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Default Safeway "Rancher's Reserve"

On Apr 13, 1:40*pm, "Paul M. Cook" > wrote:
> "Paul & Robin Barrett" > wrote in messagenews:hbqdnaPEVu905H7UnZ2dnUVZ_sudnZ2d@poste d.gcicommunications...
>
> > Anyone else figure out that this much touted, supposedly superior, "grade"
> > of beef has been quietly downgraded from USDA Choice to USDA Select, at
> > least for some cuts? *I found out when I bought a whole rib roast which
> > was still in the cryovac wrap from the packing house and was identified as
> > Select. *Never would have known had they cut it up and put it in the
> > display case.

>
> My Vons sells the stuff, too. *It is crap. *Some of the worst beef I have
> ever eaten. *Always has been, too. *When you have to put a ton of tenderizer
> on a NY strip steak you know it is bad.


I'd rather have shoeleather tough beef than beef that's been
chemically tenderized.
>
> Paul


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