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Nancy Young[_2_]

wrote:
> On Jun 4, 9:49 am, dsi1 > wrote:
>
>>
>> I wouldn't worry about it too much - meat is mostly water anyway.
>
> But they add salt to keep the water in the meat (or it looks too
> watery). So, you are really getting salt water. And there is no good
> reason for it. They do it so that they can put a lower price per pound
> on the label to mislead the buyer.
>
> I would rather pay more per pound, get the same amount of meat, and
> skip the salt.

Really. And when you put chops/whatever in a pan and suddenly
it's swimming in all the water than comes pouring out, for myself,
I don't appreciate that at all.

nancy