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MoraleOfficerGran's avatar

Oh my you look so much like your Mother. And I have always warshed my chicken because I was the one plucking it LOL. I never saw any one else spell warsh that way but me before. I got in so much trouble at school for spelling words they way they sound to me. And warsh was one of them. My family can't figure out were I got my southern accent from. None of them have it. 🤩

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R. H. Snow's avatar

OMGosh thank you for saying I look like my Mother, I always wanted to be as gorgeous as her....

but my Dad always bragged I looked like him if he were a girl lol. I actually went back to his very tiny hometown when he was still alive, and he went to get something fom the car. As I was standing in the street alone, random older man approached me: "You're Bobby's Girl, aren't you?"...

I just nodded; I was happy, because I love that Man.💖

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MoraleOfficerGran's avatar

I look like my Dad. Not a trace of my Mom here. Just wish he would have had a smaller nose. Hehehe

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R. H. Snow's avatar

HA I bet you are Gorgeous!

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just mud by Ron's avatar

Hey R.H. I grew up near Warshington, PA and I thought they knew a bit about warshing, but I thank u you for getting into the skin of it. 🐓

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R. H. Snow's avatar

YaYYY I am so happy someone else calls it Warshington💖

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just mud by Ron's avatar

We got those criks too, where the fish are! 🐠🐟

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Mac Thompson's avatar

Of course you scrub it off. Just cuz it's plucked don't mean it's clean. If you eat any animal with the skin intact, you wash it. Period. Feathers don't keep dirt, and bugs, and chicken poop off the skin. And never trust the blue collar folks freezing their butts off in the processing plant to do it right. Your chicken might be the last one to get rinsed... 20 seconds before quittin' time!

Wash them chickens.

I even wash my apples, pears, plums, and maters. You know how many hands touched those skins before you did? You know how dusty and dirty those produce trailers get before they hit the supermarket?

Everyone should treat the food the ingest as if it travelled across the country in a filthy semi trailer. Cuz it probably did.

Rinse yer broccoli, cauliflower, and veggies, too.

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R. H. Snow's avatar

I knew there was a reason I loved you!

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Mac Thompson's avatar

aw shucks

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Charlotte Pendragon's avatar

When I was growing up we had our own chickens. Yep, grab one, wring it’s neck and pluck, cut it up and clean it. Cook it! Yum! 😋

I never did the wringing, but I did the plucking and warshing. Good one R.H.! 👍🐓

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R. H. Snow's avatar

YaY You remember! I haven’t ever wrung one or plucked one, because mine are all egg chickens!

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Charlotte Pendragon's avatar

Now? I couldn’t be around it, but when I was a kid it was nothing to see my grandmother go grab a chicken. Normal living. I think I’m going to get some chickens to raise eggs. I have plenty of room.

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R. H. Snow's avatar

It is very important to know where our food comes from, and the animals that give so much for us! You will never dishonor them, for you will honor their sacrifice - and I LOVE my egg Chickens💖

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Charlotte Pendragon's avatar

Absolutely, thank you @R. H. Snow understanding the meaning of sacrifice and eating with proper intention raises our spiritual level through meal preparation and dining experiences. Are you familiar with @The Purple Peach? 🍑💜 She’s an amazing lady who writes so well about this subject. I mean you were like her beautiful soul and work. 💖💖💖

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R. H. Snow's avatar

OOOH I will go sign up right away! She sounds fun

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Charlotte Pendragon's avatar

I forgot to add her link. She took a hiatus to have a baby, but she’s back again!

https://substack.com/@purplepeaches

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Michael's avatar

Warshing chicken is the Rule! 😊

P.S. 🩵 the cookbook birthday cake batter mementos! 🥳

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Radha Nichole Smith's avatar

Of course I wash them!!!! They are raised in 12”x12” stacks of cages where they are shit on constantly from birth. They’re exposed to all sorts of diseases. Honey, I’d be a damn fool not to wash ‘em!

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