Get that meat outta here.
In a world of various meat alternatives, it can be hard to tell what’s real.
A cattle rancher recently took to social media to share what he discovered to be a “glued meat product” and is instructing others how to spot one when ordering steak at a restaurant.
Rockin W Cattle Co. is a family-owned Angus beef ranch that prides itself on offering hormone- and antibiotic-free meat.
In an Instagram post that has sent waves across the meat-loving community, one of the company’s cattle ranchers is seen picking apart an 8-ounce fillet he ordered at a steakhouse in Weatherford, Oklahoma, that he claims is not the real deal.
The expert says of the sham cut of beef, “I should’ve known at first because it’s really hard to get an 8-ounce fillet that’s truly a fillet because they don’t get that big in animals very often,” the expert is heard explaining in his video.
“When it came perfectly round, I should’ve suspected something. I ate a little bit of it and thought, ‘Man, something’s not right.’ So you can definitely tell this is glued together. Probably a sirloin that’s been tenderized and glued together to look like a fillet.”
The cattle rancher said he knew something was up with the fillet he ordered. rockinwranchcattleco and thebeefstoreada/Instagram, and, thebeefstoreadaIn the caption of the post, the cattle rancher shared some dead giveaways that this cut of meat isn’t what the restaurant claimed it to be.
“I raise and process around 100 cattle per year,” he wrote, and noted the rarity of getting a true fillet cut that’s as big as 8 ounces. Plus, fillets “Filets “when cut off an animal are never perfectly round.” And of course, “the price is another giveaway. When you can get a 8-oz filet prepared in a restaurant for $28, you should be suspicious.”
“I’m not proud of what the beef industry does,” he wrote. “But honestly, the manipulation is not the ranchers, it’s the corporations that buy cattle from the sale barns where the ranchers sell their cattle. The beef industry or really the whole food industry for that matter as a whole is not trustworthy.”
Some restaurants might be trying to scam customers with the steak they’re serving. vladimirkolens – stock.adobe.comThe post also took off on X, angering many people.
“Paying for a steak and getting leftover meat scraps bound together by a chemical enzyme is absolutely disgusting,” one user wrote. “That man should sue the restaurant out of business. No way should it be allowed to operate ever again. Any restaurant partaking in this disgusting lie must go broke.”
“That’s so wrong on every level,” said another commenter.
“Is any food real in America anymore?”
