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ReynardMuldrake 04-05-2013 11:20 AM

Goodbye pork chops, hello Denver steak!
 
WTF did Denver and Boston do to get a steak named after them?

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BBQ fans, brace yourselves: "Pork butt" will soon be a thing of the past.

In an effort to boost sales just ahead of the U.S. grilling season, and make shopping at the meat counter a bit easier, the pork and beef industries are retooling more than 350 names of meat cuts to give them more sizzle and consumer appeal.

The revised nomenclature emerged after two years of consumer research, which found that the labels on packages of fresh cuts of pork and beef are confusing to shoppers, said Patrick Fleming, director of retail marketing for trade group National Pork Board.

A stroll down the meat aisle had become baffling for shoppers looking for a steak. When they would see packages of "butler steak" or "beef shoulder top blade steak, boneless, flat iron" - they would walk away with an empty cart, said Trevor Amen, director of market intelligence for the Beef Checkoff Program.

So recently, the National Pork Board and the Beef Checkoff Program, with the blessing of officials with USDA, got the nod to update the Uniform Retail Meat Identification Standards, or URMIS. Though the URMIS system is voluntary, a majority of U.S. food retailers use it.

So pork and beef industry officials say they hope the new names will show up in stores nationwide by this summer's grilling season.

If it does, the lowly "pork chop" will be gone. Instead, grocery retailers could be stocking stacks of "porterhouse chops," "ribeye chops" and "New York chops." The pork butt - which actually comes from shoulder meat - will be called a Boston roast.

"One of our biggest challenges has been the general belief among consumers that a pork chop is a pork chop," said Fleming. "But not all pork chops are equal, and not all pork chops are priced equally."

So much for pork being known as the other white meat--a label the pork industry used for years to lure consumers away from chicken.

In the beef aisle, a boneless shoulder top blade steak will become a flatiron steak, a beef under blade boneless steak will become a Denver Steak. Not all names in the meat counter will change - ground beef will still be ground beef.

The new retail names will also come with new labels for retail packages, which will tell consumers what part of the animal's body the cut comes from, as well as include suggested cooking instructions.

This marketing move comes at a challenging time for the nation's livestock sector, which has wrestled with historic high grain prices and devastating droughts.

Also domestic sales have been slow as the relatively cool spring has quashed consumer interest in breaking out the backyard grill.

While fresh beef and pork cuts have official names that are approved by USDA, compliance with using those naming conventions is voluntary for the industry, said Sam Jones-Ellard, spokesman for USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service.

"There won't be any changes to our naming conventions, but we're supportive of this," Jones-Ellard said. "Anything that simplifies the names of cuts of meat is a good thing for consumers."
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/us-m...eyes-1C9213219

Dayze 04-05-2013 11:22 AM

probably made donkey poop, and cooked in a pan using cooking spray.

Should have a menu item called "The Denver Chop Block" * (* house specialty)

Bowser 04-05-2013 11:23 AM

BOOOOOO

Just Passin' By 04-05-2013 11:25 AM

So, what they're really saying is that they're going to jack the prices up even more.

BigMeatballDave 04-05-2013 11:25 AM

The pork shoulder has been called the Boston Butt for as long as I can remember.

Donger 04-05-2013 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Dayze (Post 9559171)
Should have a menu item called "The Denver Chop Block" * (* house specialty)

Heh. One of the better steak joints in Denver is the Denver Chop House.

Bowser 04-05-2013 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Dave (Post 9559182)
The pork shoulder has been called the Boston Butt for as long as I can remember.

Really? The Pork Shoulder has been called the "Pork Shoulder" for as long as I can remember.

Dayze 04-05-2013 11:28 AM

"Thank My Lucky Stars I Had a Running Back Sundae" Elway Favorite

Stewie 04-05-2013 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Bowser (Post 9559187)
Really? The Pork Shoulder has been called the "Pork Shoulder" for as long as I can remember.

The pork shoulder is the entire cut. It contains both the butt and picnic cut. The butt portion has had the name Boston attached to it for a long time.

BigMeatballDave 04-05-2013 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Bowser (Post 9559187)
Really? The Pork Shoulder has been called the "Pork Shoulder" for as long as I can remember.

LOL

You've never heard a pork shoulder called a Boston Butt?

BigMeatballDave 04-05-2013 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Stewie (Post 9559194)
The pork shoulder is the entire cut. It contains both the butt and picnic cut. The butt portion has had the name Boston attached to it for a long time.

The 'Butt' refers to how it was stored.

Dayze 04-05-2013 11:30 AM

"I'll have the playoff combo. With fries. And could I get pickles on the side? Oh, and hold the Gonzalez"

KCUnited 04-05-2013 11:30 AM

Boston Butt is a specific way the shoulder is cut, it's not the entire pork shoulder.

