meat

[bertine]

so, i don't eat a lot of non-chicken* meat. it mostly grosses me out from horrible memories from spending time at my grandparents farm when i was a kid. no one told the city kids not to make friends with the animals.

anyways, the way i deal with this is my infamous "meat grows on trees" but it is still touch and go on if i can eat it. however, lately i haven't had any issues with it and i was looking forward to having brats for dinner at my parents house when I noticed the neighbors BUTCHERING SOME ANIMAL IN THEIR BACKYARD.

I think I am going to be sick.

*i was attacked by a chicken once, i have no trouble eating them

Comments

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

What? Are they satanists, or something>

If you're lucky, they'll offer you some delicious opossum gumbo. Yum!

[stop-drop-n-die.livejournal.com]

No, just Mexican.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

they are just from a different culture, it turned out they were making susauge. i have seen it before i am just so grossed out by it.

[jayp39.livejournal.com]

*i was attacked by a chicken once, i have no trouble eating them

My exact philosophy about babies...

[bertine.livejournal.com]

exactly, if it leaves a scar you can eat it.

[short-angry.livejournal.com]

I had an ex girlfriend leave a scar, does that count?

backyard butchering

[considerphlebas.livejournal.com]

One of my friends taught in a small town in Mexico for awhile. The soccer field next to the school was multipurpose- sometimes there'd be kids playing soccer, sometimes there'd be some goats tied to the goalposts, and sometimes they'd just hunker down and slaughter a goat right in the middle of the field.

Re: backyard butchering

[bertine.livejournal.com]

yeah, this is sort of like that, the family there is mexican and everyweekend they have a bunch of people over and hang out doing something. last weekend they were roasting corn and canning it. it is actually pretty cool and my mom grew up on a farm so it isn't that weird for me.

however, the animal stuff grosses me out.

[woodoo24.livejournal.com]

I got that out of my system when I was young. We didn't live on a farm but every summer we would go out to the farm to help massacre the chickens. Inevitably chicken choking day would fall in August on my birthday!!! So some of my earliest birthday memories are of chasing headless chickens around the yard. And instead of the sweet smell of birthday cake and wax candles I remember the smell of burning rubbing alcohol and chicken pin feathers.

Anyways...the way I see it is if you put a "Mc" in front of it then chances are good it wasn't entirely real to begin with. I was a McChicken Nugget eatin' fool growing up. Once I did realize that McChicken was infact made from real chicken byproducts I was so hooked on them there were just no turning back.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

pin feathers suck.

yup, i have done my share of chicken cleaning. chickens are dumb and just so tasty. but big mammal animals are so gross to look at raw. i am not going to be able to eat beef for months now.

Chicken McNuggets are they only thing I eat from that place. I love them so.

[sand-in-my-soap.livejournal.com]

Damn your parents really know how to party! I mean the best I've ever had was a clown, some face painting and a bouncy castle, are the "animal slaughter party fun" people listed in the yellow pages?

[bertine.livejournal.com]

yeah, my birthday usually falls on the opening of deer hunting.

god, i have a lot of food issues.

[sand-in-my-soap.livejournal.com]

better than the opening of something worse like Tractor Pull season or Nascar

[bertine.livejournal.com]

it just meant that i couldn't hang out with my extended family on my birthday. tahnk god my dad was a city person.

[sand-in-my-soap.livejournal.com]

sounds intersting, does your extended family have a banjo player by chance?

[bertine.livejournal.com]

hell no!

[sand-in-my-soap.livejournal.com]

missing teeth and a tobacco habit?

[bertine.livejournal.com]

nope.

[sand-in-my-soap.livejournal.com]

geez, so all they do is shoot innocent animals and gut em in the yard?

[bertine.livejournal.com]

the farming ones, yes.

[sand-in-my-soap.livejournal.com]

do they at least wear overalls?

[phaedie.livejournal.com]

gah that's horrible.
i only ever stayed at a farm once and i made friends with the chickens.
then when they cut their heads off and tried to make me eat them i had to lie and say i was allergic.
i don't even know if that's a valid allergy but the farm folks believed me thank gods.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

good lie!

the chickens don't bother me but i can't eat pork at all.

bacon isn't pork is it?

[sand-in-my-soap.livejournal.com]

it is unless it's a not-dog or fakin-bakon

[phaedie.livejournal.com]

no um er... bacon isn't pork and i don't eat pig either. :D

[bertine.livejournal.com]

exactly.

LOL

[short-angry.livejournal.com]

I think bacon, much like caffine and Alcohol are exempt from any kind of unhealthy/can't have them rules.

Its bacon for god sake!!!

[bertine.livejournal.com]

i do use bacon bits alot since i hate cooking.

[short-angry.livejournal.com]

I can't get bacon bits . . . I will suck them down as I'm cooking then have nothing left for dinner.

You icon is food, and you hate cooking?

[bertine.livejournal.com]

exactly, i would eat the bacon bits with everything and they have no meat in them!

i like eating out. :P

[short-angry.livejournal.com]

Eating out does rock. If money were no object, I would probably eat out 5 nights a week. But, them damn mortgage people want their money. (Who do they think they are?!?!?)

[bertine.livejournal.com]

i thought you were one of those damn mortgage people. :P

actually i mostly eat at my parents house. my mom cooks so much and it is cheap that way.

[(Anonymous)]

I am, but not on my house!!

my buddies mom used to cook for him and I alot. When he was single, and home (he lives with her) alot, she would make a big dinner. They always invited me, and good free diner ROCKS!! She cooks everything from scratch . . .MMmmmmmmmm!!! And she would make awsome apple pies.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

yeah, i live across the street from my parents house so it is pretty much perfect for me.

[short-angry.livejournal.com]

Thats pretty sweet . . . Although I don't know that I would want my mother to see the woman I bring home. LOL

[bertine.livejournal.com]

i dated a guy that was scared of that. it never has happened, i don't park by their house and they never go anywhere by my place. it is pretty funny.

So, was it a chicken?

[enntea.livejournal.com]

I found the hog/goat/sheep/cow butchering pictures a little too graphic in that Seymour book. Chickens though don't look a thing like a mammal. Much easier to process.

I also repeat to myself over and over, "This is more humane than factory farms and a dude has to eat meat".

Did you neighbors do something bigger than a bird? those roosters must have been pretty stringly from living in your backyard...

Re: So, was it a chicken?

[bertine.livejournal.com]

it was either a cow or a pig. i am leaning towards a pig. they made susauge.

it really grossed me out, it might be sometime until i can eat meat again.

Re: So, was it a chicken?

[(Anonymous)]

A pig? really? That's illegal - you can't keep livestock in the city can you?

Did they winch the pig up from the garage?

Re: So, was it a chicken?

[bertine.livejournal.com]

i think it was dead when they got it, they were buterhing it, you know taking it apart. it was gross.

it was all laid out in various parts when i noticed, ick.

MEAT!

[moorelock.livejournal.com]

Does this mean you aren;t going to have ribs at your housewarming?

Re: MEAT!

[bertine.livejournal.com]

LOLOL

hell no

Re: MEAT!

[moorelock.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of the Dead Eye Dick song from Dumb and Dumber:

"She don't eat meat, but she SURE likes the BONE!"

Re: MEAT!

[bertine.livejournal.com]

LOLOLOL

exactly.