Re: AETE? How can I read these
Re: AETE? How can I read these
- Subject: Re: AETE? How can I read these
- From: Malcolm Fitzgerald <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:29:19 +1000
>> It's sort of like going to In-n-Out Burger and asking for your fries
"well-done"
Oh, I do enjoy these cultural snapshots...
;-)
Perhaps some translation is required:
It's sort of like going to an Aussie restaurant and asking for
salad, it's not on the menu, but they'll throw some extra parsley
onto your steak...
Speaking of Aussie steak. Australian beef is particularly lean
because of the free-range farming practices. One particular
world-wide hamburger chain boasts (in australia) about the 100%
whole beef pattie using all Australian beef. I'm sure they have a
form letter which says, "blah blah blah, 100% all <<country>> beef".
But I've been told (God knows where this stuff comes from) that the
Australian beef that they buy is reared on the large cattle holdings
in the Northern Territory and Western Queensland. These cattle run
around in the bush with the camels, water buffalo,donkeys,
kangaroos, emus, goats, dingoes, cats & rabbits, ticks and mosquitoes
(in order of size). Every year they are rounded up with helicopters
and sent to the abattoir. These are skinny, tough old beasts. So
skinny and so tough that their flesh is a lot like shoe leather and
if you mince it you have minced shoe leather. To soften the meat they
have to add beef fats. So we import beef fat to mix with the meat
before being minced. Apparently the fat is sourced from the USA
(where the animals are hand fed and patted by children. I don't know
much about American farming practice - this is what we learn from US
TV). So the claim "100% Australian Beef" is true, they just don't
tell us where the fat is coming from.
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Malcolm Fitzgerald
ph: 02 9130 6124 email@hidden