cutnbulls2ox (imported) wrote: Thu Jun 10, 2021 10:08 pm
Real cowboys don t mind manure. You get used to it. Pig manure is far worse than cattle or horse.
I grew up in the city where milk came from bottles (glass bottles that you took back to the store for your quarter deposit). Eggs came in cartons and it never occurred to me that most likely 12 chickens were required to fill one carton of a dozen.
We did eat what my dad brought home from hunting. So, I did know that meat could come from nature but, mostly beef grew in the supermarket. Still, I've eaten lots of different things that some would consider odd. Until you've seen a live Caribbean lobster, you've never considered how the first person thought, "oh that might be good to eat." Caribbean lobsters don't have claws as a Maine lobster does. They seriously look like a giant underwater bug.
Growing up in Miami when access to the bay wasn't a privilege - it was just someplace to spend the day - we owned a boat and my brother was an amazing snorkel diver. He had a talent for finding lobster and tossing them up in the boat. There was an amateur lobster season in Florida at the time. You had to catch them by hand (no traps), you could only snorkel (no SCUBA). The lobster had to be so many inches long and if you were caught with one that was small, there was a big fine. Also, there was a daily limit.
With a Caribbean lobster, you really only eat the tail. The spines do have meat but, getting to it is a royal pain in the ass. The freezer was always stocked with lobster and for special occasions, there was lobster on the menu. I had no idea how expensive lobster was until later in life. I also had no idea that avocado or limes came from other than the backyard tree. We would beg people to take avocados home with them. You'd see people put them out on the street on top of boxes with a sign "Free Avocados". We also had a key lime tree and you have not lived until you have had a glass of iced tea with key lime instead of lemon. For the record, a real key lime pie is yellow (because key lime juice is yellow) and it's made with condensed milk. If it is green and full of whipped cream, it's tasty but, it's not key lime pie.
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