lib2DaBone (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-15-10 07:49 PM
HAS NOT YET DONATED TO THE 3rd QUARTER FUND DRIVE FOR SKINS'S ISLAND!!!
Original message
Has anyone noticed a problem with meat purchased at Wal-Mart?
I dont like to shop Wal Mart if possible.. but being unemployed I have no choice but to try and save..
The last 2 weeks I bought a Beef Top Round Roast and a Pork Roast (1.5 lb). (I like to buy small roasts,,, that way what is left over I can grind up and and make Tacos or Chile during the week.
Both purchases at Wal-Mart had a terrible texture, salty flavor and a terrible taste.. my family refused to eat. I ended up putting them down the disposal... not good in these economic times..
I talked to my neighbors.. and they said they have also quit buying meat at Wal-Mart.. (except for ground beef)
Wal-Mart meat is just awful ... could it be horse meat or some other substitute that they are selling as beef? Just curious..
hippywife (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-15-10 08:26 PM
MRS. ALFRED PACKER
HAS NOT YET DONATED TO THE 3rd QUARTER FUND DRIVE FOR SKINS'S ISLAND!!!
Response to Original message
1. I don't know where you are or what your budget is like, but please find a local coop or CSA for your meats. It costs more but it is so worth it in so many ways. Our taxes already subsidize the crap in the store, so we're paying for quality already but not getting it and the lack of hormones, anti-biotics, and garbage feed is so important. I feel much better and more secure in what I'm eating. I've gotten to know the people raising my food very well and they've become friends. I can go to their farms any time I want and know what I'm going to encounter in terms of how the animals are raised.
You can start out slow if you need to and just kind of work it into the budget a little at a time. You won't ever be sorry.
Retrograde (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-15-10 09:06 PM
HAS NOT YET DONATED TO THE 3rd QUARTER FUND DRIVE FOR SKINS'S ISLAND!!!
Response to Original message
2. Horsemeat's expensive (where it's legal)
It's most likely beef, but cheaper cuts. Beef has a number of different grades, ranging from Grade 1 - Prime (the best, and I've never seen it in groceries) down through Grade 8 - Canner. Most stores sell Choice or Good (grades 2 and 3, respectively). The higher the number, the tougher the meat; most stores sell Choice, Walmart typically sells Good.
Did you save the label by any chance? Or do you remember what it said? My guess based on your description is older, lower grade meat: pork especially develops a particular smell when it starts to get old. It may also have had water or "broth" added; I've seen this with poultry but not with beef. I'm with your neighbors: don't buy meat at WalMart. One of the ways WalMart keeps its prices low it by allowing (or encouraging) suppliers to provide a lower-quality variety of their goods: I wouldn't be surprised if this applies to food as well.
BTW, the one time I've had horsemeat it was rather sweet.
Both purchases at Wal-Mart had a terrible texture, salty flavor and a terrible taste.. my family refused to eat. I ended up putting them down the disposal... not good in these economic times..
So, the only store you can shop at while unemployed is Walmart? I find better deals at Smith's & Target most weeks. Albertson's rarely has good deals for what we buy. But we have bought some fairly inexpensive meat at Smith's (which is a Kroger's basically) for really really cheap.
Frank, how do you know that those people haven't donated to the 3rd quarter fund drive?
If a primitive donated, the primitive gets a miniature banner announcing that fact.
If a primitive hasn't donated yet, no banner.
There's a lot more unbannered primitives than there are bannered primitives.
Look for the I DONATED TO THE 3rd QUARTER FUND DRIVE banner (it's a tiny one, though) when reading primitive comments.
Some of the primitives are pretty damned slow about coughing up some cash for my fellow alum Skins; during the 1st quarter fund drive last spring, it took forever and day for Oscar Wilde, the large-proboscised primitive "Cyrano", to get bannered. Oscar Wilde alleged there was a problem with his credit card, hence the delay.
Yeah, right.
And Pedro Picasso, as rich as Croesus, also takes his own good time.
Money means nothing, nothing at all, to Skins--trust me, as a fellow alum, I would know--but I do this as a public service, to remind lurking primitives they haven't donated yet. The guy's giving them all this real estate on which the primitives can romp and play, and the primitives need to show some gratitude.
It's good manners to show gratitude.
In Vegas don't forget Trader Joe's, Whole Foods & Fresh n Easy.... :-)
Oh cool! I didn't know that people got a banner.
Walmart uses the same meat everyone other normal grocery chain does. They don't generate their own grading system. Read the damn label and see what you are buying.
I beg to differ. While the national stuff may be the same, the beef they use most DEFINITELY tastes different and simply isn't as good as a comparable quality beef at Hannaford's, Shaw's, or even Market Basket.
And IIRC, some of the steaks and stuff actually cost MORE than the local chains.
lib2DaBone
... that way what is left over I can grind up and and make Tacos or Chile during the week.
I KNOW for a fact that they get their beef at the same places the other local chains do.
I call BS!Bubba looks like a happy boy with those ladies around. :-) (I am assuming they are cows)
It's family refused to eat! I'm sure! Frikkin' moron! Does it really expect anyone to believe that if they are poor like it says?
Wal Mart beef is grass fed and pumped full of embalming fluid or somethin' close!
I'll stick to Bubba's kids!(http://sites.google.com/a/wildblue.net/bruceptt/pic/Bubba1.jpg)This is Bubba! There's a coupla his offspring in the background.
It looks like the one in my sig line :-)
It looks like the one in my sig line :-)
I call BS!
It's family refused to eat! I'm sure! Frikkin' moron! Does it really expect anyone to believe that if they are poor like it says?
Wal Mart beef is grass fed and pumped full of embalming fluid or somethin' close!
I'll stick to Bubba's kids!(http://sites.google.com/a/wildblue.net/bruceptt/pic/Bubba1.jpg)This is Bubba! There's a coupla his offspring in the background.
You can call them "offspring" if you want.
I call them "future T-bone steaks". :yum: :drool:
I keep 2 every other year. Their names are always "Ribeye, and T-bone"!
They say you shouldn't name your food because then it becomes a pet. But, it looks like you've found the perfect solution. :rotf:
I wish I could agree, but the taste and quality of a sirloin or ribeye that I buy at WallyWorld are NOT the same as ones that I buy at grocery stores elsewhere in this area. They may buy them from the same sources where you live, but not here--there's simply no way.