Island Of Misfits

[sharonp]

sharonp -- You did not have to "develop a taste" for fried chicken, didja? Well, squirrel stew under puffy dumplings is in that category. It is not edgy, like sausage or even hamburger.

I grew up on a farm. I have raised chickens and butchered them. Maybe, it is cultural as I grew up eating noodles/spaghetti every way you could cook it.

 

[Unca Walt]

sharon -- I am truly old. In the truest sense of the term. I am the oldest person on this site. Factaroonie.

Doesn't make me superior in any way except experience. I have eaten dog. Lookit -- this is a photo of a street I have been on:

BTDT Babycakes. And I've eatem monkey on a stick. Sea cucumbers, rooster feet, 200 year old soup... and coupla of other things (it was necessary in my duty) that would gag you. Snake blood. More. Pictures posted right here on request.

I mention this because I note that you said you grew up on a farm. But "farms" -- as they exist all over the world are not like what you see them internally in reality as to what they really are.

 

[Hippie420]

Dog meat burritos are excellent. I like horse, too. Very lean meat. If you don't toss some butter/oil in the pan, it sticks.
Outside of long pig, I've eaten just about anything that's got feet or hooves. No primates, though.

 

[Hippie420]

sharon -- I am truly old. In the truest sense of the term. I am the oldest person on this site. Factaroonie.
Yeah, and yer ugly, too! But I think Roster has got ya beat for ugliest on the site.


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[sharonp]

sharon -- I am truly old. In the truest sense of the term. I am the oldest person on this site. Factaroonie.

Doesn't make me superior in any way except experience. I have eaten dog. Lookit -- this is a photo of a street I have been on:

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BTDT Babycakes. And I've eatem monkey on a stick. Sea cucumbers, rooster feet, 200 year old soup... and coupla of other things (it was necessary in my duty) that would gag you. Snake blood. More. Pictures posted right here on request.

I mention this because I note that you said you grew up on a farm. But "farms" -- as they exist all over the world are not like what you see them internally in reality as to what they really are.

Poverty exist everywhere. I didn't ask you about hunting to have a pissing contest with you. Maybe you do not understand some cultures if you think having a farm means hay bales and red checkered table clothes. I am out. You take care.

 

[Tattered Old Graywolf]

My deceased best buddy, Redskin, grew up on wild game. He'd get mad at me for shooting squirrels in the head 'cause it messed up their brains. He loved to cook the brains in his scrambled eggs. I always likes frying the legs in bacon grease. Yum. I'm in the same boat as you now a days. I enjoy watching them out on the bird feeders, and we feed all the critters around here throughout the year. Amazingly, there's enough food that the gray, fox, and pine (red) squirrels all get along. Out in the wild, they're mortal enemies.

I've eaten brains and eggs as well, but never fell in love with the texture. My aunt fixed them the first time and added the brains after the eggs, so they were still raw, much to the chagrin of my uncle.

I hand feed squirrels, haven't had one in my gun site since the early 60's. Time changes everything.

I stopped hunting period about three decades ago. The squirrels in the park and those in our yard will not only eat out of my hand, but they come down and beg. They will also come when called by simulating their bark.

The funny thing is that they recognize our dogs, rather than us humans. They also beg from my wife when she is with our dog and leave me alone when I'm not.

I grew up on a farm. I have raised chickens and butchered them.

Us too, and I never want to pluck another one...................

Long live Sol Rex! 65F @ 60% RH and predicted to reach 82F.

Breakfast out with Graywolf and another day of puttering. I updated my reflux column article to include the results using my large boiling pot and spent some quality time in the park flinging a ball for Miss Layla.

 

[user 60570]

I bet none of ya all had to eat flour mush for breakfast

when food got low my mom took plain flour , cold water , add the two together until it’s smooth and pourable , and then slowly pour it in some boiling water stirring all the time so it don’t get lumpy , cook about 10 minutes , add sugar and cinnamon and BAM!..flour mush breakfast

funny thing , when I was old enough for school , one day we mixed up some flour and water and dipped paper in the mixture and stuck it on a ballon that we had blowed up..

after it all dried , we popped the balloon and wa la , paper machet....the funny part was when we was mixing the flour and water , i though we were gonna have flour mush at school

 

[ROSTERMAN]

I bet none of ya all had to eat flour mush for breakfast
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when food got low my mom took plain flour , cold water , add the two together until it’s smooth and pourable , and then slowly pour it in some boiling water stirring all the time so it don’t get lumpy , cook about 10 minutes , add sugar and cinnamon and BAM!..flour mush breakfast

funny thing , when I was old enough for school , one day we mixed up some flour and water and dipped paper in the mixture and stuck it on a ballon that we had blowed up..

