Are delicatessans a ripoff?

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talloola said:
We do buy 'freshly' made sandwitches, (made while you wait, and request what you want in it), very
reasonable, and very full of healthy things, and yes, sometimes they have processed meat., if you want it.
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You are probably better off to go to Subway for custom made sandwiches.
 
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JLM said:
You are probably better off to go to Subway for custom made sandwiches.
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yeah, subway is OK, but I prefer the more traditional home made type, with a more traditional
bakery type bread, don't visit subway much at all, but it's OK, there is certainly much worse out there.
 
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talloola said:
yeah, subway is OK, but I prefer the more traditional home made type, with a more traditional
bakery type bread, don't visit subway much at all, but it's OK, there is certainly much worse out there.
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I think they are cheaper than most delis but the one downside to them is most of them don't carry good head cheese.
 
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Is head cheese one of those generational delicacies? I cannot recall any of my friends or family eating it at any time. Just the name gets my gag reflex going. Not to mention that head cheese is also a euphemism for shemgma build up, aka Cock Plaque.
 
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DurkaDurka said:
I guess, little to exotic for me.
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exotic? It's jellied meat. No more exotic than a hot dog. Mind you I've never eaten it because I can't even eat fruit flavoured jello, let alone meat flavoured... lol... but, I wouldn't call it exotic.
 
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karrie said:
exotic? It's jellied meat. No more exotic than a hot dog. Mind you I've never eaten it because I can't even eat fruit flavoured jello, let alone meat flavoured... lol... but, I wouldn't call it exotic.
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Let me rephrase that, "disgusting". :p
 
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DurkaDurka said:
Let me rephrase that, "disgusting". :p
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lol... disgusting is relative. How often do you eat jello, or chicken stock... both are made through the same processes.... boiling a carcass down. The meat you get in many sausages or hot dogs is no less 'scrap meat' than the muscles found in a head. I'd hazard to say that it's probably safer, healthier, and less 'disgusting' than to use instestines as sausage casing. lol.
 
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Iggy - give yourself a break. I guarantee you that if you buy a raw chicken (fryer) from the meat counter, it has never seen sunshine either. From as much as I can see when I look up growing chickens, it seems that most (as long as you want them really tender and most of do) chickens that are grown just for food only get to live about that long. So, you have probably been eating chickens that old for most of your life.
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I don't buy my meats at supermarkets for the reason the animals were never raised as animals. I'm surrounded by food factories and I don't like what I see and to be honest I just don't feel good after eating commercial foods. If todays' slaughter houses had glass walls there would be far more vegetarians

I'm sure I've mentioned this to you before and even offered natural raised beef for $2.35 an lb after butchering and wrapping. We buy a side of beef, a whole pork and 5 roasting chickens every fall and I fill the 2nd freezer with elk or moose, deer, fish, geese, ducks and if lucky a pheasant or a few grouse that thought they could get fat on my wheat and barely and live to tell about it. Second best aspect is we save around $5000 a year.

It's a lot of work to garden, butcher, pluck, smoke, cure, stuff sausage but I love every minute of it. It's pretty much an art form that is vanishing quickly.

How can you ever be happy and healthy if the food you eat lived in misery and squalor?
 
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petros said:
I don't buy my meats at supermarkets for the reason the animals were never raised as animals. I'm surrounded by food factories and I don't like what I see and to be honest I just don't feel good after eating commercial foods. If todays' slaughter houses had glass walls there would be far more vegetarians.
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Or else a lot better practises in slaughterhouses.

I'm sure I've mentioned this to you before and even offered natural raised beef for $2.35 an lb after butchering and wrapping. We buy a side of beef, a whole pork and 5 roasting chickens every fall and I fill the 2nd freezer with elk or moose, deer, fish, geese, ducks and if lucky a pheasant or a few grouse that thought they could get fat on my wheat and barely and live to tell about it. Second best aspect is we save around $5000 a year.

It's a lot of work to garden, butcher, pluck, smoke, cure, stuff sausage but I love every minute of it. It's pretty much an art form that is vanishing quickly.
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I doubt it'll vanish any time soon.

How can you ever be happy and healthy if the food you eat lived in misery and squalor?
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hehe You are what you eat? Plasti-wrapped, conveyor-belt lettuce in, ......
 
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petros said:
I don't buy my meats at supermarkets for the reason the animals were never raised as animals. I'm surrounded by food factories and I don't like what I see and to be honest I just don't feel good after eating commercial foods. If todays' slaughter houses had glass walls there would be far more vegetarians

I'm sure I've mentioned this to you before and even offered natural raised beef for $2.35 an lb after butchering and wrapping. We buy a side of beef, a whole pork and 5 roasting chickens every fall and I fill the 2nd freezer with elk or moose, deer, fish, geese, ducks and if lucky a pheasant or a few grouse that thought they could get fat on my wheat and barely and live to tell about it. Second best aspect is we save around $5000 a year.

It's a lot of work to garden, butcher, pluck, smoke, cure, stuff sausage but I love every minute of it. It's pretty much an art form that is vanishing quickly.

How can you ever be happy and healthy if the food you eat lived in misery and squalor?
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My husband would love to live and get his food as you do, he is an avid hunter and fisherman, but he
married a city girl, who's parents didn't have a clue about 'getting' any food themselves, other than
the local butcher/grocer across the street. I consequently grew up the same, so life goes on.

I hate duck, deer (except for liver), only moose ground meat, very few types of fish, and only if they
are cooked absolutely fresh, same day as caught, (will not eat any fish after freezing, definitely changes
the flavour, makes me gag), i've cooked a few pheasants early on when my husband shot them close to home,
and I've never been familiar with butchering, skinning, etc., wild game, although my husband does do the
skinning, (he and my daughter shot a deer last year, skinned it, and had it butchered and wrapped), I
tasted the liver only, delicious, but nothing else. I've never plucked anything but my eyebrows, I quit
smoking when I was 25, and I don't need to be cured from anything that I can think of.

I admire the way you live, but I don't want to.

At our local 'quality foods', they have fresh meat that has no additives etc., but I do buy supermarket
chicken, and other than the fowl does not live a happy life, what are the other problems I might have from
eating them, and I mean 'real' problems, not overkill opinions.
 
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karrie said:
lol... disgusting is relative. How often do you eat jello, or chicken stock... both are made through the same processes.... boiling a carcass down. The meat you get in many sausages or hot dogs is no less 'scrap meat' than the muscles found in a head. I'd hazard to say that it's probably safer, healthier, and less 'disgusting' than to use instestines as sausage casing. lol.
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It's the presentation of it, Karrie. :p I don't like anything Jellied for that matter.
 
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Karrie gets the lumenating response prize for her comparison of sausage and flesh jello. :D
 
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