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MrsHobieJoe

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Posted: Aug 23, 2009 - 2:54pm

 MsJudi wrote:

I didn't even know anyone did that anymore.
 
it's becos we're socialists (either that or we have a cooler climate that you). 

Milkfloat:



MsJudi

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Posted: Aug 23, 2009 - 2:44pm

 MrsHobieJoe wrote:


We still get our milk in glass bottles delivered to the doorstep.....

 
I didn't even know anyone did that anymore.

MsJudi

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Posted: Aug 23, 2009 - 2:43pm

 oldviolin wrote:

Don't eat them little worms...unless you need the protien...{#Lol}
 
LOL once they're steamed in the corn pot, you'd never know they were... ok, I'm totally lying. {#Puke}As a kid, I wouldn't even touch the cobs that had worms in them. I think my logic was that I'd get worm stuff on me and die. {#Lol}
MrsHobieJoe

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Posted: Aug 23, 2009 - 2:41pm

 MsJudi wrote:

I remember the weekly trips to the dairy down the road where we bought our milk in glass bottles that we returned every week. And this wasn't back in the 1800s either. {#Lol}  We're talking late 60s, early 70s.

 

We still get our milk in glass bottles delivered to the doorstep.....
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Posted: Aug 23, 2009 - 2:40pm

 MsJudi wrote:

{#Arrowu}{#Arrowu}{#Arrowu}{#Arrowu} This is what my mother did every year, too. But we were in PA where we had almost unfettered access to fresh fruits and veggies and milk and steak straight outta the field. I remember the weekly trips to the dairy down the road where we bought our milk in glass bottles that we returned every week. And this wasn't back in the 1800s either. {#Lol}  We're talking late 60s, early 70s.

edit: (Oh lordy, and that little trip down memory lane reminds me of going INTO the corn field with Dad and picking cobs straight off the stalks into a large paper grocery sack. We'd take them home and sit outside and shuck- a job I loathed as a 6 year old. But corn on the cob would be the only thing we'd need for dinner that night. {#Chef} And now my tummy is growling.)
 
Don't eat them little worms...unless you need the protien...{#Lol}

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Posted: Aug 23, 2009 - 2:37pm

The book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver describes in detail how to live on local food. A very enjoyable read.
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Posted: Aug 23, 2009 - 2:35pm

 oldviolin wrote:

That's where the old folks had it right. They canned, swapped, shared, and stored.
 
{#Arrowu}{#Arrowu}{#Arrowu}{#Arrowu} This is what my mother did every year, too. But we were in PA where we had almost unfettered access to fresh fruits and veggies and milk and steak straight outta the field. I remember the weekly trips to the dairy down the road where we bought our milk in glass bottles that we returned every week. And this wasn't back in the 1800s either. {#Lol}  We're talking late 60s, early 70s.

edit: (Oh lordy, and that little trip down memory lane reminds me of going INTO the corn field with Dad and picking cobs straight off the stalks into a large paper grocery sack. We'd take them home and sit outside and shuck- a job I loathed as a 6 year old. But corn on the cob would be the only thing we'd need for dinner that night. {#Chef} And now my tummy is growling.)

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Posted: Aug 23, 2009 - 2:34pm

 JrzyTmata wrote:

they lived on farms or there was a lot more farmland around them. not so anymore in a lot of places. so now what?
 
magic wand?

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Posted: Aug 23, 2009 - 2:31pm

 ptooey wrote:

{#Lol}

I do like the buy local concept, and we try to hit the farmers market when we can and we do grow a lot of our own veggies, but that won't help us much in February.

 
That's where the old folks had it right. They canned, swapped, shared, and stored.

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Posted: Aug 23, 2009 - 2:28pm

 JrzyTmata wrote:

I'll trade you for corn and tomatoes!!
wait. we can't do that. it's not local.
 

I think that they are really trying to reduce food miles- ie not having your fruit flown in from Australia at certain times of the year.  Trying to eat as local as you can and concentrate on eating seasonal food rather than strawberries in December.
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Posted: Aug 23, 2009 - 2:27pm

JrzyTmata wrote:

I'll trade you for corn and tomatoes!!
wait. we can't do that. it's not local.

{#Lol}

I do like the buy local concept, and we try to hit the farmers market when we can and we do grow a lot of our own veggies, but that won't help us much in February.
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Posted: Aug 23, 2009 - 2:24pm

 ptooey wrote:
And a person can only eat so much beef.  {#Confused}

 
I'll trade you for corn and tomatoes!!
wait. we can't do that. it's not local.

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Posted: Aug 23, 2009 - 2:19pm

oldviolin wrote:

All of them?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy



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Posted: Aug 23, 2009 - 2:17pm

 oldviolin wrote:
So, what did the folks do before food was shipped in from far and often foreign places?

 
they lived on farms or there was a lot more farmland around them. not so anymore in a lot of places. so now what?

oldviolin

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Posted: Aug 23, 2009 - 2:15pm

 ptooey wrote:

Died in their mid-40s.
 
All of them?

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Posted: Aug 23, 2009 - 2:15pm

oldviolin wrote:
So, what did the folks do before food was shipped in from far and often foreign places?


Died in their mid-40s.

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Posted: Aug 23, 2009 - 2:14pm

JrzyTmata wrote:

I don't want you to starve!!!
And a person can only eat so much beef.  {#Confused}


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Posted: Aug 23, 2009 - 2:13pm

So, what did the folks do before food was shipped in from far and often foreign places?
MsJudi

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Posted: Aug 23, 2009 - 2:13pm

 JrzyTmata wrote:

I have a problem with Buy Local. maybe I don't understand the concept. but there are an awful lot of people that live in areas that can't support agriculture in the quantities that is needed to feed the locals. Or the climate can't grow a big enough variety. and then there's the non-growing season. what then?
 
It's a valid question. We would buy locally, but there isn't much immediately local except seafood (of which we partake OFTEN) and rice- unless I'm missing some fab local marketplace hiding out somewhere that I've never heard of. But even after 26 years of diligent searching, I haven't found one.

I do agree, though, that fast food and the food production industry in general is out of control and needs all of us to Just Say No in order to force them to produce quality food. I'm not a food snob, I'll eat most any cuisine in a restaurant, but I require the ingredients to be fresh and of high quality- otherwise, I'll stay at home and cook. Fast food is almost universally repulsive and chain restaurants like Red Lobster will just never get my business as long as they continue to rely on corporate pre-packaged salt bombs to inform their food.

Wait. Maybe I am a food snob.  {#Ask}


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Posted: Aug 23, 2009 - 2:13pm

 ptooey wrote:


What, like here where it can freeze 9 months of the year or more?

Yeah, me too.
 
I don't want you to starve!!!

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