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"Therion Ware" |
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05 Nov 2007 12:37:51 PM |
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OT: The Price of Pork Chops?! |
For various reasons I was watching The Andromeda Strain movie today.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066769/
It was released in 1971. And still quite good.
I'll Be watching "Colossus: The Forbin Project," later.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/
Anyway, in Andromeda, when the guys in BioSuits enter the dead town,
there's a sign that gives the price of pork chops per pound.
What's the price today?
Two of the three "people of the book" exempt from this question!
Thanks
TW.
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| User: "Paul" |
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| Title: Re: The Price of Pork Chops?! |
05 Nov 2007 02:13:38 PM |
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"Therion Ware" <autodelete@city-of-dis.com> wrote in message
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For various reasons I was watching The Andromeda Strain movie today.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066769/
It was released in 1971. And still quite good.
I'll Be watching "Colossus: The Forbin Project," later.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/
Anyway, in Andromeda, when the guys in BioSuits enter the dead town,
there's a sign that gives the price of pork chops per pound.
What's the price today?
Two of the three "people of the book" exempt from this question!
Thanks
TW.
http://www.historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=418
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| User: "MarkA" |
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| Title: Re: OT: The Price of Pork Chops?! |
07 Nov 2007 09:17:14 PM |
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On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:37:51 +0000, Therion Ware wrote:
For various reasons I was watching The Andromeda Strain movie today.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066769/
It was released in 1971. And still quite good.
I'll Be watching "Colossus: The Forbin Project," later.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/
Anyway, in Andromeda, when the guys in BioSuits enter the dead town,
there's a sign that gives the price of pork chops per pound.
What's the price today?
Two of the three "people of the book" exempt from this question!
Thanks
TW.
Ah, but they didn't have "George Forman Grills" to cook them on!
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MarkA
(This space accidentally filled in)
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| User: "Therion Ware" |
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| Title: Re: OT: The Price of Pork Chops?! |
07 Nov 2007 11:56:05 PM |
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On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:17:14 -0500, MarkA <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:37:51 +0000, Therion Ware wrote:
For various reasons I was watching The Andromeda Strain movie today.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066769/
It was released in 1971. And still quite good.
I'll Be watching "Colossus: The Forbin Project," later.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/
Anyway, in Andromeda, when the guys in BioSuits enter the dead town,
there's a sign that gives the price of pork chops per pound.
What's the price today?
Two of the three "people of the book" exempt from this question!
Thanks
TW.
Ah, but they didn't have "George Forman Grills" to cook them on!
Very true. I rather like those ones with the removable cooking plates.
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| User: "Geoff" |
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| Title: Re: The Price of Pork Chops?! |
05 Nov 2007 01:53:29 PM |
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Therion Ware wrote:
For various reasons I was watching The Andromeda Strain movie today.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066769/
It was released in 1971. And still quite good.
I'll Be watching "Colossus: The Forbin Project," later.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/
Anyway, in Andromeda, when the guys in BioSuits enter the dead town,
there's a sign that gives the price of pork chops per pound.
What's the price today?
Two of the three "people of the book" exempt from this question!
~$3-4/lb.
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| User: "JTEM" |
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05 Nov 2007 02:38:44 PM |
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"Geoff" <geb...@yahoo.nospam.com> wrote:
~$3-4/lb.
Huh? That had better be for the best center cut
pork chops you can find... Sheesh!
I'm not sure of the going price myself, as I'd never
buy anything unless it was on sale. Oh. I'd pay
about $2 a pound normally, for a sale price. That
would be either "mixed" or "center cut" is I'm
lucky and there's a good sale.
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| User: "Ghod" |
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05 Nov 2007 03:34:30 PM |
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"JTEM" <jtem01@gmail.com> wrote in message
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: "Geoff" <geb...@yahoo.nospam.com> wrote:
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: > ~$3-4/lb.
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: Huh? That had better be for the best center cut
: pork chops you can find... Sheesh!
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: I'm not sure of the going price myself, as I'd never
: buy anything unless it was on sale. Oh. I'd pay
: about $2 a pound normally, for a sale price. That
: would be either "mixed" or "center cut" is I'm
: lucky and there's a good sale.
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Here's what I've been paying (UI Meat Salesroom)-
PORK CHOPS LBS/PKG $/LB
Thin-cut Butterfly Chops 5 4.29
Butterfly Chops 10 3.99
Center Loin Chops 5 or 10 2.99
America's Cut Loin Chops 1 4.19
Cutlets 5 1.99
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| User: "Geoff" |
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05 Nov 2007 06:48:12 PM |
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JTEM wrote:
"Geoff" <geb...@yahoo.nospam.com> wrote:
~$3-4/lb.
