It’s like I never left the South!

It’s like I never left the South! was Originally Posted on July 30, 2010 by lavarock

OK, so here is a real story that happened to me today. My friend is very into having dogs and cats eat real raw food and not kibble. She started a CO-OP where neighbors can participate in this and pay a very low prie for meat. I have mentioned this before here, so I’ll just leave it at that.

On my way into Kailua-Kona to go food shopping, I stopped by to say hello. She normally uses a spreadsheet to calculate all the meat she orders and this week was no exception.

I believe what happened was that she copied a line from the bottom of the sheet up higher and did not notice that this line she copied was a total line. She filled out the spreadsheet and faxed it to the meat company / slaughterhouse. When the guy delivered the meat today, there were more boxes than she expected. It appeared the the extra meat was pigs feet!

Normally, this would not be a problem because the dog love meat and they should love pigs feet. However, she has no extra room for the pigs feet in the freezers. I reminded her that I had extra freezer space at my house. I already had an ice chest in the truck, so I just put the meat in there while I went up into town.

So here I am, trying to think of ways that we can sell all this extra meat. Then I start to laught. I should do like Lucy Ricardo did on “I Love Lucy”, or as Barbara Streisand did in “For Pete’s Sake” which is to stand outside the supermarket and ask strangers “Hey, wanna buy some cheap meat”.

You may be wondering just what the big deal is, a little extra meat, right? Well, a “little extra meat” turns out to be a lot! I don’t think we have that much pickling material on the island

You just have to laugh at the absurdity of it. I went to buy some chicken and frozen food and end up with 75 pounds of pigs feet, and it’s not even mine!