Age prevails over youth

[The emperor has no clothes]

I’ve been telling one of my workers for months that my technique for cutting pork country ribs was faster than his. He refused to believe me. So we made a bet a couple months back to have a competition for $5 in our “squirrel fund”. We finally got around to it today. He wanted me to go first. My time was 8 minutes 51 seconds. He got all cocky after I finished and thought he had it in the bag. His time came in at.......18 minutes 19 seconds. He was pretty distraught at being whipped by an old man. In fairness, I learned many of these techniques from another old man when I was just 25.



I told him that he could forgo the $5. The bragging rights I will bring up for the next 3 months will be more than ample. 


NEVER UNDERESTIMATE OLD DOGS !

[Reb]

Hopefully he put his arrogance aside and asked for advice after the fact.

[Jess from VA]

Hopefully there are no fingers in that pork.  

I'm far from expert, but you guys use some pretty powerful and sharp tools, no?

I seem to remember an old story about a meat cutting machine manufacturer being sued for a new machine that cut some guy's finger off.  The company sent its expert out to try the actual machine in question, and the expert cut his own finger off.  (Just my recollection, and I can't attest to truth or fiction)

But, I'm a firm believer in:  



Except I can routinely beat youth (in some matters) without treachery.

 

[John Schmidt]

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE OLD DOGS !
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Yup! We didn't get "old" by being stupid....not to say we didn't pull some questionable stunts along the way.  

And still do, but now we're excused due to age. At least that's what I tell my wife....who immediately tells me I have no excuse.  

[MarkT]

Had an "old salt" show me how to debone a venison haunch hunting season before last.  Goes much faster to extract the bone, cutting between the natural muscle groups instead of chunking the meat out. Especially when you're gonna mostly burger the deer.  Not that I'm not an old salt as well but with less butchering experience.  Yeah I listened, watched and learned.  Never too old for that - while being respectful might just come with age.  Learned long ago I don't know it all.

[The emperor has no clothes]

Hopefully he put his arrogance aside and asked for advice after the fact.

He was pretty humble. I went to lunch after the competition.

Hopefully there are no fingers in that pork.  

I'm far from expert, but you guys use some pretty powerful and sharp tools, no?

I seem to remember an old story about a meat cutting machine manufacturer being sued for a new machine that cut some guy's finger off.  The company sent its expert out to try the actual machine in question, and the expert cut his own finger off.  (Just my recollection, and I can't attest to truth or fiction)

But, I'm a firm believer in:  



Except I can routinely beat youth (in some matters) without treachery.

 

That was the one thing I was pretty worried about. I knew I would beat his time (I didn’t realize it would be by that much though). But, I was worried if one of us got hurt how I would have to explain what happened to the big wigs.

It can be dangerous. But there are much worse injuries than cutting off fingers. At least those are usually quick and clean. Getting your hand pulled into a tenderizer is about the most gruesome thing you can imagine.
 One benefit of the competition is I won’t have to explain that I know better, faster ways to my other 6 workers. I can just remind them of Feb. 20th 2019.  

[Serk]

“squirrel fund”

    

...never trust a butcher with a "squirrel fund." Is that for when ya' run outta the good stuff, round up some squirrels to package? 

I was good friends with one of the meat market guys when I worked at a grocery store, he lost his class ring somewhere, no idea where.

That night a lady customer came in white as a ghost. Evidently she'd found it in her ground beef.... Was worried what ELSE was in there, she wouldn't relax until she was introduced to the owner of the ring and was able to verify that he still had all 10 digits.

[The emperor has no clothes]

“squirrel fund”

    

...never trust a butcher with a "squirrel fund." Is that for when ya' run outta the good stuff, round up some squirrels to package? 

I was good friends with one of the meat market guys when I worked at a grocery store, he lost his class ring somewhere, no idea where.

That night a lady customer came in white as a ghost. Evidently she'd found it in her ground beef.... Was worried what ELSE was in there, she wouldn't relax until she was introduced to the owner of the ring and was able to verify that he still had all 10 digits.

We make stupid bets with each other about music, history, etc. When it accumulates enough we go out and have dinner and beers. “Back in the day” when most of us smoked, we would smoke in the cooler grinding burger. One of our customers came back with a butt under the ground beef package.  (That was the end of our cooler smoking)

[Serk]

Heh, yeah the good ole' days.... Back when I was IT at UPS we smoked in the server room... I was notorious for doing things when I got bored.

I was on the evening shift, by myself.... and bored.... I disassembled one of the big industrial scanners, set the laser up on one end of the room and positioned mirrors all over the server room, bouncing the laser around while smoking heavily with the lights off, creating a very neat effect.

My overnight relief came in, took one look at what I was doing and proclaimed "Oh *)(@#, Brian's bored, I'll be back later" and walked off into the hub for an hour or two until he thought it was safe to come back...

[DirtyDan]

Smoking..... lasers

Sounds like a Pink Floyd concert

Dan