Your probably wondering why "Underground Cow"?
One night we were eating dinner, beer marinated hamburgers as it were, and my 2 oldest sons (ages 8 & 7) at the time had a strange fascination with where the meat they were eating had come from. Here is ourconversation:
"Is this steak?"
"No honey, it's ground beef."
"Why do they call it ground beef?"
(Now I'm one of those parents that likes to get a reaction out of my kids, especially when we start a serious of "why?")
"Because it comes from a special kind of cow that they keep underground." (Doesn't everyone know that?)
"Well how do the cows eat if they're underground?"
"The farmers take the food down to them. The cows are very happy, they have a huge area to run around in so they stay strong and healthy. That's why ground beef is so good."
And with that they were satisfied and from that point on we've referred to ground beef as the Underground Cow. What I'll do when they ask to actually see an underground cow, I'm not sure.
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