SC - questions

[david friedman]

At 2:44 PM -0400 6/14/00, KallipygosRed at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 6/13/00 11:36:59 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
>ddfr at best.com writes:
>
>  > My calculation was a total of about
>  >  70,000 lbs (i.e. 35 tons) of boneless meat.
>
>This is highly impressive. And shows the planning that had to take place to
>bring it off. Does your calculation include bone-in weight? I figure if it
>does, that is about 55,000 pounds of just meat (from an old meat cutter
>standpoint of 10-12% loss). Staggering.

I tried to subtract out my estimate of the bones; I think I may have 
consulted with a friend who is a wholesale butcher. But my number 
depended on guesses about how much medieval animals weighed.

David/Cariadoc
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