>Hola Carlos,
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>It's not really their fault. This pobre gente here buy whatever meat they can find in the supermarket. It's usually 90% hormones & drugs and 10% dead cow (if that's what it really is). Absolutely tasteless. Even those world-famous steak houses that you find in NY where you pay $25 for a chunk of meat are pathetic.
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>That's why BBQ sauces are so popular here. In our countries (I'm from venezuela) we just sprinkle the meat with some rock salt and we have a real meal (no marinade BS).
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>Eating US meat is to food like making love for reproductive purposes alone. Shameful.
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>I found a place near my house that sells entrania and that's all we buy. The funny thing is that it comes from Canada!
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>Alex

I imagine that in the NY-NJ area you have lots of markets, some of them kosher or halal, that buy from small farmers and sell to people who know the difference. I tend to eat lamb from a friend who has a couple dozen sheep up in Pennsylvania. No hormones, no feedlot.