The Wilsons

The Wilsons never ate gammon on a Tuesday. They once had a pet piglet called Simon who was mauled by a neighbour’s Rottweiler on Shrove Tuesday. It was their way of respecting Simon’s memory. They also had a dietary embargo in place on shroves, but never had the opportunity to exercise it.

I wonder if anyone here has any irrational taboos or rules that the rest of us wouldn’t understand; even if we knew the reasons for them.

Post Script: The Wilsons are no longer with us. They both died of food poisoning from eating undercooked chicken; on shrove Tuesday, as it happens.

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I have spent my life not eating chicken after my Nanna killed Shirley one of my chickens for Christmas dinner The smell of cooking chicken makes me nauseous.

I am practically vegetarian now anyway, I can only eat meat if I don't think about what I am eating.

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Oh, Meg. It never occurred to me that this subject might exhume sad and painful memories for some of the members here. How thoughtless of me.

Will you need counselling, do you think?

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I can never eat a Peek Freans shortbread biscuit since I saw my Grandad chop a slug in half with his garden spade, as I was eating one (a biscuit, not a slug).

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Peak Frean are not the only manufacturers of shortbread, Longdogs. Other brands are available.

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....possibly Harbal such a 'fowl' deed has caused lasting trauma ...

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I can eat those ok.

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When working in kennels in Lancashire, I couldn't bring myself to deal with the quantity of sheeps heads that were bought as part of the dogs diet , silly I know just another part of the animal.

So I put the heads in the freezer and when my boss was out I used to bury them in the wood.

One day someone is going to dig in the wood and find it is full of sheepsheads , I wonder if they will think some strange witchcraft was going on there

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I know it can't make up for your loss, Meg, but I'm calling for a minute's silence on this thread, in memory of Shirley.

I'm not sure how many of those represent a minute's worth of sadness.

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You obviously don't need counselling, Longdogs.