Meat raffles: Playing bingo with steak

Meaty prizes: Self-proclaimed ‘meat wench’ Cousins spinning the wheel during a meat raffle. On the table are cuts of boneless top round, pork chops, some maple sausage and a packet of filet mignons. Photos: TNS

In this day and age when we all need to develop frugal habits, here’s one idea that should be adopted widely: Raffling off meat! Because who doesn’t love a free dinner?

A WHEEL clack-clack-clacks and the numbers blur. More slowly now – clack, clack, clack – the numbers separate so you can find yours and follow it. Almost, maybe, just a little farther, you hope, you cross your fingers, you try to nudge the wheel with your mind. Finally, the last clack, maybe one more, and the wheel stops on a winning slot between 1 and 30.