On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 09:10:34 -0600, Janet Bostwick
> wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 19:41:38 -0700, sf > wrote:
>
> >I have never in my entire life seen, or ever heard of a packer cut...
> >so you're right: what I think of as a brisket must be what you call
> >flat.
>
> Here it is just called brisket and all stores carry them in the pork
> section. I think they label the two smaller cuts by name. A packer
> cut in my experience is cryo-packed. It's probably 15-18 inches long,
> maybe 8-10 inches wide and can weigh from 12 - 18 pounds (by my
> recollection).

Thanks, I think Cash & Carry has full sized briskets - but I've never
looked at them seriously because they're so huge. Also, Safeway has
started doing things like letting us ask buy a single whole cryovac'd
pork butt (instead of making us buy packages of two like they did in
the past), so the regular grocery store another possibility. I will
assume briskets come as a packer's cut and then are broken down to be
sold, so I don't see them as a consumer.


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