re: Food Truck Show

You can try it and let me know how it turns out.

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You know that Sam's sells Prime beef, right?

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I don't eat much red meat. Far more important for me is that I'm keeping my money out of that corporation's pocket.

Just to tell you, though, I did get to have rack of lamb from Sam's a few years ago. And it was not exactly anything to write home about.

I'm assuming you've seen "Food Inc."?

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They are driving our economy right now, like it or not. They also buy local.

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You'll have to explain that for me.

Did you mean to say that their meat is locally purchased? Their freaking tomatoes come from Mexico. I sure as hell wouldn't trust where their meat comes from, not to mention its "preparation".

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What I can't get my mind around is people thinking we need to conserve on our fossil fuels and then buying into the thought that we need to ship meat 3000 miles from farm to slaughter and back to stores in order to maintain the supply and demand for meat on American tables. I don't think that makes any sense whatsoever, not when compared to buying local meat products slaughtered and distributed locally like we did before big corporations began positioning themselves to take over our food out of greed and through government have created this mess that we consider normal today.

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I'm in total agreement. Perhaps it's only in America (hard to say), but I'm always amazed at what people will go through (a la the "Wal-Mart Experience") just so they can save a couple of bucks upfront.

Guess I'm fortunate that I try to have one meal per week with red meat - so I can get some grass fed at the local farmers market and be fine for a few weeks.

I don't go to Walmart. My grocer grinds his own meat daily. I find that the best practice. Not the perfect practice mind you as that's another thing entirely, but better than the alternative of buying pre-packaged ground meat from a processing plant up North somewhere where it more resembles a massive soylent green production facility than anything resembling normality.

I realize there is a cost element that is involved, but that's just a current self created condition brought about by those who started this than anything else. Quite honestly though, I would much rather eat better meat and less of it than eat a sub par piece of protein two to three times a day. But I really think that if we were to somehow transform our practices to local overnight, there would be an adjustment period, but eventually everything would work itself out just fine economically and we would be MUCH MUCH better served for it in the long run in everything from food quality to fuel savings, as well as being much more self sustaining on a local level, serving the interests of us all right here.

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You know that Sam's sells Prime beef, right?

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This must be new, I have never seen prime at sams, just choice (which is great) but I will be on the lookout for prime

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Truthfully Brock, only because we have allowed the political polarizing of America to be intertwined with just base human reasoning that makes sense devoid of any political agenda. It's silly when you really think about it. Just last night I was watching a History Channel show on Hippies and Communes, and you can see where people would get the notion that to be responsible and self sustaining is some kind of weird hippie commie thing, but the truth of the matter is, prior to the 1950s generation, it wasn't really weird, it was the way things were in America.

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You know, you just make too much sense sometimes. Especially when it's this early in the day.

All I am saying is that food truck buying ingredients from Sam's club is not that bad of a thing. It is no different than ordering items from Sysco or any other distributer.

And yes, they do sell Prime beef. I doubt your average food truck or other such vendor buys it, but it is available.

Curbside is the new creation of Moochies Munchies but I haven't eaten there since I moved back to New Orleans. My good friend is the owner/creator and I am anxious to sample some of the new menu.