Unpopular Opinions Thread

[MrNubbz]

sausage is almost exclusively good or bad based on the spices and not the meat.

Ya the local guy makes a chicken/pork blend sausage, fused with jamaican jerk spices. And his prices have skyrocketed as he can hardly keep it on the shelves when he has so many other specialty sticks he's whipping up.

[Cincydawg]

Sausage basically is a way to take cuts we'd normally not eat and blend them into goo and add enough spices that folks will eat them.  A lot of nitrites added often as not.

[FearlessF]

as with any ground meat
I really don't like paying $4/pound for ground meat

[Cincydawg]

I think ground beef in general is a decent cut of meat like chuck or round ground up without fillers or additives but with some level of fat added.  Sausage to me is different.

[MrNubbz]

The cheaper pork sausage to me are high in fat and low in taste.  The better ones still have plenty of fat but a good balance and I like the flavors.

The stuff at cheaper restaurants is pretty ... boring, often over cooked and dry.

there is nothing better(IMHO) than oiling the sausage cases with olive oil(I roll them around together in a corn cobb serving dish) and slow roasting them indirect on the cooler side of the grill. Slowly bringing them up to just below the bursting point and pulling them 😍. Topped with just Stadium Mustard and raw diced onion on fresh seeded Pepperidge Farm Sausage Buns (or similiar). The fresh bun fits snuggly around this delite holding it together and in itself is tasty

[FearlessF]

I think ground beef in general is a decent cut of meat like chuck or round ground up without fillers or additives but with some level of fat added.  Sausage to me is different.

well, you've heard of pink slime
a local small butcher shop might be using chuck and round scraps
not gonna get that at Costco 

[MrNubbz]

as with any ground meat
I really don't like paying $4/pound for ground meat

Got 6 & 3/4 lbs for 6.71 total yesterday at the Grocer where I work part time on the docks. My buddy who runs the back warehouse tips me off when the lady in the meat dept tips him off. Anything approaching sell by date is reduced priced to move,getting great excersize,deals and paid too 😎 . After a day anything still there goes on a cart and into the deep freeze for the Cleveland Food Bank.Some of it appears at the food pantry give away where I volunteer on thursdays - also great excersize - gotta do it if I wan't to keep tossing back some suds eating dawgs and living like Ralph "Now I Know Why We Play Golf, to Get Away From Our Wives" Kramden

[MrNubbz]

Yup, I stopped.  Losing is one thing, but they are losing and looking bad doing it.  It's depressing.

What do you want from a 212 million dollar payroll? Picky - jeez. Try following the Indians for 5 decades

[Cincydawg]

I think much ado was made about pink slime that was silliness.  That's why it's not a thing any more.  

[847badgerfan]

as with any ground meat
I really don't like paying $4/pound for ground meat

On sale here.

[MrNubbz]

That man has never had to tailgate for an 11 AM start in his life.

Ya and CFB GameDay is a clown show suckfest (in my best Mdot) and is a no go

[MikeDeTiger]

Heh.  I don't mind the 11 AM games but not in August/September.  There should be nothing but night games in Austin until October.

I wish there were nothing but night games in Death Valley, ever.  

[Cincydawg]

When I was a kid, one could buy "real" ground sirloin, it was very tasty if it had the right fat content.  Kroger started labeling their lower fat ground beef as ground sirloin, they have since stopped because it isn't, it's just lower fat.  And not very tasty.

I imagine my butcher shop would do this for me now.

[847badgerfan]

I buy ground sirloin. Publix sells that, and they also sell 93 percent lean. The latter has no taste.