On May 15, 12:28*am, phaeton > wrote:
> Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> > On 2009-05-12 19:41:46 -0500, phaeton > said:
>
> >> George wrote:
>
> >>> Did you use "walmart quality" meat by any chance? Browned "country
> >>> ribs" , kraut, onions and potatoes is one of my favorite crockpot
> >>> meals. I have never noticed what you described. I always buy pork
> >>> from a local store that has an in house meat dept and doesn't sell
> >>> the adulterated "walmart quality" meat.
>
> >> No, it was a few notches up from Wal-Mart Quality. *It was Hormel
> >> brand (they're local to me). *The supermarket I got it from used to
> >> tout that none of their meats were pre-treated, salt-injected,
> >> moisture-enhanced or otherwise messed with, so I never looked. *I
> >> guess that has since changed.
>
> >> -J
>
> > Are you in Meen-ah-sota, J? * I've stopped buying most supermarket pork
> > unless I know it hasn't been injected. *I can't think of a Hormel
> > product that is not injected—*maybe* bacon. *Cub has uninjected pork
> > tenderloins on sale at their fresh meat case for $2.99/lb for the next
> > couple weeks. *I think I've bought about 6 of them. * Mostly I buy my
> > pork from Amor Pork <amorpork.com> or Ready Meats in NE Minneapolis.
>
> Close. *I'm in Weez-kawn-sehn.
>
> Interestingly, Cub is where I bought this injected pork. *I went back
> earlier in the week and didn't see ANY pork that was NOT Hormel, and NOT
> * injected. *Looks like I'll have to go to Woodman's until the new
> Hy-Vee opens up.
>
> Either way, injected pork is bad, mmkay?

People in the USA have come to accept the "Up to a 12% solution" in
frozen turkeys, but pork? Even worse, BEEF?

You can bet your ass that the board of directors' of those
corporations families don't eat that crap. I bet that the CEO of
Target doesn't send "Cook" to SuperTarget to buy injected beef for
family meals.
>
> -J

--Bryan