Lawrence Hall
The Out-of-Season
White-Tailed Deer and Name-Brand Butter
In the last week of the (legal) season for hunting
white-tailed deer the folks at Texas
Parks & Wildlife were pleased to send me a thin, 12-page magazine on hunting
white-tailed deer.
The magazine contains a few mostly insubstantial articles,
not all of them signed, a review of shooter safety, a few photographs of
varying quality, and some recipes: is “Venison Loin with Salsify Puree’, Hen of
the Woods mushrooms, Swiss Chard and Candied Grapes” really a thing in Texas?
The recipe for “Venison Sourdough Toast” says that
Kerrygold butter is preferred but does not say why. Kerrygold butter is imported
from Ireland and has been the subject of several lawsuits and bans in some
American states (Kerrygold butter hit with lawsuit over grass-fed cow claims
| IrishCentral.com) and in Germany (Kerrygold maker rejects German magazine’s germ claim
(irishtimes.com). Whether or not the allegations are accurate, have
we no butter produced in Texas? The list of 13 ingredients specifies only one
brand, that of Kerrygold Butter, so naturally the reader is curious as to why.
A nice story about youth hunting written by a 10-year-old
shows a photograph of the lad in a standing position and holding a bolt-action
rife with both hands close together on the stock. The picture is out of frame
at the bolt, and so the reader does not know who or what is holding up the lethal
end of the rifle. Further, the young man is shown looking at the camera, not
attending to the business end of his rifle. This appears not to gee-haw with
the bit about hunter safety.
The last page is a review – or advertisement? – for a
novel about “a comic crime novel set in Blanco County.”
This leaflet on hunting and cooking white-tailed deer is
the sort of thing that might be kinda / sorta interesting while waiting for a
tire repair, but there appears to be no clear reason why it was ever edited,
published, and sent, nor why it appears after the end of white-tailed deer
season.
Like Lieutenant-Governor Dan Patrick’s hairpiece and his
original name, it is a mystery.
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