r/beefanddairynetwork

I haven't had a roast like that since Gary Wilmot's wedding

From one of my favorite websites, Not Always Right:

An old lady asks me:

Customer: “Where is the meat? I have guests coming for dinner, and I need to make them meat.”

I point to the sections that have chicken and pork.

Customer: “No, no, no. The meat. I’m looking for meat!”

I gesture again to the pork and chicken.

Me: “This is all meat.”

Customer: “No! Meat!”

She tuts and storms down the aisle a little further, reaching the beef.

Customer: “Here! See? Meat!”

Me: “Oh, you wanted beef?”

Customer: “Yes! Meat!”

Me: “I got confused because you only said meat; you didn’t specify beef.”

Customer: “The only meat is beef! Beef means meat! Don’t you know that?”

Me: “Uh, ma’am, meat is anything that comes from an animal, cows included.”

Customer: “That’s not true because I don’t eat beef, only chicken and pork, so that makes me a vegetarian.”

I’m about to correct her when I see a supervisor standing close by. He’s shaking his head vigorously, which is his way of saying ‘drop it’.

I let the customer hum along with her shopping, and I get back to what I was doing.

it was just stupid olde English talk: ““For now, Herald, your anus is spared from the blade.”

I’m only posting this because it’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever looked up in deadly earnest.

This isn't exactly news that affects anyone, but a long while ago I did the silly thing where, being recommended a lengthy episodic podcast, I started with the first one and then started every Monday with the next episode (sometimes two if they're short or part of the same two-parter). I've finally caught up after over a year, and now I have to go find some other episodic podcast to listen to on Mondays. Huzzah!

I came across this recipe while reorganizing one of my recipe binders. It's from when my kids were littler & I'd have to be stealthy in order to sneak veggies into them.

I don't know how old it is but I cut it out from the original Taste Of Home magazine back when Reiman Publications owned it & there were no ads. Once Reader's Digest bought it in 2002, it just wasn't the same magazine. Still some good reader submitted recipes but way, way too many advertisements the last time I looked at a copy so I dropped my subscription by 2004 or so.

The lady who submitted this recipe, Vermadel Kirby, said she found it as a handwritten recipe in her grandmother's recipe book & would make it for her grandchildren. I googled Vermadel & she passed away in 2011 @ 89yrs old so this recipe is probably pretty old.

In honor of Vermadel, her grandmother & all the sneaky moms like me who use recipes like this to get veggies into their kids(PS, my husband who HATES beets never knew that there were beets in this moist, chocolate cake) here is the cake.

Beet Bundt Cake

16 - 20 servings

1 C butter or margarine, softened & divided

1-1/2 C packed dark brown sugar

3 eggs

4 squares (1 oz each) semi-sweet chocolate

2 cups pureed cooked beets

2 C all purpose flour

2 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

1 tsp vanilla extract

Confectioners sugar

In a mixing bowl, cream 3/4 C of butter with the brown sugar

Add eggs & mix well

Melt the chocolate with the remaining butter, stir until smooth then cool slightly

Blend the chocolate, beets & vanilla into the creamed mixture. Mixture will appear separated

Mix the flour, baking soda & salt. Then add the flour to the creamed mixture & mix well

Pour the batter into a 10" greased & floured fluted pan

Bake at 375F for 45 - 55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean

Cool in the pan 10 mins before removing to a wire rack

Cool completely

Before serving, dust with confectioners sugar

I know a few years ago there was a huge drive to get the U.K. to think more about the food we’re consuming and the impact on the planet (meat free Mondays, veganuary etc) but I feel like that just faded out.

However, I read this morning that if the U.K. stopped eating beef and drinking cows milk, then our carbon emissions could fall by 5-8%. To me, this feels like a super easy win. No one’s asking us to go vegan or vegetarian and entirely remove meat from our diet, but just eliminating those two things would have a substantial input.

I put it into ChatGPT and even accounting for the increase in emissions to produce alternative milks (like soy, almond or oat) and the increase in alternate meat consumption would still be substantially lower.

If someone said to me tomorrow you can’t eat beef or cows milk ever again it genuinely wouldn’t bother me. I prefer chicken anyway and I only have milk in my coffees and oat tastes better imo, so, would you do it? How hard would you find it?

The obvious answer is of course silly, they exist outside farms and ranches but do they? Have you ever heard of seen a wild cow? Even the term wild cow sounds odd.