So here's the situation; you can't get decent beef or pork at ANY of them. I think I've mentioned this in passing in other posts. Costco is the only decent non-butcher shop meat in the city. Every time we try to buy from a grocery store, the meat has turned brown and been recolored with blood or food coloring. Usually I catch it before I get home, occasionally it's hidden well though. Nothing annoys me more than a ruined dinner when I have to take the rib eyes back because they're bright red on one side and dark brown on the other.
Even the local "premium" grocery store that actually bills itself as a 'Farmer's Market' is bad now:
- Exactly How Much Food Coloring is Enough?
- Brown in the middle lamb
- How Now VERY Brown Cow?
That from Sprouts. Raley's and Safeway are just as bad:
- Raley's Rib Eye Steaks fresh out of the package
I could post pics all morning, but I'm sure you all get the idea. Everything from high end steaks to meat I was going to chop up for fajitas and found the center brown and rotten.
I'd call the health department, but they're a joke in this county. There was a convenience store near a former job. We all used to go over there to get snacks on break. Everybody knew buy only non-perishables though. Their orange juice was literally brown, and even their jerky sticks were moldy and soggy in their packages. They proudly displayed their health department inspection form though saying they passed with flying colors.
