Milk and Chickens and Keeping Pets
Martin Monahan
Martin Monahan 21st July 2017 Deerpark Social Services Centre, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway
Milk and Chickens and Keeping Pets
Interviewer: Clare Doyle (CD)
Interviewee: Martin Monahan (MM)
CD: Do you think does milk taste different from when you were small, when you were saying about taking the cream off the milk, did the milk taste nicer, it tasted different, did it?
MM: The milk always tasted nice
CD: I’d say it probably had a creamy taste to it?
MM: When the churning was over you could use the buttermilk to make cakes too as well
CD: Ah, very good
MM: We used to call it the buttermilk
CD: And you had chickens and eggs too at home as well, did ye?
MM: We used to have a chicken every Sunday
CD: And had you to kill the chicken yourselves?
MM: We used to have to kill the chicken
CD: And you’d kill the poor aul chicken the same way you’d kill the goose for Christmas?
MM: That’s right
CD: I’d be wick I’d say
MM: It would
CD; You’d have the chicken in the pot in half an hour
MM: I usedn’t to do it, my father and my mother used to do it
CD: Yeah
MM: Cause I was young and I didn’t like doing it
CD: No, it’s not a nice job, sure it’s not?
MM: We used to rear our own chickens
CD: Yeah, would you become very attached to them?
MM: You would
CD: And did you ever have a pet lamb or a pat calf?
MM: Only a pet dog!
CD: Right
MM: I used to have a pet dog alright, but I never had a pet lamb
CD: Because it’s awful hard to kill an animal of it’s a pet
MM: Tis very hard that’s right
CD: And even with the chickens, to see them small and see them getting bigger and growing, up it’s very hard to kill a chicken to have for your dinner
MM: That’s true, it would. It’s cruel.
CD: It is yeah, but …
MM: But what could you do
CD: I suppose that’s what you had to do to eat it
MM: That’s, that was their way that time.
CD: Yeah, that was the way it had to be done. Not like today, you could go into Supervalu and buy your chicken
MM: They had none of that, that time
CD: Yeah
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