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> > > > F"don't even get me started on margarine"B
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> > > ...... owwwwww... my head hurts. Ok, say that again... a little slower though.
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> > > We"I aren't that smart"dge
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> > No, you're thinking of "migraine". Margarine is something else.
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> Right. Migraine is what I grow in my field so I can grind it into my flour to bake my bread that I can spread margarine on.
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> ^v^:)^v^
> F"or should that be 'mifielde', 'mifloure' and 'mibreade'?"B

I had noticed the pale butter in the winter when the cows were eating hay. I wish I had known the carrot trick 20 years ago when I still knew people who had cows.

Did you know that in the spring sometimes, cows give milk that is not fit to drink? In this area, wild onions are the first green stuff to come up in the fields and the cows eat so much of it their breath would knock you over. The taste turns up in the milk and even in the butter. Farmers used to give the milk to pigs to fatten them up. Pigs like the wild onion flavor. Pigs will eat anything.

There is another onion relative that grows in these parts. It's called a ramp*, and some people who don't know any better will eat ramps. The bears up in the mountains like them a lot. They say that when you are hiking in the Smokies in ramp season, and you smell something worse than a skunk, but different, it's time to run like crazy. It might be a bear with ramp breath. Rumor has it that ramp breath will travel half a mile upwind, and a lot further downwind. I've also heard that bears will come out of hibernation early just because the ramp crop comes in before the last of the snow is gone.
How"not making this up"ard
*Ramps are like chives on steroids.