The Meat Week haiku
John, good news! You didn't miss Meat Week! EL
I feel like I missed Meat Week.
Still, I want to honor it.
Never better than late. That’s my motto.
Here’s my Meat Week Haiku: ...
Upturned, her nose sniffs
The smoke of distant grill marks
Fetch me a toothpick!
And I propose a contest. Write a Meat Week Haiku. Win (winner to be determined by me, entirely by whim) and you will receive a customized haiku about you.
(Photo by Chris Chidsey, courtesy Stock Xchng)
Comments
Hai-KU! (Bless you.) Meat
Does that to me. I should be
Vegetarian.
Posted by: Anonymous | January 20, 2010 12:38 PM
glorious weber
beacon of smoke and fire
medium rare, please
Posted by: unbelievaboh | January 20, 2010 1:04 PM
Dairy, whole grains, fruit,
Vegetables, all GACK! Beef-
It’s what’s for dinner.
Posted by: Sam Elliott | January 20, 2010 1:14 PM
freezing cold hands
flipping the perfect meal
bring on the wine
Posted by: Anonymous | January 20, 2010 1:17 PM
Why do some places
expect you to meet your meat?
No thanks, just cook it!
Posted by: Zevonista | January 20, 2010 1:26 PM
Queen cut, medium
Rare, please, with horseradish and
Swimming in au jus
Posted by: Pocahantski | January 20, 2010 1:29 PM
Meat meat meat meat meat
Beef beef beef beef beef beef beef
Pork pork pork pork pork
Posted by: RayRay | January 20, 2010 2:00 PM
Wind whips through bus stop
Sliding down my coat collar
Must be time for meat!
(But I think RayRay covered it, despite leaving out goat and lamb.)
Posted by: Lissa | January 20, 2010 2:15 PM
jl, jl, j
l, my beef with this contest:
I’m not good at counting.
Posted by: Anonymous | January 20, 2010 2:19 PM
Bacon, Ribs, Steak, Ham
Satisfy a hungry man
Meat is fantastic
Posted by: Matt Bolling | January 20, 2010 5:01 PM
an ethical choice
immoral prices abound
grass-fed bovine please
Posted by: JB | January 21, 2010 12:27 AM
Appease the goddess
Each comment a burnt offering
Lindner Haruspex
Posted by: Laura Lee | January 21, 2010 8:43 AM
The Sandbox is firm:
mmmm...bacon and poetry.
T.S. Eliot
Posted by: Anonymous | January 21, 2010 9:57 AM
Mid January.
What an unusual time.
For a week of meat.
Posted by: Haiku Man | January 21, 2010 10:11 AM
Submitted by my friend, Matt:
Bacon, ribs, steak, ham
Satisfy a hungry man
Meat is fantastic
Posted by: Amber | January 21, 2010 2:05 PM
arteries clogging
steady blood pressure soaring
blood type is gravy
Posted by: unbelievaboh | January 21, 2010 2:17 PM
not a haiku but worth posting. the reverend horton heat's 'eat steak' lyrics
Eat steak, eat steak eat a big ol' steer
Eat steak, eat steak do we have one dear?
Eat beef, eat beef it's a mighty good food
It's a grade A meal when I'm in the mooooooooood.
Cowpokes'll come from a near and far
When you throw a few rib-eyes on the fire
Roberto Duran ate two before a fight
Cause it gave a lot of mighty men a lot of mighty might
Eat meat, eat meat, filet mignon
Eat meat, eat meat, ear it all day long
Eat a few T-bones till you get your fill
Eat a new york cut, hot off the grill
Eat a cow, eat a cow 'cuase it's good for you
Eat a cow, eat a cow it's the thing that goes Moooooooooo
Look at all the cows in the slaughterhouse yard
Gotta hit'em in the head, gotta hit'em real hard
First you gotta clean'em then the butcher cuts'em up
Throws it on a scale throws an eyeball in a cup
Saw a big Brahma Steer standing right over there
So I rustled up a fire cooked him medium rare
Bar-B-Q'ed his brisket, a roasted his rump
Fed my dog that ol' Brangus Steer's hump
Eat steak, eat steak eat a big ol' steer
Eat steak, eat steak do we have one dear?
Eat beef, eat beef it's a mighty good food
It's a grade A meal when I'm in the moooooooooooooood.
Posted by: unbelievaboh | January 21, 2010 2:23 PM
I'm weeping (metaphorically speaking). This is beautiful. A beautiful thing.
