I had a "shower thought" the other day; what if the reason people in the 50s used less spices is because before factory farming the meat actually tasted good.
The A&W ads make me laugh so much. "Grass fed beef". Yeah, every fucking beef steer in Canada eats grass for most of his life. The question is when and how he's fed grain/how long he's on a feedlot for.
I had a rancher for a neighbour years and years ago who used to come over for dinner; one time he brought over some of his own beef, a yearling who'd eaten nothing but grass, so we could sample what the difference was.
If those A&W burgers had been from cattle that ate nothing but grass, their customers would complain that it doesn't taste like beef at all (it tasted very "wild".)
The best stuff to get, frankly, is when the cattle are pasture-raised, but supplemented with grain all the way along, and maybe finished on it (but not in a feedlot.) It costs, though.
I had a "shower thought" the other day; what if the reason people in the 50s used less spices is because before factory farming the meat actually tasted good.
Read The Dorito Effect.
There's a huge chunk of the book devoted to chicken and how post-World War 2 factory farming obliterated a once healthy and flavorful meat.
Reason some of the best chicken and beef I ever had were straight from the farmer.
you may have tasted difference between mass produced and quality produced meat
The A&W ads make me laugh so much. "Grass fed beef". Yeah, every fucking beef steer in Canada eats grass for most of his life. The question is when and how he's fed grain/how long he's on a feedlot for.
I had a rancher for a neighbour years and years ago who used to come over for dinner; one time he brought over some of his own beef, a yearling who'd eaten nothing but grass, so we could sample what the difference was.
If those A&W burgers had been from cattle that ate nothing but grass, their customers would complain that it doesn't taste like beef at all (it tasted very "wild".)
The best stuff to get, frankly, is when the cattle are pasture-raised, but supplemented with grain all the way along, and maybe finished on it (but not in a feedlot.) It costs, though.
I grew up eating chicken that wasn't factory farmed and didn't understand the 'tastes like chicken' meme until later in life.
It's like, motherfucker, the only thing that tastes like chicken is chicken. Can't confuse it for anything else.