A chicken over about 4 years old, even running free on the farm, is basically a pet… no longer laying and considered too old to eat.
But a lot of people do keep them as part of the flock.
They eat bugs, teach the young hens, and sometimes lie on eggs, to help hatch chicks.
A chicken raised commercially for the supermarket is remarkably young when you buy it… Used to take 18 weeks to get big enough, but I think they’re well under half that now, due to the high protein food they eat.
When you see those big chicken breasts at the grocers, those are layers past laying age. They are tough. Roaster and fryers are smaller and only couple of months old. Much more tender.
Not here either, at least not the answer I’ve gotten, cos I’ve asked whether it means the chickens are older.
I mostly see the huge ones at my favorite Mexican market… they used to have better meat at better prices than anywhere else I shop.
I don’t go there so much any more, because I cook a lot less, and their prices went up, and all that.
But a butcher there told me back then that all the chicken was the same age. Some just grows bigger. They got a good deal from their supplier, because other stores ordered small breasts, to satisfy their customers, who preferred individual servings, and large, meaty thighs and legs, if available.
Mexican cooks prefer bonier pieces, for cooking in liquid, because they say they’re more flavorful. So this market tries to get small legs and thighs, and often has a great price on large breasts, because they get them cheaper and they’re less popular.
Search says this is Rue de I’Abreuvoir in Montmartre, Paris, in 1904, by an unknown photographer.
But look at the animal’s feet.
The resolution isn’t good enough to tell whether there are shadows there, or its paws are resting on little wheels.
So I was looking for a higher resolution image, or maybe someone who knew whether the little girl is walking a live dog, a bear cub, or a realistic toy bear on wheels, which was a popular toy at that time, for children lucky enough to own one .
I did find a few discussions, and discovered that I was not the only one wondering.
No one seemed to think it was a live cub, but the other two choices both had their defenders.
You’d think they could look out the window and realize the folly of betting against rain on any day in the UK, because regardless of how many predict the wrong location, there are bound to be some correct ones.
I learned most of these words meanings by how they were used in something I either read or heard. It’s nice to have a list like this to make their meaning more well defined.
Of course, IIRC, the ISS flies 250 feet up, and it’s about 350 feet long… the short side of a city block, or the long side, in a suburban development.
So… they get buzzed by something that looks like the ISS… but only 30(?) feet long, flying just over the rooftops… like 30 or 40 feet in the air…. hmmm…. sounds like a model … and someone pranking them.
But who would prank the Cliffords?
Who would prank their sweet innocent doggie…. cough cough…
Say, do white cats know how to fly remote control models?
Now that I have my “saber scar”, a friend sent me info on meds to clear up scars, because they worked on her c-sections. I told her, “You’re a young, pretty woman (she’s 50) so scars matter. I’m old and craggy. Guys use scars to mark events in their lives”. My sister ruefully agreed with the different standards.
My son was rehabbing a guy that tore his Achilles tendon when he was bending down putting away dishes. He turned, and felt a pop. My son told him, “Dude, you’ve got to come up with a better story than that to tell people!”
So… Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya….
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Noooh! You’re not planting me in a flowerpot!
Well, that makes for a total cuteness overload right out of the gate. Happy now?
A whole basket of happy!
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“I hate it when I get puny humans stuck in my teeth!”
“I call you back later. Gotta run!”
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Are you sure that’s Paris and not Pizza?
And Paris for the win.
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NO!!
Too terrible to like. Sorry.
It is a model, isn’t it?
It looks big enough to have a person in it
.. I sure hope it doesn’t!
Yeah, RC plane…my brother used to play with them. Rather expensive hobby…much too expensive to run them into light poles.
I figured it was RC, then I realized the size of it.
It’s probably not really quite big enough for a human pilot, but in some shots it looks it.
Still must cost thousands.
An A-10 warthog? Shoulda took down the pole.
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“I want a Tin Roof Sundae and i want it NOW!”
I suppose you want it hot, as well?
Just in case….
BTW, that’s the year she turned 26, and he turned 33… I’m not sure how the date of the movie release lined up with their birthdays.
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Now do it again if they are “food” animals…
Our cat lived much longer – in good health nearly until she crossed the rainbow-bridge…
A chicken over about 4 years old, even running free on the farm, is basically a pet… no longer laying and considered too old to eat.
