We are getting close to our first dinner of 2024. We are having beef
tenderloin steaks, steamed beans, potatoes and salad. Dessert will be
chocolate eclairs that my wife made this afternoon.

I think that is is interesting that my wife, who is not a baker, enjoys
making eclairs when so many people are afraid to make anything with
choux pastry.

I am still suffering sticker shock over the price of tenderloin. Holy
crap.... two tenderloins, about 6 oz each, were $45. I don't think we
will be having them again for a while. Around here lamb loin chops are
usually the more expensive option but the lamb chops we had last night
were less than 1/4 the price of tonight's beef.

On 1/1/2024 4:44 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> We are getting close to our first dinner of 2024.
>
[snip]
>
> I am still suffering sticker shock over the price of tenderloin. Holy
> crap.... two tenderloins, about 6 oz each, were $45.  I don't think we
> will be having them again for a while.
>
Go ahead and spend $60/# on steak. You'll be dead soon enough anyway.

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On Monday, January 1, 2024 at 4:44:33 PM UTC-6, Dave Smith wrote:
>
> We are getting close to our first dinner of 2024. We are having beef
> tenderloin steaks, steamed beans, potatoes and salad.
>
My neighbor made pot of Hoppin John 'soup' and I'll be heating that up
in a few minutes.
>
> I am still suffering sticker shock over the price of tenderloin. Holy
> crap.... two tenderloins, about 6 oz each, were $45. I don't think we
> will be having them again for a while.
>
Maybe next New Years day??

On 1/1/2024 5:12 PM, itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net wrote:
> On Monday, January 1, 2024 at 4:44:33 PM UTC-6, Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>> We are getting close to our first dinner of 2024. We are having beef
>> tenderloin steaks, steamed beans, potatoes and salad.
>>
> My neighbor made pot of Hoppin John 'soup' and I'll be heating that up
> in a few minutes.
>
Slave food.

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On Mon, 1 Jan 2024 17:44:26 -0500, Dave Smith wrote:

> I am still suffering sticker shock over the price of tenderloin. Holy
> crap.... two tenderloins, about 6 oz each, were $45.

You got ripped off. The current price of tenderloin steaks in the
Northeastern U.S. is $19/lb. Up about $1.50 from last week, but
only $.30 up from this same week last year.

https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/lswbfrtl.pdf

You paid about $65/lb, 3.5X the going rate in the U.S. (minus
currency exchange rate).

What's the price of a head of iceberg lettuce up there this week?
Here's what we're paying this week for a shitload of unprocessed
agriculture:

https://www.ams.usda.gov/market-news/retail

Most of you won't take them time to look at these reports, but
they're the most useful, consistent, and unbiased reports ever to
come out of the USDA. And weekly.

-sw

On 2024-01-02, Sqwertz <sqwertzme@gmail.compost> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jan 2024 17:44:26 -0500, Dave Smith wrote:
>
>> I am still suffering sticker shock over the price of tenderloin. Holy
>> crap.... two tenderloins, about 6 oz each, were $45.
>
> You got ripped off. The current price of tenderloin steaks in the
> Northeastern U.S. is $19/lb. Up about $1.50 from last week, but
> only $.30 up from this same week last year.
>
> https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/lswbfrtl.pdf
>
> You paid about $65/lb, 3.5X the going rate in the U.S. (minus
> currency exchange rate).
>
> What's the price of a head of iceberg lettuce up there this week?
> Here's what we're paying this week for a shitload of unprocessed
> agriculture:
>
> https://www.ams.usda.gov/market-news/retail
>
> Most of you won't take them time to look at these reports, but
> they're the most useful, consistent, and unbiased reports ever to
> come out of the USDA. And weekly.

I looked. It didn't do me much good. I buy what I want, when I want
it.

I buy skinless, boneless chicken breast every week. I discovered
that the average price for the store brand is something like
$3.99/pound. I don't buy the store brand. I buy a name brand
that is air-cooled and the pieces are smaller, for about $7-8/pound
(I don't even check the price; I'm guessing). I don't want those
giant, stringy Schwarzenegger-pecs that are available for half the price.

--
Cindy Hamilton

BryanGSimmons wrote:
> On 1/1/2024 5:12 PM, itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net wrote:
>> On Monday, January 1, 2024 at 4:44:33 PM UTC-6, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>
>>> We are getting close to our first dinner of 2024. We are having beef
>>> tenderloin steaks, steamed beans, potatoes and salad.
>>>
>> My neighbor made pot of Hoppin John 'soup' and I'll be heating that up
>> in a few minutes.
> >
> Slave food.
>
Says the fat fuck that eats canned green beans for breakfast.

--
GM

BryanGSimmons wrote:
> On 1/1/2024 4:44 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> We are getting close to our first dinner of 2024.
> >
> [snip]
>>
>> I am still suffering sticker shock over the price of tenderloin. Holy
>> crap.... two tenderloins, about 6 oz each, were $45.  I don't think we
>> will be having them again for a while.
> >
> Go ahead and spend $60/# on steak.  You'll be dead soon enough anyway.
>
>
I wouldn't be at all surprised if you dropped dead any time now, asshat.

--
GM

On Tue, 02 Jan 2024 09:50:52 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

> On 2024-01-02, Sqwertz <sqwertzme@gmail.compost> wrote:
>> On Mon, 1 Jan 2024 17:44:26 -0500, Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>>> I am still suffering sticker shock over the price of tenderloin. Holy
>>> crap.... two tenderloins, about 6 oz each, were $45.
>>
>> You got ripped off. The current price of tenderloin steaks in the
>> Northeastern U.S. is $19/lb. Up about $1.50 from last week, but
>> only $.30 up from this same week last year.
>>
>> https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/lswbfrtl.pdf
>>
>> You paid about $65/lb, 3.5X the going rate in the U.S. (minus
>> currency exchange rate).
>>
>> What's the price of a head of iceberg lettuce up there this week?
>> Here's what we're paying this week for a shitload of unprocessed
>> agriculture:
>>
>> https://www.ams.usda.gov/market-news/retail
>>
>> Most of you won't take them time to look at these reports, but
>> they're the most useful, consistent, and unbiased reports ever to
>> come out of the USDA. And weekly.
>
> I looked. It didn't do me much good. I buy what I want, when I want
> it.

Well, LAA. DEEE. DUUUH to you. It's people like you that make us
price-conscious people have to pay more for your apathy.

> I don't want those
> giant, stringy Schwarzenegger-pecs that are available for half the price.

They're called "Woodies" in the chicken industry. You know what a
woody is, right? ... Wrong! They're breasts, not penises.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_breast

-sw