This generation of kids...

LizzieMaine said:

If you ran a class on drinking, you can bet they'd all show up.

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sheeplady said:

Where I went to college, we had a class called "Wines" which was for the hotel students although other students could take it. Lots of students took it thinking that it was an easy class- sit around and drink wine, right? But it was in the hotel school (known for "deceptively" easy looking courses which kicked everybody's butt) and you really had to spit out all the wine you tasted to get through the class without being drunk. And even if you avoided getting drunk there was little chance of your passing the class, since a lot of the quizzes were blind folded taste tests where you had to be able to taste wines you had never drunk, get the correct type, and do the pairings in an oral test based upon something similar you might have tasted 10 weeks ago when you tasted 10 other wines that same day.

Yeah, I was too scared to take Wines. But I did take Meat (in the Animal Science program).

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kiwilrdg said:

If they are not there can you issue a bench warrent and have them brought to class in shackles? That would add realism to the course.:eeek:

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jamespowers said:

I suppose I would take both. Meat first then Wine(I hope it was mostly red wine).

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sheeplady said:

Meat wasn't so much about tasting the meat as it was about raising and killing it. So as long as you had time to change between, why not? Also, it might be a little dangerous if you took Wines and then Meat, given the sharp (sometimes motorized) instruments.

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jamespowers said:

Oh geez! Butchers are college educated now? lol lol
Yes, Meat first then Wine.

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sheeplady said:

It was for people who were doing meat production, but yes, there was a weekly 4-hour Meat Lab which typically involved a different kind of animal each week, although I do think several weeks were spent on dairy and beef cows. (In the class we covered things like the latest research on feeding, nutrition, exercise, vaccination, climate, breeding selection, etc. and how this affects the quality and quantity of meat.) I think the class met for 7 hours a week (3 in class, 4 in lab) and I want to say it was 3 credits, although it might have been 2.

They used to advertise the class as the only one at the university where getting covered in blood was part of the class and how you knew you were having fun. Plus, students got first dibs and lower prices on the meat they cut up, so it was a good way to fill your freezer. Once you had taken the class you also had access to the meat lab anytime there wasn't something going on in there, so if you got a deer or something you could use the space and equipment for free.

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jamespowers said:

Hmmmm... Low cost meat. I'd sign up for that.

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V.C. Brunswick said:

German Tourist: Wir wollen ein Auto mieten.*
Basil Fawlty: You're volunteering to go out and get meat? Not necessary. We have meat here. Ve haff meat here in ze building.

*We want to rent a car.

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Undertow said:

Haha, was that the episode that he gets the bump on the head?

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LizzieMaine said:

If you ran a class on drinking, you can bet they'd all show up.

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