But a lot of people do keep them as part of the flock.
They eat bugs, teach the young hens, and sometimes lie on eggs, to help hatch chicks.
A chicken raised commercially for the supermarket is remarkably young when you buy it… Used to take 18 weeks to get big enough, but I think they’re well under half that now, due to the high protein food they eat.
When you see those big chicken breasts at the grocers, those are layers past laying age. They are tough. Roaster and fryers are smaller and only couple of months old. Much more tender.
Not here in Germany. The large ones are from a large race.
Think one-pound legs – average size. Tender and delicious.
Not here either, at least not the answer I’ve gotten, cos I’ve asked whether it means the chickens are older.
I mostly see the huge ones at my favorite Mexican market… they used to have better meat at better prices than anywhere else I shop.
I don’t go there so much any more, because I cook a lot less, and their prices went up, and all that.
But a butcher there told me back then that all the chicken was the same age. Some just grows bigger. They got a good deal from their supplier, because other stores ordered small breasts, to satisfy their customers, who preferred individual servings, and large, meaty thighs and legs, if available.
Mexican cooks prefer bonier pieces, for cooking in liquid, because they say they’re more flavorful. So this market tries to get small legs and thighs, and often has a great price on large breasts, because they get them cheaper and they’re less popular.
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Why is it that her four-legged friend appears to be on skates?
Ooh… I was typing while you posted… I may have just answered that.
Search says this is Rue de I’Abreuvoir in Montmartre, Paris, in 1904, by an unknown photographer.
But look at the animal’s feet.
The resolution isn’t good enough to tell whether there are shadows there, or its paws are resting on little wheels.
So I was looking for a higher resolution image, or maybe someone who knew whether the little girl is walking a live dog, a bear cub, or a realistic toy bear on wheels, which was a popular toy at that time, for children lucky enough to own one .
I did find a few discussions, and discovered that I was not the only one wondering.
No one seemed to think it was a live cub, but the other two choices both had their defenders.
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No picture of him in Spartacus … tsk tsk.
I AM SPARTICUS!
I was waiting for someone to say that, after I realized I blew my chance.
Yeah, it was a little on the obvious side
Not obvious… just low-hanging fruit.
I have picked it if I’d thought of it 🙂
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I hope that this is true.
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You’d think they could look out the window and realize the folly of betting against rain on any day in the UK, because regardless of how many predict the wrong location, there are bound to be some correct ones.
…,
I learned most of these words meanings by how they were used in something I either read or heard. It’s nice to have a list like this to make their meaning more well defined.
We seem to be a pretty educated group around here… I always thought that about GoComics too.
But visit YouTube, and read the comments, if you want to see what words people don’t know.
Recognised him from the young picture.
Same.
Me too.
But usually there’s somebody who wants to.be sure…
Yeah, it’s that slightly crooked smile – I knew immediately.
For me it was the eyes.
Me too.
They droop towards the outside.
When you add the crooked smile there’s zero doubt.
Based solely on the before photo, I gotta go
👍
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Pony zoomies!
If the reason is the same as for cats’…
https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/cat-zoomies-pooping
Looks like the old saying, “Feeling his oats!”
Thelwell would have loved him!
just in case…
Wowie!
I love this one!
Of course, IIRC, the ISS flies 250 feet up, and it’s about 350 feet long… the short side of a city block, or the long side, in a suburban development.
So… they get buzzed by something that looks like the ISS… but only 30(?) feet long, flying just over the rooftops… like 30 or 40 feet in the air…. hmmm…. sounds like a model … and someone pranking them.
But who would prank the Cliffords?
Who would prank their sweet innocent doggie…. cough cough…
Say, do white cats know how to fly remote control models?
EWC. I’d make book on it.
Field mouse asleep in a flower.
Disney has been notified…
Mistle Thrush.
As the ISS went over their heads, all I could hear was the Star Trek theme.
Now that I have my “saber scar”, a friend sent me info on meds to clear up scars, because they worked on her c-sections. I told her, “You’re a young, pretty woman (she’s 50) so scars matter. I’m old and craggy. Guys use scars to mark events in their lives”. My sister ruefully agreed with the different standards.
My son was rehabbing a guy that tore his Achilles tendon when he was bending down putting away dishes. He turned, and felt a pop. My son told him, “Dude, you’ve got to come up with a better story than that to tell people!”
So… Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya….