Holy Cow, post: 403972, member: 50 wrote: Ah...........the A & P. Many have no idea that stands for Atlantic and Pacific
The best part of the A&P was the aroma around the coffee grinder.
Dad's first paying job (circa 1928) was at an A&P. He was 6' tall in high school and customers would tip him for getting items off the top shelves for them...
According to my mother,
Grandma to Grandpa: "I'm going to the A & P".
Grandpa: "OK, I'll go to the Y and sh*t".
This is what A&P means in Southeast Alaska
Holy Cow, post: 403972, member: 50 wrote: Atlantic and Pacific.
Holy Cow, post: 403942, member: 50 wrote: we had a rooster just like that
I have a friend who raises a few chickens on his acreage. He had a rooster just like that. Attacked him every time he entered the pen.
One day they needed some meat for Sunday dinner, so he went out and called "I need a volunteer."
Bill93, post: 404013, member: 87 wrote: I have a friend who raises a few chickens on his acreage. He had a rooster just like that. Attacked him every time he entered the pen.
One day they needed some meat for Sunday dinner, so he went out and called "I need a volunteer."
I hope he had a pressure cooker...that was the only way I ever cooked an old rooster to get any good meat. If you try to fry a big rooster the meat is like chewing on rubber bands...except the rubber bands taste better.
Holy Cow, post: 403963, member: 50 wrote: I was involved in the removal of the old hens
We had a neighbor who raided turkeys. At load-out time several neighbors would help. You drove the turkeys up a ramp, where you grabbed a pair of legs (you hoped a pair) and handed the bird to someone who shoved it into the cage on the truck. You struggled with the 20-something pound toms.
Gloves and long sleeves were a requirement, but hardly adequate as the toes and flapping wings found your wrists. You always went away sore. I'm surprised I'm not dead of some dread infection.
Bill93, post: 404016, member: 87 wrote: ... I'm surprised I'm not dead of some dread infection.
Histoplasmosis, (aka Chicken Lung) a pulmonary disease picked up from fungi that thrive in chicken crap. An old surveyor I worked with years ago had contracted it working at chicken farm as a kid. He said it damned near killed him.
paden cash, post: 404030, member: 20 wrote: Histoplasmosis
Could be the cause of the eye infections I had a few years later (doctors mentioned it but couldn't confirm) and the calcification in one lung.
James Fleming, post: 403975, member: 136 wrote: The best part of the A&P was the aroma around the coffee grinder.
I use a vacuum pot but my grind is somewhere between drip and electric perc because I use a manual hand crank grinder, it would take a month to grind a hopper super fine. I also have a Revereware drip pot similar to the picture that I found in a thrift store. I used it once, it was pretty weak, awful coffee. I also have two stove top percolartors, those do okay but vacuum pot coffee is much better.
paden cash, post: 404015, member: 20 wrote: I hope he had a pressure cooker...that was the only way I ever cooked an old rooster to get any good meat. If you try to fry a big rooster the meat is like chewing on rubber bands...except the rubber bands taste better.
That's why the French invented Coq au Vin, to make an old tough bird (usually rooster) tender and tasty. The classic preparation is a two day affair but I guess back then it was worth it. Personally I don't have the patience.
I see a good number of what I think are fighting dogs, chained up in sometimes very poor conditions. I'm not an animal lover but I sure hate to see it.
An interesting thing I came across in the woods a few weeks ago was and ATM. Busted open of course. Neither the police or the owner of the store it used to be in were very interested. It's still there in the bush.
Riding the ATV thru a property one day and found this. You never know what will be in the next clearing.
Hey you should saddle break him, you'd have a hell of a view.
Adam, post: 404135, member: 8900 wrote: Hey you should saddle break him, you'd have a hell of a view.
Please note the poster is from Texas. Rather than riding that varmint, I'm pretty sure most folks down there would be more interested in what type of rub and how long at what temperature in the smoker...;)
I wouldn't wanna ride him, he whip that neck around, and I might get hurt!! But, if I could get ahold of that big smoker down the road, Everything cooks good at 225 degrees til it's 225 inside, and with that much meat, we can try lots of rubs....
Better not. Recent reports indicate giraffes are in big trouble.
You don't need to teach him to jump fences, he can just walk over them.
Today a Coyote found the same trap as the Redbone.
Well, Coyotes, are a bit of a different animal, than a redbone...
What'd ya do this time?
🙂
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