On an unrelated note, the new Deep Dish Themes is now available on the main page.

No, Carlos did it one time. He says he's sorry about it but I'm not so sure!

Oh, that crazy Carlos!

I've had people tell me, "It's ok. The meat is vacuum sealed, so you know they didn't do anything to it". However, I wonder who vacuum sealed it, and what might they have done to the meat before they sealed it? Maybe I'm a bit paranoid.

Dude, you drink out of a toilet!

Suga will like this thread.

I could vacuum seal a crap I just took and mark it as guaranteed. Believe me, I have the time.

I LOVE that thread, but now I have to think about it...

To my fellow Ogres of a Different Age,

Here is a nice little article written by a forty-something about being a forty-something. It is a sports article from cnnsi but crosses over nicely.

Oh...yeah!

**Chases down steak truck**

Thanks for sharing that article. I know the feeling all too well. I used to run marathons. I could go all winter without running a step, but then do six miles my first day back out on the paths in the spring. Now, I have to be careful getting out of bed in the morning, as my hip occasionally gives out and I tumble to the floor. I need to start running again, but I'm sure my body is going to remind me that I am older now, and it's tired of all the miles I've racked up over the years.

Just finished my final Sociology exam and got a 196/200. Only two more exams to go for the semester then on to summer classes!

I've not come across this, but I suspect it's just someone taking a business model that used to be used for selling stereo speakers and applying it to vacuum-packed meats.

I've known a couple people who answered help wanted ads and ended up doing that for a short time. It wasn't anything really criminal, but just a deceptive business practice.

What would happen is that these guys (and they generally were paired up) would get home stereo speaker sets and some fake shipping paperwork. They'd then drive around to wherever people were coming and going (most of these transactions were in parking lots) where they'd spin the tale for a prospective customer/mark: Supposedly they'd been sent out do to a pick up or delivery for their boss, and the people at the warehouse gave them an extra set of speakers that wasn't on the shipping paperwork. As they're looking to make a quick buck they're looking to sell it at a "great discount" to someone interested in buying it on the spot.

From what I knew the speakers weren't garbage, but neither were they top of the line items, and the real scam was with the phony paperwork that showed inflated prices. Maybe the invoicing valued the speaker set at $300 (pulling a figure from the air), so that if they could get the guy to pay $150 he'd feel as if he were getting a great deal. In actuality, only about $75 of that would have to go back to the guy running the operation, which probably meant he was making a 50% profit on a unit that really cost him about $50.

While it has the covert deal aspect of many a successful scam (generally speaking the people who get taken the easiest are the ones willing to buy potentially stolen items) it's legal to the extent that it's just the paperwork and story that are phony.

Anyway, that's my guess -- especially if several of you have come across this.

When I worked at a gas station these guys were worse than the crackheads. We use to tell the customers that the meat was tampered at the plant and make up some urban myths. Loved pissing those guys off.

Heh. Yeah, I don't have a ready answer for that question.