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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Kimberly on June 27, 2012, 02:55:49 PM
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This exchange is from the thread about Walmart steaks:
Atman Smug Ass Superior Pants (http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002858630#post21)
lynne (2,643 posts)
62. Not that I ask where restaurants get their meat but - having eaten a Walmart steak -
- I would probably say "Not surprised." as the Walmart steaks I've had were some of the most tender and best tasting beef I'd had in years. Far superior to what I've been getting in the grocery store.
I initially didn't know I was getting a Walmart steak. My husband bought and grilled them. He told me after we finished dinner.
If you don't want Walmart steak you probably shouldn't eat steak out. Don't know how their prices compare to what restaurants get wholesale but it wouldn't surprise me if restaurant's didn't sneak in a Walmart steak or two from time to time.
Atman (23,938 posts)
64. Why do you shop at Wal Mart in the first place???
Go to a local butcher, or ANYWHERE but Wal Mart. Anywhere. Eat a crappier steak...anything but Wal Mart.
Response to Atman (Reply #64)
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 05:30 PM
lynne (2,643 posts)
65. Because I have to feed my family on the income I have -
I shop at Aldi's - least expensive store in town - first but I don't like their beef. We usually go to Walmart for those things we can't get at Aldi's as Walmart is less expensive than the other grocery stores in town. My husband got the Walmart beef but I'll now get our beef at Walmart as it was excellent.
Atman (23,938 posts)
74. It's "Aldi" not Aldi's.
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There is no one named Aldi. It is a store started by the Trader Joe's founders. Anyway, sorry for the grammar lesson. Unnecessary apostropy's are a pet peeve of mine (that was a joke).
Aldi is cool...I big German company, but not bad. WalMart, however, is pure evil. They reason you have to shop at WalMart is largely BECAUSE OF WalMart. That is what is so bizarre about the people who keep saying they have to shop at WalMart...they wouldn't have to shop there if they'd just stop shopping there. WalMart actively shuts down all of the manufacturers which would employ the people in your town who could produce the goods WalMart sells via cheap Chinese slave labor.
I'm sympathetic to your economic situation and the need to spend as little as possible to feed and clothe your family. But that is the paradox. WalMart shuts down American jobs and then when Americans have no jobs, they have to shop at WalMart.
The answer is to say no to WalMart. WalMart is killing America.
lynne (2,643 posts)
86. Thank you for being the grammar police -
- do you puff out your chest and feel real randy when you do that? Almost orgasmic, huh?
I'll continue shopping where I can get the best value for my dollar so that I can feed my family on my income. If that includes Walmart - and it does - then that's where I'll go.
Atman (23,938 posts)
87. Why would think that
I puff out my chest and feel orgasmic? I stated pretty clearly that this was simply a pet peeve of mine. Next time you pull into Mr. Aldi's store, look at the sign. It is ALDI, not Aldi's. I guess my background in advertising and branding makes me more sensitive to this kind of mundane bullshit.
Everything else you posted about why you shop at WalMart changes nothing. It is self-defeating behavior, even if you save 30 cents on a crate of tube socks.
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Atman (23,938 posts)
64. Why do you shop at Wal Mart in the first place???
Simple answer: Because she WANTS to, you ****ing retard! :bird:
Oh yeah:
They reason you have to shop at WalMart is largely BECAUSE OF WalMart.
It's "The reason", not "They reason". :bird:
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What a pleasant person this atman is. Sounds like someone lost his stapler eh?
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Why does the DUchebag Atman have against women? Or for that matter lower income people. Living up to what I always thought you were, a DUche.
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What a highhanded piece of shit! Thanks for displaying the douchebaggery for us, Kimberly.
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Pedro, shut up.
Your fellow moonbat is going to shop wherever she wants and you can't do anything about it. Yes, we all know you'd love to be able to make people obey you, but they know you're an idiot just like I know you're an idiot.
Poor Pedro.
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Atman's a jerk. Those dipsquirts know absolutely nothing about the meat market. If you tried to explain the concept of contract fed beef which insures quality, their heads would explode. Meat is graded and then sold. The Grade A beef sold to Walmart is the same Grade A beef sold to the best restaurants.
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Ever notice almost every single time a primitive goes 'grammar police' they screw up their post ?
74. It's "Aldi" not Aldi's.
Last edited Tue Jun 26, 2012, 06:27 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
There is no one named Aldi. It is a store started by the Trader Joe's founders. Anyway, sorry for the grammar lesson. Unnecessary apostropy's are a pet peeve of mine (that was a joke).
Aldi is cool...I big German company, but not bad.
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U big German company ? WOW ! Me am impressed.
