On 7/6/2016 4:21 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
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> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
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>> "sf" > wrote in message
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>>> On Tue, 5 Jul 2016 20:46:55 -0400, jmcquown >
>>> wrote:
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>>>> Julie said she was not sure what two of these tubular meats were. She
>>>> bought them anyway. I don't know about you but I don't buy anything
>>>> (especially not food) if I don't know what the heck it is.
>>>>
>>>> Jill
>>>
>>> I thought she said she bought 4 different kinds of tubular meat... and
>>> then the discussion began. I thought she was talking about sausages,
>>> but someone said in the thread that s/he thought they were chubs.
>>> People use very strange language here. I'd never heard anything
>>> called a tube steak before reading it right here on rfc.
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>> What exactly is a chub?
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> Ground beef sold in a tubular package. No clue why.
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> http://www.swagbucks.com/?t=i&q=chub+of+ground+beef

Not just ground beef. Breakfast sausage can also be packaged that way;
that's generally how I buy it if I'm not buying links. I even spotted a
"chub" of frozen creamed corn Publix after sf was talking about
something similar a few years back.

Jill