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George[_1_]

On 6/7/2010 6:39 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
> 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

Sounds like you need to get with the program. Big box tells us they are
our friend and are looking out for us and all that...