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Default Safeway "Rancher's Reserve"


"Bobo Bonobo®" > wrote in message
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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.


Papaya juice extract is not exactly an inorganic chemical. But I agree, I
prefer natural.

Paul