I am having italian elk sausage for supper tonight

[Roon]

My food stamps got cut off unexpectedly so my Mother has been subsidizing me with game meat that my brother bagged.

Tomorrow? Elk steak!

[arbusto_baboso]

1. How do you know the elk was Italian?

Did it wear trendy sunglasses and chase female elk relentlessly?

[Roon]

3. LOL!!

too funny.....

[kimi]

18. It wore black

and said "Ciao" a lot. :)

[Yavin4]

20. It Auditioned for The Jersey Shore

But they cast Sookie instead.

[Jersey Devil]

2. Sounds good! Last night I had Hoboken Elks for dinner

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Ashx4nbGYNM/SZLRGMGMy5I/AAAAAAAAAlw/tSNkwA2UxkE/s400/ELKS+20001.jpg

[Roon]

5. Mmmm!

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. I worked in a small spring-manufacturing plant in Pennsylvania...

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... and one of the owners had gone on a hunting expedition in Montana
or somewhere and bagged an elk.
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This factory traditionally supplied Christmas Eve lunch for the workers
and this year's fare was going to be Italian Spaghetti.
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They had printed up a very nice fancy menu and posted it on the corkboard
near our timeclock.
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Entree? Spaghetti and Elkballs.
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There was a LOT of "You can have mine" generosity going around all morning.
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Someone in the office finally caught on because, shortly PRIOR to lunch,
a new menu was posted listing the entree as "Spaghetti and Meatballs (made
with elk meat)".
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Two elkballs feeding all those workers? Magic like that probably hasn't
been seen since that loaves-and-fishes feast.
.

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[Roon]

6. LOL!!

When I was in job corps we used to make pocupine balls..ground round with rice..

[jmowreader]

9. We had those in school...

Since there are a LOT of porcupines in North Idaho, we always figured someone had gone hunting the night before.

[whistler162]

11. Is that what Idahians call scrapping up road kill?

[jmowreader]

15. Road kill my ass. We SHOOT our varmints!

It's actually ILLEGAL to collect roadkill for eating in the State of Idaho. According to the hunting laws, no animal may be harvested within a quarter-mile of a paved public roadway except on your own land. (They put the "except on your own land" in so farmers could hunt their fields.) Dumbasses from out of state were road hunting by sitting on the hoods of their pickups and trying to shoot the animals close to the road. The thing is, the animals know when hunting season is. When these maniacs didn't see anything--because, of course, nothing was going to get close enough to the road to BE seen at that time of year--they started shooting up signs, shooting out people's windows and generally being a menace to society...and a few of them fell off the hood and got run over. So now it's illegal.

If you hit a deer or elk with your car, you're supposed to collect the carcass and bring it to one of a great number of places--law enforcement agencies, check stations during hunting season, Department of Lands, the Forest Service...they clean it if you haven't already done so, recover the usable meat and give it to the poor. Sometimes there's 100 pounds or more; just as often there's none. If you DO hit an elk with your car, you can sit there and clean it while you wait for the tow truck--hitting an elk, which is huge, will normally total a car.

[Occulus]

26. Huh. In Michigan, it's exactly the opposite.

We have "roadkill permits". Hit a deer, and a state police officer comes out, verifies that, yes indeed, you hit a deer, and hands you a permit on the spot.

Cleaning it? Your responsibility.

[jmowreader]

8. This didn't happen to be Jersey Shore Steel, did it?

[MiddleFingerMom]

14. No... can't REMEMBER what it was called, but it wasn't that.

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Something something Spring & Wire Co, far end of the Philadelphia Main Line between
Bryn Mawr and West Chester. Used to be the Slinky factory, 'til they went plastic.
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Another guy and I made tools for the department of all women who actually bent
the wire into springs. They all listened to TV soap operas on their transistor radios.
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If it was your day off, it was your JOB to watch them on TV, so someone could call you
at breaktime and find out what the HELL happened at the very end when there was only
heavily dramatic music, leaving them all completely in the dark as to who just walked
in the room, etc. for the cliffhanger ending of that particular show.
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I just remembered the other guy and I played a lot of chess for $5 a game. He was always
offering to share a joint with me before a game because I had told him once that pot
ruined my concentration and I ended up playing really crappy. Found out after a game
or two that it made him play MUCH crappier than I, so I never turned his offer down
again -- just banked my consistent, barely-remembered winnings.
.

