Thanksgiving Meat May Promote Caveman Behaviors [ this is a problem? ]

Discovery News ^ | Thursday, November 25, 2010 | Jennifer Viegas

[jmacusa]

“Our culture does not value the experiences of our elder as we should’’ Bingo! Thank you for making my point. It wasn’t “Miss Manners’’ at my family’s dinner table for the sake of manners alone. It was an acknowledgment of the effort it took both my parents to work for the food we ate and the work my late mother put into making a meal for nine people every night . The least expected of us kids was not to behave at the dinner table like a pack of barbarians.

[Islander7]

“....It was an acknowledgment of the effort it took both my parents to work for the food we ate ...”

We all had a stake in every meal. Our family garden was about 2 acres with an additional 3-5 for eating corn. We kids had to plant, tend, weed, harvest and process it all. We were dirt poor, but we ate like Kings!

[jmacusa]

alas, I was a city kid.

[GailA]

I must be a cave woman then, because I love the sight/taste of a well done turkey, ham, roast, chicken, ribs the rest are just side dishes to add color.

[GailA]

And the sight of my 38 Taurus Ultra Lite makes me feel more secure.

[CodeToad]

So, just how many of these liberal dolts knew a caveman?

[GailA]

YUM

[Still Thinking]

I was taught all those same manners, but meal time was a not ‘Miss Manners’ event with us; elbows on the table and all that. Proper respect for older folks has served my well through out me life. Our culture does not value the experiences and wisdom of our elders as we should.

Your experience sounds a lot like mine. Respect for parents and elders in general was required and despite living in the South would never have used the word "nigger" though many people did at the time, but meals weren't at all formal. My wife grew up in a more "cultured" family, but she thinks most of it's a bunch of poppycock. I sometimes catch myself calling even strangers younger than myself "maam" or "sir". I guess my brain hasn't caught up with my chronological age yet.

[Islander7]

Respect for parents and elders in general was required...

Yep. I sassed my mother once. Just once!

[dr_who]

Mammoth meat?

[Still Thinking]

Why, thank you!

[GailA]

Who knows if cooked right it probably tasted good to cave dwellers. I doubt they ate all that much of it, to hard to bring down. Deer, moose, those types were probably the most hunted.

I love RIBS, but then I’m a meat lover, so don’t turn my nose up at much if it is cooked right..not much on duck or goose, to greasy. I had a aunt who could cook deer or bear to perfection. Steak was another story.

[rightly_dividing]

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[6ppc]

The researchers predicted that when pictures of meat were sorted, as opposed to geometric shapes, participants would inflict more discomfort on the reader. Just the opposite happened, however. The meat images actually resulted in less punishment.

Bill Murray school of behavioral science???