Tenemos Pollitos

So this is just a quick fun entry showing some pictures of our latest house guests. One of the nice things about a rural life is that you get to have lots of domestic animals, doing their own thing. The family that we live with decided it was time to let their very broody hens rear a couple of batches of chicks. I think that they also fostered a few eggs from next door, because they ended up with around 14 chicks each!

It has made walking around the house a bit more hazardous... you don't want to accidently step on a chick, plus the hens get very protective. Katie like to play with them, or pet them...even though she knows that in the end, they will be soup. We can by frozen chicken when we want it, so we have not yet bought a live one and killed it for food. This is what many of the families would do...but so far we haven't felt the need to experience that part of life here.

We don't really eat that much meat in the first place. It is nice to have fried chicken, or chicken soup every now and then, but I'd say we eat veggie or pasta dishes a lot more. It is funny, because the Salvadoreans think that vegetarians are very strange, but really their normal diet only has a smattering of real meat, and most of that is chicken. While in Guatemala on the other hand, lots of carnitas and chorizo is consumed, they eat a lot more meat than their neighbors...and strangest of all, they eat black beans! Salvadoreans only eat red beans, a very important distinction.