"Steve Wertz" > wrote in message
...
> 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
Steve, you are exactly right . You can tell the difference. Mostly it's not
face meat , but usually it's good anyway.
Jack