Confusing meat

[sabrinamari]

Clearly need some guidance regarding the selection and purchase of meat. Tried to find bacon months ago at the store for Michael. Could not find it anywhere. Finally found it in a section I never go to and apparently, cannot normally see. Ended up buying beef bacon. Got home, discovered/realized bacon comes from pork.

Drat.

Tried to buy sausage for Dave to cook today. Found the right section in under 10 minutes. Looked carefully. Bought a likely product. Came home, discovered he didn't want it to come from pork.

Need to understand meat much better.

My father would be very sad.

Comments

[karmawings.livejournal.com]

Oh honey. This makes me laugh so incredibly hard. You are adorable.

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

It said "breakfast sausage". Wouldn't that normally indicate a good choice for a breakfast meat?

[karmawings.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of one time I was trying to be helpful and pick up veggies to bring home. At a Chinese market. I am mostly illiterate. The only word I could read there was "vegetable" which was placed next to every single leafy green thing. Helpful! The people working there also all spoke Cantonese, and I only speak Mandarin.

Yeah... it was a salad kind of week.

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Funny.

[papabear008.livejournal.com]

Hon, if you want to know meat then call me or a meat eater

pork is a good sausage! if he did not want that he needs to tell you what he dose want! what did he want turkey? that is not meat!!!

[evaelisabeth.livejournal.com]

Very much this, pork is the default sausage meat if he wanted something else he should have specified.

[showingup.livejournal.com]

Beef bacon?!? Really, America? REALLY?!

Seriously, I remember my first forays into American supermarkets and thinking, "Thank goodness I'm vegetarian. These people make meat more difficult than I could ever have imagined. Also, why does the bread all taste funny*?"

Beef bacon. That's just odd.





* Because there's too much sugar in it.

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

It's just weird, Karen.

[showingup.livejournal.com]

It is. It is.

Seriously, if you're going to eat meat, seek out a good local butcher. They'll take you through the options, and - if they're anything like small local butchers here - they'll either have done the slaughtering themselves, or know the slaughterers, but either way they'll know where the meat comes from.

[spiffnolee.livejournal.com]

If the meat-word provides no hint, there's a good chance you're looking for pig (bacon, ham, sausage). Steaks mean beef. Ribs can be either (though some regions mean one or the other, unless specified). Similar animals have similar parts, but it says so on the label (pork tenderloin).

You can always go to staff at a grocery store and ask. The meat counter will be better, and a butcher shop is best.

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

thank you

[lapiswitch.livejournal.com]

I've never even heard of beef bacon. That was a rare and special find.

Sausage is a pork product typically. If Dave didn't want pork sausage, then he needed to be more specific. There are lots of types of sausage out there now because people are trying to eat healthier so chicken sausage and turkey sausage are fairly mainstream. But still if someone told me to go get sausage, I'd have come home with pork sausage.

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

comforting

[rowanmoon69.livejournal.com]

The carnivores in my house will tell you that neither beef nor turkey are meats with which Bacon should ever be made. Sausage on the other hand, well, traditionally it is pork, however, I've had it made with turkey and it's not bad. Likewise, being of primarily German descent, Veal (which is basically beef) makes a darn good sausage as well. Spiffnolee is basically correct, steaks normally mean beef, however it should be noted that you can also have ham steak (pork) or turkey steak (why, I don't know, but it's there). Someone who is not a meat eater should never attempt to shop for meat without a trained professional. Just sayin'. :D Hugs!

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

I think you're right. Send me for vegetables, seafood and poultry. Don't send me for red meats or pork. It will not fly.

[showingup.livejournal.com]

With veal, if you care about the way the calves were raised, it's best to check out which kind you're buying.

It's illegal in the UK, and now EU, to use the crating system currently in use on mainstream US farms, for example.

[angiedub.livejournal.com]

ROFLMAO!!!
Yes, clearly you aren't a meat eater, but as a part-time carnivore, sausage IS usually pork. Someone wanting something other than the usual needs to tell you so.
"...trained professional..." I like that. I mostly stick to veggies and carbs. My body's happier with those.