What Was He Thinking???

This is a humorus story about the relationship between animal muscle and meat  and what we eat. 

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Hey there, welcome back. I'm Mr. S, and you're listening to Hang On, Keep Cool. And as you know, I was a middle school science and math teacher for many years, and I like to tell some stories about the days of my teaching. Every year, one of the kids' highlights is when we would dissect frogs. But before we did that, I thought they needed to learn some more about bones and muscles, etc., before we got into that. So I had a human skeleton in my classroom, and I had the kids learn about 20 or 25 of the human bones that they would find inside the frog that were very similar and basically had the same names. And we also talked about some of the muscles and organs and etc. and things like that. Well, while we were studying the bones, I told the kids, now, when you are eating dinner tonight, look down at your plate, and if you're eating meat, you're eating the animal's muscle. Because that's what meat is. It's the animal's muscle. Now, all meat isn't muscle. There's other things like organs that are edible, like liver, heart, the tongue of some animals, but most of the meat we eat is muscle. And so we were learning about that, and one of the kids' dads was a cattle farmer, and unexpectedly one morning, when the kids were coming into school, he came in with his dad, and he had this giant plastic bag, and he had a steer's head in it. And the kids went wild, they thought this was the greatest thing they've ever seen. But anyhow, he left it with me and told me we could, you know, cut anything off of it we want because he was interested in what we were doing. So basically, uh the skin over is already off, and there wasn't a whole lot we could take out of the head, and we didn't have a lot of time to work on it, but you know, because of the smell. So they wanted to take the eyeballs out, so I said, okay, and I got some um dinner knives from the kitchen and let the kids take turns cutting around the eyeball and trying to get it out, and it was very, very hard. Uh they couldn't do it. I finally had to uh get a carpet knife and help them cut them out, and then we put them in jars and uh put them on the windowsill, and I put some formaldehyde in there to preserve them, and I had those for a lot of years too, and the kids really liked that. But anyhow, uh getting back to the bones, um we did that, and uh toward the end of the day in one of my one of the classes, I had about five different science classes. I told the kids about, you know, when I was telling them about the meat and being the mussel, uh the next day this one little boy came back and he said he was telling his dad about that, because his dad was a cattle farmer, and he said, uh tell your teacher, we don't, this family doesn't eat muscle, we just eat the meat. So I told, I was telling the little guy, he said, Um, you are eating the meat. That's what meat is. Um, that's the muscle. And so he he believed me, but he went home the next morning. He brought back a note from his dad, and his dad got in there. I don't remember exactly what it was. I know it wasn't a love note, but he basically told me before I get teach anything, I ought to study more about it before I tell them to get it right. So that was that. I told the kid I'm sorry, but uh you're eating muscle when you eat meat. You know, like steak, roast beef, pork chops, chicken, whatever. So my friends, that's it for today. I hope you enjoyed it, and until the next time, hang on, keep cool. Oh, by the way, in tonight at dinner, don't forget to tell everyone to eat all their muscles. See ya.