Huh? That had better be for the best center cut
pork chops you can find... Sheesh!
I'm not sure of the going price myself, as I'd never
buy anything unless it was on sale. Oh. I'd pay
about $2 a pound normally, for a sale price. That
would be either "mixed" or "center cut" is I'm
lucky and there's a good sale.
Actually, I don't eat meat...not enough to know the prices anyway. I was
guessing.
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| User: "JTEM" |
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06 Nov 2007 07:20:26 AM |
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"Geoff" <geb...@yahoo.nospam.com> wrote:
Actually, I don't eat meat...not enough to know
the prices anyway. I was guessing.
I do eat meat, or at least I like to think so, but one
meat in particular -- beef -- is off my shopping list.
What I don't understand is how this country could
have more land committed to cattle than most
European countries have land, period, yet beef prices
are so frigging high! Where the hell is it all going?
Okay, yeah, so pork has been fairly low -- or at
least regularly on sale -- and lately there's been
some real bargains on chicken, but who doesn't
want a nice cut of beef now & then? I mean,
besides vegans?
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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06 Nov 2007 12:46:54 PM |
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On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:20:26 -0800, JTEM <jtem01@gmail.com> wrote:
"Geoff" <geb...@yahoo.nospam.com> wrote:
Actually, I don't eat meat...not enough to know
the prices anyway. I was guessing.
I do eat meat, or at least I like to think so, but one
meat in particular -- beef -- is off my shopping list.
What I don't understand is how this country could
have more land committed to cattle than most
European countries have land, period, yet beef prices
are so frigging high! Where the hell is it all going?
The cows keep demanding more money to commit suicide. Seriously? A
large part of the expense of producing beef is petroleum.
Okay, yeah, so pork has been fairly low -- or at
least regularly on sale -- and lately there's been
some real bargains on chicken, but who doesn't
want a nice cut of beef now & then? I mean,
besides vegans?
People on low cholesterol diets?
--
Al at Webdingers dot com
"Theology: An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing."
- H. L. Mencken
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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| Title: Re: The Price of Pork Chops?! |
07 Nov 2007 09:39:20 AM |
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"Al Klein" <rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote in message
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On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:20:26 -0800, JTEM <jtem01@gmail.com> wrote:
"Geoff" <geb...@yahoo.nospam.com> wrote:
Actually, I don't eat meat...not enough to know
the prices anyway. I was guessing.
I do eat meat, or at least I like to think so, but one
meat in particular -- beef -- is off my shopping list.
What I don't understand is how this country could
have more land committed to cattle than most
European countries have land, period, yet beef prices
are so frigging high! Where the hell is it all going?
The cows keep demanding more money to commit suicide. Seriously? A
large part of the expense of producing beef is petroleum.
Okay, yeah, so pork has been fairly low -- or at
least regularly on sale -- and lately there's been
some real bargains on chicken, but who doesn't
want a nice cut of beef now & then? I mean,
besides vegans?
People on low cholesterol diets?
And vegetarians.
--
Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
BAAWA Knight!
#1557
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| User: "skyeyes" |
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06 Nov 2007 02:49:42 PM |
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On Nov 6, 11:46 am, Al Klein <ruk...@pern.invalid> wrote:
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:20:26 -0800, JTEM <jte...@gmail.com> wrote:
"Geoff" <geb...@yahoo.nospam.com> wrote:
Actually, I don't eat meat...not enough to know
the prices anyway. I was guessing.
I do eat meat, or at least I like to think so, but one
meat in particular -- beef -- is off my shopping list.
What I don't understand is how this country could
have more land committed to cattle than most
European countries have land, period, yet beef prices
are so frigging high! Where the hell is it all going?
The cows keep demanding more money to commit suicide. Seriously? A
large part of the expense of producing beef is petroleum.
I've heard that so much corn is being sold to biofuel companies to be
turned into ethanol that the price for cattle feed has gone up
considerably. That translates into higher per-pound costs for beef.
I don't have a link to support this contention, however, so take it
with a grain o'salt.
Okay, yeah, so pork has been fairly low -- or at
least regularly on sale -- and lately there's been
some real bargains on chicken, but who doesn't
want a nice cut of beef now & then? I mean,
besides vegans?
People on low cholesterol diets?