[jmowreader]

16. If the place was in Philadelphia it wasn't Jersey Shore Steel

Jersey Shore Steel is in Montoursville.

That place kinda tripped me out. I dropped off a load of Chef Boy-ar-Dee labels in Milton, PA. Then I ran down to Frackville to pick up a load of pillows. I pulled the pillows to a Kohl's distribution center in western New York. After spending the night at a truck stop I ran down to the Norfolk Southern railhead in Jersey City, NJ, to pick up a load of some damn thing and take it to a DC in Rome, NY. Once I left Rome I went to Syracuse for a load of ball bearings, spent the night at another truck stop and then went to Montoursville to get some chair steel. To get to Montoursville, I left I-80 at the same exit I used to leave Milton!

[Swede]

7. Sounds fantastic!

I like your posts,Roon.

[Roon]

12. Thanks Swede

:hug:

[KamaAina]

10. Elk. It's what's for dinner.

:-)

[Roon]

13. For the next few nights it is!

:hi:

[jmowreader]

17. Make sure if you fry the steak, you use fat--elk doesn't have any

Hopefully your brother got a bear too...the best elk sausage has bear fat in it.

[Roon]

21. I've always wanted to try bear

it just sounds so good to me!

[jmowreader]

25. It can be good. It can also be the most awful shit you'll ever eat.

And it all depends on when you kill them.

In Idaho we had two bear seasons--fall and spring. In the fall they're working overtime fattening up for the winter. If you can get one toward the end of the fall hunt, he'll have a LOT of fat on him and the meat will have a nice flavor. You kill a big black bear with a lot of fat on him and you'll have more friends than you ever knew existed: "Can I have some bear grease, please?" It's such a useful product--not only can you make deer sausage out of it, but melting it together with beeswax makes the finest boot dressing known to man. (Recipe: equal parts bear grease and beeswax by either volume or weight--actually, so long as you're close you'll be fine--heat in a double boiler until the whole mass melts, stir gently and put up in jars. To apply, melt the product and brush it on warm leather; a Peet Shoe Dryer comes in very handy if you have one. If you use this, PLEASE keep your boots out of the reach of your cats. They WILL eat your boots if this is on them.)

If you wait until the spring season you need to watch the woods carefully. If you can get one within a couple days of coming out of hibernation, he'll taste okay--very little fat, of course. As soon as he's completely awake and eating, the hormones flowing through his body will make him almost inedible.

[Roon]

27. Very interesting!

thanks for the post!

[Blue-Jay]

19. Elk is good food.

The best chili I ever tasted was made with elk meat. On the other hand, I also had some raccoon BBQ at the same event that nearly made me puke up that wonderful elk chili. So.... don't eat a raccoon. Ever.

[Roon]

22. Ick!

I would never eat racoon.Thanks for the heads up!

[cherokeeprogressive]

23. I would gladly trade you T-bones x2 for your elk steak.

My Pop is in his mid-seventies now, so it looks like I'll not be having any more elk steaks, or venison for that matter. There was something very special about sitting down to the table eating elk and venison and wild turkey and fish my Dad put there. My Mom was a magician with the elk and venison. She'd cut the steaks in to short strips then sautee them and make gravy with the drippings.

I love my Mom Pop and your post would have me on the phone with them right now if they weren't asleep.

Damn...

[donheld]

24. What if the MOB this elk belonged to finds out?

You could be in serious trouble. Ever been kissed by an elk?

[jmowreader]

28. I've been kissed by an Elk's wife

The Cub Scout pack I was in is sponsored by the St. Maries Elks Lodge. The Exalted Ruler's wife liked to kiss all the Cub Scouts on the cheek when they received awards, like your grandma used to do. She was a standard-issue "rich grandma"--if you can imagine what Nancy Reagan would have turned out like if she hadn't married Mephistopheles over there, you can imagine this woman. She made good cookies, which is important when you're nine.

[Kaleva]

29. A member of the BPO of Elks of the U.S.A. is missing his member