Just Passin' By 04-05-2013 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Bowser (Post 9559187)
Really? The Pork Shoulder has been called the "Pork Shoulder" for as long as I can remember.

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Don’t be too grossed out when you hear this name; it doesn’t mean “butt” as in “rear end” – the cut actually comes from the front shoulder of the pig. So why “butt”? During colonial days New England butchers tended to take less prized cuts of pork like these and pack them into barrels for storage and transport. The barrels the pork went into were called butts. This particular shoulder cut became known around the country as a New England specialty, and hence it became the “Boston butt.”
http://www.curiousread.com/2009/08/h...eir-names.html

Easy 6 04-05-2013 11:31 AM

Denver already has an omelette, **** them.

BigMeatballDave 04-05-2013 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by KCUnited (Post 9559202)
Boston Butt is a specific way the shoulder is cut, it's not the entire pork shoulder.

Correct. I should have been more specific.

http://www.foodsubs.com/Photos/porkshoulderroast.jpg

Chief_For_Life58 04-05-2013 11:32 AM

230am illegal petes is the only place in denver worth eating at

BigMeatballDave 04-05-2013 11:33 AM

http://pickledpig.files.wordpress.co...pork-cuts1.gif

Stewie 04-05-2013 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Dave (Post 9559199)
The 'Butt' refers to how it was stored.

That may have been true 200 years ago, but it's a specific cut now. You don't buy pork butt because it's stored in a certain manner.

Dayze 04-05-2013 11:34 AM

No Cap Special - Drink all the beer you want for $50. There's no limit on how much you can drink if you don't get caught

Nzoner 04-05-2013 11:36 AM

"ground beef will still be called ground beef." LMAO

Beef Supreme 04-05-2013 11:37 AM

Soylent Green is people.

BigMeatballDave 04-05-2013 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Stewie (Post 9559215)
That may have been true 200 years ago, but it's a specific cut now. You don't buy pork butt because it's stored in a certain manner.

I'm just saying that is how the name came about.

Boston was the style of cut, and Butt is how they were stored.

Frazod 04-05-2013 11:39 AM

Shouldn't a Denver steak be made out of horse meat?

Dayze 04-05-2013 11:40 AM

the probably have huge toothpicks.

Easy 6 04-05-2013 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Nzoner (Post 9559221)
"ground beef will still be called ground beef." LMAO

"fun time cookout sludge"

ReynardMuldrake 04-05-2013 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Nzoner (Post 9559221)
"ground beef will still be called ground beef." LMAO

Unless it comes from ground up manatees. Then it's called sea beef.

Stewie 04-05-2013 11:46 AM

What the hell kind of cut is the "Denver Steak" anyway? A "beef under blade boneless steak" has always been 2nd on my list after a ribeye. WTF?

Demonpenz 04-05-2013 02:28 PM

cincinatti bowtie

Fish 04-05-2013 02:47 PM

WTF is the point?

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In the beef aisle, a boneless shoulder top blade steak will become a flatiron steak, a beef under blade boneless steak will become a Denver Steak.
What does that change? Are people going to know what cut a "Denver Steak" is if they didn't know what a "Beef under blade boneless steak" cut is?

How is "Flatiron steak" or "Denver Steak" more descriptive about the cut or what section it comes from? Seems like the opposite to me.

Knowing where your food comes from is too confusing. We'll just call this the Happy Meat, and that one is the Liberty Steak, and that is ground Freedom burger. Hooray for Idiocracy...

BlackHelicopters 04-05-2013 03:09 PM

Great E-Bayer. Would recommend.

Chest Rockwell 04-05-2013 03:46 PM

Mother**** anything associated with Denver except Modern Drunkard Magazine.

Oh, and Rain Man/other Chiefs fans there. God bless those guys.

Consistent1 04-05-2013 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Chest Rockwell (Post 9559830)
Mother**** anything associated with Denver except Modern Drunkard Magazine.

Oh, and Rain Man/other Chiefs fans there. God bless those guys.

Modern Drunkard, lol. I check out that site from time to time. Pretty entertaining.

Buck 04-05-2013 04:15 PM

This sucks.

Chest Rockwell 04-05-2013 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Consistent1 (Post 9559976)
Modern Drunkard, lol. I check out that site from time to time. Pretty entertaining.

Lots of excellent info in there, but Rule #35 changed my life.

OrtonsPiercedTaint 04-05-2013 05:33 PM

Good. Move all the mega hog farms to Colorado so they can spray the watered down hog shit on their beans fields.

Hog's Gone Fishin 04-05-2013 05:43 PM

This thread Sucks !

Psyko Tek 04-05-2013 07:36 PM

so wtf is a KC strip?

Mojo Jojo 04-05-2013 07:55 PM

KC Strip and NY Strip are the same cuts. In older days KC had the bone left in and NY had no bone.


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