[TomGuy]

Actually, making sausage isn’t that bad.

I’ve seen a farmer kill a pig, hang it and drain the blood, burn the hair off and dress it for a pig roast. (This is when I was about 8 years old...Dad took me to see where meat came from...the pigs were for my grandparents’ 50th anniversary pig roast.) My family has butchers.

There’s nothing bad dealing with raw meat, grinding it, seasoning it and putting it into casings.

What?

You mean, it doesn't just come from the grocery store????

[lol. Someone actually said that regarding 'meat' recently. They didn't realize how it got to the grocery store. I grew up on a farm and was involved in processing many 'food' items.]

[Winstons Julia]

Hey Tom.

Yeah, people are ignorant. My grandfather grew up hard...and he didn’t want to be a farmer....because back then it was a hardscrabble life.

So he sold car batteries. Then a guy pegged him to travel into the country and sell groceries to mom and pop stores.

While he was doing that, he saved money and scoped out the area and eventually bought his own Mom and Pop grocery store and opened it in about 1955, I think.

He trained himself as a butcher and trained his sons. So it was a grocery store...locker plant...butcher shop. And a GREAT place to grow up as a kid.

He married my grandma when they both had just their week’s pay. He told her, “Stick with me and I’ll make us millionaires.”

He DID that....but my grandmother has given most of the money away. She’s COMFORTABLE, though.

Anyway...I lament for us now...and the ignorance that convenience breeds....

Also....I want to puncture my eardrums when Rangel speaks.