"Michael Odom" > wrote in message
...
> The local market typically offers perishing little by way of variety
> in its produce and meat, but every now and again somebody over there
> gets a little bit adventurous and things like fennel show up among the
> zucchini and onions. This week it was lamb rib chops next to the pork
> and beef. Expensive, they were. A packet of three was over $10 US.
> Some were marked for sale before the 27th, some for the 28th. They
> didn't sell for two reasons: The price was too high, and denizens of
> Cow Hill don't often eat lamb.
>
> I watched and waited.
>
> This morning, D hit the store before she went to work and found two
> packs one day past their sell-by date but not yet marked down. She
> asked at the meat counter whether they would mark them down. You bet.
> The guy in back (who may or may not be a butcher) cut a buck off the
> price. Still too high. She didn't buy.
>
> At lunch time, I dropped by the store to see what had developed, and
> sure enough the little darlings were half price. Got 'em. I'm
> planning on doing them up for dinner tonight with mint, mustard,
> garlic and herbs -- medium rare with a sauce of much reduced chicken
> stock and maybe some yogurt.
>
> It wasn't exactly like bargaining, but still...
>
> My method won't work with those pretty tuna steaks I saw there today,
> however. Nobody wants used fish.
>
>
> modom
>
> "Dallas is a rich man with a death wish in his eyes."
> -- Jimmie Dale Gilmore


In our State N.S.W.( Sydney) Australia....It is both Illegal to (1) Mark
them down and sell on the day of use by !

(2) Sell them 'at all' AFTER the Use by date !

I asked the assistant at one of our 'Woolworths' Food Stores about a some
'Meat' that had reached it's use by date...I was told by him that he could
not sell it to me (as a mark down) as it was 'Illegal' to do so...He then
took it outside to dispose of !

--
Bigbazza(Barry)..Oz