Wife Swap

[Rose2Bear]

Please please please did anyone see the show tonight cuz it was just so extreme I really want to talk to someone about it because it left me speecless.

They traded a regular fairly normal, but perhaps a little more cultured than most, family with the strangest family I ever saw - A family who only eats raw food, and I dont mean like that Raw Food diet thats so popular in California right now. I mean raw, four month old meat, rancid milk, 12 raw eggs a day and nothing else. Everything RAW. Not only that, they REFUSED to clean their house or wash their hands after doing anything as they saw bacteria as a really REALLY good thing and they didn't want to get rid of it. Apparently they never heard of Ecoli...They brushed their teeth with butter and clay... They were FILTHY. They refused to send their children to school and instead chose to "school" them by having them work 10 hours a day on their farm and nothing else. It was DISCUSTING and DISTURBING and.... I just really wannna know if anyone else saw it!

[megswsu]

CRUD MONKEYS!! I've never watched the show before, but after your description I'm taping it tonight and will watch it at some point. It sounds too good to pass up. Yum! 

[JoyinVirginia]

I saw the last half. That farmer family must have an incredible constitution and immune system! RAW EGGS??? ICK!! I was amazed that the city wife did not walk out the first day! I did like that the city kids were introduced to gardening by the farmer wife. I was really, really glad that city dad put his foot down and refused to let kids see chicken slaughtered. This show always tries to match up the most different families, but this was really extreme.
Joy in Virginia

[Clearbrite]

I love Wife Swap,both the American and British versions..just wish they had an Aussie version!

I havent seen that episode though..and it sounds like for the first time that i would be truely grossed out with that family! They sound horrible!! How can anyone eat and drink food that is rancid?? They should be in hospital everyday getting their stomachs pumped..or dead by now? Arent they just sick as dogs with 'the runs' all the time?

Ewww

Double ewww





Clare
Sydney Australia

[Sophia]

This is actually the main reason I don't watch these shows.  I can see radical differences being helpful, like the princess mom swaps with the slave mom.  But I did see one where  one family was orthodox jews and the other family was rednecks.   The jewish mother had to have all her food shipped in.  The farmer family sound like freaks. 

[Bijou]

Please please please did anyone see the show tonight cuz it was just so extreme I really want to talk to someone about it because it left me speecless.

They traded a regular fairly normal, but perhaps a little more cultured than most, family with the strangest family I ever saw - A family who only eats raw food, and I dont mean like that Raw Food diet thats so popular in California right now. I mean raw, four month old meat, rancid milk, 12 raw eggs a day and nothing else. Everything RAW. Not only that, they REFUSED to clean their house or wash their hands after doing anything as they saw bacteria as a really REALLY good thing and they didn't want to get rid of it. Apparently they never heard of Ecoli...They brushed their teeth with butter and clay... They were FILTHY. They refused to send their children to school and instead chose to "school" them by having them work 10 hours a day on their farm and nothing else. It was DISCUSTING and DISTURBING and.... I just really wannna know if anyone else saw it!

Missed it.  Darn.  I like watching it.  If that epi comes back on could you let us know?  I think they do repeat them sometimes. 

[sillysquirrel]

I was a microbiology major in college and I was sick to my stomach watching it! There are good bacteria and bad bacteria and I'm shocked these people haven't died yet!!

[Thipu1]

I saw it and I couldn't believe it!  The farm father was storming on about how the urban mother was trying to drive their family apart.  C'mon guy, she's only there for a total of two weeks.

I was also appalled that the farm mother wanted the urban father to donate all his good clothes to charity.  Again, c'mon, be real.

There was also a subtle dig at the urban family that really rubbed me the wrong way.  For those who didn't see the show I have to tell you that the urban family is African-American.  The farm family is not.  At one point, the farm mother decided that her charges should all wear bib overalls.  Whether a racial comment was intended or not, to me, it came across as pretty darn close to '40 acres and a mule'.   

the whle show was a genuine jaw-dropper. 

[Madd Hatter]

My oldest DS watched it with me, and when I explained what the farm family was eating, he asked "Haven't they gotten sick or died by now?"  That's just what I was thinking!  I can see eating food you've grown, but eating uncooked food?  That's been sitting out for 4 months?  Beyond ewwww!!  And to expect a family to donate all their clothes is beyond rude!  Those cost money and I don't care if you don't want them for your time, pack them away, but don't expect the family to basically throw good money away!  And I'm glad the city dad put his foot down about killing the chicken.  It wouldn't bother me, I grew up with it, but a lot of people have never seen it and there's no reason for them too ever see it.

