Where Meat Comes From

Yeah, I ended my title with a preposition.
So sue me.


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Mmmm, Fresh Potatoes

I scanned this lovely full page advertisement from my current National Geographic. I probably violated half a dozen copyright laws by doing so. Isn't that an idyllic scene, everyone out in the lovely air, gently hand picking potatoes and placing them lovingly in wooden baskets?


Except potatoes don't grow on bushes, or even exactly on the vines. And you don't harvest them when the plants are blooming. You wait until the plants die down and then dig up the tubers out of the dirt.

This ad makes me nuts. It doesn't bother my husband at all. I think I have a problem. I may need professional help.

It just makes me crazy. No wonder kids are confused about where their food comes from. Even potato chip ad execs don't know where potatoes come from.

Nutter Cemetery

I got to go to England a few years ago for a training course. I learned a lot of things. One of the things I learned is that a nutter is a crazy person. So, to a British person, this sign may as well say "Loony Cemetery".

Nutter is a fairly common surname around here. We have lots of Nutter things. I love West Virginia.

Fortunes

I think I might occasionally post an odd sign or label in my blog. Odd signs and labels crack me up (and sometimes they piss me off, because I'm a Grammar Nazi). Over the holidays I ate Chinese food with a couple of my family members. We got fortunes. One was normal, one was odd until I thought about it a bit, and the other one just left me speechless.

The first one, "It is not the strong, but the responsive, that survive." is normal, if a bit boring.



The second one, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Wonton or Dumpling?" struck me as odd when I first read it. The "Wonton or Dumpling?" seemed such a non-sequitur. But eventually I realized it's like asking "Do you prefer noodles or rice?" The best or most beautiful choice depends on the person doing the choosing. Okay, I'm cool with that.

The third one, "It's over your head now. Time to get some professional help." just left me speechless. I know, I said that already, but I have no other words. I'm speechless, remember?. I mean, what if this fortune fell into the hands of someone already in a fragile state? Might they crack?

Speechless, I tell you.