"carnal asada" > wrote in message
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> On 4/10/2016 12:02 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>> ====
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>> 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.
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> I have heard complaints on Safeway's pork before.
>
> So it's not uncommon. Tough and flavorless was the verdict.

Safeway and Albertsons are one and the same here now. I don't buy their
meat either. Actually when I do shop at either place it is mainly for soda
pop and magazines. I might buy some bread, a bag of chips or a can of
something but I don't even care for their produce too much.