[or-roots] Meat - PETA - butchering - etc

[Connie Guardino]

Actually, I've enjoyed our exchange about our food sources. My father, a
pure-blooded Italian, raised rabbits his entire life. He brought that habit into
MY generation: we always had hutches in town and in the back yard. Now I know
there are those who wouldn't think of eating rabbit, but I grew up on it and it
tastes like chicken. I know my Grandma Guardino, who was born in Sicily, made
chicken-head-and-feet soup. And you know what they say about the Chinese: they
will eat anything!  My mother, a Scottish woman, used to fix us cow tongue. We'd
have cold cow tongue sandwishes in our lunch pails. Food fickleness is a learned
behavior. After all, food comes from Safeway, right?

Chris Havnar wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> As the queen of city, with family farm roots ...
>
> please stop!!  If you want to snipe at each other, PETA or other polarized
> sites are available. Blood sports are fun for some folks - but this should
> not be the forum.
>
> Can we stop and think of how our ancesters did food?  Safeway was not part
> of the Oregon Trail experience, nor of the early pioneers.  But that does
> not stop me from learning and reading about their food experience.
>
> I could never, I think, actually butcher my own food, but I've never been
> that hungry.  My dad tells me I would change my toon if I ever had to live
> thru a depresssion like event.  He did.  His father died when he was young
> and as a small child he raised rabbits, and it was the sale of the meat
> that was a huge part of the support of him and his mother.
>
> My nieces and nephews do 4-H.  They take their steers to a professional
> slaughter house.  But the roasts from their last two animals are the best
> things that I've ever had.  The last two animals are currently in the pipe
> line, I walked around with my nephew and the two animals a week or so ago.
>
> It is kind of like game hunters .... as a city born/raised/and
> super-citified person, I wasn't sure what to make of a brother in law in a
> wonderful game year when he asked for assistance processing the meat.  I
> wasn't sure I could deal with something that didn't walk, talk, and look
> like Safeway.  But I did discover that if it wasn't me taking the meat off
> of the animal (deer), but only packaging it into steaks, roasts, or off to
> a sausage plant, I was fine.
>
> In my mind .... I was thinking about my forebearers, who shot buffaloe,
> deer, etc to cross the plains and survive.
>
> Not all meat is scrink wrapped,
> Chris
>
> At 04:37 PM 5/12/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> >>>>
> Diane, I hope you don't resent ME PERSONALLY. All I did was read the
> article that was sent to me from more than one source.
>
> Diane wrote:
> bull--looney.  some more of the fanitacal extremists nonesense.  As a hard
> working beef producer, I resent this type of retoric.  Diane
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <mailto:census at wi.net>Connie Guardino
> To: <mailto:or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 2:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [or-roots] Dell's Hamburger shop
>  There is another reason too. Don't want to make you sick, but cow rectums
> and anuses are now a part of hamburger. I may never eart another burger as
> long as I live.
>
> <http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/usdapubcom0304.cfm>http://www.organi
> cconsumers.org/madcow/usdapubcom0304.cfm
>
> <mailto:CARROLLOUC at aol.com>CARROLLOUC at aol.com wrote:
>  Yes, I have been lurking today and enjoying the chatter about Dell's. They
> were always the best hamburgers in town. I have not been to the
> reconstituted Dell's but understand the taste is not quite the same. This
> is possibly due to the fact the buns used to be heated on the same grill as
> the hamburgers were cooked on. This can no longer be done, so some of the
> taste is gone. Carroll
> Any one else in Medford ?Dan
>
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