Crap Meat

Yeah yeah yeah, Walmart is an evil company killing small businesses and all that jazz. Hey, I agree. But when you are on a budget and buying diapers, and they cost almost half the price at Walmart, what are you suppose to do?

So we do shop at Walmart on occasion. We have one of the ‘Super Store’ varieties of Walmart here in town, meaning they sell groceries as well. And if you thought the Diapers were cheap, you should see the prices on their foodstuff.

So I decided to buy meat there. I usually get ALL my meat at a local, small store with a butchers counter. (You don’t see those much anymore.) The meat at the smaller store is great. Always fresh and great tasting. But ground beef is ground beef, right?

No.

I cannot believe how badly the ground beef Walmart sells is. I have tried it three times now, to be fair, and it is simply the most putrid stuff ever. It stinks when you cook it. How the heck can ground beef STINK when you cook it? Seriously, what is that? It is ground beef. Does Walmart use Skunk Cows or something? It literally stunk. I imagine it is some sort of preservative they put in the stuff that I am smelling, but it affects the taste as well. This is simply horrible stuff. Where do the cows from Walmart is using coem from, Peru? Do they kill the cows in Peru and ship it over a month’s time to the U.S.? Ugn’¦

Before you all start posting ‘Don’t support Walmart!’ responses below, I KNOW! Okay, I KNOW. I understand how bad they are as a company. I know how they treat their workers. How they are anti-Union. How they kill an economy of small towns by drying up all the local competitive business by undercutting the price. How they strong-arm every company they deal with like a bunch of mafia thugs. I KNOW.

But knowing all that, there are times I DO shop there. My bad, I know. But I am not alone by any means. Those of you who have a lot of money can be as condemning as you like, but having three kids and a limited income gives you a different perspective on what’s more important: having a heated house in Michigan during a snow storm, or spending twice as much money at a local store to help keep them in business. So don’t judge my shopping occasionally at Walmart until you have lived in my shoes, have three kids to feed and keep warm, and pay my bills. ‘˜K?

Back to the point, if you DO shop at Walmart, do NOT buy their meat. At least the ground beef. I am not convinced it actually IS meat.