So, with our 63 kg of tallow in our five and 10 dollar bills you get around the size of one and a half cows.
Anne's original mixture, half-goat, half-cow, became the anchor of my ordinary days.
Those buying a dead half-cow or a large box of pills might indeed be prepared to pay a substantial premium for the honour of a handshake, a smile or a nod of thanks by the artist in return for extra cash.
Then comes the check and, soon after, the rash of rationalizations — your buddy is probably going to have only one bachelor party, your company is footing the bill — that justify blowing the perverse amount of money you've just blown on a meal that required little more than a cook's bringing the half-cow you ordered (but didn't finish) to the appropriate degree of underdoneness.
As I walk around Rockefeller Plaza in New York in September, a massive shadow towers over me, I look up and think, "What is this floral half-horse, half-cow sculpture?" A crowd of people are taking photos and Instagramming the piece from the railing on the opposite side, and some are trying to take selfies with the sculpture from underneath.
Pub grub consists of half a cow, raw and covered in flies.
Others talked in the kitchen where a stand-alone freezer held the meat of three goats and half a cow.
Most of Brazil's farmland is pasture, running to some 175m hectares and occupied by around half a cow per hectare.
At the end of the year, Father Doll bought half a cow as a thank-you present, and there was a feast and plenty of speeches.
Only a well-staffed kitchen could produce the bordelaise that Mr. Young makes at Citarella, one that "starts with half a cow" and includes "50 pounds of marrow".
