JFC....I keep wondering where people leave where food and specifically meat is so $$$$

I live in the New Orleans area....PRIME grade Ribeyes and NYStrips can be had for $10.99 - $13.99/lb.

I llike to buy whole ribeye or strip roasts (usually at Costco) and cut into steaks myself, then vac seal and freeze them.

I know prices are going up...but geez....to me that was $1.99/lb for whole briskets going to over $5/lb (prime) these days.....makes my favorite BBQ meat more expensive.

Pork shoulders (Boston butt) was quite often $0.99/lb just a few months back, but of late the lowest price I find on those is $1.27/lb or so...

A whole top sirloin sub primal is like $8.88/lb this week at our regular grocery store....I'm going to get one of those and cut into pichanas.....sirloin steaks AND...cube up a bunch to marinate for shish-k-bobs.....

If food was really that fucking $$ in SD...I think I'd be moving out of that place pronto.....

Hey great....MORE MEAT FOR ME!!

I just love to eat me some 'dead animals"....

I'm not at all ashamed to be on top of the food chain.

natural/animal based casings are more expensive, "most" sausages you get in supermarkets etc are artificial casings.

Err...where do you live where this is true?

I can't remember the last time I was in a grocery store and saw a sausage that was NOT natural casings....

Hell, I go back to the butcher in the back and buy my natural casings from them for my home made sausages......they use natural and hence I buy from them so I can have a ready supply as needed.

And not this isn't a "butcher shop"....regular grocery stores in the area.

Well, there is SOMETHING going on today with younger boys/men....

I think it has to be in the foods....I'm seeing so many young men today, who are just looking feminine...

So many young men now, seem to have high voices....less and less am I hearing men speak like myself and my peers do...naturally in a lower register....

They look more femininie in the face structure too it seems...

So, whether or not it is phytoestrogens.....SOMETHING is affecting young men these days.

I personally don't eat red meats very much anymore due to the unhealthy factor. But the funny thing is that the vegetarian/vegan versions are probably just as processed (or even more processed) and just as unhealthy as the meat versions, and I wouldn't eat those either...

Processed?

I mean steak....it's meat cut off the animal...pretty simple, not processed much at all really.

Hell, even the sausages I make....I save all the trim off my briskets and pork shoulders I buy for my smoker and make sausage....I grind up meat and fat, and mix in some seasonings...I DO add a bit of powdered milk many times and some pink salt (nitrates) at times if I am needing to ensure I have some preservatives if needed (depends on how I'm cooking or smoking it).

So I guess that is somewhat processed, but aside from just chopping, grinding and mixing with seasonings, and stuffing in a casing, I don't consider that to be very processed at all as a sausage.

The thing being is..."I" can do this at home.

Now...to get a vegetarian version of some of these things....like vegetairn "meat"....you pretty much need a lab and chemicals and processes I cannot realistically get for home use....

I tend to eat keto leaning carnivore.....I cook mostly from scratch...and I do love veggies too, BUT...I eat my veggies in a state that starts with the real thing and doesn't take a lot of processing other than chopping or maybe pureeing in a blender....

But that's far from the prepared "veggie" foods you buy on shelves, especially the ones that try to be. Veggie "meat" or "Milk" or "cheeses".....

I don't find read meat (or chicken or pork or seafoods) to be unhealthy...in fact when I concentrate on eating largely carnivor or keto...my health seems to improve substantially.

Eating that way, I feel better, sleep better and my bloodwork numbers look good.....

I think it's the heavy commercial processed foods that need a lab are the things that are killing folks.....not a simple sausage.

A simple common sausage is just using up the scraps of meat from steaks and roasts....so as not to waste food.

Hey, the US is doing it's part to help India on this grid problem.

Hoping the $100K per H1B policy kicking in, helps return jobs to the US and relieve that job strain on people and resources (like the grid) over there.

Hmm.....interesting.

"I'm Brian...err.....I'm an Artist....and so is my wife!!"

A more interesting question I think is, does anyone own this AI actress?

That is to say - if a company took her likeness, and used other AI to make porn - could "her" agent sue them?

Or in other words, is a purely AI generated likeness even copyrightable, when technically no human made it?

Yeah, people seem to forget that this is also a guy who constantly parked in handicap spots even while he was perfectly healthy just because he thought that he was more important than everyone else and shouldn't have to walk as much. And when the started getting tickets for it, he would just lease a new car every few months just to he could drive around without a license plate.

On the other hand...a nice way to 'hack' the system...

and today, when everyone at their goat has a handicapped tag drives up in a jacked up jeep or F150 or vette and hops out of the handicapped place looking just fine....why not.

It's now vanity parking for most folks out there these days it seems....

Sure, capitalism may suck in many ways...

But it's still FAR better than anything else out there to choose from.....we've seen that vividly over history....

Since it is a 'female' AI that's doing the acting...shouldn't the term be "actress"...?

It's too bad....I would definitely have been in a market for a 2nd version of the Apple Vision....lower the price a little...ditch the external TV "face" display...and maybe a little weight and I'd have been all over it.

I find myself often putting angle brackets "P" and other tags while typing on other sites...haha.

I have it so ingrained from being here for so long...

Well, that's the long stated thing about socialist type policies....at some point you run out of other peoples' money to spend...

Not happening.....the people getting pulled off streets, detained AND deported....are not US citizens.

Fuck'em...get them outta here.