[Rose2Bear]

There was also a subtle dig at the urban family that really rubbed me the wrong way.  For those who didn't see the show I have to tell you that the urban family is African-American.  The farm family is not.  At one point, the farm mother decided that her charges should all wear bib overalls.  Whether a racial comment was intended or not, to me, it came across as pretty darn close to '40 acres and a mule'.   

I dont think I understand what you mean/which comment you mean? I didn't notice anything, unless it was during a moment where my mom the nurse was starting up about the evils of bacteria and i was going SHHHH.  Can you explain?

[JoyinVirginia]

There was also a subtle dig at the urban family that really rubbed me the wrong way.  For those who didn't see the show I have to tell you that the urban family is African-American.  The farm family is not.  At one point, the farm mother decided that her charges should all wear bib overalls.  Whether a racial comment was intended or not, to me, it came across as pretty darn close to '40 acres and a mule'.   

I dont think I understand what you mean/which comment you mean? I didn't notice anything, unless it was during a moment where my mom the nurse was starting up about the evils of bacteria and i was going SHHHH.  Can you explain?

I think the idea is that African-Americans in bib overalls gives a mental picture of poor oppressed sharecroppers in rural south with few opportunities. It just says "country bumpkin" as a fashion statement. By the way, the African-American farmers that I do know - and there are quite a few in Virginia - NONE of them wear bib overalls. The white farmers I know don't wear bib overalls! Jeans, Khaki pants, or mechanic jumpsuits are much more practical.
joy in Virginia

[Rose2Bear]

There was also a subtle dig at the urban family that really rubbed me the wrong way.  For those who didn't see the show I have to tell you that the urban family is African-American.  The farm family is not.  At one point, the farm mother decided that her charges should all wear bib overalls.  Whether a racial comment was intended or not, to me, it came across as pretty darn close to '40 acres and a mule'.   

I dont think I understand what you mean/which comment you mean? I didn't notice anything, unless it was during a moment where my mom the nurse was starting up about the evils of bacteria and i was going SHHHH.  Can you explain?

I think the idea is that African-Americans in bib overalls gives a mental picture of poor oppressed sharecroppers in rural south with few opportunities. It just says "country bumpkin" as a fashion statement. By the way, the African-American farmers that I do know - and there are quite a few in Virginia - NONE of them wear bib overalls. The white farmers I know don't wear bib overalls! Jeans, Khaki pants, or mechanic jumpsuits are much more practical.
joy in Virginia

I'm not sure if thats necessarily what Thipu meant, I think she purposely left out the comment that she found perplexing (and perhaps for good reason). I say this because the white farm mother always wore the same overalls, as did her family. When the African American family put theirs on, she was wearing them too, so they all matched. It wasn't like she randomally bought overalls for them and them alone.

[beakiebean]

Lol-my grandpa farmed (in Iowa) for 50 years and wore bib overalls everyday. He had work bibbies that he wore to chore and good bibbies that he wore to go to town. About the only time he wore anything else was Sundays for church.

He was buried in a suit but we tucked a pair of bib overalls in his casket before he was buried so he could make the trip to heaven in comfort.

Becca

[Reddie321]

Lol-my grandpa farmed (in Iowa) for 50 years and wore bib overalls everyday. He had work bibbies that he wore to chore and good bibbies that he wore to go to town. About the only time he wore anything else was Sundays for church.

He was buried in a suit but we tucked a pair of bib overalls in his casket before he was buried so he could make the trip to heaven in comfort.

OT, but my cousin's grandfather (on a different side of the family) *ALWAYS* wore overalls, and always with his ventillated trucker's hat.  Even for her wedding he wore his "uniform," but he put a suit jacket on over his overalls.  My cousin was actually touched that he would alter his usual attire for her wedding (he and she were very close, and he was 90 at the time, so no one was telling him what he should/shouldn't wear).  He was also buried in his overalls.

[DottyG]

Lol-my grandpa farmed (in Iowa) for 50 years and wore bib overalls everyday. He had work bibbies that he wore to chore and good bibbies that he wore to go to town. About the only time he wore anything else was Sundays for church.

He was buried in a suit but we tucked a pair of bib overalls in his casket before he was buried so he could make the trip to heaven in comfort.

OT, but my cousin's grandfather (on a different side of the family) *ALWAYS* wore overalls, and always with his ventillated trucker's hat.  Even for her wedding he wore his "uniform," but he put a suit jacket on over his overalls.  My cousin was actually touched that he would alter his usual attire for her wedding (he and she were very close, and he was 90 at the time, so no one was telling him what he should/shouldn't wear).  He was also buried in his overalls.

Ok, that is just so sweet!  What a cutie of a person he must have been!