| Author | Message | ||
| Max |
George, how's the modem working? | ||
| Maryann |
Hey Denise, George eats more tuna then anyone I ever saw! gggg | ||
| Denisegilmore |
Maryann, Uh uhhhh...I eat tuna at least 3-4 times a week. You would think I'd know how to swim by now. Afterall, we are what we eat aren't we? And I luvs my chicken..:)) but I still can't lay an egg. God Bless you, Denise | ||
| Maryann |
That sounds like use and abuse of both "Chicken of the Sea" and Chicken of the Earth!" | ||
| Maryann |
More goodies from the "FACTS FROM THE 1500's." They cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes the stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while--hence the rhyme, "peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old." | ||
| Denisegilmore |
Exactamundo,,,:))) I'm a hopeless case, I tell ya. But then there are times when my sanity comes back and I think of the rotting flesh meat in my stomach or those poor poor chickens, tuna and dolphins that I killed by my base passions. Whatever shall I do? | ||
| Denisegilmore |
Maryann, I had heard something of that poem once or twice maybe. Interesting but didn't that food get to going bad on them? I'm picky about old food, I would have been in the river fishing for fresh fish first. Or squirrel hunting, or portraying Yule Gibbons in advance and eating bark off the trees. Yeppers, that would've been me. God Bless, Denise | ||
| Maryann |
We know this one didn't originate from Israel! Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off It was a sign of wealth that a man "could bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and "chew the fat." | ||
| Denisegilmore |
Maryann, That one about swine meat and chewing fat. Well, growing up we did that except it was deer meat. It was a showoff kind of deal and we did chew the fat. But never never never the flesh of swine. :) well, not until I discovered pork rhines. gg | ||
| Denisegilmore |
So, in looking back, I guess we were showing off that we brought home Bambee. | ||
| Maryann |
I likes this'n;-}} Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with a high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning and death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, Most people did not have pewter plates, but had trenchers, a piece of wood with the middle scooped out like a bowl. Often trenchers were made from stale pays an bread which was so old and hard that they could use them for quite sometime. Trenchers were never washed and a lot of times worms and mold got into the wood and old bread. After eating off wormy moldy trenchers, one would get "trench mouth." | ||
| Maryann |
Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or "upper crust." | ||
| Denisegilmore |
Now that is too cool about the trench mouth bit. Who woulda thunk? I never got it from oh lets say, grub worm. hmmm Upper crusters are they..I'll remember that when I have company over for flipper and bread. :) God Bless, Denise | ||
| Maryann |
Hey Guyz, I think it is great to get the humor thread going once in a while! As to the, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water" story, I just gotta tell a short story. How it WAS in the 1900s;-) When I was a little kid, we had no running water. We had to haul the drinking water in and there was a big tank that caught the rain water from the roof. This rain water was put in a tub and it was "Yours Truly" that got the bath first!! ;-)))) Then came mom, and you guessed it, George was last. Hey, maybe that is what's the matter with him;-), he got tossed in the potatoes and tomatoes to many times! he he he ha! Come to think of it, this old world is just gettin' better all the time. Just think gals, we now get our baths FIRST now;-]] | ||
| Denisegilmore |
When I was growing up, we were rationed on water in the tub. So it was allowed to be filled 4-5 inches only of water. I would bathe, then my sister and in order of ages, my two brothers. As you can imagine, the water is pretty cloudy at the end of it all. I always got to clean the ring off of the tub. But now, well, I can immerse myself in under the water and believe me, when I fill the tub, it's FULL! Life is good, God is Great. God Bless, Denise | ||
| Maryann |
Yuk;-) No "yaawghk" as Max says;-), I'll paste reminders to all over the place to always eat before I get to your house!;-[[[[[[ | ||
| Denisegilmore |
Maryann, Was it Bambee or Flipper that got the 'yuk' reaction? :) couldn't be the grub worm or squirrel. Who could turn down such delightful delicacies? Denise | ||
| Maryann |
This is a good one from the 1500s. This will be the last for tonight;-) Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would sometimes knock them out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up-hence the custom of holding a "wake." Hmmmmmmmm, makes sense to me! | ||
| Denisegilmore |
When everyone else sang 'they call him flipper, flipper' I was singing 'they called (past tense) him flipper, flipper' <eg> | ||
| Denisegilmore |
Ooops! Maryann, I posted this 'flipper' one at 10:18pm,,you posted your latest at 10:19pm..baaadd timing eh? Interesting facts on the lead poisoning. Did you know that Queen Elizabeth (current) uses hand made trays, serving utensils etc of lead free, cadnium free pewter? I know this as I'm a scuptress and talked with the woman who makes the Queens serving trays and stuff. I use the same type of pewter, lead and cadnium free. God Bless, Denise |
