Difference between Grocery shopping : FL vs CA

Dragonlady8 · Black Widow Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 9198

What you can't get in FL: ( Central FL at least)

- hard liquor, you must go to a liquor store
- you can't special order Tri Tip it's not popular here
- good corn/flour tortillas don't exist

BUT YOU CAN GET :
a can of Heinz Spotted Dick

Rolling Eyes

Leggester · Posted: Jun 13, 2005 3:02 pm Post subject:

Spotted Dick's good.

Better than sushi stuff...

jryoung · Ladies Man Joined: 19 Mar 2004 Posts: 7664 City: Man Jose

Just another reason why I wouldn't ever live in Florida, but hey housing is affordable. Rolling Eyes

(the comedic emoticon trifecta)

Buergday · Guest

What the hell is spotted dick? Like a fish or something?

vawakemonster · Posted: Jun 13, 2005 3:06 pm Post subject:

Buergday, un-zip your pants...youll see Laughing

Leggester · Posted: Jun 13, 2005 3:06 pm Post subject:

Try London Broil Sandwich Dlady. Same difference.

Beurg, google is your friend....

8824 · Posted: Jun 13, 2005 4:40 pm Post subject:

Beurg, google is your friend....[/quote]

LMAO

A friend of mine turned me on to google when it was a beta version. Google is my friend.

How many dsicussions get resolved at google?

arof · Posted: Jun 13, 2005 4:57 pm Post subject:

Dragonlady8 · Black Widow Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 9198

Leggester- London Broil is NOT the same as Tri-tip

Buergday just for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_dick

gswake · Posted: Jun 13, 2005 7:00 pm Post subject:

Sometimes, you just gotta wonder about those Brits...

NVChickadee · Posted: Jun 13, 2005 7:05 pm Post subject:

Hmmm, I don't care what the name is - all of those ingregients mixed together sound disgusting! Puppy Eyes

Leggester · Posted: Jun 14, 2005 5:21 am Post subject:

Dlady, any damn meat you have to cut on the bias is basically crap. Flank steak IS tri-tip/london broil... ...

NVC - tru blood pudding sometime. Shocked

marcg · Addict Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 944 City: Salt Lake City

Jeff206 · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 1002

gotta love Hawaii hard liquor on every corner in the ABC stores. Laughing

NAW · Posted: Jun 14, 2005 7:24 am Post subject:

I followed the tri-tip discussion a while back...now, it's flank steak right? At least, that's what we call it in the midwest.

Having lived in Florida for 17 years, I never experienced it till I moved here.

Leggester · Posted: Jun 14, 2005 7:29 am Post subject:

Yep, same thing except to californians.

jryoung · Ladies Man Joined: 19 Mar 2004 Posts: 7664 City: Man Jose

Sounds to me like Flank, London, and Tri-tip are three different things.
FYI, Tri-tip was in WA too.

marcg · Addict Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 944 City: Salt Lake City

http://www.askthemeatman.com/hind_qt_cuts.htm

"Trip tip" comes from the sirloin tip section....flank comes from its own dedicated section.

But yeah good luck asking for a cut outside of the Shortloin area (Strip, T-Bone, Porter House etc. etc.) in a Florida restaurant....only the prime cuts get served in the restaurants.

marcg · Addict Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 944 City: Salt Lake City

This site has every single cut you can get:

http://www.yellowsheet.com/retail/

.......and just to put the argument to rest, London broil comes from the upper portion of the "Round section" I believe.

and No I am not a butcher Smile

..........the furthest I try and stray is the "Top Sirloin" section when I feel like being cheap and getting a massive amount of cut....Trip Tip is a little more tough I believe.....though I will say Flank steak is pretty good when marinated correctly if you don't mind sawing and chewing.

Leggester · Posted: Jun 14, 2005 9:05 am Post subject:

Uh, it's all from the skirt/flank cuts ain't it.

Again, though. ANY cut that require cross grain servings, cut on the bias, will generally be a tougher part of the animal.

chavez · RIP MHL 04/25/1958 - 01/11/2006

Leggester, but tri-tip isn't tough. I mean it ain't soft, but it certainly isn't tough.

