DH asked me what do cows eat. AIBU to divorce him immediately?

[TheIckabog]

We were watching a program about a fancy hotel where they have their own cows. There was a clip of the cows being hand fed apples.

DH exclaimed in surprise ‘I didn’t know cows eat apples!’ He then paused and said, ‘What DO cows eat?’ whilst looking genuinely puzzled.

I said to him what do you think they do all day in the fields? They eat grass/hay etc, how do you not know this? DH then shrugged and said he’d never really thought about it.

He is a well educated intelligent man in his 40s. We also grew up/live in a place where dairy production accounts for a large percent of the export, so it’s not like he’s never seen a cow in a field or on a farm before.

I am aghast. AIBU to divorce him immediately? I really can’t see any other option to be honest

@PenguinsOnParade

A former friend of mine had no idea which meat came from which animal. She thought beef came from sheep or pigs and got really upset when I told her it was from a cow (to the point I didn't dare mention lamb) and once I explained that bacon, ham, gammon and pork all came from pigs she struggled to get her head around it (and then I had to explain that no it wasn't different types of pig for each meat.) I could understand being a young child and not knowing but she was in her mid 20s at this point. She also didn't realise that hens were chickens and thought it was just a similar bird.

It was a conversation like this that made me go veggie (I was about 3 and absolutely indignant at being ‘lied’ to by my Nan - ‘Pig? PIG?! You told me IT WAS PORK!’ 🤣)

QueenOfToast
TBH, I've never understood why they're called tea towels. I call the ones for dishes dishtowels and the ones for hands hand towels.

Do I get the prize for smuggest post? Although the competition on here is quite fierce... .

Where I work we keep sheep of 2 different breeds and neither have long tails or have their tails docked. They're not super short but not dog/cat long like you see in those pictures.

Sorry make that 3 breeds even

@BaconsLaw

My husband grew up thinking dogs were male and cats were female.

Brilliant

I can't give blood in Australia because I was born in the UK/because of mad cow disease.

My ex didn’t know cats tails have bones in them.

When DH first left home, he didn’t realise those frozen boxes of microwave chips had to be kept in the freezer... he put them in the cupboard. Day 1 & 2 were fine, day 3 he noticed a slight bloom on the outside but ate them anyway. He only realised the error of his ways on day 4 when they were properly hairy

I used to feed our cows digestive biscuits.

@NiceGerbil

Sheep have long tails?!

Yes, down to their hock (rear knee/ elbow). They are generally tied up as lambs to make them fall off as it was thought the long tails were an increased source of infection but that has generally been disproved and the practice is falling out of fashion with farmers.

During a BSE outbreak, a neighbour told me she wasn't worried about it because she didn't eat cows. The only meat she ever had was beef.

Once explained the water cycle to a girl.Not sure why, she was 18. She concluded water was pee and refused to ever drink it again.... Was a funny couple of hours before she cracked.

I get a gem like this from my DH at least once a week! He is not stupid but exceedingly oblivious!

Recently he announced he didnt know Paul McCartney could play the guitar!!!

@cautionhot
a lot of countries don't allow UK blood donors because of mad cow - Canada, US
You just have to have lived in the UK between 1980-mid1990s - not just born here. Quite frightening when you think about it.

@Hollyhocksarenotmessy

Could be worse. The first time my brownie ex husband encountered a style, he asked me how the farmer got the animals over it!

What kind of style? Gangnam?

@Thickfast

My Mum was convinced that dogs tails were just made of compressed hair and had no bones in.

My DH asked me if carrots can be eaten raw

Cows also jump really fucking high when they think no one's watching. Makes sense horses can but a strange sight to see with their spindely legs.

My husband had never heard of a 'gap fill' activity (I'm a teacher) and thought it was the weirdest thing ever when I explained it to him.

He once drank a glass full of lime cordial because he didn't know it needs to be diluted.

He is now my ex.

Oh I've just had a wonderful memory of feeding my 'favourite' cow on cow cubes from my flat hand, like you'd feed a pony!

She was wonderful.

My Mum also thought that you should put butter on burns and when we had a dodgy iron kept a small bucket of water to hand. Having been taught electricity and water don’t mix, 6 year old me begged her not to.

My grandmother thought keeping scissors near the window attracted lightning.

Cows have been seen to eat carrion, and will usually eat meat if it's offered to them and of course they will eat their placenta after birth.

@TheIckabog great thread, made my day😂 Farm facts and silly people 😂

Until the age of 23 I thought that football teams swapped goalkeepers at half time. Never having watched a game I was speaking to my boyfriends football mad father and said "It must be so hard blocking goals from your own team, I know you'd be a bad goalkeeper if you did and would probably be fired but still, it must be weird."

When he eventually understood what I meant he couldn't stop laughing and then went on to tell every new family member I was introduced to.

ExDP thought cows laid eggs as eggs were a dairy product..

I had a friend growing up who thought that cows and bulls were entirely different species. She just thought that the cow species was exclusively female, and the bull species exclusively male.

Chickens eat meat and dogs love bananas....... I am clearly procrastinating now