That is just so wrong..........
Posted on 05/15/2015 5:01:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
If memories of awkward pre-teen angst and gnarly, grey food on a cafeteria tray are what you remember from camp, the ability to trek to Meat Camps offers an adult chance to at least eat better. Picture grilling over a wood fire and glamping in Shasta Valley with sustainable meat operator Belcampo Meat Co. Belcampo just announced that it would offer two camps for this summer: women’s meat camp (August 6-9) and gay men’s meat camp (August 13-16).
Both are billed as a way to “create a community through food,” with how-tos on knife skills, meat cutting, the intriguing sounding “breakfast sausage making,” as well as “chopstravaganza.” Belcampo’s Co-Founder and CEO, Anya Fernald, and President of Belcampo Meat Co., Bronwen Hanna-Korpi, will lead Camp.
Fernald told SFoodie the reasons behind the camps: "I learned wood fire cooking as an adult — it involved burning my eyebrows off a few times, having limitless access to meat and a passion for grills. I thought if I could offer people a way to build up that comfort around the product and the fire, it could be transformative for them in the way it has been for me. I thought the camp would be most appealing to people that traditionally do not “own” the grill growing up, which is why I started out with women and gay men. We’re actually launching a men’s camp and a couple’s camp in the fall as well — sticking with the ‘affinity groups’ but responding to the requests we’ve gotten from lots of straight men who want a camp too."
Wood grilling at the ready - COURTESY OF SHELTER CO. Courtesy of Shelter Co. Wood grilling at the ready Camp is not cheap: $3750 per person for single occupancy and $2500 per person for double occupancy, which covers lodging, food, all camp courses, and any transportation used over the weekend. Campers have to get themselves to and from camp, a trek that is pretty and could in theory lead to meaty conversations and ideas.
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So heterosexual men a SOL?
That is just so wrong..........
I know, huh. Feel the love.
Definitely going to pass on that one ...
Men’s and Couple’s camp are in the fall as per the article.
$5K for a weekend?
That buys a fancy grill and lots of meat, and you can play at home.
Heterosexual men won’t pay $3,750 to go camping for a weekend.
Probably heterosexuals will join the military reserves and get paid to go camping.
Con men have to know their market.
Q:What do soy beans and vibrators have in common?
A:They’re both meat substitutes.
Gay men don’t like Grils.
I thought “meat camping” was usually known as “hunting”.
That’s when there’s sausage and bacon for breakfast, chicken for lunch, and steak for dinner, and you’re still out shooting more meat in the twilight hours.
gay men’s meat camp “mom, I want to go to a gay man’s meat camp!!!!”
that has to be the funniest title of a vacation I have ever seen lol
“mom, I want to go to a gay man’s meat camp!!!!”
In this context, meat and meet are fabulously homonymous.
lol
“Son, I’m not trying to hear that. I thought you were a vegetarian.”
“Heterosexual men won’t pay $3,750 to go camping for a weekend.”
But spineless metrosexuals will and then awe their wives and peers with butchering and wood fired prowess.
Camper’s Wife: “Oh honey, your so manly with that blade”.
Friend’s wife to her husband: “Dear, why can’t you handle your meat the way he does?
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