Asian Packaging

Steve Wertz said:

This is a picture food (I think) I bought yesterday.

http://tinypic.com/fullsize.php?pic=62qd34yhttp://tinypic.com/fullsize.php?pic=5x3z9xv

All I knew is that it's 100% - Something. You have to admit the
proverbs make it interesting:

"Attention: The product would be no shined at long time".
"Please Keep the Clean!"
"Don't eat with swelled bag or leak gas".

I mean, how could one possibly pass up messages that would appear
to have come from your ex-wife's Mother-in-Law?

-sw

What I want to know is: how did they know about your leaking gas
problem?
Or for that matter, your swelled bag?
But they did warn you to keep THE clean, didn't they?
This is so funny.

Dee Dee

Steve Wertz said:

This is a picture food (I think) I bought yesterday.

http://tinypic.com/fullsize.php?pic=62qd34y
http://tinypic.com/fullsize.php?pic=5x3z9xv

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Have you figured out what it is yet?
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Quoted message said:

This is a picture food (I think) I bought yesterday.

http://tinypic.com/fullsize.php?pic=62qd34y
http://tinypic.com/fullsize.php?pic=5x3z9xv

All I knew is that it's 100% - Something. You have to admit the
proverbs make it interesting:

"Attention: The product would be no shined at long time".
"Please Keep the Clean!"
"Don't eat with swelled bag or leak gas".

I mean, how could one possibly pass up messages that would appear
to have come from your ex-wife's Mother-in-Law?

-sw

www.engrish.com

Chatty Cathy said:

Steve Wertz said:

This is a picture of food (I think) I bought yesterday.

http://tinypic.com/fullsize.php?pic=62qd34y
http://tinypic.com/fullsize.php?pic=5x3z9xv

Have you figured out what it is yet?

I kinda knew what it was before I bought it. Turns out it was
what I thought i was.

:-)

-sw

Steve Wertz said:

I kinda knew what it was before I bought it. Turns out it was
what I thought i was.

:-)

So... throw me a bone here - WTF is it? LOL

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Chatty Cathy said:

Steve Wertz said:

I kinda knew what it was before I bought it. Turns out it was
what I thought i was.

:-)

So... throw me a bone here - WTF is it? LOL

Obviously they don't want to say what it is! <wink>

OK. It's a kind of marinated daikon. A kimchi of sorts.
If anybody reads Chinese (or whatever that is), I'd like to hear
the ingredients. I guess it's a "trade secret".

-sw [Ruff! Patter, patter patter]

I wish the same thing- I was in our favorite Asian grocery store just
this last week. Their produce is incredible, and it's fun just to look
around at all the stuff you have no idea WTF it is. We were looking at
the fish & meat area, when we saw whole beef tenderloins for $4.99 a
lb. They looked great as does everything else, so we bought one. Took
it home and cut off the silver muscle/tendon thing, and then cut about
12 nice little steaks. We grilled a few, and put the rest in the
freezer. They were very good. So the next day, I'm thinking about
seeing if they were still on sale, and asked someone in our office if
he wanted one. He was leery, and I asked why. He wondered if they were
USDA inspected, which was the first time it crossed my mind, to be
honest. So after work, we stopped back by the store, and sure enough-
no mention of USDA. I feel really stupid for not even thinking about
it to begin with, but this store is immaculate. So I guess my great
deal isn't as great as I thought, and it will probably go in the
garbage.

On Jul 16, 4:25 pm, merryb <[email hidden]> wrote:
[snips] ... So after work, we stopped back by the store, and sure
enough-

Quoted message said:

no mention of USDA. I feel really stupid for not even thinking about
it to begin with, but this store is immaculate. So I guess my great
deal isn't as great as I thought, and it will probably go in the
garbage.

Where did you look for a "mention of USDA." Did you ask the people in
the meat department, or look for a USDA stamp on a lot of pieces, or
what?

Last article I saw about beef safety had to do with Chinese inspectors
refusing to let some American beef into China, so I wouldn't
presuppose that beef bought at Costco or Kroger's was necessarily
safer than beef bought at your local Asian market. -aem

Quoted message said:

Where did you look for a "mention of USDA." Did you ask the people in
the meat department, or look for a USDA stamp on a lot of pieces, or
what?

Last article I saw about beef safety had to do with Chinese inspectors
refusing to let some American beef into China, so I wouldn't
presuppose that beef bought at Costco or Kroger's was necessarily
safer than beef bought at your local Asian market. -aem

I looked at the packaging label, and also for the blue stamp you can
see on the meat itself sometimes- nada. It did say inspected, but not
by whom.

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Steve Wertz said:

Chatty Cathy said:

Steve Wertz said:

This is a picture of food (I think) I bought yesterday.

http://tinypic.com/fullsize.php?pic=62qd34y
http://tinypic.com/fullsize.php?pic=5x3z9xv

Have you figured out what it is yet?

I kinda knew what it was before I bought it. Turns out it was
what I thought i was.

:-)

-sw

And what were you?

