This is exactly the way my father did it, back in the day. That meat was so good! Roast beef was just wonderful, and the steaks from the grill -
I don’t consider the taste “weedy”, but I am guessing that if people have grown up eating corn-fed, they wouldn’t understand.
It is like eating an heirloom indeterminate sun-ripened tomato right off the vine from your own garden - and comparing their taste to the field grown “bush” tomatoes, the latter bred for machine harvesting and being shipped green to be ripened by gas.
Those who have grown up on supermarket tomatoes would probably find the taste unfamiliar - The same with fresh eggs from one’s own free-range chicken vs factory chickens. You can even see the difference in these.
And, the “eggy” taste is so much better in the free-range chickens, probably because of all the fresh bugs, slugs, and japanese beetle larva they eat. But, those accustomed to supermarket eggs would probably say they taste “buggy” (little joke).
” It is like eating an heirloom indeterminate sun-ripened tomato right off the vine from your own garden “
I was just eating one (sliced, with a bit of salt) as I read your post - nothing like it!!!
I’ve spent most of my life in cities, and when I retired to the rural life, the fresh veggies did taste almost unpleasantly ‘strong’, at first - but now that I’ve been here for a couple of years (and have my own garden!!), I detest grocery-store produce...
My Dad had chickens and we would sell the excess eggs, So I agree about the taste. We also had goats and sold the excess milk. I love goat meat but never could like goat milk, I used to beg my mom to buy some cow milk.