Callisto in NC
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Only in your vocabulary. Cheap means crap. Inexpensive means great deals. They are not relative terms in anyone's mind that I know.Cheap and inexpensive are relative terms Callisto.
Only in your vocabulary. Cheap means crap. Inexpensive means great deals. They are not relative terms in anyone's mind that I know.Cheap and inexpensive are relative terms Callisto.
Our moonshine is cheaper!
Cheap and inexpensive are relative terms Callisto. When butchers got primal halves of beef - they had a set number of things they could cut from it ... some things like brisket, skirt/flank/hanger steaks, ribs, shanks, tails did not sell as well as the T-Bone, Porterhouse, Strip, etc. steaks and roasts. Therefore, in order to sell them, they were sold at a much lower price per pound than the more desirable cuts. These were what you will sometimes see referred to as "butcher" cuts - if he couldn't sell them he simply took them home to eat himself.
Now that butchers are getting as hard to find as hen's teeth - grocery stores are buying the cuts from distribution centers or suppliers that sell the most - what were once the cheap cuts still are, but they are probably being shipped somewhere else ... and if you want them they are a "limited availability" item - so the price goes up.
Prices vary by country, by region, by state, by season - they also vary from store chain to chain, store to store, location to location even within the same city! I can find brisket ranging fron $1.29 - $3.99 /lb every day - depending on which store I go to. On sale - it can range from $0.59 - $1.89 ... again depending on the store and the part of town where I shop.
I'm sorry that all meat prices in general seem to be higher for you in NC than they were in CA. But, I bet you get better prices on pork.
I don't eat pork ... but regardless, it's ALLLLLLLLLLLLLL meat that I eat, chicken, turkey, beef, that is considerably more expensive than it was in Cali. ...
The MD, VA, NC, SC area is know for it's pork - the "other" white meat.
That was one of the first things I noticed when I moved from southern California to South Carolina--the high prices for both meat and produce....Dollar for dollar California meat prices were by far less than this state. It's amazing to me that NC meat is so much more expensive than CA...
yeah, buddy! And we don't use no stinkin' brisket to make barbecue, neither! (you know I'm jes' messin' w/you, Michael)
So where should I shop if I stay out of the only grocery in all of town? That's a totally inappropriate thing to say and totally off topic telling me where to shop.Or maybe she should stay out of Harris Teeters!!!
Thanks Barbara ~ the other comments are so out there from what I said they don't even make sense. I really appreciate the support.That was one of the first things I noticed when I moved from southern California to South Carolina--the high prices for both meat and produce.
If the briskets at your store are that huge, maybe you could go in on one with a few friends. They will cut it into pieces for you at the store.
Barbara
The What? MD? I'm looking at a map of North Carolina and can't for the life of me figure out what MD is other than toilet paper.The MD
The What? MD? I'm looking at a map of North Carolina and can't for the life of me figure out what MD is other than toilet paper.
MD is a brand of toilet paper (tp).FWIW: The standard 2-letter abbreviation for Toilet Paper is TP, not MD.
I know it's something only people who live here can understand, but TOWN and Mooresville are totally different. There's our side of TOWN, and then there's the other side of Mooresville that has EVERYTHING. You'd have to have been at the last city council meeting to understand. And we only WISH we still had 60 NASCAR teams, we don't have even close to that now a days.But, that is not true, is it Callisto? What about (just to name a few):
ALDI at 132 E Plaza Dr
Food Lion has 5-6 locations
Lowes Food at 631 Brawley School Rd
Wal-Mart Super Center at 169 Norman Station Blvd
Then you have butcher shops - Mooresville Meat Center at 2110 Charlotte Hwy, and Mclaughlin's Farm House Country at 15725 Mooresville Rd - and I didn't even mention the three that have pork in their names.
Sorry - there is just no way 60 NASCAR teams are going to have their headquarters in a town with only one grocery store!
I don't think anyone was trying to tell you where to shop - just suggesting that you might want to check out some other available options.
I don't know. I'm still looking for oneLook how this topic has degenerated. What happened to the lowly brisket?