Sqwertz wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On Sat, 08 Aug 2015 15:11:20 -0500, cshenk wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > Umm, who says the Navy was serving that Armor brand? They were not.
>
> Who cares except for you two? I'm talking about what they're selling
> NOW - and for the last 25+ years.
>
> Are you supporting Sheldon's claim that the military was paying 2015
> retail prices and getting bresaola 55 years ago? They must have been
> getting it from Walmart along with all their cat food.
>
> -sw

The conversation was at one point on what Navy ships used and they
didnt use the armor stuff. And no, Sheldon always exagurates his Navy
times into some sort of mystical extra realm only he lived in if he
gets really lyrical about it.

Carol

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