Is your Sam's carrying this? I don't recall seeing it. I picked up a pack of stew meat to check out....$2.50/lb.
Grass fed or grain fed?
My Sam's switched to that for basically all their beef a little over a year ago. A little improvement for a lot of cuts, but not a huge difference. Biggest thing I ahve noticed is that the briskets are now always USDA Choice, every one of them.
IMHO, it was just to make the product more attractive. Maybe some consistency was desired too. I think it was overall a positive switch, but not a major improvement either, if that makes sense.
Interesting. I guess mine was jsut differnt before. My Sams prior to the change had either Choice or Select briskets. You ahd to look to see what you were getting. Nowadays though, they are always Choice. I still look out of habit though.My Sam's has always had choice beef.....the briskets, tenderloins, chuck rolls, and whole loins are in cryo packs. Even the burger has the red/white/blue Choice label... I've just never seen the "Angus branded" meat like this before.
Safeway has their Ranchers Reserve Angus, which is just to catch the consumers eye. It's select beef.
I always shop my nearest one at 95th and Quivira. It was only jsut about 2 maybe 3 years ago that I picked up a couple briskets without looking and after getting home found one was stamped "Select" and the other "Choice". I had seen Selects in the bins a few other times prior to that even, but they generally were always choice. But some Selects would be mixed in from time to time. I'm not making this up. Kinda wish I had taken pics I guess!:biggrin:Chris - Which Sam's? For at least the last 5 years, Sam's has always carried "Choice or Better" graded meat.
I always shop my nearest one at 95th and Quivira. It was only jsut about 2 maybe 3 years ago that I picked up a couple briskets without looking and after getting home found one was stamped "Select" and the other "Choice". I had seen Selects in the bins a few other times prior to that even, but they generally were always choice. But some Selects would be mixed in from time to time. I'm not making this up. Kinda wish I had taken pics I guess!:biggrin:
I haven't seen the CAB's in the bin yet, but I'll be looking for sure.:wink: Thanks for the pointers, now I know what to look for. I'll have to ask the guy if they have any in the back if I don't see any, maybe that is the ticket for the CAB?
Now that I think about it, the two cases my dad and I picked up jsut the other day had black and white labels, but they are not marked CAB. I wish I'd taken a picture, I may be thinking of the wrong label.That is where I usually hit. They have those CAB briskets about 50% of the time. A couple of the guys know what they are... the rest are kinda clueless... You have to ask for the cases with the black/white labels.
I guess a select could get shoved in by accident, I'd be mad as heck!