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Originally Posted by mkjelenbaas (Post 2025062)

How do I “bang” a right?

Let's not turn this into another political thread! :1rotfl:

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Originally Posted by mkjelenbaas (Post 2025062)

How do I “bang” a right?

It's the opposite of "hanging a louie"...

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Originally Posted by EdFNJ (Post 2025306)

My wife's grandfather had a "semi- kosher" butcher shop in Roxbury Massachusetts, which is why this one turned me off. The outside reminded me of his :D

I was referring to the OUTSIDE of the place on 301. Never could get myself to park and walk in. We had a German butcher shop in the town in NJ where we had a business for over 25 years and it was as clean and mostly odor free (other than for the stinky cheese) as any food store I have been in. :)

As for Earth Fare, we visited today and it was (IMO) just a poor copy of Whole Foods but just as expensive. A pint of Ben and Jerry's was $7! Amy's frozen entrees were $2+ more than Publix. Their bakery had virtually nothing and their meat and fish dept couldn't even come close to Whole Foods on looks alone. We don't shop much at Whole Foods except for a couple specialty items my wife likes but Whole Foods (***IN OUR OPINION***) is first class compared to Earth Fare. I'm a chocolate chip cookie aficionado and bought one on my search for the "ultimate chocolate chip cookie" and Earth Fare (IMO) rated below Nabisco. :D :D

It's not fair to compare Earth Fare to Whole Foods, because there is no Whole Foods in close proximity. The whole point of Earth Fare being here, is that it's here, and not somewhere else. If Whole Foods opened up around here, there'd be comparisons for sure.

My husband says Earth Fare's chicken salad is better than Chicken Salad Chick's. Since it was on sale yesterday, the price was juuuust about the same. The only downside to that is I can't get to Earth Fare by golf cart.

The vine ripe tomatoes were also on sale, just $1.99/lb and those are organic, and perfectly ripe and amazingly juicy, and on the sweet side of good (some tomatoes are more tangy, some are more sweet. These are sweet.)

I also picked up some parmesano reggiano, which was absolutely overpriced. HOWEVER - whenever I try to get it anywhere else, a good 2 ounces is just rind. This piece I got had zero rind, which means 100% of it is edible instead of 80% of it. So if you break it down into edible ounces, the Earth Fare was actually less expensive per ounce with zero waste.

When you're paying $20/lb for cheese, it matters.

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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 2025328)

You are correct, up north Whole Foods, and TJ’s is right around the corner where I go. Both are my go to. Earth Fare for certain things.

In TV driving an hour plus to Whole Foods, when I can get to Earth Fare in 10 minutes just a no brainer. Plus Earth Fare chicken salad, is better than any I have bought here, and I do love fresh fish cutting.

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Originally Posted by retiredguy123 (Post 2024892)

I went to the Publix in Lake Deaton Plaza today to buy some steaks. They have removed the full service meat department, and they only sell meat in packages. Bummer.

No Pune intended but all I do is smile & wonder why.

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Originally Posted by mkjelenbaas (Post 2025062)

How do I “bang” a right?

You can Bang it easy or you can Bang it Roughly. Just make sure the wheel is turned due right and bang it. Just be certain not to Bang it Bigly!! Bad News if you do. :1rotfl:

I know where too but I can be bought...😀

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Originally Posted by Michael G. (Post 2025238)

Have you ever heard of Aldi's ?

Sure have.. went in there twice six months apart. Disgusting .. the smell, the looks, the products... not one thing appealing about that place. If you're going to say price, then you really should treat yourself a bit better.

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Originally Posted by davem4616 (Post 2024896)

might want to try going to Best Meats...a quality family run meat store....just go to the corner of 44 and 301, bang a right and it's about a half mile down on the right.

A "right" on 44 ? Or a "right" on 301 ? Never heard of the place, how long has it been there ? What landmark might we look for ? How do their prices per # compare to area grocery stores ? Want to check it out !

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Originally Posted by Pairadocs (Post 2025791)

Make a right off 44 on to 301 or a left off 466A on to 301. IIRC it's got a big BEST MEAT sign on the building that looks like someone painted it freehand with meat prices pasted all over the windows. Can't really miss it. Looks kinda unappetizing on the outside but never experienced going in there yet so it might be the best place in central FL. It would be on your RIGHT from 44 or LEFT from 466A. Google reviews seem pretty good FWIW.

Google is your friend (photos): best meats wildwood, fl - Google Search

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Originally Posted by retiredguy123 (Post 2025079)

I do. But, when I go to the grocery store, I buy mostly food that is ready to eat.

i'll join the chorus on inflation. food costs are way up, we eat simply & still pay hefty prices

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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 2025283)

It's a butcher shop. It looks like one inside, smells like one, there's no getting around it. They also have a variety of fish, mostly frozen but most of them are not "commercial brand" fish but rather, line-caught and hauled in to be frozen by a fishmonger and sold at Best Meats. Can get some pretty nice pieces of salmon there.

But if you remember old fashioned butcher shops - they were not "pleasant" places. The smell of a back room that cuts up sides of beef without a wall to separate it from the sales floor is not pleasant.

They have good local Florida cheese too by the way, right at the counter.

Earth Fare's beef is grass fed and grass finished, so I won't buy it. I want beef grain finished. Grass finished is dry and gamey.

omg, that description brought me back to Meadow Meat Store in Middletown. you could smell the place before you walked in. we were never sure if it was all the blood on the butcher's apron, or just eau de bovine

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Originally Posted by vinricci (Post 2025038)

The Publix butcher was telling another customer that with the high prices on meat lately, the produce department is now the cash cow of their stores. Never happened before.

I can believe it. Pummelos at $2.39 per pound? Outrageous.

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Originally Posted by taruffi57 (Post 2025272)

A life of steaks is known to be a somewhat shorter life.

Dunno about that. I've been doing that keto thing for about the past two years now, which includes a lot of meat and eggs. We have steak probably once a week, interspersed with ham, bacon, sausage, and just about everything else critter-related. I walk six miles a day, play tennis and golf, and my waistline is down to a svelte 34. I'm pushing 74 years old and can honestly say that I've not felt this good in at least ten years.

SOMETHING is going to have to kill me eventually. Might as well be a steak.

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Originally Posted by Pairadocs (Post 2025791)

It's on 301; if you're on 466 (or a, whatever it is) where Fresh Market is, take a left just after the railroad crossing, and it's down a ways on the left in front of a strip-mall.

It's dingy looking and so is the entire area/neighborhood. It's been there a very long time. Prices: depends, really. When I went there last it was 5/$20. I assumed that meant $4/lb and was willing to pay extra just for the experience (I like trying new things at least once!).

The ground beef was less than 80% lean, incredibly fatty. But it also made amazing meaballs. Not so good with meatloaf, it was too fatty and the loaf fell apart when I tried to cut it.

The chicken breast fillets were very tasty and tender, I made chicken parm with them. No tenderizing needed.

They were preparing fish that day so the place smelled pretty strongly. But when I lived in North Haven we had a fishmonger in the town, and the store reeked and everyone was used to it because no one in any supermarket within 50 miles of the place had fish fresher. They got it brought to them right off the boat.