Meat, Have you noticed? I have
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Meat, Have you noticed? I have
That pork with fat on is far more expensive than lean meat, I find it quite astonishing, fat seems more expensive than lean meat and they actually cut it off large joints.
Look at the price of fatty belly pork then look at some nice lean chops, is there a reason.
Also I saw some Lard, it was called something fancy like Prime Andalucian something or other, nearly €2 a pack.
I buy prime beef and make my own lean mince beef, it's no more expensive, most odd.
Oh and don't you just want to die for some of those chickens feet?
Look at the price of fatty belly pork then look at some nice lean chops, is there a reason.
Also I saw some Lard, it was called something fancy like Prime Andalucian something or other, nearly €2 a pack.
I buy prime beef and make my own lean mince beef, it's no more expensive, most odd.
Oh and don't you just want to die for some of those chickens feet?
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Re: Meat, Have you noticed? I have
That pork with fat on is far more expensive than lean meat, I find it quite astonishing, fat seems more expensive than lean meat and they actually cut it off large joints.
Look at the price of fatty belly pork then look at some nice lean chops, is there a reason.
Also I saw some Lard, it was called something fancy like Prime Andalucian something or other, nearly €2 a pack.
I buy prime beef and make my own lean mince beef, it's no more expensive, most odd.
Oh and don't you just want to die for some of those chickens feet?
Look at the price of fatty belly pork then look at some nice lean chops, is there a reason.
Also I saw some Lard, it was called something fancy like Prime Andalucian something or other, nearly €2 a pack.
I buy prime beef and make my own lean mince beef, it's no more expensive, most odd.
Oh and don't you just want to die for some of those chickens feet?
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Re: Meat, Have you noticed? I have
Can't say I'd noticed, but I'm very glad it's not the other way round! I absolutely hate fat on meat, or bones, my mother used to try to make me eat fat and I was always sick so eventually she gave up. I don't eat chops, spare ribs, belly pork (ugh! or any of the even worse things you see in the butchers' shops like pigs' ears and trotters, chicken feet and great lumps of what looks like solid lard. Those who like it are welcome to it, but why they'd be prepared to pay more, I've no idea.
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Re: Meat, Have you noticed? I have
Fat makes me feel awfully sick. However, a good piece of belly pork nicely marinated and crisped up on a BBQ can be tasty. Depends how it's cooked.
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Re: Meat, Have you noticed? I have
That is the problem with meat now, not enough fat. It is the fat which makes the meat juicy. A rib eye steak is lovely. You don´t have to eat the fat but you need it to make the meat cook better.
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Re: Meat, Have you noticed? I have
Can't say I have noticed, I will look tomorrow when I go shopping. I like some fat on my meat, I love a lot of the pork cuts here especially my secreto got some for dinner tonight with roast veggies and fat chips or maybe garlic roasties.
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now !!!! roast veg peppers green and red, onion, garlic and fennel with fat chips and secreto YUMMMMMYYYYY
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Re: Meat, Have you noticed? I have
Just in from Mercadona, from the cool section ready packed I bought some nice lean beef diced €4 45 for the kilo, The mince beef 1 kilo € 4 85 and it's probably just colourd fat minced up, No contest if you are watching your fat intake.
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I remember a couple of old lags (one of them a retired doctor) a few years back talking about bread and dripping (pork fat). As they explained, go back enough years, and people didn't have that much to eat. Bread and dripping was not harmful, because people didn't get enough calories otherwise.
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Lean beef was 40c cheaper than minced up crap, why didn't you buy 2 kilos of lean beef and mince half of it !
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In Spain some fatty cuts are more popular than lean cuts so the price is higher.
It's just down to supply and demand. If everyone liked lamb's kidneys they would be €5 each. People generally don't so they are relatively cheap - the poor little lamb only has two of them!
As for mince - from my experience Spanish mince is not exceptionally fatty - it is just minced lean beef. It costs a tad more for the labour involved in mincing it. Even Lidl's cheap mince is less than 10% fat - about the same as lean stewing steak.
Spanish Lamb chops are skinny little things, all fat and bone at €15/kg. Real English cut chump or loin chops, an inch thick or more are the same price in Iceland or Gib. The Spanish don't do thick chops so the price of the thin ones is relatively high because that's where the demand is.
If you want to buy fatty mince then the UK is the place. You can buy mince at a ludicrously low price. It's the same with cheap pork sausages - some are so cheap I hate to think what rubbish goes into them!
Just look at some of the cheap products in Iceland - someone buys it!
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Re: Meat, Have you noticed? I have
What is ribeye steak called in Spain, I don't recall seeing it, and its so tasty normally