Aunt Bee would probably Southern-fry anything that couldn't outrun her

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Do you REALLY believe that the Taylor family ONLY ate Southern fried chicken and roast beef? My guess is that at least a few squirrels met their makers in this woman's kitchen.

Come ON, people...he was a SHERIFF in a small Southern town! There's no WAY he could afford chicken and roast beef for lunch and dinner, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year.

Squirrels! Maybe a few woodchucks or possums! But NOT chicken and roast beef!



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[mockmonkey]

1. mmmmmm

Aunt Bees pickles!

[ET Awful]

2. Well, whatever happened to that horse Opie brought home that time

:)

[China_cat]

3. Rabbit, pheasant, deer

and other assorted wildlife.

What looks like a beef roast could be bear brisket.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

4. Oh Dear God NO! Not SMOKEY!

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[meegbear]

5. AHHHHHHHHH!

[China_cat]

6. Good eating.

But, you know, it could well have been roast beef. You're talking about rural areas where people still raise a cow to butcher and a pig or 2 for the table.

It hit me after my other posting that my own family still butchers when the first snow flies. There's lots of things country folk don't go to the grocery store for and meats are often one of them.

I remember helping grind the sausage and rub the cure into the hams and bacon and choking on the smokehouse emissions and rendering lard. I also remember being sent to the freezer for t-bone steaks that you'd pay $20 for today.

So yes, it is possible that a rural sheriff could 'afford' roast beef and chicken every day.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

7. That's true...I hadn't thought of that.

My mom grew up on a farm and was given strict orders to go NOWHERE NEAR the slaughter house. One day she disobeyed, witnessing her father butchering a pig. Just the sound alone haunted her for the rest of her life.

There was an episode of Andy Griffith where Opie goes to a rich kid's house for lunch. Aunt Bee is jealous and insecure of him eating anyone else's cooking, and asks him how it was. He said "It was really good! We had roast beef. It wasn't like the kind we usually have, all full of gristle and fat"...

And since Andy was also Justice Of The Peace, I'm sure that more than a few wedding ceremonies were paid for with a couple of chickens or hogs...

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