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Remembering Dr. Phil Aaron - and the goat burgers

Even after the rest of the story came out, he still said they were the best he'd ever eaten
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By Carol Reeves Shaul

My siblings told me they wish I had told about Phil and the goat burgers at his memorial service. Here it is. We lived on a farm and my Dad and Mom had acquired a goat to keep the grass eaten down.




Well, the goat did that alright - but he also ate the clothes hanging on the line, metal cans and more. One day he ate something of our Dad's, Banty Reeves', and the goat came up missing.

Phil was at our house not long after, and our Mom had cooked dinner. We had hamburgers and were delighted to have them at noon because meat was usually reserved for supper. Phil ate two or three and kept saying how those were the best hamburgers he had ever eaten in his life!!

A few days later we somehow found out what happened to our pet goat. Those 'hamburgers' were really goat burgers!!!! Well of course all us kids cried and gagged and carried on, and couldnt believe that our goat met such a fate and unknown to us, we had him for dinner! Even when we told Phil, he still said those were the best 'hamburgers' he had ever eaten!

--Carol Reeves Shaul


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