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I wonder if the other Boars Head plants also have issues. Avoid the entire brand? What brands have better hygiene?
From this, and linked articles on New York Times, the suggestion is laxed food safety standards are endemic across the entire processed food industry.
Buy your food from a local farmer. It is healthier and tastes better (and doesnt support big agra corps). For everyone that thought boars head was 'premium' you'll be blown away. Even the lowest quality local farms are usually going to be better than the best industrial producers. You can often buy a whole (or half or 1/4) animal. They will have a butcher to process the animals for you. Search for "community supporte…
Not excusing what happened here at all but this assertion and all "buy local" hysteria is simply subjective hippy nonsense.
A few years back some "local" cheese makers got busted with plenty of food safety and quality issues and then you read they're wearing filthy shit-covered boots into the cheese making room.
"Buy local" has zero relationship to food safety or quality.
I wonder if the other Boars Head plants also have issues. Avoid the entire brand? What brands have better hygiene?
From this, and linked articles on New York Times, the suggestion is laxed food safety standards are endemic across the entire processed food industry.
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I always thought Boars Head _was_ the premium brand.
Where I live, both of the two major supermarket chains (Publix x 3, Kroger x 3) with stores within an epsilon of my house feature Boar's Head next to their house brands. Other than the odd Food Depot there are no other grocery corp brands within probably 25 miles. I have historically frequently bought Boar's Head meats from the deli counter because I can get them sliced prosciutto thin and they have the texture to su…
I wonder if the other Boars Head plants also have issues. Avoid the entire brand? What brands have better hygiene?
You can always just go to a butcher.
No point paying the premium (I would have paid double for authentic charcuterie), and then I tried to buy a goose during the Holidays and nope, can't do that. Haven't been back.
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I always thought Boars Head _was_ the premium brand.
Pretty scary how many people get fooled by "premium" branding. Think about what made you think that Boars Head was "premium". Was there any evidence that their meats were higher than average quality, that didn't ultimately come from the company itself? Or was it all their product positioning, price, what stores they were found in and so on (in other words, Marketing).
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Startup cured deli meats sounds like a recipe for distributed delivery of salmonella.
Are these products really "cured" then? Wasn't that a process used to preserve food before the existence of refrigeration? I understand it could be done incorrectly, but I'm also confused at what modern products are exactly.
Buy your food from a local farmer. It is healthier and tastes better (and doesnt support big agra corps). For everyone that thought boars head was 'premium' you'll be blown away. Even the lowest quality local farms are usually going to be better than the best industrial producers. You can often buy a whole (or half or 1/4) animal. They will have a butcher to process the animals for you. Search for "community supporte…
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You can always just go to a butcher.
18 months ago when I moved cross country to the Atlanta area I was delighted and excited to find out that my house was 10 min from a real butcher! OMG, what I always wanted. Then I talked to the counter man (no butcher on site), bought the meats, and then asked some questions about the curing process, and discovered that the reason the meats tasted like Boar's Head is that butcher shop chain (3 stores) explicitly tas…
I wonder if the other Boars Head plants also have issues. Avoid the entire brand? What brands have better hygiene?
I have no idea if they are cleaner or not, but I like their name. :)