"Vanguard" > wrote

> The fancy name belies the quality of the cut. A non-description "london
> broil" sounds better and sells more than if it were labelled "flank
> steak". When users decided they didn't want MSG in their food or had a
> preference that it wasn't there, the commercial producers then gave it
> something like 28 names so they could hide that it was being used because
> no consumer would know or remember all those names. Flank steak doesn't
> have the appeal to the casual shopper as does london broil.

Flank steak sells quite well, what's packaged as londron broil
around here, long as I remember, is top round or something like
that. Most definitely not flank steak.

nancy