Citations:cowpooling

English citations of cowpooling

Noun: "the practice of two or more parties jointly purchasing all or part of a butchered cow and dividing the meat between them"

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• 2008 — Wency Leung, "You take the ribs, I'll take the rump", The Globe and Mail, 21 May 2008:

  Cowpooling, however, is far more involved than simply grabbing a sirloin from the grocery freezer.

• 2009 — Laura Vozzella, "Going the extra mile for local food", Ashland Daily Tidings, 11 August 2009:

  Liz Smith of Hamilton has plans to buy a whole steer from an area farmer and split the meat with four friends. Her name for it: "cowpooling."

• 2011 — Melissa Tosetti & Kevin Gibbons, Living the Savvy Life: The Savvy Woman's Guide to Smart Spending and Rich Living, Morgan James Publishing (2011), →ISBN, page 137:

  Once we get about half way through the original 77 pounds of beef that's sitting in our freezer, we will start the cowpooling process again. […] If you're interested in cowpooling, the Internet is the first place to start.