On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:47:08 -0600, Andy > wrote:

>sf > wrote:
>
>> Agreed and I never particularly liked flank steak because it's so
>> tough. Not a tri-tip fan either and I went straight to skirt steaks
>> for fajitas.
>
>I never meant to start a meat war.

Not to worry, sf is a tube steak maven, ball parks plump when she eats
them! hehe

I can remember when butcher shops gave their regular customers skirt
steak for free, liver and soup bones were free too. Everytime a
regular customer shopped at their fish monger they'd get a couple
pounds of fresh shrimp (frozen didn't yet exist) and enough fish
trimmings to make several gallons of stock for free, typically tossed
in lemons too... all seafood was very inexpensive, it was poor
people's food. And greengrocers gave regular customers soup greens
for free, gave their kids free pumpkins, Chinese apples, and chestnuts
in season too. I have to admit that food was far, FAR better quality
back then... nowadays people literally eat shit. There's not a resto
on the planet today that serves decent food, NONE! Decent food ceased
to exist some forty years ago. No one under the age of fifty has
tasted real beer... can no more brew real beer in a stainless steel
vat as ferment real wine in a stainless steel vat. Very little wine
today is fermented in real wooden barrels, unless homemade dago red...
box wine is better than any high priced bottled wine you can buy.
Today nowhere on Earth can you buy a real sour pickle, just can't and
I can prove it.