i have slugs

Those pig intestines you ate, we call chittlins. Were your creek slung or stump whopped. Bet most of you have never heard that before. On exotic eating, have you ever tried mountain oysters. Ummm, Ummm.

sweetbreads?

Sweetbreads are brains. Mountain oysters come a lot lower part of the anatomy or a bull or boar.
Ever eaten lites, liver, heart and onions. Not bad at all. Bet it beats deep fried leeches.

yikes the furthest I've ventured is frog legs...and they taste like chicken! there's not enough meat on them to bother, though. here we call the intestines tripe....I've never eaten it. boiled brains are called head cheese here.
Chezka I love Dirty Jobs, have you ever seen the one with the ostrich? It's hysterical.

That... hairless... cat... is just wrong! :-) (but i betcha it batters good! AKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!)

Ok, your moysters (mountain oysters), they've got nothin with what my bros HAD to partake in while in Saudi Arabia... They dared them to eat FRESH (meaning RAW) thinly sliced goat "oysters" with fresh maters and cheese... Said they were a delicacy... AKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!! Needless to say, they didn't keep it down- can't blame 'em.

Goodness, this thread is getting funnier and funnier by the post!

Try dried crushed egg shells or coarse grit around the plant,they cant crawl over it.Coffee grounds also wrk but some plants dont like that..it is a constant war!!

I grind eggshells up mix them with used coffee grounds and tea bags. Of corse you want to clean the eggshells well. I put this mixture in my flower boxes. I dont know why, I have always seen in done by bigtime gardeners growing up

catz. if salts aren't chemical, what are they?

well I guess it is a chemical, but is more natural than raid

Salt is a mineral. So yes- it is a naturally occuring element.

Lynnie6868 - Hog intestines we call chittlins or more properly chitterlings; Beef intestines we call tripe. It is all still just guts. Head Cheese we call Hog head cheese and is made from the whole head. Every thing is ground up and mixed together with spices and put in a mold and pressed. Don't know the details. Never liked it. My wife loves it. Married her anyway. Take the bad with the good.

Mike Rowe's perfect for that show! The Ostrich was funny but the geoduck was wayyy funnier- i mean lol-pee-in-your-pants hilarious! :-)

Jim, I thought "tripe" is like the weird lining/part of the cow's stomach? Has anybody tried grilled chickenfeet? mmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

As for the slugs, still SLUGGO. (I have to honor this thread's subject now and again duh...) :-)

Chezca, never grilled them but when I was a kid and we killed chickens off the yard, my aunt would scald them and pull the yellow skin off and boil them with salt and pepper and butter. That was my uncles favorite part of the chicken. Surprising how much meat is on them. When you were though eating them then you picked your teeth with the toe nails. (just joking)

Hey gang is this new barn electric ad running you crazy. Pulled up a photo and couldn't look at it for the dog gone thing dropping down and covering it up.

I don't get the pop-over ad... Check your pop-up blocker settings (it should do the trick).

I grew up in one of em killin-chickins-the-backyard/guttin-yar-own-fish for dinner household. Didn't faze me much. Some of the most memorable times I remember is when our parents/aunts/uncles/gramps & grams do these ritualistic traditions way back when... Yea... The chickins were cute but they tasted way better when fried! :-)

I don't know why slugs gross me out... go figure..!

I grew up in a very proper Boston environment, all food was neatly packaged from the grocery store. The only thing I ever tasted fresh was seafood , lobster & clams...we would dig clams right on the beach, throw them in our little plastic pails & take them home & steam them...you can't do that now, half the areas are polluted and the fishermen get dibs on clammin' the good areas. Everybody has to work & make money, right?
I still hate creepy crawlies though....bugs gross me out. I could NEVER I mean NEVER eat headcheese...that is one brave woman you married, Jim!
I have pop up blocker & the mosquito ad drove me crazy anyway! Like mosquitoes aren't annoying enough!
Chezca I did see the geoduck episode, that was very funny! And I can't even drink goats milk, or eat goat cheese, never mind goat oysters!
I put salt on my slugs...have not seen any since..(in deference to the original thread).

I'm with you lynnie!!! geze jim it sounds like you eat fear factor meals

Ooh that mosquito ad was horrid.

