[TheForge] OT: Bean disposal problems

[Jerry Frost]

No ill consequences you say?

Uh huh. . . Okay.

Hilarious Steve.

And to think I was complaining about the goats near constant venting just 
tonight. Think I'll count my blessings.

Frosty
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From: "Steve Smith" <sos at alum.mit.edu>


> We're trying to introduce our 14 year old daughter to cooking. She is 
> supposed to cook one night a week. So far we've had a lot of chili.
>
> Last weekend she went ballistic (for a variety of reasons), and most of a 
> pot of chili sat on the stove all week, as she refused to clean it up. 
> Penalties finally brought her around, and she took care of it.
>
> As some may know, chickens excel at eating *anything* with no ill 
> consequences. It doesn't seem to matter how awful the thing from the back 
> of the refrigerator is, chickens will not only eat it, but thrive. The 
> obvious thing to do was to dump the chili where the chickens could get at 
> it.
>
> It's been pretty nice this fall, but it is close enough to serious snow 
> that the chickens have all been moved into the barn. So Jodi goes out this 
> morning (bad, funny smelling chili dumped yesterday evening) to do chores. 
> She reported an amazing stench. All the barn doors stood open today. All 
> of the chili was gone.
>
> Thank heavens my daughter used a mild flavored bean (kidney). I shudder to 
> think what pinto beans would have been like.
>
> Steve