after it all dried , we popped the balloon and wa la , paper machet....the funny part was when we was mixing the flour and water , i though we were gonna have flour mush at school

if you had cut some fresh apples and added it to the flour mix and then deep fried them in plops you would have had what we ate , mom called them apple cake breakfast

 

[user 60570]

if you had cut some fresh apples and added it to the flour mix and then deep fried them in plops you would have had what we ate , mom called them apple cake breakfast

we could not afford the apples...mom had 13 kids , 10 of us survived, only 3 of us left now

 

[ROSTERMAN]

we could not afford the apples...mom had 13 kids , 10 of us survived, only 3 of us left now

We had a friend my Mom called the apple man , he fed us 7kids apples all season long
I remember bushels of them in root cellar all year long.
He gave them to us he had so many trees and rotted fruit left over after harvest.
Nice man

 

[ROSTERMAN]

For lunch at school I took a paper bag of apples almost every day

 

[user 60570]

we took a brown paper bag with a tuna sandwich and a peanut butter sandwich for lunch , that was all

when we got home , there was a pot of pinto beans cooking on the stove for supper

as kids , we took baths in the No 9 tub on the back porch

thats our home in Utah a long time ago

 

[ROSTERMAN]

we took a brown paper bag with a tuna sandwich and a peanut butter sandwich for lunch , that was all

when we got home , there was a pot of pinto beans cooking on the stove for supper

as kids , we took baths in the No 9 tub on the back porch

thats our home in Utah a long time ago

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I see you still have the same house ?

 

[Hippie420]

79 lovely degrees so far, projected to top 89. 74% RF, with a possibility of a thunderstorm. Zero % chance of hurricane.

 

[Unca Walt]

Back when you could not get sugar, my Grandma useta make us her special molasses cookies. But there was a catch: Us kids had to go out into the fields and pick ripe, wild strawberries. It took a bucket of wild strawberries for her recipe.

Anybody here ever try wild strawberries? Fargin sooper yummy. Miles better than cultivated for sweetness.

We used sorghum to control weeds in the fields. And us kids gathered sorghum blooms that were simply all over the place so Grandma could smoosh-cook them to make molasses. The stuff looked like used crankcase oil.

Back to Grandma. She'd moosh up the strawberries and mix them in with the molasses.

Then she'd take butter and flour and moosh them together, and then add the kids' stuff.

World's best fargin cookies. All made from stuff on the farm.

Oh, lordy. MORE MEMORIES. Grandma would also make pancakes with "clear molasses" to pour on them. I do not think "clear molasses" exists anymore. But it was the "early" cooking of the real molasses. It was quite thin, and much sweeter than dark molasses. Gone now, I guess.

 

[ROSTERMAN]

Back when you could not get sugar, my Grandma useta make us her special molasses cookies. But there was a catch: Us kids had to go out into the fields and pick ripe, wild strawberries. It took a bucket of wild strawberries for her recipe.

Anybody here ever try wild strawberries? Fargin sooper yummy. Miles better than cultivated for sweetness.

We used sorghum to control weeds in the fields. And us kids gathered sorghum blooms that were simply all over the place so Grandma could smoosh-cook them to make molasses. The stuff looked like used crankcase oil.

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Back to Grandma. She'd moosh up the strawberries and mix them in with the molasses.

Then she'd take butter and flour and moosh them together, and then add the kids' stuff.

World's best fargin cookies. All made from stuff on the farm.

Oh, lordy. MORE MEMORIES. Grandma would also make pancakes with "clear molasses" to pour on them. I do not think "clear molasses" exists anymore. But it was the "early" cooking of the real molasses. It was quite thin, and much sweeter than dark molasses. Gone now, I guess.

We had this

 

[user 60570]

I see you still have the same house ?

why yes , yes we do

 

[Bubba]

I've eaten brains and eggs as well, but never fell in love with the texture. My aunt fixed them the first time and added the brains after the eggs, so they were still raw, much to the chagrin of my uncle.



I stopped hunting period about three decades ago. The squirrels in the park and those in our yard will not only eat out of my hand, but they come down and beg. They will also come when called by simulating their bark.

The funny thing is that they recognize our dogs, rather than us humans. They also beg from my wife when she is with our dog and leave me alone when I'm not.



Us too, and I never want to pluck another one...................

Long live Sol Rex! 65F @ 60% RH and predicted to reach 82F.

Breakfast out with Graywolf and another day of puttering. I updated my reflux column article to include the results using my large boiling pot and spent some quality time in the park flinging a ball for Miss Layla.

My grandfather would sit on the back porch and tap a pecan on the arm of the chair. He had several that would slowly approach and take the pecan from his hands. He also had a screwed up tip of one finger from one biting the pooo out of him.

Bubba

 

[WeedHopper]

Don't hunt no more but will put a bb in a Squirrels ass if he gets near my fruit trees. Got a Red Ryder with a scope that is very accurate

 

[ROSTERMAN]