Kobe Beef

[jglass]

I recently got an email from Sam's Club in which they were advertising Kobe beef from Texas. I was just reading up on what Kobe beef is. In the Sam's add 6 - 14oz Kobe strip steaks were around $155.00
I had seen them using Kobe beef on Iron Chef but I understood it to come from Japan. I did not know there were American producers. No beef on this planet could be worth that kind of cash.

The Sam's club we go to is not in a rich area. I have to wonder to what market they think they are going to sell beef at that price. They were not what I would call cheap on their regular Angus beef.

[ChileFarmer]

Janie, google Wagyu Beef . That is the kobe beef of America. Not much cheaper. I would not buy it. CF

[jglass]

Yeah I had read that American Kobe was called Wagyu when I was looking up what Kobe is. The Sams Club add calls it Kobe beef from Texas. I seriously have to wonder in this area and in this economy who they think will be buying that stuff. It was interesting reading how Japaneses farmers raise Kobe.

[ChileFarmer]

The process that the farmers go through is interesting. Looks like lots of work to me. Isn't happening in my world. The raising or the buying. CF

[Mama Mangia]

Isn't that (in Japan) where they get the cows drunk and massage them all over? Claiming that it improves the flavor and texture of the meat.

Cripe - go buy a cow - get it drunk and feel it up - same dang thing and cheaper!

[jglass]

Yeah Mama that is exactly it. We went to SAMS yesterday and I didn't even go by the meat case. Way out of my budget. The little Foodland store here in town started doubling coupons recently so yesterday I got 12 cans of Libby's veggies at .25 a can. They had Crisco vegetable oil for $1.50 with my coupons and Domino sugar was only $1.49 for 5 pounds with my doubled coupons.