buy chicken feet ? (or) where do you shop ?
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My parents told me that during the Great Depression years,
circa 1929 Amsterdam, New York, United States while they
were teenagers on parents farms, that there was little need
to look for work outside the home since a farmer's family is
always a full employment opportunity for everyone after the age
where one can stand upright, about age 3.
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While city folks needed another person to create work for them
so that they can obtain a paycheck into cash to buy food & shelter,
these familiy farms in early 1900s of my parents lacked none of
that which is needed for survival. Shelter, Water, Food
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Imagine, while folks in the cities lacked a day's meal,
farmers with the seeds of animals and produce had available
an over supply such that what they could not sell locally cheap
they would put into storage or give away for free.
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At times, i was told, when a pig obtained a full grown size
such that to feed him or her was bad feed after good feed,
it got to a point that the farm held hundreds of pounds of that
which today is expensive, farm "fresh" organic smoked ham,
bacon etc done the old way(comparied to today) to a quanity
that they posted a sign next to the closest main public road
that free smoked meat available.
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where do you shop ? For farmers, its called home :o) and when
they "pick up" a chicken for tonight's meal, they get the whole thing,
and when ladies of the house, being wife and many many daughters,
step through the process of chop off head and give to cats,
and then clean out the digestive track of waste material, its food.
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"... black turban hat with the gold-green macaw wing..."
Here i have to admit that like chicken feet to you,
these type of written words seem never to be included
within books i buy to read. |
