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strawman

strawman

While eating a meal consisting of leg of lamb, the six year old asks, “But… how does the lamb walk with only three legs?” (source)

Assuming you don't know them well (perhaps they were brought by your guest), but everyone looks to you to answer, what do you say?
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

stienman said:
While eating a meal consisting of leg of lamb, the six year old asks, “But… how does the lamb walk with only three legs?” (source)

Assuming you don't know them well (perhaps they were brought by your guest), but everyone looks to you to answer, what do you say?
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"Not very well."
 
WasabiPoptart

WasabiPoptart

We're usually pretty blunt about those things in our house, but since it is someone else's child I'd probably make a joke about the lamb needing a pegleg and living its life out as a pirate on the high seas as Captain Fluffy.
 
Gared

Gared

I think it would depend on how well I knew the kid's parents, and if I knew anything about how they were raising the kid. If I knew that they were being blunt, like WasabiPoptart I'd probably tell them the truth, though I may wait until after dinner to get into specifics. If I didn't know how they were raising the kid, or if I knew that they weren't being blunt/forthcoming with real life answers (or if I just felt like being an ass), I think I'd probably go the whole "grocery stores have magical meat that doesn't come from real animals" route, a la the quote that I read somewhere (likely Failblog) where some lady was bitching a guy out for hunting because you shouldn't be killing animals when the grocery stores are so full of meat that doesn't require killing helpless little animals.
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

stienman said:
While eating a meal consisting of leg of lamb, the six year old asks, “But… how does the lamb walk with only three legs?” (source)

Assuming you don't know them well (perhaps they were brought by your guest), but everyone looks to you to answer, what do you say?
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Allow me to share a personal story;

"Uncle HCGLNS these are the best veggie hotdogs I've ever tasted!"
"Vegetarian? These are all beef hotdogs."
"Beef? But Mommy said they were veggie dogs."
"She is mistaken."
"So I'm eating a cow."
"Yep."
":cry:"
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

I'll share a family story...

When my Uncle was six years old, my Grandfather purchased some chickens to use for eggs and meat. My Uncle found one chicken that the others were pecking at and ostracizing. He noticed that the chicken had a broken wing, that was likely the cause of that chicken's troubles. So he took it away from the other chickens, cleaned it, took care of it... he even began to treat Wingy like she was a pet. He would even tie a bit of string around its neck and take her for walks.

Then during one Sunday Dinner my Uncle found Wingy's broken wing on his plate.

WWWIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:cry:
 
Dave

Dave

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I have never run into this being from farming country. But I'd probably say something like:

Ask your parents.[DOUBLEPOST=1355434113][/DOUBLEPOST]And that's because you are having us make the assumption that we don't know them that well.
 
rac3r_x

rac3r_x

Well boy, the lamb was taken behind the shed away from the others so they wouldn't see, and then his neck was cut open so he could die peacefully. Then butchered for his meat.
 
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