On Sun, 27 May 2012 21:38:50 -0400 in rec.food.cooking, chet
> wrote,
> Well I went to the supermarket for some meat today for making the
>cheese steak hoagies, my wife said to get some rib eye, so when I get

Good choice. In fact, the standard classic choice.

>there, one of the butchers was working at the meatcase. I asked him his
>opinion on a meat choice for making cheese staeak hoagies, I said I was
>going to get some rib eye and slice it thin, he said this meat here
>would be a better choice, since I don't know much about meat, he said
>here is a nice pc of eye round, he said I can trim it and slice it thin,

Bad choice. It's gonna be tougher than the rib eye.

>Ok sounded good, when i get home my wife said the butcher talked me into
>a tougher meat, well she was right, it was a tough and made a lousy
>sandwich. now I have an extra 4 lbs of this meat in the freezer, I don't
>think I will try it again for steak hoagies, how can I use this meat in
>other recipes where it won't be so tough, hate to waste it.

Take it back. Tell your story to the supervisor, the manager, the store
owner if you can. Explain in what way the advice you got was bad. >*Ask
for a refund.*<