They are in the real world. They won't hunt for meat, but will eat it if you serve it right.

Well, cows and sheep will at least, I'm not sure about horses... those bitches have some delicate dietary restrictions, you can easily kill them by accident.

But yeah, why herd animals otherwise?

I mean besides the fanon that the old wars among the Ancient Deer Folk*

^{back when the princesses were still children and knew no magic but the instinctual rising of the celestial bodies}

brought forth a sort of magical Fallout where creatures lost their natural instincts and seasonal processes were broken, so ponies had to do everything by themselves to keep the world running.

We should have a page for My Little Pony fanon... just like we do for Pokemon, right?

EDIT:I stand corrected, but it's woefully incomplete

edited 16th Oct '11 11:28:34 AM by PacificState

Well there is the infamous ham sandwich, but it could have been colored tofu or something.

It's ham sandwich. Big Mac favorite.

Heavy. How do I make sandvich?

He linked to the original:

Ham Sandwich?

edited 16th Oct '11 12:12:40 PM by gingerninja666

That did not just happen!

Mac has a ham sandwich? What?

And no, ponies are not omnivores. Pinkie directly says so, and no one calls her out on it, so there's no reason to assume she's lying (or being Pinkie).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaEmDEfQ2xA&feature=related

Another song.

Big Macintosh, running an apple farm.

No computer jokes yet, I'm guessing. Or I'm not looking hard enough.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ0QWTQukn0&feature=related

Now you can compare Capcakes and Sandviches song.

You haven't looked hard enough.

Edit: Super Dr. McNinja.

edited 16th Oct '11 12:32:20 PM by colinispower

Has anyone ever asked Faust exactly who's in charge of Sweet Apple Acres?

I heard that Big Mac actually owns it, but AJ's the one who runs it.

What's Granny Smith do? Do you think she still helps out in some way?

edited 16th Oct '11 12:36:23 PM by gingerninja666

Heavy gives a pretty good counterpoint. They harmonize kinda well.

I'm more curious as to where AJ's parents are. We have yet to see them onscreen.

edited 16th Oct '11 12:39:35 PM by colinispower

I'd like to see Dash's parents, as well.

I read somewhere that the intention was originally for Mac to own the farm, but for AJ to run things. I actually think the family owns it as a whole, really.

and yet AJ, the only family member who's ever expressed a disdain for mathematics, is in charge of sales?

http://fyre-flye.deviantart.com/art/Big-Apple-260224534

"Sweet Apple Acres was originally called Big Apple Orchard, the idea being that it was Big Apple, as the eldest, inherited the farm and was actually the one who owned it. Applejack just ran it. I like it better that they own it as a family, though."

^^ Well it appears that their prices aren't too complicated. Big Mac might handle the accountign parts.

Though I still like the idea of Apple Bloom being a math prodigy, even if there's no real cannon support.

edited 16th Oct '11 1:19:35 PM by storyyeller

The prices may not be complicated, but AJ did refer to basic addition as "fancy mathematics."

Big Mac apparently wields "fancy mathematics" so he might be highly intelligent beneath that quiet, wholesome, bitch-magnet exterior (although they might only be fancy by Applejack's standards, which don't seem too high)

edited 16th Oct '11 1:25:02 PM by gingerninja666

What if she puts those bats on Pinkie Pie's face??

Yeah, I think there actually was some continuity across some of the early Generation 3 stories.

There's a difference between "hates continuity" and "wants the episodes viewable in any order". Continuity is fine as long as the episodes stand alright on their own. They just don't want a situation where the viewers will be lose if the episodes are out of order.

Well, sales isn't even addition that much; she just has to make sure that "Apple costs x bits", "basket of apples costs x bits". There's probably just a master price list somewhere that she memorized. Transactions might take a while (you buy two apples, and she has to count out the price individually for each rather than multiply the price by 2), but even those she probably just memorized after a while. Do anything long enough and it'll kinda engrave itself.

edited 16th Oct '11 1:40:30 PM by JapaneseTeeth

Continuity is fine as long as you can watch any episode without the need to say Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Speaking of Buffy, what do you think the odds are that we'll eventualy get a Musical Episode?