LA Times Article on Minnesota Meat Raffles

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The meat raffle in Jenkins may yust be da most popular in da state....Uff Da!


Read the whole article: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-c1-minnesota-meat-raffle-20140911-story.html#page=1

From the article:
At hundreds of bars, pubs and American Legion halls — in big cities and in small towns like Moose Lake, Long Prairie and Fergus Falls — the faithful gather for a few drinks and a chance at taking home that night's dinner without having to shoot it themselves.

Mary Wiener (her real name, honest), a lab technician from St. Cloud, starts a cheerleader's chant, and the farmer's daughters — out for a women-only camping weekend — join in, raising their glasses as though engaging in some holiday toast.

"Do we want grilled steak?"

"Yeah!"

"Do we want bottom round?"

"Yeah!"

Wiener, a true meat-and-potatoes woman, sips her first Miller Genuine Draft of the evening. "I'm going for the bacon," she says.