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Rob is just frustrated that even the chalk cartoons he scribbles on the sidewalk don`t get any attention either.
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I enjoyed the OP,
Meg_Griffin_1 (12 posts)
Walmart steaks?
OK I know that there are more important things to worry about but I have to ask this question after seeing this commercial for the last few weeks.
If you were eating at a fine dinning establishment and just finished a steak, and this person comes up to you and ask how you liked the steak and you answered "it was very delicious" then he proceeds to tell you that you just ate a Walmart steak WHAT WOULD YOU DO??
If you do not shop there and absolutely did not want to support them would you or could you sue the b@sturds?
I just really can not believe they could really do it?
If I want a Walmart steak I would go to Walmart not to a fine dinning establishment.
I wonder if she wanted to sue Tasters Choice for substituting their coffee in fine restaurants like they did in the 80s. :rotf:
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Walmart steaks come from Walmart cows. :runaway:
Idiots.
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It's free market capitalism, Toast. It drives prices down and makes the most people possible happy.
You'll never be happy so it hardly matters.
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I love that lynne called his ass out on this. I get tired of the smugness and arrogance from liberals who are either very well off in their own right or, like my boyfriend's ex, is living her liberal lifestyle and values on someone else's dime. Apparently, liberals who have to work and budget their income to provide for their families are getting sick of their smug brethren too. :cheersmate:
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I guess my background in advertising and branding makes me more sensitive to this kind of mundane bullshit.
Is it just me, or does that sound very Nadin-esque?
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Ever notice almost every single time a primitive goes 'grammar police' they screw up their post ?
U big German company ? WOW ! Me am impressed.
Oh crap...I spit out my drink lol :rofl: :lmao:
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Acting as a member of the Grammar Police, Atman defends his action of pointing out a misplaced apostrophe.
Atman (23,938 posts)
87. Why would think that
I puff out my chest and feel orgasmic? I stated pretty clearly that this was simply a pet peeve of mine. Next time you pull into Mr. Aldi's store, look at the sign. It is ALDI, not Aldi's. I guess my background in advertising and branding makes me more sensitive to this kind of mundane bullshit.
Everything else you posted about why you shop at WalMart changes nothing. It is self-defeating behavior, even if you save 30 cents on a crate of tube socks.
I present for Atman's review, this example:
Atman (23,938 posts)
78. Lots of small restaurants buy directly from Sams or BJ's.
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I know of two small local cafe's whose owners make weekly trips to Sam's or Costco and buy their product there. The only other option is to buy from massive distributors like Cysco, which is no better. In fact, most restaurants you eat at just buy their crap from Cysco, and tweak it a bit. If you shop at the warehouse stores, you might notice that a lot of the food is sold in "restaurant packs," or labeled as "restaurant quality." That is because these are the items small restaurants re-sell to you when you dine out.
Hey, Atman, you supercilious twit! Does the plural of *cafe* REALLY have an apostrophe?
Next, even though it is not an apostrophe issue, are you referring to the Gobi Desert, or the Sahara, or perhaps a local one?
Atman (23,938 posts)
8. Being in the ad biz, I can guarantee these people signed releases beforehand.
They had to know something was up. There were freakin' cameras in the room! What did they think they were there for? I'm sure EVERYONE was comped for their meals, whether they liked the Wal Mart sirloin with Melamine and Lead glaze or not.
Whenever you see one of these "hidden camera" things, if the camera angles look normal, and come from multiple directions, there is nothing "hidden" about it. You can't get lighting and focus that looks professional enough for a national tv ad without prep work and set-up time. So these diners knew something was going on. They might have been told they were trying out a new desert or that they'd be asked about their dining experiences after they finished their comped dinner, but there is no way these were "hidden camera" comments.
I think you meant *dessert*. When you play Grammar Police, it is always better to have your own shit in one sack.
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Walmart sells their cow meat to 4 star restaurants.
That means cosco must sell their meat to Micky D's, also known as Mcobama's. The place where you order a big mac and have the guy behind you pay for it.
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Atman (23,938 posts)
78. Lots of small restaurants buy directly from Sams or BJ's.
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I know of two small local cafe's whose owners make weekly trips to Sam's or Costco and buy their product there. The only other option is to buy from massive distributors like Cysco, which is no better. In fact, most restaurants you eat at just buy their crap from Cysco, and tweak it a bit. If you shop at the warehouse stores, you might notice that a lot of the food is sold in "restaurant packs," or labeled as "restaurant quality." That is because these are the items small restaurants re-sell to you when you dine out.
Having processed their trailer orders for years, I know it's SYSCO...not Cysco.
