Rosita, Me Too! Re: Country Way of Life

[Guest guest]

Rose,

We did the same thing at my house. My grandmother would place a

clean dish towel over the food, or place it in the oven and it would

keep all day and until the next day without going bad or making

anyone sick, even the pork shoulder would keep!

But you know, we did not take as many antibiotics back then. Since

our society has become over medicated with antibiotics this has

caused bacteria that we knew back then to become more resistance form

billions and billions of generations of mutations. That is why we

have MERSA and other strains of resistant bacteria, thanks to

the " new bullet " , antibiotics as Louis Pasteur put it back in the

days of Pasturization. If the milk went bad, thats okay, you just

turn it in to buttermilk or even yougurt. But the strains of

bacteria out today have grown, multiplied and mutated due to over

medication of antibiotics. Darwin would say, " they have

evolved. " And I believe this to be true. That is why we could eat

food from the table that sat out all day, 40 plus years ago that did

not harm us. But because of the antibiotics they give the cows and

pigs to increase their body weight and the antibiotics humans take

have all had an adverse affect on us. For years the medical

community has been CAUTIONING us on this dilemma. If we don't make

some changes it will get much worst.

Look at how much the AIDS virus has mutated. The AIDS virus that is

being treated today is not the same one that was discovered in the

mid 80's. No siree! It has mutated so much because of the different

treatment anti viral medications that have been thrown at it. The

more anti viral agents given to treat HIV, the more it mutates, just

like any other virus or plasmid. Darwin would call

this " survial of the fittest. " It is an innate God given quality for

living things to seek life and want to survive. Just like when you

stick a needle into the uterus of an expecting mother, that baby

moves away from that needle innately without knowing what it is.

Well when you try to destroy a bacterium, virus or any other living

organism, it seeks to find a way to survive by mutating, retreating

(fight or flight) and or any other defense mechanism. God has built

in mechanisms of defense for all his creations, big or small.

Sorry didn't mean to go on and on. Smile!

Brother

> >

> Ron, the funny thing is that no one in my family got sick from

eating

> food that sat out all day! We used to have big family dinners on

my

> mom's side--Thanksgiving, Christmas, NY Day, Easter, 2 or 3 family

> reunions in the summer ( reunion, Cousins reunion,etc.) and

> that food was out for hours, in the dining room & kitchen, on

picnic

> tables. After the first organized meal, the rest of the time was

> grab & eat. How did we survive? And the turkey was always

stuffed;

> nowadays the " experts " imply we are taking our lives in our hands

to

> stuff the turkey. Well, I've eaten raw eggs all my life (in cake

> batter, cookie dough & in homemade egg nog), never got sick & I'm

not

> going to worry about it now. And if anyone says that's how I got

> sarcoidosis, I'm going to personally deliver a truckload of Hog

Head

> Cheese to your house! Hoosier Rose & proud of it!

>

>

> I am not from the country but my paternal grandmother was and she

> > instilled a lot of those ways in us duing our childhood.

> >

> > My grandmother, (Mama, we called her) would cook huge breakfast

> like

> > Terri mentioned about her Granny. My grandmother would be in the

> > kitchen cooking breakfast fot 2 hours sometimes before we sat

down

> at

> > the table to eat especially on the weekends. We would wait

> patiently

> > watching the Lil Rascals, Tarzan, or the Mc Show as

we

> > read the Sunday Comic Strip. I would pick up the Suday paper and

> get

> > the comic strip section a read along until breakfast was ready.

> >

> > She would could ham, bacon, pork chops,sausage, eggs, grits or

> rice,

> > biscuits and sometimes pancakes with the biscuits, all from

scratch

> > and from the local country store. Sometimes she would cook

kidneys

> > too! Those things sure did smell STRONG! I tasted them once and

> that

> > was about all I could stand!

> >

> > I often wondered why my Mama (we called my Grandma, Mama) would

> cook

> > so much for breakfast. But as the day linguered on each item

would

> > disappear one by one until nothing was left by bedtime. We would

> > snack thoughtout the day on what was left over from breakfast,

from

> > sandwiches made from the ham, sausage and pork chops with a slice

> of

> > bread or a good old fashioned home made buttermilk biscuit. And

I

> > tell ya, it was delicious, even without the modern convenience of

a

> > microwave oven to warm it. I would eat it cold and head right

back

> > outside to play! Cold and all. And it just might have a little

> > Cricso built up on it. But thats okay, you just wiped that off

and

> > kept on going, huh?

> >

> > Ruth, did it ever bother you having to slaughter the animals that

> you

> > raised on the farm? It would have been very difficult for me to

> have

> > to sit down at dinner knowing that the fried chicken on the table

> > was my favorite chicken that I raised or the meat was from my

> > favorite pig or cow. I think it would have made me vey sick,

hurt

> > and angry like it did a lot of children raised on a farm.

> >

> > I don't know if I would have be able to do it. I probably would

> have

> > been a vegetarian for a long, long time. Until Daddy got the

strap

> > and took me to the wood shed.

> >

> > I miss those good ole days. Remember the bacon that had the

thick

> > rhine on it? Man! You could chew on that for days. Breakfast

> would

> > be over and some people would still be chewing on bacon

rhine!

> > Remember?

> >

> > Brother Ron

> >

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