This!

“If you actually _need to_ do it yourself, because of economic necessity, I don’t feel safe allowing my kids to hang with your kids.” You’re an unknown to me and you’re not one of us.  

Except under the controlled, close supervision by me, my spouse and/or others, of, or close to my level of socio-economic-spiritual enlightenment so we can feel good about ourselves. Even then, if you use our toilet or pool, these will need to be drained and sanitized after you finally leave. But alas, we need to appear friendly so that we may retain our standing in the New Frontier.———————————————————————————–Oh,the attached pics are of valued William Sonoma  customers when he or she sees a possibly out-of-place white or coloured person to whom he or she had not been previously pre-introduced (by security, or the coop-board) behind the gates of his eco-village, boutique eco-community or other such rarefied place.It’s my understanding the sound can break glass and make security shooty.  

Seriously, the point I was trying to make is that many of these gadgets would have been designed essentially for homes with domestic help or small businesses which employed more staff and were much more labour intensive than most viable businesses these days.

Very often people did not ‘make their own’ but paid others to do it for them, just with more unadulterated ingredients and at a much more local level.

I do not know if we have the exact equivalent of bobos in the UK. The middle class may go for this but they are also often the wannabe upper middle classes who are much more likely to be found in wine bars in Chelsea than actually getting dirty producing their own food. They have servants for that.

Seriously you would have brown rectangular patches of very fertile dirt anyplace you leave that thing for 24 hours with full grown chickens. They love them the green stuff.

Any picture that shows grass in a chicken run is aiming squarely at the fantasy.

The one that kills me though is the kombucha kit for $109.00 CAD, i started mine for $3 and ate the pickles out of the jar first before washing it and starting my kombucha, and the 6 tea bag refill kit for $26.00???  Who are they selling too morons?

This is really sad.

I was probably nine before I ever tried Reddi-Whip, the stuff in the spray can that tastes like CFCs and singing-Happy-Birthday-to-someone-you-don’t-like.

As for backyard gardens, we always grew our own tomatoes, bell peppers, plums, lemons, and apricots.  But even when I lived in semirural areas, across the street from horse ranches and such, we never bothered with livestock.  To this day, I don’t mind if my neighbors keep chickens, but on those occasions when they bring home a rooster, I dig in my heels.  Thought we’d solved this problem a couple years ago, but I was awakened at 4:00 this morning by a new one.  Goddamn poultry.

I may have actually said, loudly, “Oh jeezus christ, people.” 

http://www.neimanmarcus.com/FantasyHenFarm

It truly is.  You just can’t get a rich, creamy, orange-yolked egg from a supermarket.  Sadly, some people have industrial agriculture so deeply embedded in their personal experience that an egg with a high, orange yolk or a soft and sweet ripe tomato actually seems “wrong” to them and they won’t touch them.  (I have one such person in my immediate family.  Direct quote: “Too eggy.”)

I would hyper-ventilate and have a breakdown if left in a room with your legos, cause I respect private property and all