Dees · Posted: Jun 14, 2005 9:25 am Post subject:

I thought you were talking about Threza heiz-Kerry for some reason

Leggester · Posted: Jun 14, 2005 9:26 am Post subject:

If it's not cooked rare, according to the web site, it will be tough. And it's cut on a Bias, like London Broil, so you don't feel like you have a mouth full of rubber Smile

chavez · RIP MHL 04/25/1958 - 01/11/2006

Leggester, Rare Tri-tip would be kinda nasty. Definitely cut on a bias, but it definitely isn't tough when cooked & marinated appropriately.

Good tri-tip is some of the best steak out there. Cool

I wish my wife ate meat Crying or Very sad

Leggester · Posted: Jun 14, 2005 9:39 am Post subject:

One word Chavez: Backstrips! None better!

I gave you the link showing that unfermented soy bean is dangerous to your health, Included tofu IIRC.

marcg · Addict Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 944 City: Salt Lake City

This thread inspired me....hadn't eaten steak in a while....just got back from lunch/grocery store and went the budget route & bought a massive Top Sirloin which I have marinating in some "Stubbs Beef Marinade".....should be a good dinner!

Dragonlady8 · Black Widow Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 9198

Flank/skirt Steak is NOT the same as Tri tip.
Neither is London Broil.
Brisket is MUCH tougher than Tri Tip .
http://www.askthemeatman.com/beef_flank_and_plate_primal_cuts.htm
www.beeffoodservice.com/Cuts/Info.aspx?code=18
http://www.beeffoodservice.com/Cuts/Info.aspx?code=53

Note the difference between Tri tip and London Broil:
http://www.askthemeatman.com/tri-tip.htm
http://www.askthemeatman.com/london_broil.htmhttp://

Also Tri Tip is a much more versatile cut of meat:
http://www.beeffoodservice.com/Cuts/Info.aspx?Code=48

leggester You know for being so intelligent sometimes you can be ignorant and bullheaded to the facts Rolling Eyes

twitch88 · Posted: Jun 14, 2005 2:16 pm Post subject:

Darin · Guest

In some states, like right across the border outside of PA, you can buy alcohol anywhere, gas stations, 7/11. But in PA you must buy Beer from the state beer store, and wine from the state wine store. You cannot buy beer and wine from the same store. Also, it is illegal to drive to Maryland and buy beer, then bring it back to PA. In PA, you can only buy alcohol from the state. They make profit on it and taxes on it. And if you buy it out of state, you are robbing PA from revenue, and that's big trouble. There are cops that will see PA plates on cars buying beer, knowing that they will be coming into PA and they will pull you over, confiscate your beer, and fine you. It's a fine day for Liberty, if you're a Nazi. Oh, you can't buy it on Sunday either. Or hunt on Sunday. I think it's called the "Blue Law". I call it the "Another law we don't need law". One more thing, you can only buy beer in cases. Unless you buy it from a bar. Welcome to America, now leave your ideas of freedom at the border and do what ever the government tells you to do, or else.

jryoung · Ladies Man Joined: 19 Mar 2004 Posts: 7664 City: Man Jose

Thank the Puritans for Blue Laws, I hated that about the Northeast.

pooser · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 4738

jryoung, i dont think pa was big on puritans. they had more of a quaker thing going on.

jryoung · Ladies Man Joined: 19 Mar 2004 Posts: 7664 City: Man Jose

As well as German Lutherans, but yeah Quaker is what I meant.

DJew Jake · Posted: Jun 14, 2005 5:34 pm Post subject:

arof, Thats only in ontario and BC

Jeff206 · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 1002

in WA you can still buy beer pretty much anywhere and we still have wine in grocery stores but we have state run liquor stores. I can't stand them, they close at like 7 and if you want something decent, i think you're just SOL, I dunno maybe you can special order or something?

Leggester · Posted: Jun 15, 2005 5:27 am Post subject:

we still have blue laws in CO. Not a big deal. At least it's not Oklahoma!