HEB is fighting inflation

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I can remember when a decent brisket was under a $1 a pound! And you catch them on sale sometimes for about .59 cents a pound!

Tough cut of meat that nobody wanted so it sold cheap. Then everyone learned how to smoke a brisket so they jacked the price.

 

[Axxe55]

Tough cut of meat that nobody wanted so it sold cheap. Then everyone learned how to smoke a brisket so they jacked the price.

Also add in the celebrity chefs and cooks on the TV programs that started smoking briskets and they got popular, and then more expensive because people started buying more of them.

 

[Lonesome Dove]

I remember large boxs of cereal for $1 with free toys inside.

 

[Sasquatch]

Tough cut of meat that nobody wanted so it sold cheap. Then everyone learned how to smoke a brisket so they jacked the price.

Remember when chicken wings were cheap because no one wanted them, because they lacked meat? Wing places now sell the damn things for $1 or more each...

 

[Axxe55]

Remember when chicken wings were cheap because no one wanted them, because they lacked meat? Wing places now sell the damn things for $1 or more each...

Lots of places now specialize in hot wings!

 

[oldag]

That may have been SPAM?
"This don't taste right."

Coffee tins did as well.

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

Oldag,

5 lb. bags of sugar have gone the way of the buffalo?

Apparently, I don't get out enough...

 

[kbaxter60]

Remember when chicken wings were cheap because no one wanted them, because they lacked meat? Wing places now sell the damn things for $1 or more each...

Beef skirts. Same sad story.

 

[Sasquatch]

Beef skirts. Same sad story.

oh man, yeah. Skirt steak and chopped steak used to be so cheap. Another "no one wanted it" now everyone loves it thanks to some TV chefs.

 

[Axxe55]

Beef skirts. Same sad story.

and flank steak. I don't think there are any cheap cuts of meat anymore. As they got popular, they got more expensive.

 

[Axxe55]

I'll bet @baboon could write a book on the popularity of certain cuts of meat and their rise in prices over the years.

 

[striker55]

All I know is wife and I split a steak these days.

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

Start eating organs, ah, ya know, liver and such...it's relatively cheap.

 

[Axxe55]

w

All I know is wife and I split a steak these days.

We buy our steaks at a small local grocery store that still has meat cutting department. They will cut meat to order and they carry a much better cut of meat than most of the bigger grocery stores in town. I can stretch a large steak into two meals! Still comes out cheaper than eating steak out at a restaurant.

 

[oldag]

Oldag,

5 lb. bags of sugar have gone the way of the buffalo?

Apparently, I don't get out enough...

Years ago, sadly.

 

[oldag]

w

We buy our steaks at a small local grocery store that still has meat cutting department. They will cut meat to order and they carry a much better cut of meat than most of the bigger grocery stores in town. I can stretch a large steak into two meals! Still comes out cheaper than eating steak out at a restaurant.

Our local grocery store has excellent beef, far better taste than the chains. And you are right, you get a much better steak hot off the grill far cheaper than eating out.

 

[Axxe55]

Our local grocery store has excellent beef, far better taste than the chains. And you are right, you get a much better steak hot off the grill far cheaper than eating out.

The wife and I can eat steak and baked potato at home for about half of what the same meal at a restaurant would costs us. Plus, I know the steak will be cooked exactly how I like a steak cooked. And even adding in a six pack of beer it still comes out cheaper in the long run.

 

[baboon]

I'll bet @baboon could write a book on the popularity of certain cuts of meat and their rise in prices over the years.

Marked down meat is one of the best values these days. I had a whole slew of people that was all they ever bought.

Now nothing is really cheap. I remember making the best beef jerky out of flank steaks when they were cheap. Chuck eye steaks( where the rib meets the chuck) were decent when you could get them.

Beef blade steaks are decent, but someone cut them differently & changed the name to Flat Iron Steak. The blade makes a better roast or chicken fried steak IMHO.

Beef cheeks need little work to make good grilling meat, but are stupidly over priced. Same goes with short ribs, back ribs, ox tails, briskets, flanks & skirts.

A chef needs to buy cheap & make it great, to stay in business. Thad why the cheap cuts are forever gone.

 

[Axxe55]

For beef, or even pork, a good option to beat paying high meat prices is to raise your own, and then have it butchered and processed. If that is too much meat, go in partners with someone and split the cost and the meat.

This is only a good option if you have the place or know someone with the space for raising a cow or pig for butchering.

 

[baboon]

Look meat is meat. Only so many packing houses processing meat. The grade of meat matter really only in a grilling steak. Paying prime price for a brisket defeats what a good brisket is all about. Knowing how to properly smoke a brisket is whole point of what was traditional a cheap cut.

I remember many years ago teaching a buddy how to merchandise a white tail. I not only showed him how to cut it up, but showed his wife how to cook it. His kids wouldn’t eat much venison until I was cooking what I was cutting.