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This is a new low for my new local grocery store.

1K views 21 replies 11 participants last post by  rick alan 
#1 ·
Cruising the meat display and came across this. Anyone who's ever trimmed pork chops knows what these are. Quite frankly I was stunned and had to take a picture -

 
#6 ·
Once at my local Kroger affiliate I saw a package of standing rib roast. That's what the label said, but the content was a nice piece of chuck. I pointed it out to the guy at the meat counter, wonder if it got relabeled, or if the just put it back and some one ended up really disappointed in their prime rib dinner?

mjb.
 
#11 · (Edited)
This is the chime bone and assorted trim. Whomever did the trimming on this does not know the art of butchering. Simply put This is garbage

Most meat in grocery stores are mislabeled on purpose, example  ''London Broil""  is from the Flank not a piece of cCuck.

Mom and Pop steaks  are tenderized pieces of Bottom Round. There is no law against this practice however.
 
#13 ·
This is the chime bone and assorted trim. Whomever did the trimming on this does not know the art of butchering. Simply put This is garbage

Most meat in grocery stores are mislabeled on purpose, example ''London Broil"" is from the Flank not a piece of cCuck.

Mom and Pop steaks are tenderized pieces of Bottom Round. There is no law against this practice however.
I was gonna call it mistake remnants. . .
 
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I got an eye-opener a few months ago. I was looking for some black cod (sablefish) and wasn't finding it anywhere, so I started asking. At Safeway I got lucky. The woman at the meat department said they had some frozen and it wasn't selling, and she would put some frozen sablefish out for half price (which was $6 a lb, still not cheap for a fish that not that long ago was 2 bucks a pound). Then she said if it didn't sell at that price they would throw it out. Man. They could at least give it to a soup kitchen or something. I hate to see that kind of waste, especially for something I really like.
 
#18 ·
I got an eye-opener a few months ago. I was looking for some black cod (sablefish) and wasn't finding it anywhere, so I started asking. At Safeway I got lucky. The woman at the meat department said they had some frozen and it wasn't selling, and she would put some frozen sablefish out for half price (which was $6 a lb, still not cheap for a fish that not that long ago was 2 bucks a pound). Then she said if it didn't sell at that price they would throw it out. Man. They could at least give it to a soup kitchen or something. I hate to see that kind of waste, especially for something I really like.
I don't know if it's been posted here, but there is an app developer that has created a system in which grocery stores and restaurants can sell their product(raw or prepared food) at a reduced price, and are no longer liable under the current law. You look on your app to see what is for sale and you show up and buy it. It's up to the retailer if they want to donate their product to soup kitchens. As a seller, you just post what you have. This way most perishables don't go to waste and somebody benefits from the excess.

I can't remember the name of the app.
 
#19 ·
I don't know if it's been posted here, but there is an app developer that has created a system in which grocery stores and restaurants can sell their product(raw or prepared food) at a reduced price, and are no longer liable under the current law. You look on your app to see what is for sale and you show up and buy it. It's up to the retailer if they want to donate their product to soup kitchens. As a seller, you just post what you have. This way most perishables don't go to waste and somebody benefits from the excess.

I can't remember the name of the app.
Something like that might be helpful to me with my Fill the Pot efforts. I'm about halfway through that 25 pound bag of beans I got at a discount, would be nice to get more deals like that. The church fed 285 last sunday.

mjb.
 
#22 ·
I see no reason to turn up your nose at anything but the price.  My local super sells the same, usually less boney and for between $.79-1.49/lb.  For me they're a buy at .79.  A few years ago they could be had as little as .39.

These are tasty pieces of meat, a pleasure to suck off of any bone that might be present.  Often the trimmings have little or no bone, I usually dry-cook those.

Rick
 
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