Meat tubes

Although I've done a lot of different types of community service, most of them are just helping provide support for the actual cause. For example fundraising, office work, sealing envelopes, etc.
So in attempts to try and become more a part of the actual cause a friend and I decided to work for a cause called Project Angel Food, which is a really good cause and I can say nothing but praise for the organization. It makes and delivers food to people living with AIDS, cancer, or other illnesses that are severe enough that the person has trouble making food for themselves. 

So day one working there was mostly an introduction, which was nice and well organized. 

Day two working there involved pushing the limits of our comfort zones. 

So after donning our very attractive aprons, gloves and (best of all) hairnets, they set us right to work moving these mysterious 3 foot, heavy, white plastic tubes that feel somewhat like pudding in a plastic bag. Then we were told to take a knife and slit the tubes open and dump its contents into a giant blender which was about four feet tall. Upon slitting open the tubes (which felt something like what I would imagine it felt like to slit open a belly of a pig...pleasant) we found they were full of ground meat. I'm a vegetarian, but I can handle preparing meat for the non-vegetarians, its not that big of a deal. But dumping these tubes of ground meat into a blender would be gross for anyone. Yuck. We did it though.

So I guess I'll live my life with no regrets knowing that I slit open these pig like tubes and dumped them in a blender, I can cross that off my bucket list now.