Ok.
First off, you Jokers, get your mind outta the gutter!
You know that meat in giant chubs. 3 or 5 lbs. I think you can get 1 lb. ones too.
But we wouldn’t be in the market for that. Too many mouths. (Oh, god, this is getting worse)
It’s ridiculous. Smashed up together. Hard to break apart for casserole type dishes. Makes burgers too dense.
When I hear mid-Dau banging my good skillet with a spatula(you know it’s not the wooden spurtle) I see fire behind my eyes.
It’s just an inferior product packaged like that.
I know it’s easy to carry and store. Doesn’t leak, usually.
The meat may be great if you could work with it.
Gah!
We buy pork sausage (usually Jimmy Dean) in the little one-pound chubs. (And, yes, that’s the technical, industry term for them, like the picture below.) I’ve seen big chubs of ground beef, but never bought one, mostly because we rarely ever have a need for that much ground beef at once.
Though I’ve seen the big chubs of beef, I’ve never bought one as I don’t need any beef very often these days. But I do very occasionally end up with the 1-lb. chubs. I agree that they are way too tightly packed for quick frying. I generally buy the squares that are easier to break up into bits while browning the meat. I trust the brands I buy and am not familiar with any of the beef chub brands.
I sometimes buy Italian seasoned pork in chubs for making meatloaf. It is a local chain brand that I trust. Way less salty than the name brands but still fatty.
Ruble and I took a behind-the-scenes tour at our local zoo years ago. We got to go inside the lion house, where they showed us a freezer full of very large (10-lbs. or bigger) chubs of meat for the lions. I believe it was horse meat.
We also got to go out into the display area where the lions spend their days, and we looked out across the moat at other zoo visitors. I kept looking over my shoulder to make sure the lions were really all locked away for the night!
I was fixing to ask why Beck would think my mind was in the gutter for thinking about the fish first. What kind of chubs are these? They don’t look like the ones I’ve see at all, so I assume they’re not related. From the Great Lakes?
A lot of fish are called chubs around the world, but in my area of the midwest it’s a deepwater lake fish of the genus Leucichthys, in the family Coregonidae that are called chubs; these type of chubs are found in the Great Lakes region and are often smoked and sold for food. Quite popular and tasty, though I admit it’s been a few years since I had any. My family and I used to go to a particular resort nearby whose buffets always served them, and I always took the opportunity to have at least a nibble.
I’ve actually never heard the term ‘chub’ applied to other food.
I buy the 1-pound sausage chubs, often Jimmy Dean, and smoke them five or six at a time in my pellet smoker. They they’re vacuum packed and frozen, then to be thawed out in a hot water bath and sliced up for the plate or diced and tossed into the rice cooker with a box of Zatarain’s dirty rice.
I used a 5-pound beef chub once when i was making a big dish for a pot luck, I’ve stuck to fresh ground since then.
Pittsburgh Zoo? Did you meet the zoo’s veterinarian? Years ago he (Dr Marks) took my me and my kids around the zoo.
My daughter mentioned that she would love to see the elephants closer. He got the keeper’s attention and sent her to chase the elephants over to where we were. People were looking at my 6 year old, wondering who she was.
sad to say chubs are a way of life around here … you rarely get hamburger that isn’t in them around here …the one time I have seen it wrapped the normal was the store wrapped 5 one pound chubs on a tray …
Yes, the Pittsburgh Zoo. I don’t remember if we met the vet, this was about 25 years ago. Each time the zoo did this event, something different was featured. On other occasions, we got to go into the rhino house and got a tour of the animal hospital.
