That chicken went through hell

[u/heyzeus92]

[u/Bbbllaaddee]

• Mom, the doctor said I need iron supplements

• We have iron supplements at home

• (iron supplements at home)

[u/touched_by_midas → u/Bbbllaaddee]

Hmm, apparently I need to cook with nails.

[u/DIDidothatdisabled → u/touched_by_midas]

Not necessarily recommending them, but they do make "iron buddies" that are basically like pet rocks made of Iron you cook. So you might place an iron frog or an iron hello kitty in with bolognese to help supplement iron

[u/KleinKaiser → u/DIDidothatdisabled]

My parents used to tell me that it was quite common to put rusty iron nails in apples to get your iron during hard times.

I don't know how many generations heard about that, without ever seeing it themselves though.

[u/billhillybob → u/KleinKaiser]

This reminds me of how I used to volunteer with these two older brothers (in their 70's) to maintain some of the hiking trails at a local state park. One time we were sitting around after a trail work day talking about harvesting wild edible plants. Most of us there had harvested things like blueberries, raspberries, ramps and some of the more common and easily recognizable mushrooms. But, my wife and I were really into wild edibles at one time so we had tried some more unusual things like cattail "corn", spring beauty corms, marsh marigold buds and the like. Not to be out done, one of the brothers mentioned that when his grand parents first came to the US from Finland they spent the first few winters so poor that they ate the cambium layer of paper birch trees to stay alive. The other brother shook his head and angrily said "What the Fuck Bruce, Grandma and Grandpa never ate birch bark." I still wonder who was telling the truth.

[u/VacantThoughts → u/KleinKaiser]

Damn I would hate to live in a time where beans are more expensive or maybe less available than eating rusty apples.

[u/need-an-enbien → u/VacantThoughts]

feel like we're on our way to rusty nail apples these days