chicken tragedy

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Originally Posted by des taff jenkins

cappy we kept chickens when i was living at home and they were' everyone of them pets, i hated it when my uncle used to come over to kill one, as they were all my favorites, i suppose something one shouldn't do as children.
Des



i remember the andria doria collision with a norwegian coal or ore carrier, the first five or six boats to arrive at her side were full of stewards, the skipper refused to take them on board and sent them back to pick up passengers off the sinking ship.
This is not an attack on stewards as i think that british seamen were the best, i can't comment on the present day crews on passenger ships as they come from so many different countries.

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never heard that story before des 5 or 6 boats filled with stewards is a large amount of stewards .......which if true is a sad state of affairs .....just wonder how many boats the andria doria carried ......and how many other crew and passengers had no life boats ......mind after seeing the state of seamanship after an apprentice went over the wall on a hains boat inwhich the lifeboat was wrecked by incompetence of both the mate and the 2 abs inthe boat nothing suprises me .......just my view.....as a matter of interest .....when a family member of mine was asked to take a lifeboat to pick up survivors ......the ist man to volunteer was steward sibbald ....this while stukas bombed and fired at them in the water......i must say being in the catering and deck crew i found no difference in iether panic or courage between catering or deck or engine room......but that is my view......no offence meant to you des.....just fair comment....r683532

I had the same thing as a kid Des. We kept chickens, and when my dad killed my favourite, I stopped eating meat. I ate sausages, because my mum told me they were not meat. It was only when I went to the Vindi that I started eating meat again, simply to stay alive after 3 days of eating nothing.
Every Christmas day, my mum would cook me egg and chips.

The only chicken i eat now is free range chicken from the farm shop, chicken is the most abused creature ever, packed in to barns, false daylight, and many other methods. even free range chicken is not one of my favourite meals. I suppose like many others on here, during the war years, we had chicken at Xmas and that was it, now that chicken was delicious. My mother used to get day old chicks, then raise them in the garden, one was for Xmas and the rest for relatives in Portsmouth.

Chicken breast is about the only meat I eat. I'll have other meat poshly cooked on a cruise though. Mind you, that all seems to be going downhill lately.

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Originally Posted by Johnny Kieran

Chicken breast is about the only meat I eat.

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Well you know the old saying Johnny, a roast chicken is like a tanned woman in a bikini, the white bits are the best

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Originally Posted by Ivan Cloherty

Well you know the old saying Johnny, a roast chicken is like a tanned woman in a bikini, the white bits are the best

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ah ivan i always assumed being in the pink was numero uno ....R683532

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Originally Posted by cappy

ah ivan i always assumed being in the pink was numero uno ....R683532

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Let's have a bit of decorum here lad :p:p just because you live near the fish market :cripes:

Cappy.
Thought you had a bit of Italian in you, that's where the crew of the Andrea Doria came from. I think their fathers were the ones who give themselves up in the Western Desert.
Des

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Originally Posted by des taff jenkins

cappy.
Thought you had a bit of italian in you, that's where the crew of the andrea doria came from. I think their fathers were the ones who give themselves up in the western desert.
Des

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aye des they gave themselves up to my mothers brother ........8th army desert rat......r683532