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I have had an unbelievably amazing week - thanks Americans!
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<blockquote data-quote="Keren" data-source="post: 404942" data-attributes="member: 3195"><p>I just got home from a week in Armidale, where I participated in the Australian Intercollegiate Meat Judging competition. I understand that meat judging is a pretty big thing in the states so our competition is tiny compared to yours. But I had an amazing week. This year we were lucky enough to have Dr Tom Carr bring a team from the University of Illinois (sorry if I spelt that wrong). Dr Carr is amazing and it was great discussing with the team the differences between Australian and American agriculture. I must say my eyes have well and truly been opened. I had hoped to make it into the top five competitors, who then get a trip to America but unfortunately did not make it. Nevertheless, I enjoyed every bit of it. I had a ball listening to the American competitors talking about your country - we heard about Lamberts where they throw bread rolls at you, and another restaurant (I cant remember where or the name) where you are challenged to eat a 75 ounce steak :shock: There were some funny moments due to cultural differences too - one of the blokes from U of I was so desperate for ketchup he bought a bottle of tomato sauce and a bottle of vinegar and mixed the two together!</p><p></p><p>I was really interested to hear that Dr Carr had never tasted lamb until he was university age, and that the U of I students might eat lamb once a month if they are lucky. Thats amazing, considering most Australians were brought up on lamb, and I myself will have lamb around 3 or 4 nights a week. It was also interesting to note the vast differences between your meat grading system and ours - yours is a lot more mathematical. </p><p></p><p>Anyway, I reckon I haven't even skimmed the surface as to what I learnt this past week. I haven't even processed all of it yet. </p><p></p><p>It was great!</p><p></p><p>PS By the way the U of I team completely dominated the competition, with one of the girls winning heaps of the classes and the team winning the shield for the champion team - they will be taking it back with them to America. We also had a Japanese team in the competition, but unfortunately didn't learn quite so much about their agriculture and cultural ways, mainly due to communication issues!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Keren, post: 404942, member: 3195"] I just got home from a week in Armidale, where I participated in the Australian Intercollegiate Meat Judging competition. I understand that meat judging is a pretty big thing in the states so our competition is tiny compared to yours. But I had an amazing week. This year we were lucky enough to have Dr Tom Carr bring a team from the University of Illinois (sorry if I spelt that wrong). Dr Carr is amazing and it was great discussing with the team the differences between Australian and American agriculture. I must say my eyes have well and truly been opened. I had hoped to make it into the top five competitors, who then get a trip to America but unfortunately did not make it. Nevertheless, I enjoyed every bit of it. I had a ball listening to the American competitors talking about your country - we heard about Lamberts where they throw bread rolls at you, and another restaurant (I cant remember where or the name) where you are challenged to eat a 75 ounce steak :shock: There were some funny moments due to cultural differences too - one of the blokes from U of I was so desperate for ketchup he bought a bottle of tomato sauce and a bottle of vinegar and mixed the two together! I was really interested to hear that Dr Carr had never tasted lamb until he was university age, and that the U of I students might eat lamb once a month if they are lucky. Thats amazing, considering most Australians were brought up on lamb, and I myself will have lamb around 3 or 4 nights a week. It was also interesting to note the vast differences between your meat grading system and ours - yours is a lot more mathematical. Anyway, I reckon I haven't even skimmed the surface as to what I learnt this past week. I haven't even processed all of it yet. It was great! PS By the way the U of I team completely dominated the competition, with one of the girls winning heaps of the classes and the team winning the shield for the champion team - they will be taking it back with them to America. We also had a Japanese team in the competition, but unfortunately didn't learn quite so much about their agriculture and cultural ways, mainly due to communication issues! [/QUOTE]
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