"Dimitri" > wrote in message
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>> Absolutely. Our major supermarket in this area sells nothing but
>> injected pork. I can find unadultered meat at a locker in a small
>> town, or at a Fareway supermarket (which are smaller and aren't open
>> on Sundays, but they have good meat).
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>> Ask your supermarket meat counter person if the pork is injected. At
>> our major big supermarket, ALL the pork comes from Armour, and it is
>> all injected, even the stuff sitting out in the open in the butcher
>> case. If it already has all that salt, you don't want to brine it.
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>> N.
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> I wish I could find REAL pork here on the central coast.
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> This brined cardboard crap is like eating tasteless odorless tofu.

And sadly, personnel behind the meat counter are not particularly
knowledgeable anymore - at least that's the case at my local (the former
Albertsons). I no longer buy meat there anymore unless I absolutely have to
do so. I buy chicken and lamb at a local "South Asian" market, and
pork/beef at a carniceria. These items are excellent quality and value, and
I enjoy interacting with the personnel even if our communications are
half-pantomimed due to language difficulties :-) You all would have got
quite a kick watching me convey my desire for ground pork by first snorting
like a pig and then pantomiming the use of a meat grinder....

TammyM, quite the little actress