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Having processed their trailer orders for years, I know it's SYSCO...not Cysco.
Beat me to it! Big gov totalitarians are so teh smartz.
Now you can get very good quality from SYSCO. Pretty much on every item they have at least 4 grades if not five. Everything from low grade frozen hash browns or high grade to smeat and seafood and you will definitely no the difference. Generally most restaurants will have several purveyors and one dealing exclusively with meats, another for sea food, and many specialties. SYSCO is your general one stop and they deliver.
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Atman has failed as grammar cop in this thread. Repeatedly. :rofl:
I figure they will be qualified as 'I meant to do that' errors by Atman soon, if they haven't already.... :stoner:
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Didn't he recently brag about having 50 sock puppets' set up here or some stupid crap like that?
:-)
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Didn't he recently brag about having 50 sock puppets' set up here or some stupid crap like that?
:-)
DUmmies lie.
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How dare Atman complain about people who shop at Walmart. The food stamp/welfare queens (and Obama voters...) do a lot of shopping there around the first and fifteenth of the month.
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There is some excuse for the atrocious grammar, spelling, and punctuation in DUmmy Atman McGrath's recent posts.
The shock and humiation of being shitcanned by a two-bit political junk mail outfit like Mission Control, at the height of their business cycle, must prey heavily on the mind of even a dyed-in-the-wool freeloader like Rob.
On the other hand, his atrocious grammar, spelling, and punctuation may be what got him fired in the first place.
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How dare Atman complain about people who shop at Walmart. The food stamp/welfare queens (and Obama voters...) do a lot of shopping there around the first and fifteenth of the month.
Isn't it funny that their big Govt that they worship supports the very thing they detest!
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What a pleasant person this atman is. Sounds like someone lost his stapler eh?
It's not lost...someone got tired of his holier-than-thou attitude snd shoved it up his ass.
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It's not lost...someone got tired of his holier-than-thou attitude and shoved it up his ass.
Hopefully, it was still loaded. Stapled his rectal aperture whenever he sat down so his "brains" wouldn't leak out.
As for restaurants shopping at Sam's or Costco, when I worked as a cashier at Wallyworld, several of the smaller, independent restaurants and convenience stores would buy their stuff from us. All they did was hand me their tax-exempt card before I started the checkout (Virginia lets you get your stuff sales tax free if you are buying wholesale with the purpose of reselling it.)
I ask one of them (Chinese restaurant owner) why shop here, he said the prices were lower, he could buy in smaller quantaties so the food was fresher, and it was better quality than he could get from a wholesaler. (He also admitted he got the bulk of his produce from the local farmer's market as well.)
DUmmie Atman knows less about business than he does drawing cartoons.
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Atman (23,938 posts)
64. Why do you shop at Wal Mart in the first place???
Go to a local butcher, or ANYWHERE but Wal Mart. Anywhere. Eat a crappier steak...anything but Wal Mart.
To quote another thread...
EFerrari (163,723 posts)
13. This kind of thing? You mean, ignorant people trying to humiliate the poor and powerless?
It's (appropriate apostrophe) funny how their own complaints come back and bite their collective prejudices so often. :rofl:
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That was hilarious, the grammar and spelling Nazi fail! "It's ALDI, not ALDI'S, you fool!!!!" Then proceeds to misspell Sysco and make a hundred other errors. He's such an asshole, and he owes Lynne an apology for being a dick.
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Atman's a jerk. Those dipsquirts know absolutely nothing about the meat market. If you tried to explain the concept of contract fed beef which insures quality, their heads would explode. Meat is graded and then sold. The Grade A beef sold to Walmart is the same Grade A beef sold to the best restaurants.
Absolutely agree with you.
Reason that restaurant steak tastes so different from home made is the cooking method.
Restaurants have these little colored thingies that are used to gage the time on a open fire grill. Different colors for well done medium rare and rare. I have no idea where the public can buy these for personal use but I would love a gross of them.
Then there is in some cases what kind of marinade is used , Bourbon glaze for some finished steaks, when to use it in the preparation.
One can take Kobe steak and make it tough as shoe leather if cooked incorrectly. Seasonings, what kind and when to add them.
A good cook can take a chuck steak low grade and turn it into the best steak you ever ate.
Some Meat stores sell steaks all ready seasoned and ready to go with precise cooking directions. You do have to have some kind of meat thermometer and have some idea of if you are pan frying or on a grill. Pan frying often depends if you are using cast iron or non stick, Cooking is an ART.
To complain about a tough steak is not the fault of Walmart, it is the fault of the cook.
Poor Atman needs to buy his Momma a class in cooking and quit bitching about the food and where it is sold.