Mosey on down to your local Whole Foods/Sunflower Market/Wild Oats and
pick up some buffalo (bison) meat. It has less fat and cholesterol
than a chicken breast, and tastes beefier than beef. Makes *the*
bestest chili in the whole wide world....
[Okay, okay, I *promise* not to do the "Babette's Feast" thing again.
Really.]
Brenda Nelson, A.A.#34
EAC Professor of Feline Thermometrics and Cat-Herding
skyeyes at dakotacom dot net
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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06 Nov 2007 05:18:39 PM |
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On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:49:42 -0800, skyeyes <skyeyes@dakotacom.net>
wrote:
Mosey on down to your local Whole Foods/Sunflower Market/Wild Oats and
pick up some buffalo (bison) meat.
I have. I'd rather eat cardboard - at least it's not DIStasteful.
(Bison tastes - to me - like spoiled beef. And, yes, I've tasted
spoiled beef.)
--
Al at Webdingers dot com
"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds
are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her
tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the
existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of
the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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07 Nov 2007 09:40:18 AM |
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"Al Klein" <rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote in message
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On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:49:42 -0800, skyeyes <skyeyes@dakotacom.net>
wrote:
Mosey on down to your local Whole Foods/Sunflower Market/Wild Oats and
pick up some buffalo (bison) meat.
I have. I'd rather eat cardboard - at least it's not DIStasteful.
(Bison tastes - to me - like spoiled beef. And, yes, I've tasted
spoiled beef.)
Ever try moose? F'ing nasty :P
--
Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
BAAWA Knight!
#1557
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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07 Nov 2007 10:32:17 PM |
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On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:40:18 -0500, "Robibnikoff"
<witchypoo@broomstick.com> wrote:
"Al Klein" <rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote in message
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On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:49:42 -0800, skyeyes <skyeyes@dakotacom.net>
wrote:
Mosey on down to your local Whole Foods/Sunflower Market/Wild Oats and
pick up some buffalo (bison) meat.
I have. I'd rather eat cardboard - at least it's not DIStasteful.
(Bison tastes - to me - like spoiled beef. And, yes, I've tasted
spoiled beef.)
Ever try moose? F'ing nasty :P
Moose? Isn't that the animal the plural of which is meece? Like
Mickey? Mickey Moose?
--
Al at Webdingers dot com
"Christians tell us that they love their enemies, and yet all I ask
is - not that they love their friends even, but they treat those
who differ from them , with simple fairness. We do not wish to be
forgiven but we wish Christians to so act that we will not have
to forgive them."
- Robert Ingersoll
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| User: "skyeyes" |
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06 Nov 2007 05:50:46 PM |
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On Nov 6, 4:18 pm, Al Klein <ruk...@pern.invalid> wrote:
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:49:42 -0800, skyeyes <skye...@dakotacom.net>
wrote:
Mosey on down to your local Whole Foods/Sunflower Market/Wild Oats and
pick up some buffalo (bison) meat.
I have. I'd rather eat cardboard - at least it's not DIStasteful.
(Bison tastes - to me - like spoiled beef. And, yes, I've tasted
spoiled beef.)
Hmmmm...maybe you got spoiled bison meat. I've had spoiled beef, but
I've never had any bison meat that tasted like it.
Sorry you had a bad experience with it. I love the stuff. It *is*
drier than prime or choice beef, because it's leaner, but I've had
good results with it in stew, chili, burgers, etc.
Oh, well. Back to the chicken breasts, then. ;->
Brenda
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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06 Nov 2007 08:58:33 PM |
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On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:50:46 -0800, skyeyes <skyeyes@dakotacom.net>
wrote:
Oh, well. Back to the chicken breasts, then. ;->
Salmon fillets. Steamed tuna. Tilapia. Loads of salad.
--
Al at Webdingers dot com
"I am a deeply religious nonbeliever.... This is a somewhat new kind of religion."
- Letter to Hans Muehsam March 30, 1954; Einstein Archive 38-434
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| User: "skyeyes" |
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07 Nov 2007 12:47:15 PM |
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On Nov 6, 7:58 pm, Al Klein <ruk...@pern.invalid> wrote:
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:50:46 -0800, skyeyes <skye...@dakotacom.net>
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Oh, well. Back to the chicken breasts, then. ;->
Salmon fillets. Steamed tuna. Tilapia. Loads of salad.
