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04-05-2013, 09:43 AM | #1 |
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No more Pork Butts
It is now a Boston Roast.
Also banned - Pork Chops. "Under the new nomenclature’s reign — aimed at giving some meat cuts more razzle dazzle — a pork chop will become a ribeye chop or a porterhouse chop, while a pork butt could be known as a Boston roast. A boneless shoulder top blade steak will become a flatiron steak and a beef under blade boneless steak will become a Denver Steak. Ground beef will stay ground beef." http://consumerist.com/2013/04/04/a-...-cuts-of-meat/
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04-05-2013, 09:48 AM | #2 |
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Good luck making that change around here.
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04-05-2013, 10:10 AM | #3 |
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I'm not crazy about it. Boston butt was never a butt at all, it's the upper shoulder. A picnic ham is the bottom half of the foreleg. The one good part is that they are going to label where the cuts come from on the animal. That could be educational for the public. Now, whether the public will accept the new terms remains to be seen.
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04-05-2013, 10:59 AM | #4 |
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educating the consumer in this manner is just as futile as pissing on a volcano to put it out.
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04-05-2013, 11:17 AM | #5 | |
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In the new system that will just be a "Flatiron Steak" or a "Denver Steak", and the average consumer won't have a clue what they are actually buying. Worse, for a time it will cause unnecessary confusion for those who know what they want, but won't know the newfangled marketing jargon attached to it. Its marketing schmooze - an effort to class up formerly cheap, unwanted cuts - nothing more. Watch the names change and the prices jump at the same time.
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04-05-2013, 11:47 AM | #6 |
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I got news for ya. Our overseas markets for meat export are on hold with Russia and China over a little argybargy about a feed additive. Meat inventories are full. The cost of feed (because of ethanol and drought driving up corn prices) is up enough that the livestock that is being raised for two years' from now is many fewer than they used to be. Enjoy the good prices now and stock your freezers, because once that export kicks back in, prices are going to really jump for meats.
Perhaps this is meant to cushion the blow when the market forces make for a jump in prices over the next two years. I don't know.
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04-05-2013, 11:59 AM | #7 |
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Honestly, we should join Russia and China and demand some changes. I've read a bit about our commercial agribusiness industry, and it is not pretty.
Prices can only go as high as the market will bear, and this market doesn't have much room for increases. There are a couple of ways it could go from there.
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What next, Gingerbread Oreos?...
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when all else fails, point and grunt.... ooo ooo ooooooo ahhhhh oooo yessssssss
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