<g>
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merryb said:

I wish the same thing- I was in our favorite Asian grocery store just
this last week. Their produce is incredible, and it's fun just to look
around at all the stuff you have no idea WTF it is. We were looking at
the fish & meat area, when we saw whole beef tenderloins for $4.99 a
lb. They looked great as does everything else, so we bought one. Took
it home and cut off the silver muscle/tendon thing, and then cut about
12 nice little steaks. We grilled a few, and put the rest in the
freezer. They were very good. So the next day, I'm thinking about
seeing if they were still on sale, and asked someone in our office if
he wanted one. He was leery, and I asked why. He wondered if they were
USDA inspected, which was the first time it crossed my mind, to be
honest. So after work, we stopped back by the store, and sure enough-
no mention of USDA. I feel really stupid for not even thinking about
it to begin with, but this store is immaculate. So I guess my great
deal isn't as great as I thought, and it will probably go in the
garbage.

Why???

If you are not doubled over with food poisoning within 8 hours, why toss
the rest of it?

You are way too paranoid.

None of my home processed poultry (or emu or goat) was ever USDA
inspected either.

Neither is a significant portion of US carcasses.

Do you really think they have the manpower to inspect EVERY SINGLE
slaughtered animal?

Only a percentage of them are checked.

Get over it. ;-)
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merryb said:

We grilled a few, and put the rest in the
freezer. They were very good. So the next day, I'm thinking about
seeing if they were still on sale, and asked someone in our office if
he wanted one. He was leery, and I asked why. He wondered if they were
USDA inspected, which was the first time it crossed my mind, to be
honest. So after work, we stopped back by the store, and sure enough-
no mention of USDA. I feel really stupid for not even thinking about
it to begin with, but this store is immaculate. So I guess my great
deal isn't as great as I thought, and it will probably go in the
garbage.

Technically, all beef sold in the US is USDA inspected for
wholesomeness. With the imported beef and many of the local
slaughterhouses, this just means their facilities and feedlots
are inspected (every few weeks), not each individual cow.

Most of the beef you'll see in the US markets is really
grown/raised here. The imported beef is usually sold wholesale
for use in cheap restaurants and pet food.

-sw

merryb said:

I looked at the packaging label, and also for the blue stamp you can
see on the meat itself sometimes- nada. It did say inspected, but not
by whom.

A blue stamp would indicate USDA Prime graded beef. Grading is
different than "inspected" - which is a white/clear label -of iot
even exists at all. It's implied many times, depending on how
it's packaged.

-sw

Steve Wertz said:

Most of the beef you'll see in the US markets is really
grown/raised here. The imported beef is usually sold wholesale
for use in cheap restaurants and pet food.

-sw

A notable exception is Trader Joe's; I buy beef there regularly, especially
flank steak, which is about 2/3rds of the price local grocery stores charge.
All of TJs beef (that I have seen) comes packaged clearly labelled
"Australian ...." ... flank steak/ribeye/shaved-beef-steak/etc and is as
good in quality as any of our (St Louis metropolitan area) grocers have to
offer. I have one of the flank steaks marinating now, for fajitas tonight.
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Steve Wertz said:

Chatty Cathy said:

Steve Wertz said:

I kinda knew what it was before I bought it. Turns out it was
what I thought i was.

:-)

So... throw me a bone here - WTF is it? LOL

Obviously they don't want to say what it is! <wink>

OK. It's a kind of marinated daikon. A kimchi of sorts.
If anybody reads Chinese (or whatever that is), I'd like to hear
the ingredients. I guess it's a "trade secret".

-sw [Ruff! Patter, patter patter]

how do you store it after you open the bag? other than keeping the
clean, etc.

your pal,
blake

Steve Wertz said:

OK. It's a kind of marinated daikon. A kimchi of sorts.

Aha!

Quoted message said:

If anybody reads Chinese (or whatever that is), I'd like to hear
the ingredients. I guess it's a "trade secret".

Me three.

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Chatty Cathy

Quoted message said:

If you are not doubled over with food poisoning within 8 hours, why toss
the rest of it?

I haven't tossed it yet!

Quoted message said:

You are way too paranoid.

Yes & no...that's why I posted about it. Like I had said, this store
is beautiful, and everyone shopping there looks perfectly healthy, so
I would hate to toss it.

Quoted message said:

None of my home processed poultry (or emu or goat) was ever USDA
inspected either.

Neither were my grandma's steers, and no problem there, but as I
thought about it, I don't know if I had ever had anything that wasn't
USDA inspected.

Quoted message said:

Neither is a significant portion of US carcasses.

Do you really think they have the manpower to inspect EVERY SINGLE
slaughtered animal?

I'm not that naive!

Quoted message said:

Only a percentage of them are checked.

Get over it. ;-)

Ok!

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merryb said:

Quoted message said:

If you are not doubled over with food poisoning within 8 hours, why toss
the rest of it?

I haven't tossed it yet!

Quoted message said:

You are way too paranoid.

Yes & no...that's why I posted about it. Like I had said, this store
is beautiful, and everyone shopping there looks perfectly healthy, so
I would hate to toss it.

Quoted message said:

None of my home processed poultry (or emu or goat) was ever USDA
inspected either.

Neither were my grandma's steers, and no problem there, but as I
thought about it, I don't know if I had ever had anything that wasn't
USDA inspected.

Quoted message said:

Neither is a significant portion of US carcasses.

Do you really think they have the manpower to inspect EVERY SINGLE
slaughtered animal?

I'm not that naive!

Quoted message said:

Only a percentage of them are checked.

Get over it. ;-)

Ok!

Sounds like you are good to go... <g>
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