Takes some believing.........

[confused]

I tell all my relatives that "you cant REALLY taste the pigeon poo" in my veg's , just close your eyes and think "T***o", the same with chicken/rabbit/pigeon/ trout, it works every time !!!! they never come back begging, some folk wouldnt know a good feed if it jumped up and bit them. still all the more for me and my real mates

[Peggy Sue]

Or possibly thanks to their own strong immune systems? Who are we to know?

Must be very ahrd to know you are a carrier of a disease though. Especially one that could effect your loved ones. I even feel bad giving my OH a cold (mind you he does do the 'Man Flu' thing )

[StripyPixieSocks]

Probably wouldn't be best to mention I use the water from my tropical fish tanks on my herbs then... mmmm fish poo!

[Green Aura]

Maybe you could wash a few and give them to your neighbours, and then, when they haven't died, let them know they're the same as the one's they chucked.
People these days are terrified of dirt or, as we know it, earth - power of supermarkets, media and heaven's knows who else has a story to find or a market to capture. I think a more gentle approach may help, rather than recoil in horror. Isn't that just what they're doing too?
Maggie

[mrsflibble]

Probably wouldn't be best to mention I use the water from my tropical fish tanks on my herbs then... mmmm fish poo!

holy cow poop that's such a good idea!!!

[MAdam Cholet]

I had a friend turn up as I was sorting out pounds of freshly gathered blackberries. She turned up her nose and said she couldn't possibly eat something like that becasue you couldn't know where it had been.
She never did get it even when I tried to point out that supermarket veg have been through goodness knows how many processing stages and peoples hands. At least I knew mine had come straight from field to kitchen without anything nasty happening to them. An I knew where my hands had been before I picked them!

[mrsflibble]

I had a friend turn up for a cuppa today and I told her I was going blackberrying later, she said "oo where do I find blackberries round here?" I didn't tell her the sweet sweet spot, just pointed to the scrubland and said "they're all over there. I feel a bit guilty about not letting on my fave forraging spot nw though!!!

[Millymollymandy]

No, don't feel guilty!

[Peggy Sue]

I had a lodger who asked me the same once- there was a huge load of brambles just at the end of road she walked past everyday!!!

[Ellendra]

I had a friend turn up as I was sorting out pounds of freshly gathered blackberries. She turned up her nose and said she couldn't possibly eat something like that becasue you couldn't know where it had been.

Of course you know where they have been. They've been on the branches!

[MrsD'ville mkII]

I was just thinking 'thank god my daughter merrily fills her face with blackberries and strawberries straight from the plant'. I know numerous children who must have been taught that apple is only edible washed, peeled, cored and quartered, bread comes in plastic wrappers and woe betide if you eat a crust, and as for chicken actually looking like a piece of bird with - shock horror - bones!, eeeeeeeeeek! I'm delighted my daughter asks for bones and enjoys slurping the meat off them and likes her fish with the head on, no squeamishness there!

I know the panicky brigade exists but I have never yet met anyone who's suspicious of home grown and made items, or at least they haven't admitted to it in my hearing!

[Peggy Sue]

My brother is deeply suspicious of all home grown / home made, even anything I have washed up because it didn't go through a dishwasher. Needless to say he doesn't exactly visit often!!

[JR]

I cant believe what some people are like. We are so used to seeing dirt on our produce we find it strange to buy clean ones from the supermarkets or local green grocer.

Red spuds for this week were dug in the rain so are "filthy", Fantastic!!!!

One of them was about 8 inches long and huge , in my tummy now, very slightly imperfect skin too! Will I live? LOL

[Bluemoon]

Our daughter recently produced grandson number 2, so we've been looking after grandson number 1 (aged 3) quite a bit as SIL runs his own business and simply couldn't take much time off work. We took him to the lotties for an hour or two then returned him home just as the midwife arrived. GS1 was covered in mud and his hands and face were bright pink from picking and eating raspberries, he had about 6 french beans that he had proudly picked clutched in each grubby fist. The midwife was horrified to find he'd been eating food straight from the plants and actively pushed him away when he went to kiss his baby brother. She also warned my daughter about the 'risk of infection' when she thanked him for the beans and said they'd eat them for supper. So, my daughter feeds her family on truly fresh, organic produce, her son has plenty of fresh air and she's being treated like a child abuser? We're taking him to the local agricultural show on Saturday, perhaps we'd better arrange to pop him into someone's sheep-dip on the way home.

[mrsflibble]

I was just thinking 'thank god my daughter merrily fills her face with blackberries and strawberries straight from the plant'.

soph knows where our local B plants are, she nags me for them the whole walk home if I don't stop and pick some.

and as for chicken actually looking like a piece of bird with - shock horror - bones!, eeeeeeeeeek! I'm delighted my daughter asks for bones and enjoys slurping the meat off them..

soph just handed me a very greasy and completely clean chicken leg bone. she even ate the skin from round the "ankle" part.

I like the shock reactions I get when people comment on soph's clothes. I rarely meet someone my age who sews so it was a breath of fresh air today when a lady at the bus stop said "I like your daughter's coat, where did you get it?" I replied that I made it and she said "ooo where did you get the pattern?! I've been looking for that style for my baby. I've got just the right fabric. I made her dress..." :D I'm not the only nut round here!!!