In the Suburbs, What to Do About a Deer (Good eating alert)

Washington Post ^ | September 12, 2002 | Bob Levey

[pittsburgh gop guy]

Guinness rules! Quit drinking your girly-boy Coors Light and step up to a real beer!!! Ok- I admit, I used to drink the watered down American beers - still do when God's Gift to Beer is not available ON TAP. I actually used to hate Guinness, then toured the brewery at St. James Gate in Dublin where all the G consumed in America is brewed. EVEN after that I did not like Guinness. Only developed a CRAVING for it earlier this year when I spent 35 days camped out with no beer what so ever. Since then, I have loved it. Absence made my heart and taste buds grow fond.

But back to my ROADKILL story.
True story from this summer. I was visiting my brothers, who live in a rural area, surrounded by farmland. My younger brother came back from a town meeting at about 10 at night, all excited. My older bro and I asked why - and he replied that someone at the township meeting told him that she had hit a deer on her way there and that the deer was dead by the side of the road. My brother asked and was told it was his if he wanted it - so he came back to get my older bro and I to help him get it into his pickup. We were then supposed to take it to a butcher - but we could not find any butchers open at 11 at night - and our friends that hunt could not come over to gut it. And since we didn't want to learn to gut a deer in the middle of the night, we let the township have it - and they disposed of it. But I remember thinking how white trash, or West Virginian, to be excited by fresh road kill. And my older bro really likes venison - I am not a fan though because it is too lean.

But a Guinness might have helped that fresh venison go down!

[equus]

No, silly, I mean the zero burn policies and refusal to let loggers in that is responsible for ferocity of the fires in the southwest and west the last few years. Nature knows how to balance but we don't.

[SamAdams76]

City slickers like this Cynthia crack me up. She's probably already been back in the supermarket since, picking out cuts of meat and poultry to feed her family. Where do these people think this meat comes from?

[FreedomPoster]

Where do these people think this meat comes from?

The grocery store, where it appears via magic.

My father-in-law used to keep 20 or so head of cattle on his land in the country. When my wife went away to college, she had no idea how to buy meat at the grocery store. As far as she was concerned, meat came from the freezer in the basement, wrapped in white butcher paper. And yeah, they didn't let little brother know the year his favorite steer, David, was the one in the freezer.