mel jacobson on tue 25 sep 07
i think the dog analogy is far superior FOR PUGS.
no one under 60 has ever seen meat coming
from a meat grinder or done it themselves.
ground meat comes in a plastic wrap from
a grocery store.
no one knows where or how they get it.
a women out east is suing the 4th grade teacher
of her daughter...as she told the class that meat in the
store comes from cows...and that fact disturbed her daughter.
god.
what a world.
no wonder i go deer hunting for real food.
have to clean it myself, get it ready for
the butcher. done that my entire life with
wild game.
just like wedging clay. there is a magic about it.
use the michael wendt slam and cut...thousands of layers.
a few wedges....great clay.
i taught my three year old great nephew
how to pee on a tree this week end at the farm.
god, he loved it...did it three times by himself.
there was a great deal of tsk, tsk tsk...uncle mel,
what are you teaching?
REALITY.
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Lee Love on tue 25 sep 07
On 9/25/07, mel jacobson wrote:
> i think the dog analogy is far superior FOR PUGS.
> no one under 60 has ever seen meat coming
> from a meat grinder or done it themselves.
I am only 53, but worked the crank for my father when he made
sausage. We had a separate grinder for grinding potatoes for german
potato pancakes.
> ground meat comes in a plastic wrap from
> a grocery store.
> no one knows where or how they get it.
My daughter was precocious when little. When she was 3 and
we were grocery shopping, I asked her where hamburger comes from.
She said, "From the hamburger store." I told her, "It comes from
cows. They grind up the flesh of cows and that makes hamburger."
She said, "Silly daddy, it comes from the hamburger store!" I was
always making absurd jokes and she thought I was just doing it again.
> no wonder i go deer hunting for real food.
> have to clean it myself, get it ready for
> the butcher. done that my entire life with
> wild game.
I grew up North of Michael Moore. Many displaced autoworkers
move up there, to what used to be their cabins. Everyone did
subsistence hunting and fishing. Everbody had locker type freezers
and froze, canned and smoked what they caught. Sometimes in the
winter, it was the only meat and fish we'd have.
So we rarely had respect for wealthy hunters who came up from
the cities, to get drunk and shoot their fancy guns. Typically,
their equipment would have fed a local family for a year.
--
Lee in Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
"Making pots should not be a struggle.
It should be like walking down a hill
in a gentle breeze." --Shoji Hamada
http://mashikopots.blogspot.com/
Luke Nealey on tue 25 sep 07
Mel,
I am under fifty (barely) and make my own sausage, grinding up pork
shoulders (mostly) and stuffing them in casings I buy at the local butcher
supply with a 90 degree funnel thing with a plunger that works much better
than the stuffing attachment on the power grinder.
Re your post on craft, skill, etc. there has been a lot of reserch recently
talking about folks like Yo-Yo Ma, Tiger Woods, Rodger Federer...... and the
fact that it seems to take about ten years of doing what ever like a job (60
hrs + a week) to reach virtuousity(sp?), if you've got the right stuff!
We hobbyists (like another recent poster I cringe at typing that seemingly
pejorative term) may have fun but we have to realize that until we put in
the time we will not come close to mastering the craft. That's ok for me, I
figured out how to get my wood kiln above cone 11 last firing (#3), now I
have a lifetime of glaze work to keep me interested.
Regards,
Luke Nealey
Rankin Co. MS
> i think the dog analogy is far superior FOR PUGS.
> no one under 60 has ever seen meat coming
> from a meat grinder or done it themselves.
>
>
WJ Seidl on wed 26 sep 07
Utter and complete nonsense, my dear Mayor.
My grandmothers (both the Italian and the German one)
would box your ears for even suggesting such a thing, were they alive.
Grocery store ground meat? Ewwwww! You just never know what's in it.
I've turned, and continue to turn, meat grinders made under the "Universal"
brand (made by Landers Frary and Clark, New Britain CT...my birthplace)
not those cheap asian knockoffs available from the molds these days.
The grinders I own were cast from metals melted in furnaces
fueled by my grandfather shovelling coal into them in that same factory.
Handmade sausage, hand ground hamburger, veggie and turkey burger are
all a
staple in this household...the commercial stuff can't compare to real,
as any
afficianado can tell you...just like pots from a potter as opposed to
commercial crap at the department store.
Under 60 indeed! The noive uh sum people!
Best,
Wayne Seidl
52 and still cranking along
mel jacobson wrote:
> i think the dog analogy is far superior FOR PUGS.
> no one under 60 has ever seen meat coming
> from a meat grinder or done it themselves.
>
> ground meat comes in a plastic wrap from
> a grocery store.
> no one knows where or how they get it.
>
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