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I Knew the Price of Meat Was Going Up
Here’s the label of the meat I bought for my pot roast tonight.
But, can you imagine my surprise when I removed the wrapper and found this on the backside of the label?
The barrier beeped on my way out the door of the supermarket, but I ignored it and no one challenged me. I think the anti-theft device above was probably the cause. The checker did not seem to notice that the meat was equipped with the little metal device when I went through the checkstand. And the price is not high enough to require the little device, I don’t think.
Are supermarkets tagging meat where you live?
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The butcher was supposed to remove it – these are usually installed on cows to cut down on rustlin’. ;)
True true.
What? No, it hasn’t gotten to that in my part of the world. Plus we don’t have all those safe handling instructions. And I’m in NYC!
Perhaps they didn’t stop you because shoplifting has become the norm.
I never owned an electric razor. How long do they last? Have you done the math on the economics?
Ahem.
Faze.
The earlier ones, I never had to get replacement cutters for. The one I have now, I actually bought a set of replacements at the same time, and I needed to install them after about 4 years, I think it was. The extra cutters cost $19.95 as I recall.
But I also only get Norelco. Everything else I’ve tried has been a disappointment in one way or another. Even ones that were called something like Somethingsomething By Norelco.
I use a digital kitchen scale too. It has a tare function you set, which means I can use whatever bowl I want to dump my stuff in. The only downside is the default units are grams, so I have to switch over to the English system first . . .
Thats a bargain!
If its too small to read the prices – the one on top is 57.80 and the bottom is $65.09 “Outside Round Roast”
Hamburger?
Get your beef jerky now.
I promise not to make a snide remark on what the Canadian dollar is worth these days. Those prices are ridiculous!
I’m going to put more canned roast beef with gravy on the shelf. That stuff is good!
I’ll post a larger version of the picture – it works out to $9 a pound – Its just that these are large roasts… 6 and 7 Lbs.
“It’s just?” So, $9 per pound is reasonable, to you?
No. We’re comparing price tags.
If I had taken a photo of a 1 Kg roast, it would have been about $18.00 – not quite the same sticker shock as seeing a $58-65 roast.
But I always make it per-pound in my head, and as mentioned in a previous comment, the last time I got beef roast it was a special all the way down to 50 cents per pound (just under $1 per kg) at Smart & Final.
Maybe 3 years ago now.
Oh yea, those days are long gone. Now you can’t even get flank steak for double that.
The butchers have taken to cutting steaks as thin as baloney – you can almost see through it – they’re calling it “Fast frying steak” just enough so that you could have a taste of it – but you’d need lots of potatoes and salad to go with it.
The picture above was a Tomahawk ribeye we grilled up last summer. I paid $9 per pound (which included the huge bone, of course). It was about $45 total and could have served four people.
Beef is being stolen by the truckload out here. $200,000 to $300,000 at a time. You’d think that the mafia was back in business.
Despicable.
I hope this doesn’t have anything to do with the steaks I’ve been buying from this guy’s trunk.
And I hope you know the difference between human and cow meat once it has been butchered into steaks.
Absolutely.
It helps to have tasted both, of course.