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1 hour ago, Royalfan5 said:

I'd also like to note that boxed beef was sharply lower again this morning with packers puking cuts, with live cattle futures 350 to 400 lower and feeder off 700 to 800 

What does that mean in lay terms?  I get the gist of the post, but am unfamiliar with "puking cuts".  That mean they are producing a lot of them..streaming from the slaughterhouse like puke?

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7 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

What does that mean in lay terms?  I get the gist of the post, but am unfamiliar with "puking cuts".  That mean they are producing a lot of them..streaming from the slaughterhouse like puke?

Now my mouth is watering for some beef.

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17 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

When do we get to Soylent Green?

At this rate about 4 years. Gotta build the Soylent infrastructure which ironically will be wind powered..

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Posted
4 hours ago, Blotto said:

Just drove from Yellowstone to Glacier yesterday. Seemed like we passed about 1M cattle just on that drive alone. We were thinking "damn this country must eat a lot of beef", so we looked it up online, and we're surprised to learn that per capital beef consumption in the US peaked in the 70's, and is currently about half of what it used to be. 

 

Jealous of you being in Glacier right now 

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Why not skip the middleman and advise all Americans to start raising their own cows? 

You know who the only people are that think owning cows is a good idea? The people that don’t own any cows.
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Posted
2 minutes ago, Herbie Hancock said:


You know who the only people are that think owning cows is a good idea? The people that don’t own any cows.

What's the old saying - how do you get a million ranching?  Start with five,,,,,

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Posted
2 minutes ago, Herbie Hancock said:


You know who the only people are that think owning cows is a good idea? The people that don’t own any cows.

I remember commenting on the Cattle Ranching thread in Hobbies that I found it awful funny that subject was in "hobbies". That is certainly one frustrating, money losing "hobby".

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Posted
2 hours ago, scramblyn said:

multi-year even multi-decade droughts in Texas and the western US from Colorado to New Mexico to Montana and Utah, etc., etc. have not helped.

As one who is on the last chapter of The Time it Never Rained, this hits close to home 

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33 minutes ago, Herbie Hancock said:


You know who the only people are that think owning cows is a good idea? The people that don’t own any cows.

Cows are like boats.  The only thing better than owning one is having a friend that owns one.

Go make friends with families who have kids who raise animals for show.  Preferably the mediocre ones.  For the last decade, we've bought a side of beef every March from our friends' kids.  I spent $1,800 this year for 250 lb of beef, all vacuum sealed in individual packets.  I'm guessing half of that was ground, the rest steaks, roasts and misc cuts.  It's good but not great.  I'll still treat myself to a prime cut a few times a year, but the rest is just fine for a random meal.  I have three more years before their youngest is out of HS.  Need to start recruiting for the next round!

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Posted
2 hours ago, BabaYaga said:

Did you get a chance to visit Sobrino de Botín in Madrid, Spain?  I desperately want to eat there one day.  Oldest restaurant in the world.  Roasted suckling pig to be exact.  

It's glorious. 

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1 minute ago, Spaulding Smails said:

Cows are like boats.  The only thing better than owning one is having a friend that owns one.

Go make friends with families who have kids who raise animals for show.  Preferably the mediocre ones.  For the last decade, we've bought a side of beef every March from our friends' kids.  I spent $1,800 this year for 250 lb of beef, all vacuum sealed in individual packets.  I'm guessing half of that was ground, the rest steaks, roasts and misc cuts.  It's good but not great.  I'll still treat myself to a prime cut a few times a year, but the rest is just fine for a random meal.  I have three more years before their youngest is out of HS.  Need to start recruiting for the next round!

I don't know about show cows, but my business partner raises show pigs.  They pump those fuckers full of all kinds of nasty shit.  I wouldn't want to eat one.

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Just now, BabaYaga said:

Horses are worse than both.  Fragile, moody shits

They are tasty, though.  Had some horse in Iceland.  I'd eat more of those mean fuckers if it were legal here.

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37 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

They are tasty, though.  Had some horse in Iceland.  I'd eat more of those mean fuckers if it were legal here.

