On May 16, 1:51�pm, jay > wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2007 12:39:13 -0500, Andy wrote:
> > jay said...
>
> >> On Wed, 16 May 2007 10:41:11 -0500, Steve Wertz wrote:
>
> >>> On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:25:35 -0500, Andy wrote:
>
> >>>> My butcher has gotten buffalo cuts in FINALLY. Been over a month. Same
> >>>> with whole foods, not a store had any!
>
> >>> I can never find any. *I can, however, buy bison all over the
> >>> place. *Buffalo, is water buffalo. *From Asia.
>
> >>> -sw
>
> >> Bison has been referred to as buffalo forever in TX and in the west.
> >> Whole Foods has buffalo/bison that comes from the Denver area and it is
> >> labeled as buffalo on the box it comes in and on the individual package.
>
> >> jay *
>
> > My butcher supplies D'Artagnan free-range buffalo cuts. Product of Canada.
> >http://www.tinypic.com/4yz2yv5.jpg
>
> > Free-range taste rich and with a flavor unlike regular beef. No hormones,
> > or antibiotics, etc. Have yourself a bloody rare burger without fear of e-
> > coli or lysteria.
>
> > Carmen Creek, a frozen buffalo burg supplier for Whole Foods underwent a
> > system change. Instead of fresh shaped burgers in 3-burger x 2 stacks
> > cryopacks, they now fast freeze each burger separately with the typical
> > paper separator in a non cryovack *3-burger x 2 stack bag. Doesn't resemble
> > the original product and some flavor is lost. I'll do more business with my
> > butcher for the fresh ground meat packs and press my own burgs.
>
> > Andy
>
> sQWertz is correct
> that water buffalo is "buffalo" the other critter we commonly refer to as
> buffalo is bison.

Actually the bison (No. American bovid) is also a buffalo in that it's
simply a different genus of bovid.

M-W

1buf�fa�lo

1 : any of several wild bovids: as a : WATER BUFFALO b : CAPE BUFFALO
c (1) : any of a genus (Bison) of bovids ; especially : a large shaggy-
maned No. American bovid (B. bison) that has short horns and heavy
forequarters with a large muscular hump and that was formerly abundant
on the central and western plains -- compare WISENT (2) : the flesh of
the buffalo used as food
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Sheldon