Prime, My Ass! At some point you need to downgrade your beef at retail to save face. This is mid to bottom Choice at best.
Prime, My Ass! At some point you need to downgrade your beef at retail to save face. This is mid to bottom Choice at best.
by SpicyBeefChowFun
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SpicyBeefChowFun
There are actually 8 grades of beef sold retail. But dumbed down for us simpletons to only 3 grades. The difference between Choice and Prime (when graded properly) can be a mere 1% that costs 35% more. They need to retail all 8 grades to be more transparent.
Remember way back when when supermarkets used the term “Top Choice”? That meant the top 1/3rd of the Choice category – right up next to USDA Prime.
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There are actually 8 grades of beef sold retail. But dumbed down for us simpletons to only 3 grades. The difference between Choice and Prime (when graded properly) can be a mere 1% that costs 35% more. They need to retail all 8 grades to be more transparent.
Remember way back when when supermarkets used the term “Top Choice”? That meant the top 1/3rd of the Choice category – right up next to USDA Prime.
Note the first chart at:
https://meat.tamu.edu/beefgrading/
Too much ranting but yes, quality of meat within “the same grade” has gone downhill.
I assume they’ll plea the Subway argument if it’s ever brought up in a meaningful way. “Footlong is our brand! We never meant it was 12 inches!”
After a 10 year legal battle they paid $520,000 to lawyers and $5,000 total to the people.
And since your average shopper has no idea of meat grading or even cuts they’ll continue to gouge even if anyone tried to make a complaint
$40 8oz strip steak here we come. Shit I was at Walmart earlier and saw their spare ribs were $16+
16 dollar pork spare rib. You’d give a time traveler from the early 2000s a fucking heart attack
These don’t look prime, but doesn’t USDA grade them not HEB?