Seen in a local news paper..... "I want to grow my own food, but can't find any bacon seeds."

In my store, they are right next to the rib eye seeds.

Oh, that guy is a neighbor of the woman who wanted to make a cake from scratch, but she couldn't find a box of scratch anywhere in the grocery.

True story...several years ago in GA, we had a very sweet, very educated young couple (mid 30's) that lived about 2 miles from us on our very rural road. One day, the wife called me and asked if any of our chickens were missing. I told her no and wondered why she asked. She said that there was the BIGGEST chicken she'd ever seen in her back yard and she was afraid of letting her young son out to play. Well, of course my curiosity made me drive to her house to see this odd threat! There was a man in the area (about 4-5 miles away) that had gone into raising emus on a large scale, when that market was jumping...due to the fall-out that later occurred, he'd sold most of the "inventory", but the few that were left, he turned loose...one adult made it to the neighbors yard and she was sooooo serious and sincere with her concerns...I've laughed many times over that little experience! btw...never saw the bird again in the area!!

None of this can be serious.....is it??

Years ago I met a guy who didn't know that milk came from cows. I asked him "why do you think they use cows to advertise? Like Elsie?" His answer to me was that he figured it was a marketing thing,like a logo and that milk was made in factories.

Reminds me of the time my wife told a very well educated, but gullible young lady that pullet eggs came from young chickens and because they were just starting to give us eggs they needed help, so in order to ease the burden on the poor young chicken we had to reach in and PULL IT out. Some seem to get there education long before they get their common sense.

We should take this responsibility seriously and try to help others learn our craft. Only a couple of years ago, I was able to help a colleague's wife get into gardening. I couldn't believe she didn't already know you have to turn all the seeds with the eye up so they don't grow toward China.

True story. Several years ago a checker at the only little store in town told me that her sister had 2 or 3 little kids and had decided she would fix em some oatmeal. She read the instructions and gathered the ingredients but she was short one item. She called her sister, the checker and asked her what yield was and where she could find some. The checker was confused and asked her to read it again. She read off the list of ingredients and says "yield 4 cups".

How many folks have heard someone say we don't need farms, everything you need is at the grocery store? When I was in grade school a lot of kids thought milk came from that little box on the corner that you put a quarter in.