Just A Quick Laugh

[Colgate]

From the Philadelphia Inquirer Dining Home Page:

Gifts for the foodie

"Here's our guide to what to buy for the home cook

GRASS-FED BEEF, truffle butters, rocket-fast grills and wild-game injectors. What will they think of next? This year, holiday food gifts target the serious at-home cook who's in the kitchen more than a couple of times a week and entertains regularly."

Is Grass-Fed Beef really classified under the "what will they think of next" category? Hopefully, this was added out of context, but saw this and thought everyone would like a little chuckle...

[wattacetti]

Okay, what is a "wild game injector?" I'm imagining a giant syringe loaded with bunny.

[tommy]

From the Philadelphia Inquirer Dining Home Page:

Gifts for the foodie

"Here's our guide to what to buy for the home cook

GRASS-FED BEEF, truffle butters, rocket-fast grills and wild-game injectors. What will they think of next? This year, holiday food gifts target the serious at-home cook who's in the kitchen more than a couple of times a week and entertains regularly."

Is Grass-Fed Beef really classified under the "what will they think of next" category?  Hopefully, this was added out of context, but saw this and thought everyone would like a little chuckle...

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what percentage of the population, or the readership, would you think has any idea what grass-fed beef is. i'm guessing a very small one. this should come as no surprise.

[docsconz]

From the Philadelphia Inquirer Dining Home Page:

Gifts for the foodie

"Here's our guide to what to buy for the home cook

GRASS-FED BEEF, truffle butters, rocket-fast grills and wild-game injectors. What will they think of next? This year, holiday food gifts target the serious at-home cook who's in the kitchen more than a couple of times a week and entertains regularly."

Is Grass-Fed Beef really classified under the "what will they think of next" category?  Hopefully, this was added out of context, but saw this and thought everyone would like a little chuckle...

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what percentage of the population, or the readership, would you think has any idea what grass-fed beef is. i'm guessing a very small one. this should come as no surprise.

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Probably no less a percentage than those who have any idea what beef even eat or are fed at all.

[Luckylies]

Okay, what is a "wild game injector?" I'm imagining a giant syringe loaded with bunny.

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no, no silly, what they use for hare transplants.

[tommy]

From the Philadelphia Inquirer Dining Home Page:

Gifts for the foodie

"Here's our guide to what to buy for the home cook

GRASS-FED BEEF, truffle butters, rocket-fast grills and wild-game injectors. What will they think of next? This year, holiday food gifts target the serious at-home cook who's in the kitchen more than a couple of times a week and entertains regularly."

Is Grass-Fed Beef really classified under the "what will they think of next" category?  Hopefully, this was added out of context, but saw this and thought everyone would like a little chuckle...

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what percentage of the population, or the readership, would you think has any idea what grass-fed beef is. i'm guessing a very small one. this should come as no surprise.

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Probably no less a percentage than those who have any idea what beef even eat or are fed at all.

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you're probably right. i've noticed that people are equally impressed with the phrase "grain-fed beef" as they are with "grass-fed beef." either way the readership is no doubt impressed and thinks these fancy truffles and grain-fed beefs are very novel ideas, and i'm not surprised, or amused, by their ignorance, which is what i was trying to convey, unsuccessfuly i'd think.

we, however, all know that cows have been eating grass since they could chew.

Edited December 12, 2006 by tommy (log)

[adegiulio]

I remember commercials on the Rush Limbaugh show talking about Ruths Chris, and how their 1800 degree broilers "lock in that corn-fed taste". Back then, I didn't realize that nearly all cows spend the end of their lives on grain.

Of course, that was a long, long time ago. Heck, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh...

edited to correct the fact that COWS eat grain, not BEEF.

Edited December 12, 2006 by adegiulio (log)

[larrylee]

edited to correct the fact that COWS eat grain, not BEEF.

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Unless it's fed to them.

[dockhl]

edited to correct the fact that COWS eat grain, not BEEF.

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Unless it's fed to them.

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ick

[Kouign Aman]

edited to correct the fact that COWS eat grain, not BEEF.

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Unless it's fed to them.

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As BSE brought to our attention, cows do eat beef, and mutton.

[MarketStEl]

edited to correct the fact that COWS eat grain, not BEEF.

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Unless it's fed to them.

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As BSE brought to our attention, cows do eat beef, and mutton.

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And as BSE also brought to our attention, they shouldn't.

Left to their own devices, however, they wouldn't.

[Brasco66]

I'm still chuckling about all the possiblities of a "wild game injector"...

They're endless.....close your eyes and let your mind wander...are you laughing yet!!

[moosnsqrl]

I immediately thought of the flavored ammo (there was another thread about it on here a month or so ago) when I read "wild game injector."

[GTO]

I'd be impressed if someone bought me some "truffle butter-fed beef".

[Bobby 2 Shakes]

Probably a misprint - should've been beef-fed grass. Saying "beef" is easier than saying "bulls, steers, and cows". It would be maybe a little too forthright to tell what the beeves are feeding the grass with (think "output.")

I think they only serve it in Amsterdam at this time.