Sports related father's day gift - brand your meat
Father's Day is an invented hallmark holiday, but still, you have to do something for Dad. When you get to be an adult it's hard to choose the right father's day gift. How about something that allows dad to brand his meat?
Steakbrands.com is a site that offers meat brands with your favorite college teams. For instance, here is the University of Missouri meat brand:
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The company offers not only customized brands, but individual letters as well. The meat brands are small enough as not affect the meat itself, but to make your brand.
Here is what they said about the history of meat branding:
Branding was an ancient practice before the first cow came to America. Some 4000-year-old tomb paintings show Egyptians branding their fat, spotted cattle. Hernando Cortés burned crosses on the hides of the small herd he brought with him to Mexico. The vaqueros passed the custom on to US cowboys, who developed and refined their own calligraphy.
