On 4/10/2016 12:02 AM, Julie Bove wrote:

>> Well, just saying their meat is "bad" tells me next to nothing.
>> Do you mean ROTTEN?
>> Do you mean tough or stringy?
>> Do you mean poorly cut and presented?
>> Do you mean poorly packaged, wet with blood?
>> Do you mean over-priced?
>> Do you mean NOT UP TO GRADE?
>>
>> I was a meat cutter for years before I went into management.
>>
>> If someone described meat to me as being bad it usually meant
>> spoiled/rotten/inedible.
>> ====
>
> I didn't eat the stuff and I didn't ask for specifics. My mom told me
> it was bad. Someone else said they had a sale and the meat was really
> good. I bought some. Both my husband and Angela said it was bad.
> Those were their exact words. The person who had recommended the meat
> to me had taken some to where my dad was living at the time. He
> complained that the meat was bad as did the others that had been served
> the meat. Again, exact words. That was good enough for me. I haven't
> bought it since.
>
> What I can say that it wasn't poorly packaged. Overpriced? Well, I
> guess so, since it wasn't edible. I don't think it was spoiled. People
> just didn't like it.


I have heard complaints on Safeway's pork before.

So it's not uncommon. Tough and flavorless was the verdict.