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Steve Wertz
 
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On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:13:58 -0600, "Jack Sloan"
> wrote:

>Very interesting...Around here (Houston area) if you order tacos de barbacoa
>they claim it to be meat from the face of a cow.


It's beef cheek meat. It's like this in all of Texas and
California in my experience, though it's traditionally lamb (or
even goat). Heck, even HEB sells a prepared "barbacoa" - which is
simply cooked beef cheek meat/spices.

You can tell identify cooked cheek meat by it's sticky, glutinous
properties. Nothing like a chuck roast.

-sw