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beyondthisdarkhouse https://www.tumblr.com/beyondthisdarkhouse/713213144803180544/am-i-not-getting-the-joke-geese-in-our-world :

dathen https://dathen.tumblr.com/post/713065872382623744/see-here-sir-see-what-my-wife-found-in-its :

“See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!” He held out his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric point in the dark hollow of his hand.

Fun fact: In our world, geese don’t have crops. But as we all know, the Sherlock Holmes stories take place in the universe with milk-drinking snakes and Van Helsing’s immortal parrots and apocalypse frogs, so it’s all good.

Am I not getting the joke? Geese in our world absolutely have crops https://www.fao.org/3/y4359e/y4359e05.htm. I’m ao confused.

i don’t go here and have nothing riding on this, i was just scrolling by, but as it happens i work in a poultry slaughterhouse and i can also confirm that geese have crops, i have in fact removed them myself.

i can also confirm that if you remove a goose’s esophagus and wash it really well and are really brave you can blow into it and make it honk but i don’t recommend this.

Can I ask how did you remove the feathers? To remove a chicken’s plumage at home my family soaks it in boiling water for a very short period of time, maybe 2-3 minutes. However people have told us that doesn’t work with ducks/geese/swans because their plumage is covered in a water-repellent substance, so I’ve always wondered about how it is done.

LOL ok that’s why in the tags i said my sister said no more geese. We waxed them. Yes it was awful. We had a crew of like 15, and of that crew, I think I was the only one doing the actual like… cleaning the inside of the creatures, literally everyone else was just trying to get the feathers off. It took me literal months to clean up the mess afterward– bits of wax everywhere. Like… we scalded them and plucked them and then dipped them in paraffin and then cracked the paraffin off and then hand-plucked them some more and sometimes re-dipped them in the paraffin and it was horrible.

I also, since I’m reblogging this anyway, want to say that I was not the person who did the honking, I merely witnessed.

So no we don’t do waterfowl. There are ways of doing it but we’ll stick to chickens and turkeys thanks.

[Chicken feathers: we scald them in water that’s 145F/ 63C, not boiling, for about 1-2 minutes, and then put them in a mechanical plucker and then clean them up by hand, it’s very effective.]

(The real reason my sister said no geese is that she liked them so much i think, they had a lot of personality and were so nosy and curious and full of Business. But removing the feathers was enough of a nightmare that nobody was gonna argue with her. Also it’s impossible to charge a fair amount for them, they’re expensive to raise and don’t finish that big so the per-pound is like. Sheesh $$$ nobody can afford to eat like that even in our market.)

I won’t get into the question of the grease. I do still have goose grease in my freezer. Beautiful, creamy white, great for baked goods, but like. It was a lot. (Your picture was not posted)