I love to watch the calves at play on my hubbys farm but I know not to get too attached as one day they will be food on someones plate. Glad its not my plate.
I know it’s a technical thing, but coq au vin is made from a rooster. If you use a hen, then (to a French cooking purist) you have made a (possibly delicious) different dish.
I am a lifelong city dweller (St. Louis/Chicago) and we have friends in New Orleans. A few years ago we visited them and went to a crawfish boil, a first for me. I was about to eat one when our friend [who had grown up on a farm] said, “How do you like your bugs?” I never found out, because I was put off by his example of Too Much Information. Same thing for food with names.
One of the most poignant observations the Scots author R. L. Stevenson ever made was that we are not more horrified by cannibals than Buddhists and other vegetarians are horrified by us. For we, too, eat babies, though not our own.
There’s a grandkid? Do they have a treehouse and a playhouse, and one friend vacating the treehouse for the playhouse so another friend can move into the treehouse?
A woman I worked with years ago kept chickens, and named them…after people who annoyed her at work. After a particularly bad day with the boss, she remarked “I feel like having roast chicken for dinner.” Half of her flock must have been named for the boss. I asked her if she had one named after me, and she replied with her best psycho smile and creepy sweet voice, “Of course not…you’re my buddy.” For a moment I knew how a Hitchcock or Stephen King character must feel…
I hope no chickens suffered because of my transgressions…
Da'Dad about 2 months ago
Got to love life on a farm.
Gordo4ever about 2 months ago
Coq au Vin is NOT a simple dish, at least for most of us.
SpacedInvader Premium Member about 2 months ago
Man, That kinda drives the meaning home. Probably a good thing it wasn’t a burger.
Sephten about 2 months ago
In Britain there’s a very tasty beer, a bitter, called Old Speckled Hen. This won’t put me off drinking it.
nosirrom about 2 months ago
Looks like Janis became too attached to their chickens when Meg put her in charge of taking care of them.
Out of the Past about 2 months ago
Time to go home.
AnneFackler about 2 months ago
I love to watch the calves at play on my hubbys farm but I know not to get too attached as one day they will be food on someones plate. Glad its not my plate.
Carl Fink Premium Member about 2 months ago
I know it’s a technical thing, but coq au vin is made from a rooster. If you use a hen, then (to a French cooking purist) you have made a (possibly delicious) different dish.
colddonkey about 2 months ago
Eleanor would have been better extra crispy.
tiprod1953 about 2 months ago
I’m more coq avec vin.
julie.mason1 Premium Member about 2 months ago
We don’t cull our hens. I and every other retired person wouldn’t be here if you offed a creature because they were no longer economically producing.
Jhony-Yermo about 2 months ago
No LIKE
jonesbeltone about 2 months ago
Meg is going to be a hen magnate.
Man of the Woods about 2 months ago
Can’t beat fresh meat :)
dsikkema about 2 months ago
That’s taking ‘earn your keep’ to a new level.
david_42 about 2 months ago
Not into pearl onions, but I may try using Egyptian Walking Onions. Not quite as invasive as mint.
WDDIM about 2 months ago
I’m not sure I need my supper’s back story.
MRBLUESKY529 about 2 months ago
NEVER name your food.
1504jarvis about 2 months ago
My wife serves tomatoes from her garden. I don’t know how she can be so heartless.
ladykat about 2 months ago
Coq au Vin can be complicated to make.
MuddyUSA Premium Member about 2 months ago
As usual, kids should be seen and not heard……
locake about 2 months ago
I’m not going to eat anything my kids have named. Or that I have to kill myself.
candomarty Premium Member about 2 months ago
I am a lifelong city dweller (St. Louis/Chicago) and we have friends in New Orleans. A few years ago we visited them and went to a crawfish boil, a first for me. I was about to eat one when our friend [who had grown up on a farm] said, “How do you like your bugs?” I never found out, because I was put off by his example of Too Much Information. Same thing for food with names.
bigger Nate about 2 months ago
I could probably make it as long as the recipe isn’t in French
Brent Rosenthal Premium Member about 2 months ago
Carnivores get a different take on food when it has a name.
Màiri about 2 months ago
One of the most poignant observations the Scots author R. L. Stevenson ever made was that we are not more horrified by cannibals than Buddhists and other vegetarians are horrified by us. For we, too, eat babies, though not our own.
cuzinron47 about 2 months ago
Nice, dinner and a guilt trip.
Scoutmaster77 about 2 months ago
And… Bon appetite.
jondonlevy about 2 months ago
There’s a grandkid? Do they have a treehouse and a playhouse, and one friend vacating the treehouse for the playhouse so another friend can move into the treehouse?
Linda Schweiner Premium Member about 2 months ago
When we visited my sister on the dairy farm they owned, her children would always tell us the names of whichever cow we were dining on the day.
ChattyFran about 2 months ago
They ate Eleanor?? And just because she wasn’t productive anymore. Good thing that doesn’t apply to people.
jr1234 about 2 months ago
Guess, if you don’t lay, you pay.
Gina Carson about 2 months ago
Chicken with wine? Does the chicken drink it or do the diners?
Mary McNeil Premium Member about 2 months ago
My cousin’s husband always asked if we were eating anybody we knew.
CleverHans Premium Member about 2 months ago
A woman I worked with years ago kept chickens, and named them…after people who annoyed her at work. After a particularly bad day with the boss, she remarked “I feel like having roast chicken for dinner.” Half of her flock must have been named for the boss. I asked her if she had one named after me, and she replied with her best psycho smile and creepy sweet voice, “Of course not…you’re my buddy.” For a moment I knew how a Hitchcock or Stephen King character must feel…
I hope no chickens suffered because of my transgressions…
David Huie Green ForceIsAUsefulFiction about 1 month ago
PERFORM OR DIE!!
Jayalexander about 1 month ago
Wine will do that to chicks.
Ed The Red Premium Member about 1 month ago
Do not name the food.
r.feinberg about 1 month ago
Go VEG!