The Early Bird brings home the bacon

[baboon]

When I was shopping last I checked the date on the pork bellies> They had todays date, so I got up early & made the 40 minute ride taking a gamble. Sure enough a hole in the regular place that they go & 3 of them down in the mark down section.

I might just have to fix one fresh smoked instead of curing it for bacon. While I was checking out there was a lady who asked what they were & what I do with them. No real commotion because they were still pretty high.

 

[FireInTheWire]

I check the clearance bin at my market every time I go there. They had lobster tail the other day. It was too expensive, and I passed. Went back the other day and they were half off. Bought all 4 packages.

 

[deemus]

Me too. Bought some Nolan Ryan beef for $3 this week. Not $3 a pound.

 

[baboon]

I check the clearance bin at my market every time I go there. They had lobster tail the other day. It was too expensive, and I passed. Went back the other day and they were half off. Bought all 4 packages.

I'd be very careful with seafood. Especially with shellfish. All the years I worked around a seafood counter I still have nightmares about stinking fish. So much of the lobster tails sold in America are warm water tails often out of the Persian gulf.

 

[FireInTheWire]

I'd be very careful with seafood. Especially with shellfish. All the years I worked around a seafood counter I still have nightmares about stinking fish. So much of the lobster tails sold in America are warm water tails often out of the Persian gulf.

I have a good nose. If it doesn't smell right, I don't buy.

Thanks for the heads up!

 

[baboon]

I have a good nose. If it doesn't smell right, I don't buy.

Thanks for the heads up!

Smell is not always present in bacteria.

 

[FireInTheWire]

Smell is not always present in bacteria.

Now you are just trying to ruin my good time.

 

[baboon]

Now you are just trying to ruin my good time.

I worked for 36 years in retail Meat & Seafood. Most all of that time I was a certified Food Handler by the City of Houston. I'm not trying to ruin your good time rather try & educate you about something I know a great deal about.

The thing about lobster tails are the for the most part a frozen product. There are cold water lobsters America's east coast into Canada, and warm water&warm water lobsters do not have the front claws. With Valentines quickly approaching Lobsters & tail tend to go on sale. The majority of the smaller tails (4-6 ounces)are imported. Where they come from is the most important thing. Then comes the whole deal of from harvest to table & how it was handled. I have seen lots of freezer burnt tails getting blown out before Valentines Day. Lots of year old product being rotated out. A year is a long time when considering how the product has been store & transported around.

 

[FireInTheWire]

I worked for 36 years in retail Meat & Seafood. Most all of that time I was a certified Food Handler by the City of Houston. I'm not trying to ruin your good time rather try & educate you about something I know a great deal about.

The thing about lobster tails are the for the most part a frozen product. There are cold water lobsters America's east coast into Canada, and warm water&warm water lobsters do not have the front claws. With Valentines quickly approaching Lobsters & tail tend to go on sale. The majority of the smaller tails (4-6 ounces)are imported. Where they come from is the most important thing. Then comes the whole deal of from harvest to table & how it was handled. I have seen lots of freezer burnt tails getting blown out before Valentines Day. Lots of year old product being rotated out. A year is a long time when considering how the product has been store & transported around.

Nah, man. I appreciate the knowledge. To be honest, I didn't know there was even warm water lobster. I guess I can't expect high quality seafood from a small grocery store in a small West Texas town.

Thanks Baboon

 

[msharley]

I worked for 36 years in retail Meat & Seafood. Most all of that time I was a certified Food Handler by the City of Houston. I'm not trying to ruin your good time rather try & educate you about something I know a great deal about.

The thing about lobster tails are the for the most part a frozen product. There are cold water lobsters America's east coast into Canada, and warm water&warm water lobsters do not have the front claws. With Valentines quickly approaching Lobsters & tail tend to go on sale. The majority of the smaller tails (4-6 ounces)are imported. Where they come from is the most important thing. Then comes the whole deal of from harvest to table & how it was handled. I have seen lots of freezer burnt tails getting blown out before Valentines Day. Lots of year old product being rotated out. A year is a long time when considering how the product has been store & transported around.

Am so glad I am highly allergic to bait.

 

[baboon]

Nah, man. I appreciate the knowledge. To be honest, I didn't know there was even warm water lobster. I guess I can't expect high quality seafood from a small grocery store in a small West Texas town.

Thanks Baboon

You might do better then the big city nation chain that has the hire quotas instead of employees. The place that I shop does not have a seafood counter with seafood on ice. They have a small section of the meat case next to chickens. I generally would not but marked dow poultry & seafood for the amount of bacteria it has.

Talk to the people who work with the seafood & ask what their markdown policy is on seafood. I will tell you that "Fresh Farm Raised Atlantic Salmon" from Chile was excepted into our warehouse up until 21 days after it was processed. Figure it could spend another couple days in the warehouse before hitting the store.
cold. Bacteria goes crazy when product is in the danger zone.

You do realize most food poisoning cannot be tracked in many cases because that product has moved on thru to the consumer?

 

[baboon]

Am so glad I am highly allergic to bait.

A sunny side up egg is a prime example of a food item that is prepared in the danger zone when it comes to temperature.

 

[FireInTheWire]

You do realize most food poisoning cannot be tracked in many cases because that product has moved on thru to the consumer?

Yeah.. I dunno... I've never had FP. Haven't gave it much thought I reckon.

 

[msharley]

Yeah.. I dunno... I've never had FP. Haven't gave it much thought I reckon.

Eat at Taco Smell...that will cure your problem...

 

[msharley]

Nah, man. I appreciate the knowledge. To be honest, I didn't know there was even warm water lobster. I guess I can't expect high quality seafood from a small grocery store in a small West Texas town.

Thanks Baboon

Lots of folk go after them in the Keys....

They snorkel/net them...

In Maine, they either use "lobstah pots" or dive/net them...diving is a bit "edgy" in Maine...!! The locals call them "sea spidahs" (spiders)

 

[FireInTheWire]

Lots of folk go after them in the Keys....

They snorkel/net them...

In Maine, they either use "lobstah pots" or dive/net them...diving is a bit "edgy" in Maine...!! The locals call them "sea spidahs" (spiders)

Sign me up!

 

[msharley]

Sign me up!

If I'm not mistaken?

Around tax time is the "season" in the Keys...

Do know there are "packages"...(motel, snorkel stuff...etc) Do not know what it costs??

Worked down there in '12...lots of folk were into it...

 

[baboon]

For the longest time lobsters in Maine were looked at as trash. They were fed to convicts until it was deemed cruel & unusual punishment.

At a grand opening of a store I had a 26 pound lobster in the lobster tank. IIRC the price propound was $3.99 per pound back then.

I was also the last store the live lobster guy delivered to. I'd get off around the time he came & he would give me the ones that died during that days delivery. I was a newlywed at the time & the wife loved lobster night.

Then next thing you knew the bark eaters started complaining about the sale of live lobsters & it even went towards shellfish like mussels, clams & oysters in the shell. Then all the lobster tanks disappeared. They were a PITA anyway.