Sqwertz wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On Thu, 06 Aug 2015 15:32:42 -0400, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 10:35:39 -0500, Sqwertz >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Dried beef is pretty expensive for what it is, very low-quality
> > > ground beef
> >
> > Actually it's not ground, it's a good cut of beef that's cured,
> > dried, and shaved.
>
> If that's a good cut of beef then so is MY ASS!
>
> Anybody who has ever eaten or even LOOKED looked at the classic
> Whoremel/Armour dried beef in the last 30 years knows it's made from
> ground up ("chipped" they like to call it), extruded beef.
>
> You are truly out of touch with reality if you think it's made from
> solid muscle. Or even glued muscles. There is absolutely no
> discernible muscle grain in the bottled dried chipped beef.
>
> -sw

Umm, who says the Navy was serving that Armor brand? They were not.

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