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Skriven 2014-12-29 12:37:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: scammed by giant 522
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So Annie wants me to help cook a big dinner for
the people who had had us over for Christmas. I
put together a menu of mixed Chinese styles:

spring rolls
moo goo gai pan
orange beef
cumin lamb with potatoes
Peking duck
bok choy in white sauce.

But a couple things have happened.

1. I've gotten all of a sudden very tired. Anyhow,
she had to be nuts to pull the Peking duck request
especially with short notice

2. I pulled out the beef for orange beef, which
she said was a sirloin that she'd gotten on sale.
Well. It was in fact a lean chuck shoulder clod
with the original label partially obscured by the
sale sticker. And down underneath there was a
giant Giant sign that said "USDA graded." Given
the leanness and the ugliness of the grain it is
clear that the grade, not divulged, was Select at
best, and no way was I going to attempt to cut
that up for stir-fry. I pointed this out to Annie
semi-politely but grumpily, not divulging my full
thoughts, which were along the lines of nobody who
wasn't born blonde would have mistaken this piece
of meat for a sirloin, and though Giant had
deliberately misled the customer with the "USDA
graded" label, no sensible person should have
fallen for that. So I cubed the whole thing into
1 1/2" cubes and dumped it into a crockpot with
star anise, garlic, ginger, soy, sherry, and broth.
It'll go overnight and then some, and by dinnertime
tomorrow it should be reasonably tender.

Revised menu, a compromise:

crab rangoons (her idea, and I'll make her make them)
seared duck breast appetizer with orange-soy glaze
  (I can do this in my sleep, and chances are I will
  be asleep)
chicken with peanuts (her idea, ditto)
Taiwanese beef noodle soup (minimal energy required
  as the crockpot has done all the work, so I'll put
  it together)
no lamb at all probably (I'm tired)
bok choy sauceless to go in the noodle soup.

The main rant herein is shame on you, Giant, for taking
an overage and almost inedibly lean shoulder clod and
putting a sale sticker on it - and charging $4.19/lb as
the "sale" price. Why would anyone go to Giant when they
could go to Wegman's?

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