"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> "Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
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>> notbob wrote:
>>> Took mom to Wallyworld yesterday. I was hoping to score a good deal on
>>> corned beef, it being so close to St Patrick's Day, but was shocked into
>>> disbelief when I saw the prices: $3.48lb for corned beef and $3.86lb for
>>> "boneless" brisket! Well, screw that. I've never paid more than $2lb
>>> during St Pat's corned beef sale days. And what the Hell is "boneless"
>>> brisket? I've yet to see a bone-in brisket. What's with these insane
>>> meat
>>> prices? Gas is at the lowest in 4 yrs.
>>>
>>> What kinda uncooked corned beef prices prices are you folks seeing?
>>>
>>> nb
>>
>> If you buy any beef at WalMart it's corned beef. They inject their meats
>> with salt solution. UGH!
>>
>> --
>> Janet Wilder
>> Way-the-heck-south-Texas
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> Except corned beef isn't simply brined. It's more like pickled.
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> Jill
'Zactly. And the best is dry cured like how gravlox is cured. Corning is a
relatively lengthy,
laborious, expensive process, often at an expense greater than the price at
which the beef could sell raw. And unlike how injecting saline increases
salable weight, corning extracts significant moisture and so reduces the net
salable weight. Corning makes meat a delicacy, and at the same time
increases its price... like how you can buy fresh salmon for like $7/lb but
when that same salmon is made into lox it costs close to $20lb.

I don't know why folks buy that saline injected fresh meat... only reason I
can come up with is low IQ.