Post ApcbZlRIj0cz29w6TY by futurebird@sauropods.win
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(DIR) Post #Apcb6kW34yUVlvJzc0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-01T00:34:41Z
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"Don't eat chicken on new year's day, or you'll be scratchin' all year."(That is, you will be broke and you will have trouble scratching together your bills.)Have you heard of this notion? (Vegans are safe obviously. We are discussing if duck is OK. I think maybe it is.)
(DIR) Post #ApcbGXfFiRWQoFIPjM by swart@mastodon.cloud
2025-01-01T00:36:22Z
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@futurebird I never heard of it but chicken used to be notoriously expensive before mass production techiques
(DIR) Post #ApcbSflzOTjhQuEPdQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-01T00:38:38Z
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This might have just been made up by my grandad who HATES chicken. LMAO.
(DIR) Post #ApcbZlRIj0cz29w6TY by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-01T00:39:55Z
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@swart what?Chicken was something my great grandma didn't regard as "meat" since to her meat meant that you needed to see a butcher. (And she raised chickens)
(DIR) Post #Apcbj7SmD6Qxwh5TIe by swart@mastodon.cloud
2025-01-01T00:41:25Z
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@futurebird I guess if people kept chickens mostly for eggs they would rarely kill one for food, but in the cities they were expensive. I'm trying to remember where I read this now :)
(DIR) Post #ApccEz50ulWxDDAObA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-01T00:47:22Z
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@swart I recall that the egg chickens and meat chickens were different. She had two hutches.
(DIR) Post #ApccHRp11WdwvtrHP6 by swart@mastodon.cloud
2025-01-01T00:47:03Z
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@futurebird Wikipedia says "In the United States in the 1800s, chicken was more expensive than other meats and it was "sought by the rich because [it is] so costly as to be an uncommon dish." — it references a Good Housekeeping article from 2016 that is no longer available.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_as_food
(DIR) Post #ApccHSndO98HxuDgtE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-01T00:47:49Z
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@swart Well this was more like the 1920s
(DIR) Post #ApccMRjOmuLa6FcAgi by swart@mastodon.cloud
2025-01-01T00:48:43Z
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@futurebird I guess in the 1920s there would still be old farts like me around quoting stuff from the 60s ;-)
(DIR) Post #ApccXDOaQac4p90yzQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-01T00:50:35Z
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@josh0 @loren Miso works fine, but I can't tell mom that's what it is.
(DIR) Post #ApcccyfG6v4YsEYq2a by victorvonvortex@mastodon.social
2025-01-01T00:51:39Z
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@futurebird I'd never heard the expression before, but it may have given me an idea...
(DIR) Post #ApcdgyHJaXJYmwpUpc by trachelipus@masto.ai
2025-01-01T01:03:35Z
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@futurebird I hadn't heard it phrased like that. The traditions I'm aware of always involve eating pork for prosperity. There should also be some form of greens and/or peas or beans to symbolize money. My family did spare ribs and sauerkraut. A cousin by marriage came from a family that made hoppin' John.
(DIR) Post #ApcdurZ9LEAi1anOfQ by marence@urbanists.social
2025-01-01T01:06:06Z
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@futurebird Along with “eat pork so your year will be fat.”(Polish-American ancestors, Midwest.)
(DIR) Post #ApceI5b3LFJiCUlFYW by bandreghetti@mastodon.com.br
2025-01-01T01:10:18Z
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@futurebird I wanna say most people in Brazil have heard this one. The explanation here is usually that chickens scratch backwards, implying one should want to metaphorically move their life forward I guess.TIL the verb for a chicken picking corn from the ground with its beak is 'to scratch'. In Portuguese we have a different verb with that meaning. I mean, different from the one for scratching your skin or a car or whatever.
(DIR) Post #ApcgcnN6UrAFfNEnRI by Tengrain@mastodon.social
2025-01-01T01:36:27Z
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@futurebird "That is, you will be broke and you will have trouble scratching together your bills.”Ducks have bills, but I’m not sure they have any folding money.
(DIR) Post #ApcgqzKiow8iootJtw by ramsey@phpc.social
2025-01-01T01:38:58Z
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@futurebird I never heard this, but I did grow up hearing you’ll have bad luck if you don’t eat black-eyed peas and collard greens on New Year’s Day.
(DIR) Post #Apcs1xko8DSkbNWoSW by monsoonrains@mastodon.social
2025-01-01T03:44:16Z
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@futurebird Never ever.I'm from... Africa and Ireland? And obviously in the orbit of UK culture.*That being said, it does sound like something my English grandmother would say as she puffed on a cigarette
(DIR) Post #ApctKkNy9uSEb4Mnmi by VampiresAndRobots@writing.exchange
2025-01-01T03:58:51Z
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@futurebird well, I've been sick with the flu and had a whole not of vegan "chicken" soup. Does that count? It feels like it does, considering I'm missing out on time and a half tomorrow.
(DIR) Post #ApdYCXSIRg12IZayHY by webhat@infosec.exchange
2025-01-01T11:36:47Z
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@futurebird I just know about filling your pockets with charcoal, bread and other things and having that person entering the house first on New Year's Day to bring plenty of heat, food, etc to the home for the rest of the year
(DIR) Post #ApeglPacfvvSpXac5Y by Infrogmation@mastodon.online
2025-01-02T00:47:25Z
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@futurebird @swart 1920s Herbert Hoover was promising the US a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage - meaning general comfortable prosperity. (SPOILER: Didn't work out that way.)