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To: nickcarraway

Will not eat chicken...

One extremely hot summer (100 degrees mostly - CT) before my freshman year of HS, worked on a chicken farm killing chickens with a hook knife, dipping them into hot water, and ripping off their feathers with a foot-driven rubber paddle wheel...

10-cents an hour, 10-hours-per-day, and unlimited stench from 25,000 chickens that no amount of soap & water could eliminate...

Here it is 75-years later and, still, I will not eat chicken...


8 posted on 05/08/2021 7:08:15 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: SuperLuminal

Good Lord, I understand ; )


17 posted on 05/08/2021 7:34:00 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: SuperLuminal

My mom had a similar experience with canned food. She worked in a cannery in Portland one summer. She refused to buy canned vegetables and fruit from then on.


19 posted on 05/08/2021 7:43:57 PM PDT by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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To: SuperLuminal

My dad worked on a farm with chickens when he was young. He said “anyone who’d eat a chicken would eat a buzzard!” He hated chicken.


20 posted on 05/08/2021 7:56:02 PM PDT by punknpuss
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To: SuperLuminal

Pogie processing plant (source of ambergris substitute material) would give any chicken processor competition for malodorous air. The guys that work there have a car reserved for use during the season—can’t get the smell out of the car or wash it off in the shower.


27 posted on 05/08/2021 8:55:06 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: SuperLuminal

My first full time job in the summer of 1975 was working in the pineapple fields in Hawaii. Hot, back breaking work, $1.80/hour. It took almost ten years before I would eat pineapple after that.


31 posted on 05/08/2021 9:49:11 PM PDT by sageburn
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To: SuperLuminal

Very similar reason my Grandfather always preferred ham over chicken or turkey.


49 posted on 05/09/2021 11:00:02 AM PDT by perfect stranger
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