Venison 101
Central Pennsylvania is a strange, disturbing place. Despite Penn State's presence, the place is still unbelievably rural in a lot of ways.
Which is why it didn't surprise us one bit that the Associated Press just wrote about Penn State's deer carcass dressing class. The $99 adult learning course lasts a day and contains some, y'know, nontraditional instruction:
Venison 101 class isn't for the faint of heart.For $99, a deer hunter, a cook, or the just plain curious can spend a day at Penn State's meat laboratory to learn the ins and outs of what to do with a prized carcass.
After an awkward moment of bashful looks and silence, Wolfgang's volunteers kneel down and go to work.
"It was great!" says Janet Huber, a sheep and cattle farmer from Bedford, Pa. "You really learn a lot in this class."
The daylong session covers everything from dressing and skinning a deer to slicing and dicing the carcass for steaks and sausage.
We always thought this was the kind of thing you learn from family or friends, but eh... what do we know?
At Penn State, a meaty topic for students [Inquirer]
[Image courtesy AP]
