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Borzak

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Lots of people don't want to cook anything that's not ground beef. We sell halves and quarters of beef and there's often a customer that wants everything ground. Once we had a butcher shop get in an argument with a customer because he didn't want to grind the rib eyes and another time we traded a customer ground beef for steak pound for pound.
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Just because they ask for certain cuts to be ground doesn't mean you have to give them that cut ground. They won't know the difference. It's pretty common here with things like deer someone will say they are just going to make sausage and want it ground in with something else like beef or hog. Umm they aren't getting backstraps ground in. They are getting the total poundage of meat they brought in, but....
 
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That's between them and the butcher shop. We deliver live cows and they technically belong to the customer at that point. There have been butcher shops in the area who people accused of stealing steaks but I don't know if they actually did it or not.
 
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It happens here. Mostly because someone having a cow butchered or side of beef butchered is either local or bought it from someone local they get what they asked for. But a lot of deer are processed for people that drop it off and never come back till the day they pick it up some time later and they never see again.

Also guessing a fair number of them would never be able to tell tell the difference which is why they have it all ground for putting into sausage by someone else. I had the owner of a butcher shop tell me no telling how much of the best cuts get sent home to make into sausage by people who have no idea how to make sausage.

Ised to harvest deer for research and a local butcher shop would butcher and package it then donated to the local food bank before giving homeless people deer meat became offensive to the homeless. I have zero doubt they took the best cuts and substituted whatever they had since they were donating their labor.
 
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I know a guy that does wild game processing and he says like 50% of the people who bring him deer donate the meat. They give some to the food bank and then they just have a list of people who want free deer meat and they just call down the list until they find someone who can come get it immediately and it's theirs.

I can understand why. If you're traveling a long ways or especially flying it's a pain in the ass trying to carry fresh meat, but that's why I just can't relate to people who fly around the world paying thousands of dollars to kill animals that they don't even want and then paying someone to process it for someone else. Just seems like a ridiculous hobby to me but to each their own.
 
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We did it for several years, bringing in a dozen or more deer a week from the end of season till bucks started dropping their antlers and we couldn't tell buck from doe at night under a spotlight.

But the local food bank in a town of 30k said stop, it was offensive to people down on their luck to be fed deer meat. Not like it was a big town, rural area. Blew my mind but nowdays I expect it.

On an actual cooking topic. I had something I'm guessing very few here eat. Grits. I only eat them from time to time. I never got the shrimp and grits when I lived in Pensacola and it was a huge thing there. I would rather just have shrimp. I thought about it after I visited my parents the other day. They live near the Jerry Clower memorial highway in MS and he was always making jokes about how he went to the airport and ordered grits and the woman was like "we don't serve those here". To him that was the downfall of civilization. May have been consiering the airport he mentioned.
 
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Borzak said:
We did it for several years, bringing in a dozen or more deer a week from the end of season till bucks started dropping their antlers and we couldn't tell buck from doe at night under a spotlight.

But the local food bank in a town of 30k said stop, it was offensive to people down on their luck to be fed deer meat. Not like it was a big town, rural area. Blew my mind but nowdays I expect it.

On an actual cooking topic. I had something I'm guessing very few here eat. Grits. I only eat them from time to time. I never got the shrimp and grits when I lived in Pensacola and it was a huge thing there. I would rather just have shrimp. I thought about it after I visited my parents the other day. They live near the Jerry Clower memorial highway in MS and he was always making jokes about how he went to the airport and ordered grits and the woman was like "we don't serve those here". To him that was the downfall of civilization. May have been consiering the airport he mentioned.
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I don't ever remember seeing shrimp and grits on menus when growing up in New Orleans. I don't mind it, but it was a big thing in Charleston. I've made it a few times because the wife enjoys it, but I'd rather etouffee or Creole, or even New Orleans BBQ shrimp. Lot of different recipes for it though.
 
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Borzak said:
We did it for several years, bringing in a dozen or more deer a week from the end of season till bucks started dropping their antlers and we couldn't tell buck from doe at night under a spotlight.

But the local food bank in a town of 30k said stop, it was offensive to people down on their luck to be fed deer meat. Not like it was a big town, rural area. Blew my mind but nowdays I expect it.

On an actual cooking topic. I had something I'm guessing very few here eat. Grits. I only eat them from time to time. I never got the shrimp and grits when I lived in Pensacola and it was a huge thing there. I would rather just have shrimp. I thought about it after I visited my parents the other day. They live near the Jerry Clower memorial highway in MS and he was always making jokes about how he went to the airport and ordered grits and the woman was like "we don't serve those here". To him that was the downfall of civilization. May have been consiering the airport he mentioned.
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My office cafeteria serves grits alongside oatmeal. I never had trouble finding grits growing up but I lived in Florida.
 
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I know we're supposed to have some kind of reverence for southern or soul food but grits are bullshit.

Its one of those bland, shitty, tasteless foods like rice. But rice you always eat with some flavorful main dish with tasty sauce that flavors the rice.

Grits people eat just as grits. Bland, tasteless, bullshit. Putting some shrimp on top doesnt change that. the grits are still gruel.

Some foods are starvation prevention, not cuisine. This is one of them. Fight me.
 
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Grits/Cream of Wheat/Porridge etc are literally just vehicles to get butter and/or cheese into your gullet.
 
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Grits is one of those few foods I just can't handle. Not sure why, I love hominy. But somehow putting in grits form makes me puke.
 
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Aldarion said:
I know we're supposed to have some kind of reverence for southern or soul food but grits are bullshit.

Its one of those bland, shitty, tasteless foods like rice. But rice you always eat with some flavorful main dish with tasty sauce that flavors the rice.

Grits people eat just as grits. Bland, tasteless, bullshit. Putting some shrimp on top doesnt change that. the grits are still gruel.

Some foods are starvation prevention, not cuisine. This is one of them. Fight me.
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i had grits when i lived in va, you know what the opposite of grits is, candied yams, dafuq, they just assault you with sugar

then youre supposed to woof it down w/ the 2 most horrible leafy veg collarerd greens and kale

and yea it was va my first state move away from nyc at 21 and said, this is white ppl food?
 
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Aldarion said:
I'm liking your post because of our shared disdain for grits and candied yams

Collard greens and kale are both great, though.
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Slow cooker some collard greens with bacon and then add black beans towards the end. So good it all just melts together.
 
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Borzak said:
I had something I'm guessing very few here eat. Grits
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Surely anyone who's ever been drunk has had grits!...
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