Thread: A modest suggestion to you all

Originally Posted by Inkslinger

Easy to make.
I hear human flesh tastes like beef if you season it right.
My family could survive for months on this fat ass rightwing racist that lives next door.

Actually human flesh is usually compared to pork. "Long pig" is supposed to be the term used by some primitive tribes believed to be cannibals.

Originally Posted by Oftencold

Your motives are commendable. But let me describe a not unlikely scene to you.

Imagine that you have reason to believe that the shortage will last a minimum of thirty days. (If you are basing this predicted duration on a Government forecast, allow for 90 days.)

Now at your door is not a hungry family from next door. They were there yesterday, and you fed them.

And they sung your praises.

Today there are one hundred hungry people at your door. At they want fed. Now. a few will no doubt feel that it is your duty to share, and they have no intention of eating squirrel, pigeon, or local herbs.

That you and your family who planned ahead should go hungry will not deter them. If they thought that way they'd have put up food of their own.

Even if you were prodigious enough in your preparations that you can feed the 100 today, what do you suppose tomorrow will bring? And what happens when the mob is told that you are unable to comply?

Ha! that is what the shotguns and automatic weapons are for. My family is platoon size and we all are well armed for those who would think they can take what other wise might be given. If we count our neighbors we are company size. This area we have here would be ours unless uncle comes in cleans us out but I do not think it will come to that.

Originally Posted by Oftencold

They would also discover that they are capable of eating things that they didn't think they could, again as in the 1930's.

If you've got the time a great show on the Travel Channel is Bizzare Foods with Andrew Zimmerman. He will eat the unspeakable. But while I have you...when in was in Ulan Bator in Mongolia back in 86. I ate fermented Yak meat w/maggots. Bleck! You gotta eat it, smile, and run.

Originally Posted by Oftencold

As far as you going hungry in order to feed your neighbors, this would probably be a very foolish act unless you were certain that the shortage would be very short.

Going hungry alongside my neighbors was going on the notion something a bit more catastrophic was going to happen. Like a nuke attack, bomb shelter, enough food for 240 days below and all.

Originally Posted by Oftencold

If you wish to help feed those who will not be bright enough to prepare, then I suggest you make a study of which plants in your area are edible. Again, in the Great Depression, people discovered the dandelions could make a good salad.

Dandelion greens are something people should eat all the time. But they're bitter.
The Health Benefits of Dandelions

Originally Posted by anonnymous

Ha! that is what the shotguns and automatic weapons are for. My family is platoon size and we all are well armed for those who would think they can take what other wise might be given. If we count our neighbors we are company size. This area we have here would be ours unless uncle comes in cleans us out but I do not think it will come to that.

Actually, gun play is one of the things I wished to prevent by recommending that you keep your stash a secret. Thank you for illustrating my point so graphically.

Originally Posted by Oftencold

Actually, gun play is one of the things I wished to prevent by recommending that you keep your stash a secret. Thank you for illustrating my point so graphically.

Anytime. Gun play as you call it only comes when reason fails. I think we are both wanting to avoid the use of firearms but as we both know some men can be unreasonable.

Hey guys, I come from a family with sea faring roots that go way back, I'm the Captain of a vessel myself. If things go way South on us, and people can't find food, the Law of the Open Sea prevails, I'll make the ultimate sacrifice.....You can all Eat Me.

Originally Posted by Engine-Ear

Hey guys, I come from a family with sea faring roots that go way back, I'm the Captain of a vessel myself. If things go way South on us, and people can't find food, the Law of the Open Sea prevails, I'll make the ultimate sacrifice.....You can all Eat Me.

Who will sail our boat then? Ahoy there mates! Thar she blows! Avast yee landlubbers!

Originally Posted by anonnymous

Anytime. Gun play as you call it only comes when reason fails. I think we are both wanting to avoid the use of firearms but as we both know some men can be unreasonable.

It isn't remarkable when reason fails, it is the vanishingly rare occasions when it prevails.

Originally Posted by Engine-Ear

Hey guys, I come from a family with sea faring roots that go way back, I'm the Captain of a vessel myself. If things go way South on us, and people can't find food, the Law of the Open Sea prevails, I'll make the ultimate sacrifice.....You can all Eat Me.

Are you kosher? Sorry.

Originally Posted by Goldwater

Dandelion greens are something people should eat all the time. But they're bitter.
The Health Benefits of Dandelions

I never direct people to dandelions because of the white sap. While it is harmless in this plant, white sap is considered a marker for assuming that a plant is poisonous. Or so we were taught in Survivor School.