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Why do we eat that?

I have always wondered why we eat certain things and not others.  I have always been intrigued by religious prohibitions on certain forms of food and drink.  When our children were born, I would observe them teething. They put everything in their mouth.  So, my guess had always been that we eat things because of what children found did not make them sick.  
However, this morning I have a new theory about why we eat chicken.  About the third day the rooster kept the earliest humans up, they killed it.  It took another thousand years before it was tasted.  They just wanted to sleep!  There is one outside my window that I can hear through my ear plugs that has been roostering since one that would make a good lunch and let me get some sleep ;)
Just a little humor to start this morning.  We are excited to be headed to La Tremblay this morning so that we can worship with the community we will work in.  We have and early start, worship starts at 8 and we have to make the one hour trip.  We are excited about the journey and look forward to worship.


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  1. Sarah BJanuary 8, 2012 at 1:15 PM

    My 3 years in the Philippines was OFTEN marked by chickens and roosters - especially the first year when our neighbors were breeding them...

    ...and I feel the same way about them! The only "good" chicken is a dead chicken :)

    Blessings on your trip (and your sleep) -
    Sarah

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