I would eat half a dozen pickled eggs a day if I could.
I like the thrust of this thread, BarG. I showed off my deer last year. I've shown photos of my gardens and haul of tobacco and food. I think, though, is that my attitude and the things I've learned is the trophy. It's that screw you, I'll grow my own, and it'll be damn good. I won't buy your feedlot meat, I'll kill it myself. I'm not gonna grow a lawn, my urban front yard is gonna be food. F#!*& you, conformity. Bring your credit card toting, planet organic shopping, Prius driving ass over to my house, we'll eat, smoke and drink, and hopefully I can convert you.
I like processing my own meat when we can. But here in the USA home meat processing is kind of a No No ( But we do it anyway) as there are some certain people who wants to make sure that animals are put down humanely and think the only way is at a gov inspected packing house .
I have killed a lot of hogs , made my own sausage, salt and sugar cure my own hams , midlands and shoulders .Back years ago almost all farmers raised a few hogs . The in November we would kill , scald , scrape hair and trim up hams , shoulders and midlands for salt curing .
We clean and process our own deer and small game . While there is other hunter who use a packing house to process their deer kill . I prefer to get back my own deer meat . I have heard it costing around $100 for hunters to get a deer processed . . It cost me nothing more that the bags or wrap to wrap my meat in . We have our own grinder and know what we grind into our meat . I also make my own deer jerky with my grandson learning how to do this and where food comes from .
Now there is a lot of nasty hunters who kill and dump their kill along side of roads here, they are too lazy to clean what they killed and are killing for the fun or trophy .
With my family we eat what we kill unless it is a coyote
This year our deer herd was hit extremely hard with Epizootic hemorrhagic disease . It has taking a big toll on our deer population . People was finding dead deer all over the state of KY .
By the way Eggs are my favorite food , We sometimes eat breakfast food at suppertime .