Posted on 07/13/2005 1:24:10 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana
Go to the Farmer's Market nearest you. They usually have the old fashioned cuts, and at a lower price than the supermarket.
I love "Golfer's Pot Roast" made with good thick-cut chuck steak. It's so easy. Set the oven at about 250*. Spray PAM on the bottom of a good heavy roasting pan. Lay the steak in the pan, and put over it 1 large sliced onion, a couple cloves of chopped garlic, a pack of baby carrots, and a pack of frozen peas. Salt and pepper to taste. Sprinkle on top two packs of instant brown gravy mix, and a cup of hearty red wine. Cover tightly with aluminum foil and bake for 3-4 hours. Serve with a crusty French or Italian bread, or over egg noodles.
It's ready when you come back from your golf game!
If I remember right, the reporter also was involved in setting up some of the very things that the report was exposing. IOW, it was a hit piece from the get-go. The reporter created the news just like the NBC gas tank on the chevy pick-up......
"It's one of the very few cases where a news organization has been found liable for damages based not on the story but on the way they got the story," said Jane Kirkley, the executive director of the Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press.
http://www.cnn.com/US/9701/23/food.lion/
No bargain here...an 8 ounce steak for $15.95, a 16 ounce steak for $31.95.
They're basically selling you both steaks for the same price, in fact if you buy the "cheaper" cut of steak you actually save a whole nickel, if you figure the cost per pound.
Smart marketing, I guess, LOL!
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I can find chuck steak in Brookshire Bro's, Market Basket, HEB, Kroger's and the local grocers. It's a staple in this part of the country. I know that those stores are in parts of East Texas, just don't know how far west they go though.
You heard, saw, or heard of a report on ABC news making allegations similar to what you report. (The allegations actually involved fish.)
Those allegations were false ... the entire situation was contrived by ABC News to harm Food Lion during a labour dispute.
Food Lion sued ABC News ... and won.
This whole drama played out about 15 years ago ... but what has entered the popular culture? "Food Lion sells bad meat". What should have entered the popular culture is "ABC News is a bunch of liars."
Incidentally, CBS and NBC are also liars; the former presented obvious forgeries as legitimate military documents, the latter fabricated a dishonest demonstration of exploding pickup-truck fuel tanks.
Mom used to pan-fry it, and then fry potatoes in the grease. She also used to make it into Carne Guisada.
Tripe is not Tip-Sirloin....and Chitterlings are not Fillet Mignon..... Inerds are for the cats or for burying...
If you think this behaviour constitutes honest reporting, you have a bright future as Dan Rather's intern.
You could go to Pre-Chew Charlies where they'll chew the food for you too.
From SNL many many years ago.
You'll appreciate this anecdote. I was raised in a small farming community, but I live "in town" now. Last night, the wind was blowing out of an unusual direction, and when I stepped outside, I said to Mr. HR, "It smells like hog sh*t out here." We then looked at one another and had a conversation about how our upbringing provided us with a previously undocumented and probably unneccessary skill: the ability to distinguish between hog, cow and sheep sh*t solely from the unique scent each possesses.
If what you say is true, why did Food Lion opt not to include that in the lawsuit? They were guilty as can be but put up a great smoke-screen with the "they lied to get jobs here" suit. Now they say, "See, we won a lawsuit." The issue of the terrible food-handling got buried. Great PR. Must have had a liberal lawyer.
Seriously, do a Google-search and you'll see what I mean.
Yes Sir....and make certain that the hog pen is "generally" down wind...from the house.... The cattle dung is less punget when one avoids stepping in it......
That sounds good. The way they do it here is to season it with salt,pepper, creole seasoning and smother it down with garlic and onions and then make a gravy. My grandmother made this a lot for dinner and it was so good. My grandfather raised cattle so we always had any cut of meat we wanted.
That would explain my growing up on it. I'll look in some grocery stores outside my neighborhood. I remember being in elementary school during the late '70s economic crisis, and I'd say we had "steak" for supper if asked. Other kids and teachers would raise their eyebrows, but we were probably eating cheap cuts that my mom or the hispanic butcher filleted themselves, Mexican-style.
We also used to cook it like fajitas (before they became all the rage in restaurants".
It was a good little cut of meat. I bought "family steak" and tried to do the same things with it, thinking it might be the same cut as "chuck steak", but it was kind of tough.
substitue comino/cumin for creole seasoning
keep the garlic
add a can of rotel tomatoes, drained
and you've got yourself Carne Guisada
So that much was not false ... but as employees of Food Lion they had an obligation not to engage in such. For this, they (and their bosses at ABC 'News") were successfully sued.
The liberals are over at ABCCBSNBC ... if you choose to believe the crap they shove down your throat, that's your problem.
I've caught them in 'way too many half-truths, distortions of the truth, fabrications, and outright lies to believe anything they have to say.
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