Posted by: jl | January 21, 2010 4:40 PM
Unbelievaboh
Grasps the meat of the matter
Leaving us in awe
Posted by: Pocahantski | January 22, 2010 6:49 AM
some restaurant (boston market i think) used the chorus of that song for some beef meal promotion. knowing the rest of the lyrics, i couldn't believe my ears.
Posted by: unbelievaboh | January 22, 2010 7:23 AM
Labor unions fade
Legacy of "The Jungle"
USDA Prime
Posted by: Filbert E. Winchester | January 22, 2010 7:51 AM
I smoke my sausage
and suck on baby back ribs.
Sauce unnecessary.
Posted by: MEAT! | January 22, 2010 3:50 PM
I'm drooling right now
thinking about the pulled pork.
Get in my belly!
Posted by: meatBOH10 | January 22, 2010 5:25 PM
On the eighth day God
Turned bread into pulled pork,
Water into sauce
Posted by: Meater | January 23, 2010 12:45 PM
oh glorious thing!
meat on a grill never has
been so poetic
Posted by: erni | January 23, 2010 3:06 PM
You know about the Bacon Haikus blog?
http://baconhaikus.wordpress.com/
Posted by: Mike Licht | January 23, 2010 7:16 PM
Vegetable, No
Meat Week Is Here, You Are Safe
This Week Anyways
Posted by: matt | January 25, 2010 4:03 PM
it is the time now
prepare your armor and march
into meat battle
(ps. matt's haiku is hilarious)
Posted by: erni walker | January 26, 2010 1:44 PM
新しい
焼き肉食べる
肉の週
atarashii
yakiniku taberu
niku no shuu
meat week is worldwide! japan represent!
Posted by: Jerry Johnston | January 27, 2010 9:14 AM
Man, I guess we've arrived, if we've now got a real haiku here!
Welcome, Jerry.
Posted by: Lissa | January 27, 2010 9:29 AM
#1
united stomachs
prepared to consume all meat
reinforce toilets
#2
snap sizzle and pop
grills fire licks dead pig flesh
seven days of yum
#3
Swine in recliners
gasp while reading the paper
dreaded week has come
Posted by: Austin Salmi | January 27, 2010 5:27 PM
Meat Causes Impotence
Cut out steak, ribs & burgets
Vegans do it better!
Posted by: Katie | January 28, 2010 8:43 PM
If meat makes one limp
Inuit must be extinct
Vegans freeze to death.
Posted by: Lissa | January 28, 2010 9:05 PM
For fleeting pleasure
Animal blood on our hands
Causing my disease
Posted by: [Si]dragon | January 28, 2010 9:10 PM
Meat eaters are fat
Vegans are sexy and slim
Cut it out fat ass
Posted by: Ashleigh | January 29, 2010 3:11 PM
Meat eaters are fat
Vegans do it better
Cut it out fat ass
Posted by: Ashleigh | January 29, 2010 3:12 PM
Vegans declare war
On Meat Week haiku contest
What scares them so much?
Posted by: Lissa | January 29, 2010 3:32 PM
#1.
Katie, so sorry
Haiku syllables are off
Better luck next time!
#2.
What is a burget?
Some new form of meat perhaps?
Cut it out, indeed!
#3.
Cruelty of vegans
Soybeans cower in terror
Soon to be tofu
#4.
I was vegan once
Three months with no real ice cream
Suffering was mine
Posted by: sean | January 29, 2010 3:48 PM
ROFL sean
VegShills don't count syllables
They only count beans
Posted by: Laura Lee | January 29, 2010 4:25 PM
Omnivores unite!
People who eat more than peeps
need to write together.
Posted by: Lissa | January 29, 2010 8:15 PM
Vegans are surly
Must be the lack of red meat
Calm the inner beast
Posted by: Ruth Chris | January 30, 2010 10:29 AM
Claims of body shape
Seems to be inner anger
Steak tartare is good
Hmmm, "crustier many"
Posted by: Trixie | January 30, 2010 10:33 AM
cruelty on a plate
undeserved suffering
you should go vegan
Posted by: D Havel | January 30, 2010 4:25 PM
Ask any Buddhist monk,
all are vegetarians,
life is suffering.
(they will probably
know how to count syllables
and write real haiku)
Posted by: Lissa | January 30, 2010 5:09 PM
self-righteous vegans
tell everyone how to live.
glass house casting stones.
Posted by: Lissa | January 30, 2010 5:17 PM