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Is this normal? My wife is a vegetarian, and I just realized I haven't bought beef in a decade. Mostly just chicken (rotisserie and wings/nuggets) and cheap pork cuts for stews.
Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/steak/comments/1jxsnpr/did_i_get_a_good_deal_or_did_i_get_scammed/
I mean, the prices are why people don't eat steak for every meal, if they eat meat to begin with.
But, you can drop some serious bank on fairly meh steaks. I'm lucky I'm that when I can afford something like that, I have family that runs a dairy farm and keep a small number for meat as well. Big pastures, great feed quality, plenty of grass, so the meat is amazing, and I tend to pay less than what a decent steak would be at a store. But even then, I'm looking at about a hundred bucks for my household to have a ribeye each, and there's only four of us. And that's family pricing. He sells way higher than that on the rare occasions when he sells beef to anyone else. Right around 40 USD a pound for the "nicer" cuts.
You already got the answer you were looking for, but I figure the information might be interesting or useful to someone.
I did not know that! The prices put it in retrospective. Thank you.
I never bought a steak before. And I know it'll be wasted on me. Had a $300 steak at a fancy dinner with tech startups and went "ah neat" then went to go get a lamb kabob.
So I don't fully understand the costs.