I usually like Costco's products. But epic fail on this one. It was a
thick plastic bag that said "Sliced Roast Beef". The only ingredients were
the beef, salt and pepper. How can you go wrong with that? Well, I'll tell
you how!

For starters there was less meat inside than there appeared from the
outside. Yes, it listed the weight but what they did was to put two smaller
bags inside of the larger one with a lot of air space.

Various heating instructions were given, or you could serve cold on a
sandwich although I fail to see how that would work. The slices were fairly
thick but there was sort of a juice in the package. Seemed a bit too thick
to be the natural juice although it had to be. Perhaps reduced a lot? For
sure too thin to be gravy.

Each was shaped like an oval but as I tried to remove the slices, they
curled up. The meat was cooked very rare. One package much more rare than
the other. Even the end pieces were not entirely cooked through.

But the icky thing? There was sort of a tough, clear thing across the top
of each beef. I had no clue what it was but assumed it would sort of like
melt off or something as I heated it. It did not. My first bite was not so
good. Meat was pretty chewy, but I managed to swallow it. But the second
and third bite? I got a mouthful of what seemed like that gristle that you
sometimes get when you are eating a chicken drumstick. It was sort of like
crackly chewy as in...I could hear weird noises as I tried to chew it. I
had to spit out both bites and the second one literally gagged me. I guess
the flavor was okay. But the rest? Left very much to be desired. This
stuff was so bad that I had to toss the rest out. Nobody could bring
themselves to eat it.

Perhaps it was made by the same company that made the precooked steak strips
that I bought. They were very rare and very tough and nobody would eat
those either.

But my question is... What was that icky clear stuff? If didn't look like
fat and the meat didn't seem fatty. It was just plain bad!

I have cooked countless roast beeves before and the only one that didn't go
over well was the Company's Coming Beef and Peaches. We just don't like
peaches with beef. We actually don't like peaches at all so I have no clue
why I thought making that would be a good idea. Anyway... I have never had
beef come out like that at all. Weird.