A fun Friday night at the Nagwells

Want a brain teaser? Hypothetically, how would you divide two 350-pound hogs among 28 people who each wanted from 10 to 25 pounds of specific cuts like spareribs or fresh belly? Oh, and just for fun, pretend like you're paying a flat per-pound fee for all the pork, but you have to figure out how to make the prices for all the various cuts, from kidney to ham, add up to the big fat check you're writing.


We're just pretending, of course, because doing a hog share like that would be insane. A butcher told me so, and more than one chef. But if you were an ornery person who just felt committed to doing it, you might spend many, many hours making spreadsheets and staring at them before finally color-coding a whole mess o' Post-Its and spending the evening moving them around on a piece of foam core. That is, if you were a MEAT GEEK!!


Life really was a lot simpler when I was a vegetarian. In so many, many ways.