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Default Skirt steaks and flank steaks

sf wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 2009 18:54:24 -0700, "Bob Terwilliger"
> > wrote:
>
>> sf wrote:
>>
>>> I read somewhere that real london broil is a piece of sirloin (or whatever
>>> they said) cooked between two pieces of cheaper meat.

>> I think you're confusing London broil with chateaubriand.
>>

> Ah, yes! The memory chips are firing now.... you are absolutely
> correct sir. However, I *have* actually eaten a cut of meat called
> London Broil (in my yoot) and it wasn't flank steak - my mother would
> not have stooped that low. She hated anything that shrieked
> depression era. Can't say I've seen the term attached to a piece of
> meat in decades though. I think it might have something to do with
> truth in labeling here in California.
>
>

Same here re the historical London broil in Massachusetts.

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Jean B.