My Walmart experience today

[Deleted]

I was looking at some of the various steaks in the meat case at Walmart today and also listening in to a young girls conversation with someone who had her on an adventure to buy some steaks. She was rather confused and she was laughing at something the other was saying on the phone. Then she looks at me and says. Hey you look like a nice old man can you help me. I said sure what can I do for you. Well she said can you tell me what all these are. She pointed at the steaks so I said that's meat! She laughed and said she wasn't a meat eater and her boyfriend sent her to get some Delmonico steaks and she had no idea what they looked like. Then she said Delmonico is a restaurant so how can it be a steak!!!!!( This gets better)

So I explained that Ribeye Steaks are said to be a cut that Delmonico's Restaurant in NYC used and the name came to be known as Delmonico Steak. She looked at me like she didn't believe me so she said let me call my boyfriend. So she does and then says to him please talk to this older man who is trying to be a help .

I said hello to him and he started laughing and said what she tell you. So I said she wants a Delmonico Steak and I told her that is the same as a Ribeye Steak. ( right about now I did not care any more and just wanted to get away) So he says the steaks I want are in a package of three . I looked down in the case and said there a a few varieties that come three in a package. I am sure you want Ribeye's and they do look perfect by the way. OK he says tell her to get 4 packages. I told her and was just so exhausted with this I said have fun. Then she says wanna come for dinner on Tuesday. I said no I will be out of town. Oh she said then thank you so much.

She really was sincere but had no idea how to by meat or what it looked like. She must have spent near $50. bucks. 

[Ralph]

  My experience with Walmart steaks, which actually come frozen and are thawed before displaying, are to chew, chew, chew, spit out and buy a burger.  Toughest cuts of crap I have ever had.

[Clipper]

I never understood the difference between Walmart meats and Sam's Club meats. Walmart's meat when thawed leaves most of the flavor and juice sloshing around in the bottom of the Styrofoam tray or soaked up in the absorbent pad under the meat. Yes Ralph. I agree with your chew,chew, chew, then spit out. As you know, I don't shop at Walmart unless there is an unbelievable sale on something, and NEVER for groceries. Several years ago however, we were camping at a campground in Sevierville, Tennessee and I bought ribeye steaks from Walmart because it was only a short distance from the campground. I have eaten round steak that was more tender. I chomped on mine long enough ot swallow it without choking, but Kathy only ate half of hers and fed the rest to the dog. Cutting it up for the dog was a chore in itself. I once bought a pork butt at Walmart to use for sausage. It was so damned tough that the electric meat grinder strained, popped and snapped while grinding it. Even the sausage I made with it turned out rubbery.

I buy a lot of our meats at Food City now, but for a long time I bought ALL of our meat at Sam's Club. I can honestly say that I never got a tough steak or roast there, and their ground chuck actually cooked down without floating in all of the added water. I would think that the meats at both stores would come from the same distribution center, but obviously not. While Sam's club merchandise is more expensive than Walmart, the quality difference is like night and day.

[Ralph]

We want a decent steak I head over to Chanantry's. Never had a bad cut of meat from them.

[BHU]

I refuse to buy any meat including poultery from WalMart after they fired all their meatcutters. So now their product is trucked all over the Country, frozen & then thawed.

If WalMart could import meat from China to save money & get away with it, they would.