SQ4: In yet another few months...

[Charles Heath]

...at some other event in the distant future, an opportunity exists for a slaughtering and butchering session to provide vittles for the troops. Given this freshly slaughtered animal will probably not be equine, which of the following animals (as if you'll have a choice) would you choose to provide you with a still-quivering, steaming, bloody chunk of flesh:

• About a 150 pound pig
• A calf of maybe 175 pounds
• Three 50 pound goats
• Two 80 pound sheep
• Eight 20 pound turkeys
• Five Guinea hens
• A double sawbuck of Capon
• I like my chicken frying size. Those laying hens are much too wise.
• Bunches of rabbits.
• A passle o' Pea hens!
• There is a 12 Days of Christmas joke in here somewhere, but I just don't get it.

What do you prefer, and why or why not?

Note: I've seen perfectly sane people dig around in the slop bucket for pieces of fish, so let's not go there just yet.

[Malingerer]

Re: SQ4: In yet another few months...

Might this be at an event say... located somewhere on the Virginia Peninsula set in the early summer of '62?
For what its worth, Tarheels have always maintained that 'the other white meat' is the only meat truly fit for the consumption by all but knuckle-dragging Texans who will stoop to cooking a steer and call it BBQ - oh the humanity.

[Suppelsa]

Re: SQ4: In yet another few months...

I'll keep dreaming, but when I brought my deer into the processing joint here, there was a 1500 pound cow on the floor.

[Charles Heath]

Re: SQ4: In yet another few months...

Peter, you get partial credit for thinking Interstate 64, alas the trip will be westbound. Heck, I may find myself taking I-70 for a good stretch of the ways, since I-64 is so pitiful and poor in the mountains. As you know, BBQ is a religion, and the different synods tend not to agree on meat, preparation, saucing, and a whole host of liturgical points.

Chris, we might have to deal with sides and quarters a little while longer, but keep dreaming. This hobby is much about dreams.

[Rmhisteach]

Re: SQ4: In yet another few months...

Charles,

I have cooked a few rabbits at events they are easy to clean but you would need alot of them.

We had a 150lb pig roasted for us at the Park City Greys muster in Kenosha and it was super! They stuffed the belly full of wild rice stuffing it was great.

RM

[bAcK88]

Re: SQ4: In yet another few months...

• About a 150 pound pig
• A calf of maybe 175 pounds
• Three 50 pound goats
• Two 80 pound sheep
• Eight 20 pound turkeys
• Five Guinea hens
• A double sawbuck of Capon
• I like my chicken frying size. Those laying hens are much too wise.
• Bunches of rabbits.
• A passle o' Pea hens!
• There is a 12 Days of Christmas joke in here somewhere, but I just don't get it.

Can we have the entire list for that event? Though if I ate that much I might puke.

Bill

[Charles Heath]

Re: SQ4: In yet another few months...

Though if I ate that much I might puke.

Pukin' Bill,

You gonna eat all that? Yikes!

I don't think I want to be there for that regurgitation.

Just for that, some additional questions may be in order. Oh, the humanity!

[ryanbmm]

Re: SQ4: In yet another few months...

I beleave i would choose the 3, 50 pound goats, thats a good supper! Great now i'm hungry!!!

[WestTN_reb]

Re: SQ4: In yet another few months...

I know it's not on the list, but deep fried possum would be good eatin'.:D

[Becky Morgan]

Re: SQ4: In yet another few months...

Well, he DID say he'd be traveling the interstate on the way there...

[paulcalloway]

Re: SQ4: In yet another few months...

Well we did the goat once, courtesy of Matt Woodburn and Joel Dale in Bentonville 2000. People kept remarking what a beautiful goat we had in tow and laughed when we said it was dinner.

That fine goat met its maker Saturday night and a few of us had a very fine meal - the rest of the boys stood off in the background, eating their hardtack and staring at us as if we had committed some mortal sin.

Keep that in mind though - some of these fellas need to get out of their meat market mentality and realize that fresh beef didn't come to our ancesters wrapped in wax paper.

[Matt Woodburn]

Re: SQ4: In yet another few months...

Pig or a calf. The fowl are easy to clean and anyone can go bird hunting, unless maybe you are from New York City. Shooting pigeons off the buildings would likely be frowned upon, although the gunfire might not be noticed. I slaughtered a goat we hauled along with the blue column at Bentonville years ago, so that's played out for me. A pig or calf is big enough that you don't see that much in our modern "you get meat at the grocery, right?" world. Either would provide a good experience, butchering or just viewing, and both would provide a fine meal.

[Charles Heath]

Re: SQ4: In yet another few months...

Notice barn cat was not included as an option. Those who were at OP2K will get this joke.

I guess Matt & Ed are no longer in the hobby.

[Rmhisteach]

Re: SQ4: In yet another few months...

If this scenario involves Matt he may just pull a pig out of his coat.

At I-600 ,food would just appear in his haversack and or lantern?????

Very strange

RM

[AZReenactor]

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Sheep sounds god to me. Especially, since I plan to issue mutton on the hoof at one of our future 1st California events here in AZ.

An awful lot of mutton was eaten by troops out here in the Southwest, especially by the Coloradans under Kit Carson when they slaughtered the Navajo herds before forcing that Nation to capitulate and embark on "the Long March".