Posted on 08/14/2019 5:45:49 PM PDT by null and void
Also stay away from free range chickens & eggs. Caged chickens are in a air filtered environment safe from the bugs & virses that infect chickens out on the range. Also veges that grow natural develop toxins to fit off the disease and bugs to are worse than the washed off bug killers.
Nicely written and makes me remember my youth.
For garden thread consideration.
This was kind of genius and funny.
The last three paragraphs almost mess it up, though.
It seems like she’s in fact involved in just another local food scam in the big apple.
Nice garden read, thank you.
I live among these insufferable foodies.
However, to his credit, my neighbor up the street this summer is growing grafted tomatoes, to avoid the dreadful blight (he learned).
Garden ping to tubebender.
Know your customers...
Reminds me of all the flatlanders around here buying early corn in June and marveling over it. It’s what we call cattle corn. Our early corn is ready about now.
I used to have a tape of an old Fred Allan radio show where Titus Moody, the Yankee cheapskate, said that on weekends he’d go to the A&P (Supermarket) and buy dozens of eggs, go out to the front of his farm, and dress up like a rube - put a piece of straw in his mouth and start whittling, next to a sign that said “Farm Fresh Eggs”, and sell them to New York tourists.
When Allen asked him how business was, he said he could only sell 60 eggs an hour — ‘cause there was one born every minute.
That was the late 1940s.
Titus Moody was played by Parker Fennelly, who later became the “Pep’ridge Fahm Remembahs” guy.
Did not know the Jersey people do the same.
Unloading watermelons, one by one, like a fire brigade from a semi, placing them into bins on pallets. Hard work but it made you strong and you’d learned a lot things. Old women wearing all black would come in after closing for the plum tomatoes and I would stay to pick out two dozen half-bushel baskets and load their cars.
A couple weeks later I’d receive containers of home made gravy.
And then there was the “Pierogie Lady”, she had to be 90 and drove an old black T-Bird with suicide doors, she’d turn cases of russets into awesomeness.
What bothers me about shucking corn in the store is that many people will rip a little bit off and then put it back, evidently because it wasn’t perfect enough for them. Over the years, I learned the art of picking out good corn ears without having to peel anything off.
I knew that Mass Holes shuck corn inside the grocery store and throw the husk & silk on the floor (if there is not a trash can RIGHT THERE)
Did not know the Jersey people do the same.
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I see it all the time in La Crosse, WI. These women just chat and laugh among themselves as they make sure their corn will be dry and shriveled by dinner time.
Slip/Fall hazards and sanitation that they pride upon.
It is the mess on the floor that feaks out the Produce Managers.
Slip/Fall hazards and sanitation that they pride upon.
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Even when they use the trash barrel, it is an insult to the perfect packaging that is the corn husk.
It is also a waste of nutrients.
I cut off the bottom 1” of each ear, cover w/a paper towel and microwave for 3 1/2 minutes. The husks seal in the moisture, the corn dry steams, the silk falls away like magic and all I have to do is squeeze the tassel end and the cooked ear slides right out.
And no dripping water on our plates.
Sweet corn is a treasure. These people are clueless.
But where the hell did that come from? I never saw such stupidity in all my life then 2 or 3 years ago every idiot passing by the corn was shucking it in the store.
“Also stay away from free range chickens & eggs. Caged chickens are in a air filtered environment safe from the bugs & virses that infect chickens out on the range. Also veges that grow natural develop toxins to fit off the disease and bugs to are worse than the washed off bug killers.”
Yea, I suspected as much. Thanks for the info. What about grass-fed cattle and related? Is that also, basically, a scam too?
Cute article, no surprise. I remember one of the networks had these capsules that would give women smooth skin. They had a kiosk at a mall and would hand out samples. The women, all of them, would take and then swallow-down the capsule - which was filled with chocolate powder...perfectly safe, but useless regarding skin texture.
They’d then tell the women what they just swallowed - in effect, calling them idiots for taking the guy at his word. Most didn’t care, but were bummed that their crappy skin would still still remain crappy.
Generally grazing cattle OK when used for meat. Milk cows kept in barns and structured enviorment are safer.
“Generally grazing cattle OK when used for meat.”
Thanks again. You’re saying nothing wrong with eating it...but is it worth the premium, or to put it another way, is feedlot cattle ok to continue eating?
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