The price of beef....!

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inthesticks

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And wtf is up with the beef prices? OMG...$9.99/pd and up for USDA choice ny strips and tbones! :cussing: Being a carnivore, I really hate to see beef prices rise like this. Kroger has a sale on ny strips @ $5.99/lb....which is about $3 off the normal price. So, I bought $70 bucks worth of steaks...lol.

For those that don't know....

To enjoy steak that is tender, you need to purchase USDA Choice or Prime. The USDA Select is the lowest grade of steak, and is tough...must marinade it really well to tenderize it.

Even Angus Select is not tender...it just has hardly any fat (marbling). Angus beef is not necessarily better quality...it is just leaner.
 
I looooove steak. everything is getting so expensive. I dont know how some people make it. 5.99 lb is really good. I wish I could find prices like that. I would rather grill a steak at home then go out and pay way to much for one. my husbands are better anyway. :laughing:
 
When hubby use to work at the grocery store we ate like we were rich ~lol. When steaks would go on reduced rack, he would buy them all and we would freeze them. Now that he doesn't work there, we rarely get steak :cry: I love to grill here at home also ~ but I also love TGI Friday's Jack Daniel's Steaks ~ YUMMY!!! I think I could eat them every day for the rest of my life and not get sick of them :whistle:
 
When gas goes up, everything else goes up.

We just watch for good sales or go to the price clubs. We live by the most expensive zipcode in the country. So, prices of everything out here are absolutely insane. Yet, I would never pay that much for meat.
 
I stopped eating beef while living in Britain several years ago (Mad Cow scare). I've not eaten it since and don't miss it at all now. Good fish and organic produce are amazingly expensive, too, so I feel your pain anyway. And if I win those Wendy's burgers for a year, they'll be up for grabs! :)
 
nkb said:
I stopped eating beef while living in Britain several years ago (Mad Cow scare). I've not eaten it since and don't miss it at all now. Good fish and organic produce are amazingly expensive, too, so I feel your pain anyway. And if I win those Wendy's burgers for a year, they'll be up for grabs! :)
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Yeah, Britain and other parts of Europe have Mad Cow Disease to worry about. The U.S. has been fortunate so far (except for the two or three Canadian mad cows found in American herds...grrr). I will continue to eat beef until Mad Cow outbreaks in this country occur. Who knows...I, as well as many others, may already have the mad cow virus (prions) in our brains. The incubation period is many, many years usually before symptoms begin to show.

Maybe I can get people to leave me alone, if I tell them I have Mad Cow...sort of like Denny Crane does on Boston Legal. :laughing:
 
Everything is getting expensive. I don't know if you have a super walmart but, check out how high the meat is there. At mine, they want $17.99 just for 3-4 pounds of ground beef. I like to shop at the piggy wiggly for meat when it's on sale. They usually sell it pretty cheap. Also, if you have a store that does what a couple of ours do, they offer a "pick 5" for $20. You choose 5 packages of meats or other included items.

The best deal I got was when I went to Kroger and there was a mispriced roast sitting there for $1.32! I asked about it and she said she would ring it up like that even though it's wrong because, they should have put the correct price on the package. I was happy to say the least, lol.
 
miki said:
The best deal I got was when I went to Kroger and there was a mispriced roast sitting there for $1.32! I asked about it and she said she would ring it up like that even though it's wrong because, they should have put the correct price on the package. I was happy to say the least, lol.
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By law, after a consumer takes the mismarked item, they can no longer take it back and remark it. They have to catch their mistake before a consumer removes it from the case.
 
LIDARKSIDE said:
miki said:
The best deal I got was when I went to Kroger and there was a mispriced roast sitting there for $1.32! I asked about it and she said she would ring it up like that even though it's wrong because, they should have put the correct price on the package. I was happy to say the least, lol.
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By law, after a consumer takes the mismarked item, they can no longer take it back and remark it. They have to catch their mistake before a consumer removes it from the case.
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Also, at Kroger at least, if an item is mismarked...the item is free at the checkout register. This rule applies to just one of the same brand item that is mismarked....
 
miki said:
I like to shop at the piggy wiggly for meat when it's on sale.
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OMG...do they really have stores called Piggly Wiggly??? I thought that was just something made up in "O Brother Where Art Thou"!!!
"The preacher says all my sins is warshed away, including that Piggly Wiggly I knocked over in Yazoo."
 
Really? I didn't know that about mismarked packages at kroger, thanks for letting me know.

nkb, I am from California so you could imagine what it was like to see a store named "Piggly wiggly". I still giggle when I talk about it at times and I have been here a year now. I love this store though, it's almost like a mom and pop type of grocery store where the employee's are really kind, the food is normally always on sale and the older generation chooses to shop there than anywhere else.
 
The history of Piggly Wiggly (us southernerns lovingly call it "The Pig" goes way back. I live right outside of Memphis where the first Piggly Wiggly was built and operated. The founder became very rich. After he had money to play with he did just that and lost it all. In the mean time however, he had begun to build a beautiful home for his young bride. After he lost his money he gave the home to the city of Memphis. It now stands and operates as The Pink Palace. It includes an IMAX theater as well as a museum. Check it out on the internet. It's way cool.
 
LOL...what a great story! I'm from California, too, and have never visited the south. I keep hoping to win one of those trips to Georgia or New Orleans. I'll be making my first trip to Texas for a conference in the Spring, so that's a start! I wonder if you can order anything in a Texas restaurant that doesn't have beef in it. :crazytongue:
 
That is a really neat story. I will have to visit sometime, I am an hour-hour 1/2 from Memphis now (Mississippi).

nkb what part of California? I lived in Bakersfield all my life until last year in august I moved out here. Really long story.

Enjoy your trip to Texas. They have some great dishes out there.
 
I'm from Orange County. I worked at Disneyland during my high school and college years, so of course all my family from elsewhere in the US came to visit me & go to Disneyland and I never got to go anywhere. :cry: Yeah...rough life, I know.
 
I thought there were Piggy's everywhere! I just always grew up with one around! There isn't one in our town ~ but they are "closing in!"
 
ping1970 said:
I thought there were Piggy's everywhere! I just always grew up with one around! There isn't one in our town ~ but they are "closing in!"
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Stores are located in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
 
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