PrintIntercollegiate Meat Judging: Determining the Meat Experts of the Future
It's not as popular as football, but it's just as competitive—the Wall Street Journal profiles the 82 year-old world of intercollegiate meat judging. This year, about 40 colleges will compete in six competitions, leading up to a final competition in November in Dakota City, Nebraska. What do students do at these competitions? They "spend most of a day staring at whole and dismembered carcasses. They score meat quality, leanness and butchering technique in detail; then, meat experts grade their work." [via MetaFilter]
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2 Comments:
I wondered about this whole meat judging thing. I just got back from Houston where I went to Rodeo and they kept flashing signs about all these meat judging contests......you don't want to know where my mind went.
jcrisco at 5:10PM on 03/14/08
This is awesome. Thanks for the information.
apsteph at 11:05AM on 03/15/08