"Paul M. Cook" > wrote in message
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> "Paul & Robin Barrett" > wrote in message
> mmunications...
>> 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.
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> 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 just cooked a small beef roast this weekend that was a RR from Safeway,
which I'd froze. Sold dirt cheap and I was wondering why back then (a month
ago). But it was tender and tasty, so I have no beefs with them. Top round
and Bottom Round both for 1.99/pound.