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Beef. The new chocolate?

DesertTinker

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DesertTinker

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I was just at the grocery store, Vons (Safeway/Albertsons) and saw this while browsing the meat department. It actually made me laugh out loud. Woman near me looked at me like I was "special" until I lifted the article of my amusement, got an OMG from her.

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Anna N

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 KFC in Canada is offering some sort of heart shaped chicken.   Dear God.

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1 hour ago, DesertTinker said:

I was just at the grocery store, Vons (Safeway/Albertsons) and saw this while browsing the meat department. It actually made me laugh out loud. Woman near me looked at me like I was "special" until I lifted the article of my amusement, got an OMG from her.

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Why not just cook your loved one an ox heart?

 

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41 minutes ago, pastrygirl said:

Not the new chocolate, they are just throwing the men of the world a bone, so to speak. 

 

don't pigeonhole me with your sexist stereotypes :ph34r:

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Darienne

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18 hours ago, DesertTinker said:

I was just at the grocery store, Vons (Safeway/Albertsons) and saw this while browsing the meat department. It actually made me laugh out loud. Woman near me looked at me like I was "special" until I lifted the article of my amusement, got an OMG from her.

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Not in my world! 

 

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Tri2Cook

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14 hours ago, pastrygirl said:

Not the new chocolate, they are just throwing the men of the world a bone, so to speak. 

 

Sounds good to  me... I don't require a heart-shaped steak but I'd prefer it over a heart-shaped box of chocolates.

Edit: sorry dcarch, as nice as that looks, I'd prefer a heart-shaped steak over heart-shaped tofu too.

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quiet1

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I admit, if the meat was good quality I'd buy that as a joke gift for my ex-vegetarian housemate. He'd get a kick out of it.

Thanks for the Crepes

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On 2/10/2017 at 7:26 PM, DesertTinker said:

I was just at the grocery store, Vons (Safeway/Albertsons) and saw this while browsing the meat department. It actually made me laugh out loud. Woman near me looked at me like I was "special" until I lifted the article of my amusement, got an OMG from her.

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The price is good these days for beef rib eye steak, and the portion is generous for two. Probably, the steak is a normal cut and just crammed into a heart shaped pink container. Raw meat is quite malleable and boneless rib eye is good. It might pulled off with a T-bone too, with more gaps in the tray. You would have to make sure you showed it off in the container before cooking for the heart presentation, though. As a person who has experienced much consternation at what to give a male for Valentines, I think this is the perfect, brilliant thing. I can't think of a man I know who wouldn't be thrilled with it, but I'm sure there are many vegetarians and beef haters among the male species as well. I would be thrilled with it as a woman too, much more so than candy.

 

In keeping with my matchless luck, though, this product has come out at a time where Valentines will be pretty much a nonevent for me for the first time I can remember.

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After reflection, I'm forced to acknowledge that this would have worked just fine for either of my wives, or my current GF. All three are/were much more carnivorous in their habits than I am. 

 

I really, really enjoy a steak every two or three years. Otherwise it's just something I cook on request, usually because there was a good sale. 

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10 hours ago, Thanks for the Crepes said:

I would be thrilled with it [...] much more so than candy.

 

Me too!!!

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IndyRob

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17 hours ago, Thanks for the Crepes said:

 

The price is good these days for beef rib eye steak, and the portion is generous for two. Probably, the steak is a normal cut and just crammed into a heart shaped pink container. Raw meat is quite malleable and boneless rib eye is good. It might pulled off with a T-bone too, with more gaps in the tray. You would have to make sure you showed it off in the container before cooking for the heart presentation, though. As a person who has experienced much consternation at what to give a male for Valentines, I think this is the perfect, brilliant thing. I can't think of a man I know who wouldn't be thrilled with it, but I'm sure there are many vegetarians and beef haters among the male species as well. I would be thrilled with it as a woman too, much more so than candy.

 

In keeping with my matchless luck, though, this product has come out at a time where Valentines will be pretty much a nonevent for me for the first time I can remember.

 

The price shown *is* really good.  Our local Meijer is trying out this gag, only without heart shaped packaging.  They just butterfly an otherwise unsuspecting ribeye so it looks like a heart (well, not a real heart of course, but that B.S. shape that we're all told is heart shaped, even though it bears no resemblance to any internal organ - which, when you really come to think about it, is probably just as well).

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