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Wife Just Bought a Box of BEEF From a Guy Driving Down Our Street!

Yep, they always tell me they are down to their last box, and offer it to me for a big discount.

I only bought once. The meat was average, at best.

Now, I tell them my freezer if full -- which is true.

CD
 
Ditto, ditto. In my area they call themselves Yummy Meats. And all the guys are shady characters and the meat is all trash. They're almost like a vacuum cleaner salesman - they get all their product out -which takes 30 mins - and they make you feel bad as they laboriously pack it all up - because you told them 'no' repeatedly. My mom fell for the sales pitch because a friend of a friend referred them, and I got a chance to taste it - it's all crap. But I think it's interesting how visually pleasing they are in the package - clever marketing I guess. I think it's just like any crap marketing - they out-wear their welcome and eventually leave town.
 
I had 1 guy flag me down while driving down the interstate ( I had my flatbed trailer with 2 grills on it) I thought maybe there was something wrong with my car, so I pulled over, he pulled over behind me. I got out and asked what was wrong and he told me he saw my grills and thought I could use some "good" meat. I on't repeat what I told him, but he got really angry and tried to be a smart ass. I did something that was probably stupid in hindsight, I jumped in my car, gave it a bit of gas & spun some gravel towards him. I was long gone before he got back in his truck.
 
That takes a lot of stones to flag someone down and get them off the interstate in order to sell 'em something. He's lucky that's all you did. :roll:
 
This is what I grilled last night for supper.
4 KC Strip (bone in) 12oz
2 Bacon Wrap Fillets 6oz
2 100% pure Steak burgers 8oz


It was all still half frozen when I put it on a very hot grill. Didn't plan ahead. 8 min total for the KC strips. The fillets took longer (Thick). I over cooked the burgers just a little. Used sea salt, black pepper and some garlic powder on the steaks. Steaks had just a little pink in the middle. Everyone thought they were good. They may not all be select cuts of meat but, I'm happy that it's not like some of the stories I have read here. I don't think I will do it again. I'll stick with the butcher.
 
My wife fell for this once years back, needless to say I was not pleased, thankfully about a week later was that huge east cost power failure. After about three days without power, I pulled out every outdoor cooking product I had and started to empty the freezers. I went to all the neighbors and told them it was time to eat, then they started showing up with stuff from their freezers and it turned into a outright block party. I don't remember eating the "white truck" meat, but man did we have fun and eat good too. I met neighbors that night I'd never seen before or again, but had a blast.
 
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Every now and then I get a chance at some street meat.... This pet pig (I think they call him Sparky or something) escapes about 3 or 4 times a year. I wouldn't feel right luring him into my garage. :twisted:


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I get pronghorns in the neighborhood all the time..... but I don't want to spend a night in the crowbar motel, and have my hunting and fishing privileges revoked.... not to mention the fine.

As far as the truck deal, I bought some Corning ware off the back of a truck about 25 years ago (I'm sure it was stolen) and Mrs ~t~ scolded me for buying knock-off cookware. Heheheeee. We still have some of the pieces.
 
I'm with you.
All this only buying accredited stuff is a scam.
Why, my gardener has been doing my dental care for years now and I still have some teeth, and they are in fine condition too.
 
buccaneer said:
I'm with you.
All this only buying accredited stuff is a scam.
Why, my gardener has been doing my dental care for years now and I still have some teeth, and they are in fine condition too.
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As long as they can still gnaw on some ribs I don't see a problem
 
What I hate is my damn Meat Mama in the front yard draws them in like flies. I always start twitching when theyn call my smoker a "grill"

My neighbor bought some right after I told him not to. He threw it away after one try.

I also am leery of Chests on Trucks.... sure its frozen solid when you buy it but haw may times has it partially thawed when he was out and about?
 
This sucks, because it makes people apprehensive of legitimate food delivery companies. Too bad.
 
A late reply to the thread

There is a company out by me called Iowa Steak company. They are probably trying to compete with Omaha Steaks which actually has a store in the mall. But as far as Iowa Steaks go you know they are a struggling business since they are just door to door sales. From what I heard the quality of their meat is terrible. As a matter of fact they are always hiring on Craigslist trying some scheme to say its a easy way to make money and are so desperate they would take anyone off the streets to sell nobody wants to work for a commisoned company that get no sales. I don't understand how people can work like that.
 
I used to own a business that involved me with the weights & measures folks, became a member of the National Conference on Weights & Measures, and got a lot of informal and formal training on scams.

One issue with this type of stuff has been pretty well thrashed here: Is the product what the label says it is and is it the quality that the label claims? Usually the answer is "No."

A second issue is short weight. It's frozen of course, but how much water was added to the package before it was frozen and weighed? This a a particularly popular scam with frozen shrimp. Each shrimp can be sprayed with water, the water frozen, then sprayed again, etc. for a nice heavy ice shell. Apparently (from NCWM) you can pretty well count on sales-truck shrimp to be seriously short weight.

I am conservative to almost the point of being a libertarian, but I found the weights & measures folks to be truly unsung heroes of consumer protection. If you are ever sold a product weighed on a scale that does not have an inspection sticker, contact your local W&M officials. They will thank you. (BTW the word "sold" includes things like airline baggage scales and shippers' package scales. The legal words are "used in commerce.")
 
They actually came by my neighborhood last weekend :-D. The pick is after they left my place to bother the neighbors. What sucked was I was just putting my SF away into the garage and it was still open so they could see me and they stopped. There were 2 guys and I think the first one that got out of the truck was "training".

He walked up in fairly nice clothes I asked "how can I help you" and his first line/words out of his mouth were.........."Do you love America?". But he asked it in such a non friendly manner I then asked what he wanted, then I saw the freezer in the back of the truck and knew what the deal was. Then the real "sales guy" went into the traditional talk fast so you can't get a word in pitch about last inventory and they even referenced "mrs jones around the corner who didn't get her order" even though there is no mrs jones :-D. I said I'm not interested and told them they weren't the first ones I've ever met. I told them I'm not into small steaks and if they have fresh full packer brisket and butts at a better price than Restaurant Depot I'd be interested. He kept going and after saying your barking up the wrong tree 3 times he got it :crazy:.

 
gtr said:
Reminds me of the guys who drive around, usually in a white mini van, saying they have EV Voice of the Theater speakers because an extra pallet got left at the dock and you can have 'em cheap.

I am usually skeptical of people selling things from places where they cannot be found later.
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I know this is a zombie thread but couldn't stop laughing at this. Last time i saw speaker van guy i haggled him down to %25 of his initial offer then broke it to him that i only had 20 bucks.

As to the meat guy my buddies fell for that one. It wasn't even that the meat was sub par (it was) it was just a bad value per pound for the cuts.
 
Had the garage open- working on a home built cooker- several in plain view. Guy comes tooling down the street in a pickup with a meat cooler on the back. He sees me- sees the cooker(s) and thinks he done hit the gold mine. Bails out and walks up on me with his receipt book out telling me about all the great meat he has for cheap. I politely told him I was Buddhist and did not eat meat. He pointed at my grills and smokers -"but...?"

"they are for veggies only- have a nice day" He left- I laughed. :-D
 
Easiest way to discourage them here is to tell them that you notice they are not wearing their Solicitors Permit (supposed to be worn in plain sight). Puts them on the defensive and they slowly walk away and never return. Seems they fear the knowledge of local laws...

They give you prices based on a box (or case as they call it... LOL) hoping you are bad at math and can't calculate the real price per pound.
 
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