4 PAWS Forum: animated story--true

quick story.. :oldgeezer:

..back in the day, our family lived with my aunt's family :farmer3:

for several months as we were between houses. Us 4 cousins "younger" kids (10 thru 5) were sitting quietly at the dining room table :grouphug2:

watching through the door to the kitchen stove :stirpot2:

where our mothers were cooking something mysterious. :fryegg:

We voted and my younger brother was elected to "interrupt" and spy on the upcoming meal.. :notsafe:

..he heard my aunt say, "Do you think we should tell them what it is?" and my mom said, "If we do, they won't eat it." :mrgreen:

Now I had eaten beef tongue, :muscles:

what could be worse than eating a steer's tongue?!?!

My brother got in trouble for leaving the table, :detective:

but he did get a good look in the skillet. "It's long strips," he said. "and they're all curled around like octopus arms." :oops:

We were silent. Sure enough, my aunt brought the skillet to the table :fryegg:

and my brother was right....they were trying to feed us OCTOPUSES!!! We bowed our heads and thanked the Lord, :priest:

but we wished for once the prayer had been longer. :priest:

However, as we passed our empty plates to my aunt, my little brother burst into tears. "Please don't make us eat octopus," he wailed. :cry_baby:

My aunt was horrified, :slap:

"Oh, honey. No. We would never make you eat octopus! This is beef heart. It's good, I promise you." :mrgreen:

We were so relieved that it came from a cow :choir:

and not an octopus, that we cleaned our plates :dinner:

and asked for more. :angel:

(It was a cheap cut of meat that they couldn't have served to their husbands, no matter how lean times had become.) :farmer2:

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