Er...do you know what Tilapia eat...? <Shudders>
Brenda
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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08 Nov 2007 08:42:01 AM |
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"skyeyes" <skyeyes@dakotacom.net> wrote in message
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On Nov 6, 7:58 pm, Al Klein <ruk...@pern.invalid> wrote:
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:50:46 -0800, skyeyes <skye...@dakotacom.net>
wrote:
Oh, well. Back to the chicken breasts, then. ;->
Salmon fillets. Steamed tuna. Tilapia. Loads of salad.
Er...do you know what Tilapia eat...? <Shudders>
I don't know what they eat, but I made Tilapia once and thought it was
nasty. Didn't like the texture. Too mushy.
Ever have monkfish? Hideous creature, but tastes delicious.
--
Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
BAAWA Knight!
#1557
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| User: "Christopher A.Lee" |
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08 Nov 2007 08:46:33 AM |
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On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 09:42:01 -0500, "Robibnikoff"
<witchypoo@broomstick.com> wrote:
"skyeyes" <skyeyes@dakotacom.net> wrote in message
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On Nov 6, 7:58 pm, Al Klein <ruk...@pern.invalid> wrote:
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:50:46 -0800, skyeyes <skye...@dakotacom.net>
wrote:
Oh, well. Back to the chicken breasts, then. ;->
Salmon fillets. Steamed tuna. Tilapia. Loads of salad.
Er...do you know what Tilapia eat...? <Shudders>
I don't know what they eat, but I made Tilapia once and thought it was
nasty. Didn't like the texture. Too mushy.
Nor me. I do like cod, haddock, salmon, trout, plaice and sole. Also
anchovies on the rare pizza I have and in salad dressing. I can't
stand catfish.
Ever have monkfish? Hideous creature, but tastes delicious.
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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07 Nov 2007 10:32:50 PM |
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On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:47:15 -0800, skyeyes <skyeyes@dakotacom.net>
wrote:
On Nov 6, 7:58 pm, Al Klein <ruk...@pern.invalid> wrote:
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:50:46 -0800, skyeyes <skye...@dakotacom.net>
wrote:
Oh, well. Back to the chicken breasts, then. ;->
Salmon fillets. Steamed tuna. Tilapia. Loads of salad.
Er...do you know what Tilapia eat...? <Shudders>
Do you know what pigs and chickens eat?
--
Al at Webdingers dot com
"Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you're
told. Religion is doing what you're told, not matter what
is right."
- Jerry Sturdivant
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| User: "Graf" |
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06 Nov 2007 06:47:13 AM |
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On 5 Nov, 20:38, JTEM <jte...@gmail.com> wrote:
"Geoff" <geb...@yahoo.nospam.com> wrote:
~$3-4/lb.
Huh? That had better be for the best center cut
pork chops you can find... Sheesh!
I'm not sure of the going price myself, as I'd never
buy anything unless it was on sale. Oh. I'd pay
about $2 a pound normally, for a sale price. That
would be either "mixed" or "center cut" is I'm
lucky and there's a good sale.
There's nothing like a well rendered slice of pork belly, plenty of
delicious fat and cracklings, preferably hairy.
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| User: "Therion Ware" |
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06 Nov 2007 01:24:57 AM |
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On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 14:53:29 -0500, "Geoff" <gebobs@yahoo.nospam.com>
wrote:
Therion Ware wrote:
For various reasons I was watching The Andromeda Strain movie today.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066769/
It was released in 1971. And still quite good.
I'll Be watching "Colossus: The Forbin Project," later.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/
Anyway, in Andromeda, when the guys in BioSuits enter the dead town,
there's a sign that gives the price of pork chops per pound.
What's the price today?
Two of the three "people of the book" exempt from this question!
~$3-4/lb.
0.99 in the movie!
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| User: "johac" |
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07 Nov 2007 12:56:35 AM |
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In article <cl50j31d89cviqmfi795jur7e2iqljskjd@4ax.com>,
Therion Ware <autodelete@city-of-dis.com> wrote:
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 14:53:29 -0500, "Geoff" <gebobs@yahoo.nospam.com>
wrote:
Therion Ware wrote:
For various reasons I was watching The Andromeda Strain movie today.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066769/
It was released in 1971. And still quite good.
I'll Be watching "Colossus: The Forbin Project," later.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/
Anyway, in Andromeda, when the guys in BioSuits enter the dead town,
there's a sign that gives the price of pork chops per pound.
What's the price today?
Two of the three "people of the book" exempt from this question!
~$3-4/lb.
0.99 in the movie!
Yep. That's an old movie. Today, depending on the cut, about $3-5 per
pound where I live.
--
John #1782
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