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Ishbel said:I had a look in my butcher's window this morning... Aberdeen Angus fillet steak is on 'sale' (!) for 21 GB pounds per kilo.
That's $18/# which is pretty much what anything decent retail is over here. At least in the UK you're buying 100% tenderloin and they at least have the decency to sell the tail separately for a lot less than the good stuff. I hate the way they sell it retail here. I don't think the retail meat cutters have ever seen a whole tenderloin, they just get the end bits that don't go to restaurants and then proceed to just make steaks out of them so you get the chain and everything in your 'filet mignon'.
What really angers me is they ramped the price up here about 3 years ago because of some mad Canadian cow or something and as always, it just stayed where it was when it all cleared and kept going up.
Many fond memories of the days when the UK govt banned the sale of bone in beef and my butcher slipped me bone in prime rib at the back door when it got dark for our Sunday dinner at home.