Greg1959

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I was at Sam's Club today and checked out the meat counter. They had packages of ribeye steaks that was $11+ per pound and the steaks were ~3.5 pounds each. They were 3 to 4 inches thick w/bone in and the price was in the mid $30 range for each steak. WOW!

They labeled it as the Cowboy Ribeye.

Could anyone here eat a 3 1/2 pound hunk of meat?
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Yummmmmyy! Here at work I sometimes get hooked up with a chunk of prime rib. Cooked just enough so it stopped mooing and then just a couple of seconds more. Soooo good.
 
I could try but wouldn't get too far ! Be fun trying though ! That's a lot ! We grow all our own and have it butchered, so I am not too familiar with store prices. Is that a good price ?
 
No. That's a terrible price. Just stocked up at 6.59/lb. Took two loins cut at 3/4 inch thick. Still spendy.
 
we have a restaurant here in LI that offers a 76oz steak--and if you can eat it in one hour you don't have to pay the $65 cost
many people have done it
 
We just cut up/processed 2 deer, we don't buy much red meat. We like pork chops, <$2.00 a pound! Why is that beef so high, just because it's a special cut? I don't think the farmers are making much on beef nowadays, are they?
 
We have 2 Angus steers 1200 pounds perfect to put in the freezer. Grain fed nice animals. Local buyer offered a little over a dollar per pound live. I understand that many hands get it between the producer and store, but that seems pretty costly for what the grower/producer make when they sell animals. I know there are other avenues to sell animals I am just saying what I have seen rencently.
 
Agree. There's that old saying about "[i:abff7cb291]Livin' high on the hog[/i:abff7cb291]". Back before beef was king, pork ruled.

Wife and I just got a couple of beef pot roasts. Bought one for a little over $3/lb, but paid $5.39 for another from Kansas claiming it was "GUARANTEED TENDER"!! Well, they were both very tender. Don't believe the more expensive cut was worth the extra money. ....Then again, a slow cooker can do wonders for boot leather! *lol*
 
I was in Manhattan NY in August, second trip there, so I knew things where spendy. Wife and I walked into a nice restaurant got seated and given menus. They had a 16 ounce Kobi beef sirloin for 205.00 dollars, the menu was ala carte, so that was just for the steak. Shrimp were 8.00 apiece. I had a 59.00 dollar 12 ounce fillet and two shrimp, Wife had swordfish. I will say it was a VERY GOOD STEAK, and the Wife loved her swordfish. Bill came to 180.00 dollars. I could eat for a couple of weeks for that much money.
 
Not sure if I could eat it all but sure would try! There's a restaurant in downtown Indy call Fogo de Chao that serves like 20 different cuts of meat. They bring it all around and cut you pieces of meat off. It's all you can eat and I have left there many times with a bad case of the meat sweats!
 
Restaurant up in DC called Doe's used to serve 3 to 5 lb steaks,never ate the whole steak but made a pretty good dent in it.About 20 years ago meals ran about $100 a head there.
 
I have a good friend that works in a packing plant. He gets a rib eye about a foot & a half long for around $50.00 depending on the beef price. I never did weigh one but it is a heavy chunk.
 
Never had much luck with Wally World meat.
Must be that cheap Chinese beef or something.
Usually lacks flavor + has lots of gristle (spelling?), tough as nails.
I like buying a 1/2 cow from some local farmer or buying from Super 1 (local grocery store)...little higher, but you can't beat the quality.
 
One word....GAG!
Never could stomach "prime rib". If I want to taste blood, I can have someone smack me in the mouth!
ANY meat HAS to be WELL DONE, at the LEAST! A little burnt around the edges, even!
Oh well, to each his own....
 
Dach- you are right anything less is asking for the new bacteria's that kill you in a quick and terrible way. Corn/milk fed none of that tough stringy grass fed crap.
 
Sam's decided to build a new store, seven miles further away from me, and close the old one. I let my membership lapse this year.
 
get a lot of my meat at the Sam,s in Sioux Falls darn sit better then local chain store.Sam,s Bys a lot from IBP that make it grow and feed in 3 or 4 states in this area
 
Wife and I went to Sams club once shortly after it opened. Never again. Every thing we checked out was cheaper anyplace else and no membership fees. Don't know how anybody can pay the overpriced figures they were asking at that time. Same way with Kroger and Ruller Foods. Ruller is suposed to be a cheaper version of Krogers but what we found is the generac versions that we normally would not buy due to quality that we found was just not there were priced higher than the name brands at the Kroger named stores. That is also a rip off. Are putting in the Ruller stores in areas that they think are underserved areas and the poor people in those areas have no option except to pay their inflated prices.
 
My mom was into sams and saw these and wanted to buy two my dad said no way at that price, that was a week ago then this comes up and she sees it, LOL here we go again.
 
yep. you can usually do better anywhere other than Sam's. a few things are cheaper at sams but not enough for us to bother with. got to know your prices no matter where you go.

Our local store (small town, next closest is 12 miles). usually isn't too bad especially if you watch the sale prices. then figure on at least a gallon of gas plus 45 mins of round trip driving its often not worth it.
 

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