On 7/6/2016 10:37 AM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 7/6/2016 4:21 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>>
>>>
>>> "sf" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> What exactly is a chub?
>>
>> Ground beef sold in a tubular package. No clue why.
>>
>> 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

Oh and, you can find polenta for sale in "chubs" in almost most any
grocery store in the refrigerated section. Me, I'd just make it from
scratch but then I don't have much of a need for polenta.

Jill