happening. Thanks for making my day! 
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I live about a half mile from the best little butcher shop in all of Louisiana. It's a traditional Cajun butcher shop run by a friend of mine. Years ago when it was owned by someone else, I went with my Dad to the shop to get something.
It just so happened they were butchering a hog. My Dad asked me if I wanted to see how they do it. So I said sure. Popped that hog right between the eyes with a .22, strung it up on a meat hook, cut its throat and bled it out. Then they brought it over to a large pot of boiling water. They dipped the carcass into it and scraped the hair off of it. Then, back up on the hook and they gutted it, then started butchering it. Didn't faze me in the least, I was about 10 or so. I was in college before I found out there are people out there who have no idea where their meat comes from. LC |
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The women looked like she had shit herself and started swearing and screaming calling him a f'in murderer etc... butcher told her "holy shit lady, where do you THINK your food comes from?" She thought she was buying a pet...from a butcher... This could be made up, could be true. Because part of me says "people aren't really that stupid". But then ... part of me KNOWS that "people really ARE that stupid". But I admit it, this actually made me laugh out loud. I can really picture it happening. Thanks for making my day! I went to school in Chicago. We had people who didn't know where corn came from, because everything came from the supermarket. 
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The women looked like she had shit herself and started swearing and screaming calling him a f'in murderer etc... butcher told her "holy shit lady, where do you THINK your food comes from?" She thought she was buying a pet...from a butcher... This could be made up, could be true. Because part of me says "people aren't really that stupid". But then ... part of me KNOWS that "people really ARE that stupid". But I admit it, this actually made me laugh out loud. I can really picture it happening. Thanks for making my day! I went to school in Chicago. We had people who didn't know where corn came from, because everything came from the supermarket. Lots of folks like that out there.... |
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Sadly...all true. For an idea of the demographic...Look up Rochester Public Market in NY, then look up Fairport/Victor/Pittsford for an idea of the yuppie suburbanites that think it's so endearing to go see it... (Public Market is in a very depressed area of downtown Rochester NY). Pretty sure they don't allow live animals in the stalls anymore but know for a fact that their are one or two that will take you out to their trucks in the parking area where they still stash a few goats/rabbits/chickens in cages if you want fresh.
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The women looked like she had shit herself and started swearing and screaming calling him a f'in murderer etc... butcher told her "holy shit lady, where do you THINK your food comes from?" She thought she was buying a pet...from a butcher... This could be made up, could be true. Because part of me says "people aren't really that stupid". But then ... part of me KNOWS that "people really ARE that stupid". But I admit it, this actually made me laugh out loud. I can really picture it happening. Thanks for making my day! |