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brooklyn1 wrote:
> "sf" wrote
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>> So, what you're really saying is home ground will taste like store
>> bought if you let it sit for... how long?
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> If it's the prepackaged stuff one normally buys from the stupidmarket,
> you're talking at least a week, probably more like two-three weeks...
> because they don't grind cuts like roasts... first they wait until the
> roasts pass the sell-by date and they turn those into smaller cuts
> like steaks, than after the steaks pass the sell-by date they turn
> that into generic stew meat, then after the stew meat passes its sell-
> by date they finally grind it but not before adding all the scraps
> and trimmings they saved from the previous day. When I say
> preground is mystery meat it's truly MYSTERY meat.. now I just
> exposed some of the mystery but only the tip of the iceberg.


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