On Oct 6, 4:40?pm, "jmcquown" > wrote:
> Sheldon wrote:
> > On Oct 6, 1:29?am, "Default User" > wrote:
> >> jmcquown wrote:
> >>> Glasswalker wrote:
> >>>> Hey all.
>
> >>>> Just wondering how long deli meat can be expected to store in the
> >>>> fridge? I'm talking about meat (in this case salami, pastrami, and
> >>>> pepperoni) sliced and purchased from the deli in the local
> >>>> supermarket. This deli in particular wraps the meat with some
> >>>> paper, and then puts it in a zip top bag with a slider zipper.
>
> >>> Read the "use by" date on the package.
>
> >> What package? He's talking about stuff purchased from the deli. I've
> >> never seen any dates on those.
>
> > You never will. If they have a scale that generates a weight/$$ label
> > it will also print the date of sale, but not a use-by date.... pre-
> > packaged, factory sealed cold cuts are labeled with a *sell*-by date
> > but not a use-by date. Even fresh meats have no use-by date, only a
> > sell-by date. But then Jill is different from the rest of us, she has
> > a butcher buddy who fills her personal needs.
>
> You're just jealous because you never thought about asking the butcher to
> grind meat for you.

You haven't as clue, you never worked in the food industry, not in any
capacity.

Before cryovac I had the "butcher" grind meat for me lots of times.
You're much too immature to remember those days. I'm positive that
you've never been to a real butcher shop with real butchers... there
are no butchers in retail food stores anymore, haven't been for nigh
on forty years, only meat cutters. You'd need to go to a specialty
meat purveyer who raises and slaughters their own stock to find a real
butcher, you wouldn't want to pay those prices... or you'd need to go
to a kosher butcher shop, you not want to pay those prices either.
I'm positive that you've never seen a real butcher, let alone spoken
to one. A meat cutter is not a butcher, a meat cutter is a butcher
like a hair dresser is a barber.