On Friday, October 11, 2019 at 1:11:43 PM UTC-5, Sheldon wrote:
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> On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 09:49:48 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
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> >My mother (who grew up in the Detroit suburbs) remembers her grandmother
> >killing chickens in her back yard. We bought our food at the grocery store.
> >
> >Cindy Hamilton
>
> There used to be live chicken markets all over NYC... my grandmother
> would bring me as a toddler, she'd pick out which chickens she wanted
> and they were taken in back to be Killed and cleaned.... I hated going
> because of the schtink.... could be why to this day I'm not all that
> fond of poultry.
>
Grandparents lived on a farm and when they wanted chicken or we were there
for the week-end there'd be chicken on the table. But I never saw the
process of getting that bird from the yard to the table.