They're judging your hardbone.

March 14, 2008 8:11 AM

At colleges across the country, students judge meat. Eighty-plus years of meat-judging contests.
posted by Mo Nickels (19 comments total)

Intercollegiate judging is the prime training ground for U.S. meat companies

Interesting word choice. I wonder if they selected the word specifically for a pun, or if that is a standard adjective used by a commercial newspaper such as the Wall Street Journal. It certainly is a word with a lot of utility.
posted by grouse at 8:22 AM on March 14, 2008 [2 favorites]

This is a whole world of which I was unaware. Thank you, Mo Nickels.
posted by Faint of Butt at 8:23 AM on March 14, 2008

I wish there had been more meat judging when I was at university.
posted by Meatbomb at 8:26 AM on March 14, 2008

They're judging your hardbone.

That'd be the high-class hookers at The Emperors Club VIP comparing notes about Eliot Spitzer.
posted by ericb at 8:27 AM on March 14, 2008

These students would kill on David Letterman's 'Know Your Cuts of Meat! Quiz.'
posted by ericb at 8:32 AM on March 14, 2008

I could swear this is a double... maybe it's just deja-vu.

Anyway, judge not meat lest you be judged as meat.
posted by GuyZero at 8:39 AM on March 14, 2008

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posted by DU at 8:54 AM on March 14, 2008

Meatfilter.
posted by rusty at 9:19 AM on March 14, 2008 [1 favorite]

Doublish.
posted by dersins at 9:38 AM on March 14, 2008

I'll bet meat judging is impaired by marijuana use.
posted by StickyCarpet at 9:51 AM on March 14, 2008 [1 favorite]

My partner's uncle (or second cousin, or something) is a meat-judge. He's always coming to family gatherings with samples of some new bacon and passing them around. I refer to him as "The Bacon Guy."

Needless to say, he is my favorite of her relatives.
posted by Dr. Wu at 9:57 AM on March 14, 2008

I find the rump roast guilty as charged.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 10:27 AM on March 14, 2008

How very perfect, given what today is (NSFW).
posted by bitter-girl.com at 10:47 AM on March 14, 2008

"Hey you, quit looking at that piece of meat like it's some sort of..... piece of meat!"

and don't you dare let me catch you treating objects like women!
posted by Afroblanco at 11:13 AM on March 14, 2008 [1 favorite]

The defect in that one is bleach.

Ah, brings to mind the brouhaha that followed ABC's "Primetime Live" segment in which undercover reporters and hidden cameras were used to expose Food Lion employees using bleach and other methods to resell spoiled meat.
posted by ericb at 11:22 AM on March 14, 2008

I worked in the dining hall as a student cook at college. The meat was carefully chosen by a panel of nutritionists and other experts in the field for its price. The full time cooks (most of them veterans of the grand hotel era) were masters at turning this gristle into edible meals. The students used to complain the food didn't taste "like mom used to make" but then they never got to see what we started with.
posted by tommasz at 11:34 AM on March 14, 2008 [1 favorite]

At colleges across the country, students judge meat.

And here I was expecting wet-T-shirt contests. Only without the T-shirts.
posted by sour cream at 3:48 PM on March 14, 2008

I actually did this in high school.

Yes, I am from Texas. Why do you ask?
posted by youcancallmeal at 4:13 PM on March 14, 2008

I remember the Food Lyin' investigation on PrimeTime Live, but I'd forgotten about the bleach-based method of "revitalizing" the meat. Jiminy. Thank goodness I've never set foot in a Food Lyin'.
posted by porn in the woods at 10:44 AM on March 15, 2008