I missed that 1 but this electric add is bugging me

yeah me too, i wonder if we gave some feedback if it would matter?

not sure but I;m doing to go to bed. I think I'm going to play in the dirt tomorow

Hey iluvcats, what is fear factor food? I was raised on a farm where we raised everything we ate both vegetables and meat. Killed our own chickens, hogs and beef. Have't cared for chicken since we started buying them at the store. Kids had a 4-H broiler project and since I had to build a brooder anyway, raised a bunch or Rhode Island Red straight run biddies. Ate the roosters and gave the pullets to my Dad. (Remind me to tell you about his trained chickens.) Beef you buy in the store doesn't taste anything like what we raised. Only thing close is Pure Angus beef. Hog killing was on the first really frosty day we had. It was an all day and into the night job. Never killed less than 10 or 12 at a time. Cut up our own meat and smoked it. Since my cousin and I were the youngest boys we were delegated to cranking the sausage mill. Still got a heck of a right arm from turning that thing. We would take the liver, lites (lungs) and hearts and the women would chop them up together and start a stew. That and hot bisquits was the food for the day. Only thing we bought to eat was flour, sugar, corn meal, and coffee. Sometimes we even ground our own meal. I came along to late to see it but Grandpa used to raise sugar cane and make his own syrup. We never had much money but we sure did eat good. I personally didn't know we were poor until the Feds started to publish the poverty level after I was married. Tell you something else we still had time to sit on the porch (gallery as Pa called it) and visit with the neighbors. Not many juvinile delinquents either. Hard to be delinquent after hoeing or picking cotton all day. We knew where the church was and we learned to say "yes maam and no sir and please and thank you." Hey, Jim get off the soap box. Sorry gang.

fear factor is a tv show where the eat bugs, rotten eggs, eyes and other grose stuff

Thanks for the reply. Seldom watch tv. Rather spend my time helping to make this the longest thread in the history of Dave's gardening. Have a great week end.

Does anyone know where I can buy Sluggo in upstate New York? My local Agway does not carry it. I'm in Columbia County. Thanks!!!

walmart maby

on Fear factor I think they get paid to eat the stuff, don't they? I still couldn't do it though. I can't even watch others eat it.

I think the audience who watches Fear Factor should get paid.

My local Walmart doesn't carry Sluggo. Guess its on to Gardener's Supply.com.

Try Ortho's Bug Geta Plus - big green container. It kills earwigs as well. Might be easier to find. Try Home Depot, Wal Mart, Agway. You might want to call first to avoid wasting time, gas, etc.

I have an earwig problem. How much dose that ortho's stuff usually sell for?

I have hundreds of these little guys in my garden AND they eat among other things slug and snail eggs!
Not sure of the species but I'm sure somebody on DG will.

pajonica

can they survive a New England winter? if so, I'll take a dozen lol

I believe that is an american anole. tiny lizard, they dont get more than 6 inches.

lol. They can only survive new england weather if you keep them in a tank with heating lamps.

Hey Gang apparently someone from Dave's reads these threads. The Barn's Electric ad is gone and in its place is an ad for sluggo. The snail bait some of you guys have been talking about.

I don't have any lizards in my garden but do have toad frogs. Around the house, where all of Jo's pot plants are we have hundreds of salamander lizards. Some of those rascals are six or eight inchs long and as big around as a half dollar. They eat a ton of bugs and such. Took me forever to talk my wife in to not wacking them.

sigh...I need to move to a warmer zone....on top of not being able to keep little lizards around, I always want plants that I can't have. I have absolute live oak envy....I swear I want one of those live oaks so bad!

oh yeah, I believe a lovely person named Terry took care of that, must be an admin. It's nice to not have to play Beat the Dropdown.

I once had a tree frog stuck to my front door during a rainstorm....don't know how he got there, or where he came from, but he stayed on the glass door till the storm passed. Mind you, I live in a veritable hayfield, no water for blocks...except the neighbor's pool....I hope he ate his share of bugs while he was out there....(the frog not the neighbor, I don't like that Fear Factor stuff).
Maybe one of you guys knows the answer to this...there are dead japanese beetles under my potted rhamnus fine line shrubs (buckthorn)....are these shrubs poisonous to jb's?

*waves*

I'm new here at Dave's Garden and this was the first thread I have read in the forums. LOL It has been hilarious!

I look forward to getting to know y'all better and getting some help with my gardening since I'm a relative noobie. :-)

welcome 1cat!

I think my lizard is a skink of some kind measures up to 8" tip to tail, survives winter here ok. min temp
around -2c

pajonica

HEY!! I'm a crazy cat person to!!
As for the add swap. Some companys have way to much time on there hands.

Pajonica your probally right about the lizard. The anole is native to south america and states that border








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