On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:48:47 -0700, Capt.Cave wrote:
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:20:55 -0400, ehsjr
Michael A. Terrell wrote:

You can buy meat at the store?!! What'll they think of next!

Problem here, near the border is that you do not know where it friggin
came from. That is scary, considering that I have seen their 'display
cases' down there. I do not even think they are refrigerated.

There is no one to properly educate the masses down there, so they are
forever cutting corners, and the absolutely inadequate Government does
nothing to stop it, mainly because they are too dumb to know that they
should be. This is the problem when you do not have a free society.

Even in government, there is no one around to say "Hey, that ain't
right... do it this way..." like there are here. Not that the young
dopes coming into the workplace now even have enough brains to continue
doing anything, much less doing it right.

I don't know how near the border you are - I'm in Whittier, CA. There's
a discount food store here called "Food4Less", with a Mexican meat section.
One day I spotted some gorgeous ground beef, touted as "85% lean", for
about $2.39/lb, which to me these days seems to be a pretty good price.
So I bought a pound, I made sloppy joes or or beefy mac or something, and
was astonished that when I browned the beef, there was almost no fat in
the skillet. Usually with 85% lean, there's about three tbsp of fat to
skim.

It was quite tasty, and I'm not sick, so it must be OK. Of course, being
the Mexican section, they also had stomachs and tripes and ears and lips
and stuff, which is kinda disgusting (Hank Hill: "They eat the parts of
the animal that you're supposed to throw away!"), but the GB was excellent,
in my not-so-humble estimation.

Cheers!
Rich