Steve Wertz wrote:
What we need is another Mad Cow scare to bring the prices down
again. Actually, we don't need a "scare", we just need to hear
the results of accurate testing (AKA: the "truth").

We're in one, only we don't know it because it only comes out when
someone like Japan turns away a shipload of bef because they detected
that we didn't scrape the spinal cord out of the backbones before we
loaded the ship.

Which happened this week.

So Japan is refusing all American beef until we get our shit together.

Which is why prices should be more reasonable, for a little while.

Then they'll go back to being stupid.

BTW, one reason Sam's prices are lower is Sam's doesn't set the regular
price artificially high so that it can run weekly "specials" on the
same thing all the time.

--Blair

Blair P. Houghton wrote:

BTW, one reason Sam's prices are lower is Sam's doesn't set the regular

price artificially high so that it can run weekly "specials" on the
same thing all the time.

____Reply Separator_____

Well, thank you Blair! Finally on the 34th post, my question is
answered. The first and fourth reply to my post was a flame from Doug
Kanter who always will flame the poster when he can't come up with an
answer.

Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
From: "Doug Kanter" -

How come the price of New York Strip steaks and the local supermarket
(Giant Eagle) is twice as much per pound as it is at Sam's??

Look everyone here right in the eye and swear that this is a serious
question. Do it. Now.

Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
From: "Doug Kanter"

Usually, when someone asks a question whose answer is ridiculously
obvious,
the assumption is that the person is a troll, posting the question just
to
make noise. Do you really now know why various merchants sell meat at
different prices???

"tomkanpa" wrote in message
oups.com...
Blair P. Houghton wrote:

BTW, one reason Sam's prices are lower is Sam's doesn't set the regular

price artificially high so that it can run weekly "specials" on the
same thing all the time.

____Reply Separator_____

Well, thank you Blair! Finally on the 34th post, my question is
answered. The first and fourth reply to my post was a flame from Doug
Kanter who always will flame the poster when he can't come up with an
answer.

Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
From: "Doug Kanter" -

How come the price of New York Strip steaks and the local supermarket
(Giant Eagle) is twice as much per pound as it is at Sam's??

Look everyone here right in the eye and swear that this is a serious
question. Do it. Now.

Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
From: "Doug Kanter"

Usually, when someone asks a question whose answer is ridiculously
obvious,
the assumption is that the person is a troll, posting the question just
to
make noise. Do you really now know why various merchants sell meat at
different prices???


It was a silly question. If the prices are so different, it means you're
either dealing with a different product, or one merchant chooses to sell the
same quality at a different price, for reasons of their own. Why is this
such a difficult concept, requiring a major discussion? If you ran a
business selling home grown corn from your garden, you might not sell it at
the same price as someone else a mile away. Or, you might. Big deal.

"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in message
m...

"zxcvbob" wrote in message

The package says, "Enhanced with up to 12 percent solution." The
solution is sodium phosphate, becaues the phosphate allow the meat to
absorb lots of water. Some of them say something like "deep basted (c)"
The brands are Farmland and Hormel, and they supply just about all the
pork in the Midwest now.

And as long as people are dumb enough to buy that crap, the markets will
sell it. I'm fortunate that we still have a few sources of real meat.


Amen.


--
Peter Aitken
Visit my recipe and kitchen myths page at www.pgacon.com/cooking.htm

In article om,
"tomkanpa" wrote:

How come the price of New York Strip steaks and the local supermarket
(Giant Eagle) is twice as much per pound as it is at Sam's??

Better quality probably accounts for the higher price.

zxcvbob wrote:
readandpostrosie wrote:

because its a better piece of meat?



Here, Sam's is one of the more expensive places to buy meat, and it
looks a little better (not much) than what's in the supermarkets. The
supermarkets all sell watered-down Wal-mart meat now.

Bob

The only one in my area selling Walmart style adulterated meat is
Walmart. There is even a regional chain that actually has billboards
describing that they don't add anything to their meats.

George wrote in
:

zxcvbob wrote:
readandpostrosie wrote:

because its a better piece of meat?



Here, Sam's is one of the more expensive places to buy meat, and it
looks a little better (not much) than what's in the supermarkets. The
supermarkets all sell watered-down Wal-mart meat now.

Bob

The only one in my area selling Walmart style adulterated meat is
Walmart. There is even a regional chain that actually has billboards
describing that they don't add anything to their meats.



Talk about adding stuff to the meat, we've had a bone of contention here in
Oz for quite some time on how much meat should be in our pies, and what it
should consist of.

http://tinyurl.com/km47y

and

http://www.answers.com/topic/australian-meat-pie

It's got to the point I won't buy a pie anymore. (Unless it's a Yatala!!)


http://tinyurl.com/z4ff2

http://www.around-oz.com/best_in_oz/bakeries/yatala.htm


--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

At this spectacle even the most gentle must feel savage, and the most
savage must weep.

Turkish Officer
400 Plateau
24May1915

Stan Horwitz wrote:

In article om,
"tomkanpa" wrote:

How come the price of New York Strip steaks and the local supermarket
(Giant Eagle) is twice as much per pound as it is at Sam's??

Better quality probably accounts for the higher price.


I dunno...last year I could get NY strip on sale for around $6.00/lb at
my local stupormarket (Treasure Island in Chicawgo), lately they IIRC
are $11.98/lb...beef is pretty much in the "luxury" category for me
lately. Chicken is dirt - cheap and pork is very reasonable too...

Also, what is up with the high price of lettuce these daze? Rains in
California, drought in Florida or...??? Heads of really crummy iceberg
are approaching three bux, romaine is about $2.00.lb. I've been buying
packaged hearts of romaine on sale, they've been running $3.00 or so...

--
Best
Greg