Our grocery list....funny!

We are making out our grocery list this morning and will go shopping shortly. I asked my hubby if he put "cat meat" down on the list as we don't need a lot of meat for us, but I'm out of the raw beef for the cats.

He started laughing and said "if someone read our list, they would think we were buying dead cats to eat"!

That does sound bad doesn't it?????

That is funny!!! But I think in some countries they do eat cats...
which to me sounds like cannibalism since cats are our friends, but hey it's their culture.

Originally Posted by ut0pia

That is funny!!! But I think in some countries they do eat cats...
which to me sounds like cannibalism since cats are our friends, but hey it's their culture.

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China has "cat markets" where cats are sold for meat. But it has "dog markets," too. They are catching on that this is a sore point with most of the world, and they're at least being more surreptitious about it.

I've taken care of cows that I got pretty attached to, but they still went to slaughter when they're time came. Just being attached to a particular type of animal is probably not a good reason to condemn eating them.

And, in a coldly logical fashion (more appropriate 500 years ago, probably), eating the cats who ate the rats that ate the grain that we were going to eat probably made a lot of sense, at one time.

Originally Posted by mrblanche

And, in a coldly logical fashion (more appropriate 500 years ago, probably), eating the cats who ate the rats that ate the grain that we were going to eat probably made a lot of sense, at one time.

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I am sure foot binding made a lot of sense to people in China for hundreds of years too, although there's no logic in that, at least as far as I can see..I compare foot binding in girls to declawing cats because it seems like they're both done for stupid reasons..
sorry, off topic, I was just recently reading a novel that was set in China in the 17th century and I was so shocked by foot binding among other things..

It's hard to make the distinction of which is a cultural difference and which is just simply wrong, and that goes for eating cats and dogs too...

But if being attached to certain animals is not why we don't eat them, then why is it that we don't eat cats, dogs, horses????
To me it sounds like it's the work they do along with humans..but i don't know I'm just speculating.

I suspect we don't eat cats and dogs in the U.S. first of all because we ARE connected to them and consider them "family." But in the long run, I think the real reason is that we don't because our parents didn't.

In other countries (France, for example), horse meat is pretty common. And I'll be honest; I'd rather eat a handsome, vegetarian horse than a dirty, smelly pig that will eat everything, including each other and me (if they got the chance).

But when push comes to shove, even Americans have eaten their dogs, horses, etc.

I'm just glad we don't have the cat-and-dog-eating tradition here, and it looks like it is losing ground in much of the world.

too funny

I must admit, grocery lists are certainly very personal things. I'd shopped for my mother many times, and I understood her lists. But when I got married, Dottie's lists were virtually incomprehensible. All kinds of shorthand, etc. Then I looked at my mother's list, and I realized it had the same sort of things on it, but I had just gotten used to them.

Did you know there is a book consisting just of shopping lists found by the author?

Shopping Lists

Remind me not to eat dinner with you!

...amazing what will get published.


I'll make lists for myself, but don't like to make them for other people. When people look at a list I've made they always misread words and tease me. Last time it was DH and his father - I can't even remember what they misread it as but it wasn't even remotely near what I had written.

Will agree - I rewrote the list before we went, but had to ask DH what some of the stuff he had on there was...I couldn't figure it out!.

My Nana writes down on her list

Human Mince

This is to remind her to get human mince to feed the cats...let me rephrase that, human grade

Cat meat and human mince!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by SillyJilly

Remind me not to eat dinner with you!

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My thoughts exactly! Ok... this is bad... but I gotta say it... It's not like we are living in 18th century China or something

Originally Posted by WellingtonCats

My Nana writes down on her list

Human Mince

This is to remind her to get human mince to feed the cats...let me rephrase that, human grade

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WOWWWWW.... I didn't realize that there was more to that post than just "human mince"... I started to freak out a little wondering just what kinds of people do they allow on this site?!

I'm just glad that 99% of us really know what we are talking about, even if it doesn't "sound" right. And to think..........this is world wide members but we are all the same..............

Originally Posted by strange_wings

...amazing what will get published.


I'll make lists for myself, but don't like to make them for other people. When people look at a list I've made they always misread words and tease me.

Last time it was DH and his father - I can't even remember what they misread it as but it wasn't even remotely near what I had written.

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half the time (or even more than half) I can't read my own lists.

I have to be very careful with my vet list of questions, or I'll get there and not know what I meant to ask. I have arthritis in my hands and my handwriting is terrible.

Originally Posted by mrblanche

Did you know there is a book consisting just of shopping lists found by the author?

Shopping Lists

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I did get drawn in, while browsing inside the book (on the website) but I don't think I would pay $14.99 for it! thanks for the link though, it is funny!

Haha thanks for the laugh! Cat meat and human mince indeed... tee-hee!

I'm sure my grocery lists look silly too at times.. I've taken to making lists for everything these days because I just can't remember anything anymore! Sometimes I forget things before I get a chance to write it down so I don't forget!

That shopping list book looks really funny too! Perhaps when we get a bigger place and have room for an actual coffee table, I might get it as a 'coffee table book'..

Originally Posted by otto

half the time (or even more than half) I can't read my own lists.

I have to be very careful with my vet list of questions, or I'll get there and not know what I meant to ask. I have arthritis in my hands and my handwriting is terrible.

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For those sort of lists, maybe type them out?

My handwriting is kind of weird. I've been told I write like a guy countless times. And yes, my handwriting does actually strongly resemble my dead uncle's - who was left handed (I'm right). He was actually the person who helped show me how to write and hold a pencil, so go figure.
I have issues with occasionally forgetting how to write certain letters and putting them in the wrong order and had a lot of trouble learning to write as a child (teachers would throw my work away). Possibly dysgraphia. So if something is important, I type it out.

Originally Posted by GoldenKitty45

We are making out our grocery list this morning and will go shopping shortly. I asked my hubby if he put "cat meat" down on the list as we don't need a lot of meat for us, but I'm out of the raw beef for the cats.

He started laughing and said "if someone read our list, they would think we were buying dead cats to eat"!

That does sound bad doesn't it?????

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That is why I don't eat Chinese food.