[Parallax]

Sure looked like geoducks to me, but then we don't see a lot of either in the middle of the prairie.

[stevebrot]

Why there isn't a single piece of locally grown organic grass-fed beef available in local stores?

Because you don't live in my town. I guess those of us in the Portland, Oregon area are lucky in that we are within a few hundred miles of some major cattle ranching and that there is an established market for quality foods. There is a grocer down the hill from me that has beautiful beef from Painted Hills Ranch in Eastern Oregon at competitive prices ($4.99 for sirloin on special this week). If I have my doubts, for the price of an afternoon's drive I can see the grass and the cattle at the same time!*

Painted Hills Natural & Grass-fed Beef, Beef Born, Raised & Harvested in the USA

Steve

* Love the Painted Hills!

[jac]

Sure looked like geoducks to me, but then we don't see a lot of either in the middle of the prairie.

But then, in the prairie, there's always prairie oysters.

[stevebrot]

Oh bugger.... if I had seen this thread in time I would have never bought the K-3.

At least you have ignorance as an excuse


Steve

[VoiceOfReason]

I had bacon and a banana for breakfast, along with coffee. I'm out of eggs.

[stevebrot]

'cept those are razor clams... These are yer geoducks - and get your mind out of the gutter (it's too crowded down here)!

Yes...razor clams are polite. Geoducks, on the other hand, are a tool of the hociR!


Steve

[monochrome]

Why there isn't a single piece of locally grown organic grass-fed beef available in local stores?

Safeway's buyers probably aren't local to where you are. They accept pre-cut, boxed, slushed beef at their regional warehouse where the buyer sits - then they deliver it to their stores. They also probably don't have a full-cut butcher shop behind the counter - just a further-dress operation where they finish and wrap the bulk-processed cuts they receive from the warehouse.

Fun fact. If McDonalds didn't import beef they alone would consume over 20% of the US beef production.

[tim60]

But then, in the prairie, there's always prairie oysters.

Are they like some oysters I ate once a little further west.

The only proper way to grow beef is to send it for a walk in the grass and then round it up a year or two later when it is time to put it in the big truck. I looks after itself a fair bit. Fancy keeping them in a shed and letting them get fat and flabby and full of those bad fatty things. I like my beef fairly lean so I can enjoy the beef and reassure myself I am eating a health food, good for iron and protein and general tonic.

[monochrome]

Reported:

• asahi man supposedly posted elsewhere a certain big deal camera is now 'in production'
• a post was recently made to a thread on the FF Forum that The Princesses are 'Discontinued' at Digital Rev
• K-3 prices at major Dealers have declined 15% in two weeks

I just received 2 cases of Youth Group Cheesy-Bacon flavored Microwave Popcorn

[Parallax]

WTH does that have to with cheese, bacon, pickled herring and geoducks?

[Joel B]

tasted like they were horse meat.

And the mysterious disappearance of Mr. Ed is finally solved! Kinda like Fried Green Tomatoes where they cooked the dude!

[monochrome]

WTH does that have to with cheese, bacon, pickled herring and geoducks?

1. Be strong. Don't fall for deal pricing on hociR
2. Cheesy-Bacon popcorn. They don't make pickled herring popcorn or I would have.

Whatever. I didn't say that word.

[jac]

Are they like some oysters I ate once a little further west.

Yup. Rocky Mountain oysters. And that's no bull. Hmmmm ...... I guess it actually is

[Parallax]

I just realized that we're coming up on the first anniversary of this thread. We should have a party; or at least a cake.

[karro]

[the cake is a lie!..]