Yak 氂牛

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David Filipov, Yak by Popular Demand; A different kind of farm in Vermont is seeking to corner the locavore, healthier-meat market. Boston Globe, Mar 19, 2011.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2011/03/19/yak_by_popular_demand/

Quote:

"yak meat, with its sweet, slightly gamy taste

"an acre of pasture can support as many as four yaks, as opposed to a single beef steer

Note:
(a) yak
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yak
(a long-haired bovine found throughout the Himalayan region of south Central Asia, the Tibetan Plateau and as far north as Mongolia and Russia; section 1 Etymology)
(b) onery (adj; alternation of ordinary): "having an irritable disposition : CANTANKEROUS"
(c) The report says, "For these random acts of violence, this shaggy rogue was neither put down nor sent to the barn without hay."

The last clause is a play on the notion that a mishaving child is "sent to [his] room without dinner" as punishment.
(d) wax (vi): "to assume a (specified) characteristic, quality, or state : become <wax indignant> <wax poetic>"
(e) pirogi or
pierogi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierogi

Oops, it looks like 餃子.
(f) The last sentence of the report states, "Once you go yak, you never go back."

It paraphrases "Once you go Mac, you never go back" where Mac is not McDonald's but Apple Macintosh (computer).


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