Re:Brisket / short loin bag size, anybody using it?

[Scott Mark]

agedtoperfection wrote:

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What do you mean the taste is bitter? You’re right, 5 cents off is nothing for a untrimmed whole piece of meat. You don’t have a chain supermarket in your area? They should deal in bone in.

The cost is bitter. In the whole “economics of scale” we learn that per-item profit goes down as the volume goes up. But I buy a whole subprimal and they end up making a much larger profit than if they’d trimmed, paid someone to section, and wrap, and weigh and label, and answer questions about, etc, etc, etc.

So, all told, I paid more for that sirloin subprimal in bag than I would have paid if I’d let them unpackage it, drain it, rinse it, trim it out, package it, and so on.

I don’t mean to get all activist, but I’m a little bitter about being used like that.