Regarding the meat crisis; perhaps it is better to use exclusively pre-packaged meat and poultry like those available at your local Pathmark (Empire, Aarons, increasingly some MealMart, etc.). They are sealed and hechshered by the schlachthaus with the reputation of certain big national kashrus agencies on the line. Also, independent quality audits will expose intersite tampering quite readily as big national chain supermarkets have 0 tolerance for that sort of thing in their product mix.
Knowing what I do about corporate quality initiatives I feel pretty safe relying on the latter.
Are you kidding me? Do you have any idea how expensive those pre-packed bags of meat and chicken are? Nobody would ever conform to that, especially since Kosher meat is so comparatively so expensive as it is.
"Are you kidding me? Do you have any idea how expensive those pre-packed bags of meat and chicken are?"
Pre-packaged Aaron's quartered chickens are $2.10/lb at the local big-box supermarket in my "out of town" community. Also, cubed cholent meat is $5.29/lb in an hermetically sealed Cryovac tray. Maybe my perspective is a bit limited but those seems pretty reasonable.
OH, SORRY. For some reason I thought you were referring to pre-packaged and ready to cook meat and poultry. Those are 4-5 times as expensive. You should come shop in New York, you're paying waaay too much......
"For some reason I thought you were referring to pre-packaged and ready to cook meat and poultry."
Yes, those have always been a rip-off.
"You should come shop in New York, you're paying waaay too much"
When I do get to NYC on that rare occasion I do load up the truck on cases of broilers and a few meat items. Barring that, however, I am left with the choice of a few local butcher shops (some of dubious provenance) and an increasing number of supermarkets offering pre-packaged kosher in the meat case.
BTW, for the past few Yom Tov seasons, a small butcher shop about 30 miles from me complained that his main suppliers kept coming up short in filling his orders. Meanwhile the supermarket shelves were simply sagging under the huge stocks of kosher product, including large deckel roasts and the like. It seems that the producers/distributors/etc. are taking care of their big-box customers first during the crunch seasons. The business would seem to be shifting away from the traditional little guys; at least out here in "galus".
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Regarding the meat crisis; perhaps it is better to use exclusively pre-packaged meat and poultry like those available at your local Pathmark (Empire, Aarons, increasingly some MealMart, etc.). They are sealed and hechshered by the schlachthaus with the reputation of certain big national kashrus agencies on the line. Also, independent quality audits will expose intersite tampering quite readily as big national chain supermarkets have 0 tolerance for that sort of thing in their product mix.
Knowing what I do about corporate quality initiatives I feel pretty safe relying on the latter.
Are you kidding me? Do you have any idea how expensive those pre-packed bags of meat and chicken are? Nobody would ever conform to that, especially since Kosher meat is so comparatively so expensive as it is.
"Are you kidding me? Do you have any idea how expensive those pre-packed bags of meat and chicken are?"
Pre-packaged Aaron's quartered chickens are $2.10/lb at the local big-box supermarket in my "out of town" community. Also, cubed cholent meat is $5.29/lb in an hermetically sealed Cryovac tray. Maybe my perspective is a bit limited but those seems pretty reasonable.
OH, SORRY. For some reason I thought you were referring to pre-packaged and ready to cook meat and poultry. Those are 4-5 times as expensive. You should come shop in New York, you're paying waaay too much......
"For some reason I thought you were referring to pre-packaged and ready to cook meat and poultry."
Yes, those have always been a rip-off.
"You should come shop in New York, you're paying waaay too much"
When I do get to NYC on that rare occasion I do load up the truck on cases of broilers and a few meat items. Barring that, however, I am left with the choice of a few local butcher shops (some of dubious provenance) and an increasing number of supermarkets offering pre-packaged kosher in the meat case.
BTW, for the past few Yom Tov seasons, a small butcher shop about 30 miles from me complained that his main suppliers kept coming up short in filling his orders. Meanwhile the supermarket shelves were simply sagging under the huge stocks of kosher product, including large deckel roasts and the like. It seems that the producers/distributors/etc. are taking care of their big-box customers first during the crunch seasons. The business would seem to be shifting away from the traditional little guys; at least out here in "galus".
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