"Kate B" > wrote in news:2Xh9d.7384$Vm1.5610
@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net:

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> "GoombaP" > wrote in message
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>> It's tender and delicious and absolutely worth eating if someone else is
>> buying.
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> I concur. The made in the U.S. version called "wagyu" (IIRC) is equally
> good in my experience and sells for about half the price.

At this point I beleive that real Japanese Kobe beef is illegal to import
into the US (there is/was a ban on all Japanese beef due to a BSE mini-
outbreak). So anything you get in the US will be waygu (the breed of cow is
called waygu, it's only Kobe beef is you have a waygu cow raised in Kobe
using the special diet and methods).