Ever wonder what people ate in the Middle Ages? Well, so did I, so I looked it up.... (Plus now I'm one post closer to a free Meat-shirt!)

In the Middle Ages, the nobles and wealthy royalty got to eat the good stuff. But there were a range of meats available including venison, beef, pork, veal, goat, lamb, rabbit, hare, mutton, swans, herons and poultry.

The more exotic game birds included thrushes, starlings, blackbirds, quail, cuckoo, lark and peacocks.

Sounds delicious, no?

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Let's face it folks, the other white meat is NOT Larry Bird. It's pork! But alas, good pork is kinda pinkish when it's cooked.
I give you The Proper Luau Inspired pig roasting technique of DOOM!

Roasted pig is always the main course at a Hawaiian luau. Pig roasts are also popular at many American cook outs, picnics, and public events as well. In order to prepare the pig the same way the natives do, you'll need to use an underground Imu pit.

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Llama - the other dark meat. After you get done ridin' your llama, be sure to head on over to Bob's butchering center. As guests of Jersey Bob's Llama Ranch, you'll be able to tour the entire slaughtering area. First, you'll want to check out the kill floor. You can watch Bob's employees stun, skin, and de-bone entire herds of llamas. Of course, the llamas feel no pain thanks to Bob's hi-tech machinery.

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That's right meat eaters! We have added another topic to CAD! In our never ending effort to bring you all things MEAT, "Calendar of Meat" has been added to our topics list. We will be doing our best to keep you up to speed with as many meat related events as possible. BBQ cook-offs, meat festivals, pig roasts, if they're cooking meat...we'll do our best to let you know! You can help us and your fellow Meatatarians out as well! If you know of a meat event going on and we haven't posted it yet, DO IT YOURSELF! Hell, if your having a BBQ in your backyard, and want us to come, you can put that here too! If there's meat we'll be there! Now get off your pork butt and get to gettin'!

Here are few we have found so far:

Wabash Ribberfest BBQ Championship-Mt. Carmel, IL.-September 04-06 (no website info)

6th annual Natchitoches Meat Pie Festival-Natchitoches, Louisiana-September 12-13

Green County Cheese Days-Monroe, Wisconson-September 19-21

Blues, Views, & BBQ Festival-Westport, Conneticut-September 20-21

Ohio Smoked Meat and Barbecue Festival-October 18

More to come!

I just love me some Denis Leary!

Meat Lyrics...

"Red meat, white meat, blue meat, meat-o-f*cking-rama. You will eat it. Because ? not eating meat is a decision. Eating meat is an instinct! Yeah! And I know what it's about. "I don't want to eat the meat because I love the animals. I love the animals."

Hey, I love the animals too. I love my doggy. He's so cute. My fluffy little dog... ? ? He's so cute, there's the problem. We only want to save the cute animals, don't we?
Yeah. Why don't we just have animal auditions. Line 'em up one by one and interview them individually. "What are you?" "I'm an otter." "And what do you do?" "I swim around on my back and do cute little human things with my hands." "You're free to go."

"And what are you?" "I'm a cow." "Get in the f*cking truck, ok pal!" "But I'm an animal." "You're a baseball glove! Get on that truck!" "I'm an animal, I have rights!"
"Yeah, here's yer f*cking cousin, get on the f*cking truck, pal!" We kill the cows to make jackets out of them and then we kill each other for the jackets we made out of the cows."

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