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45 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

They are tasty, though.  Had some horse in Iceland.  I'd eat more of those mean fuckers if it were legal here.

Tried some horse sashimi in Tokyo on my last visit. I thought it was pretty tasty. Would def add it to my dining repertoire if they offered it here. 

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56 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

I don't know about show cows, but my business partner raises show pigs.  They pump those fuckers full of all kinds of nasty shit.  I wouldn't want to eat one.

wilbur might be one charming motherfucking pig, but I still ain't gonna eat him.

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Cows are like boats.  The only thing better than owning one is having a friend that owns one.
Go make friends with families who have kids who raise animals for show.  Preferably the mediocre ones.  For the last decade, we've bought a side of beef every March from our friends' kids.  I spent $1,800 this year for 250 lb of beef, all vacuum sealed in individual packets.  I'm guessing half of that was ground, the rest steaks, roasts and misc cuts.  It's good but not great.  I'll still treat myself to a prime cut a few times a year, but the rest is just fine for a random meal.  I have three more years before their youngest is out of HS.  Need to start recruiting for the next round!

You’re giving a pep talk to the wrong person.



My current view

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Posted
3 hours ago, NorthLoop said:

Every now and then I get tired of eating what we have in the house and I'll go spelunking in the deep freezer. There's always a treasure down there. 

"Holy shit a case of taquitos!!" 

That was me last week. “OMG! I just found two frozen quarts of Eggbeaters!!

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“Eggs are back on the menu boys!” 

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5 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

That was me last week. “OMG! I just found two frozen quarts of Eggbeaters!!

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“Eggs are back on the menu boys!” 

The other day I found a couple pouches of frozen breast milk. My son is 6. 

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Posted
1 hour ago, Spaulding Smails said:

  I have three more years before their youngest is out of HS.  Need to start recruiting for the next round!

creeping too young GIF

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Posted
1 hour ago, Chewbacca said:

They are tasty, though.  Had some horse in Iceland.  I'd eat more of those mean fuckers if it were legal here.

 

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Posted
1 minute ago, Texaus said:

I hear soy farmers have a problem. Could the soy bean burger save us?

Soy burgers? 

Soy.... lent Green burgers? 

In 4 years your maga neighbor will be eating you for dinner. 

Posted
8 minutes ago, Texaus said:

I hear soy farmers have a problem. Could the soy bean burger save us?

I mean, that totally fits.  We're going to go from mocking "soy boys" to celebrating all of us becoming soy boys being our patriotic duty.  Sure, why not.

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2 hours ago, Incredulity said:

What does that mean in lay terms?  I get the gist of the post, but am unfamiliar with "puking cuts".  That mean they are producing a lot of them..streaming from the slaughterhouse like puke?

Means they are taking any offer to get any cut of beef moved cause slow demand is backing things up even with tight supply.

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Posted
15 minutes ago, Texaus said:

I hear soy farmers have a problem. Could the soy bean burger save us?

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Not long ago we ate lunch at a hippie health food store. This was rehydrated soybeans disguised as chicken. It was…really good. And I say that as a high plains cattle rancher. 

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1 minute ago, Kennythetiger said:

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Not long ago we ate lunch at a hippie health food store. This was rehydrated soybeans disguised as chicken. It was…really good. And I say that as a high plains cattle rancher. 

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1 hour ago, Chewbacca said:

I'd eat more of those mean fuckers if it were legal here.

Entertained that thought more than once after getting bucked off, bit, kicked, and/or stepped on....

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You know, the one basis that I can get on board with the whole "hating immigrants" thing is what it did to the price of goat meat.  It was one of the good options at Coopers BBQ, then several years ago, they pulled it from the menu.  And I noticed in the markets that carried it, the price had gone way up.  I inquired as to why, and the answer was plain: massively increased demand, from mexicans and muslim recent arrivals/transplants.  I mean, I love and respect all their foodways, and think they enrich us by their presence.  But goddammit, they ate up all the goat and made it 'spensive.

Goat is too much.

Beef is too much.

Fellas, we're runnin' outta meats.

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