# Milking Competition: Nintendo vs. Dairy Farmers **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 26, 2017, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-competition-nintendo-vs-dairy-farmers/783088 "2017-03-26T19:25:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2017, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-competition-nintendo-vs-dairy-farmers/783088/1 "2017-03-26T19:25:33Z")
Nintendo has a cow-milking game, and a Vermont farm/museum wrote to say it was too easy, and dared them to come and compete. Nintendo said yes. My husband said, “They will not be cowed.” > **[A Vermont Dairy Farm and Museum Has Successfully Baited Nintendo Into a...](https://slate.com/culture/2017/03/nintendo-agrees-to-compete-in-a-cow-milking-contest.html)** > > The Billings Farm and Museum, a working dairy farm and agricultural museum in Woodstock, Vermont, has successfully challenged Nintendo to compete... ---
**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-competition-nintendo-vs-dairy-farmers/783088/2 "2017-03-28T19:14:52Z")
I approve of the direction in which this seems to be heading. Though I’ll completely understand if we hold off on sending the team behind the latest modern warfare game to Syria. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-competition-nintendo-vs-dairy-farmers/783088/3 "2017-03-28T22:49:19Z")
Sounds like a nice piece of free publicity for both sides.