Roast Beef != Turkey

The BBQ Pit
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Dear Deli Guy at Cafe Exchange:

In case you forgot, Roast Beef is not the same thing as turkey. Roast Beef is the brown meat that comes from a cow. Turkey is the white meat that comes from a turkey.

Therefore, when I order Roast Beef, please do not give me Turkey! :mad:

(My crucial mistake, it seems, was stepping away from the deli counter for a moment to retrieve a beverage after placing my order. By the time I returned the sandwich was already wrapped, thereby denying me a chance to inspect it.)

At least it was pretty good turkey, though.

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Considering that a small portion of the turkey is dark meat, I wonder why you never see that at a deli? It’s always just the white.

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I think it’s because the breast is easier to slice on a machine than thighs and drumsticks.

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But aren’t those non-breast shaped “logs” of deli meat a combination of pressed parts? Not that I’d prefer it but it seems you could make a dark meat log just as easily.

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Some of the really good deli meat, I think, is pretty much just a big chuck of breast or roast beef.

At least the OP didn’t accidentally get head cheese.

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Least you didn’t get ham instead of roast beef. That happened to me this week. I loathe ham, and I’d gotten back to work before I unwrapped the sandwiches (yes, I got two) to check them. Feh.

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[quote=friedo]
Roast Beef != Turkey
Yeah, but they’re both in the same phylum, that’s close enough isn’t it? They’re kind of related.

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[QUOTE=sturmhauke]

So are humans. You thinking what I’m thinking? Soylent Green sandwiches!

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Maybe they just thought you really wanted turkey and just misspoke.

Same idea that prompts all these places I get salad from to give me ranch when I order something different. They just figure everyone likes ranch so it’s ok to give it.

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Okay, now who else than me thought that this thread was going to be about Achewood?

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[QUOTE=sturmhauke]

Yeah. Turkeys are just small feathered cows with two less legs who don’t need milking. Yeah. That’s the ticket.

Both are from the dead cooked critter food group, too! :wink:

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Roast Beef = Cassandra

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Sometimes turkey can be brown meat. But then, sometimes roast beef can be green meat. It’s understandably confusing.

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Wait, I thought ham was green. Dammit, now I am confused.

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Whaahhhhhh? :confused:

How could anybody without religious prohibitions possibly ever loathe ham???

Ham tastes good, porkchops taste gooooood…

Oh…

You’re one of those* :wink:

  • a hitman who experienced a miracle who has decided to become a bum and “walk the earth”
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You mean like Kane from Kung Fu? I don’t remember whether he ate in a box with a fox.

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Yes, you are. Only the eggs were green.

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You know, he might be a ;j , and thus does have the religious rational.

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Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I’d never know ‘cause I wouldn’t eat the filthy motherfucker. Pigs sleep and root in shit. That’s a filthy animal. I ain’t eat nothin’ that ain’t got enough sense enough to disregard its own feces. *
I love it when the staff knows better than you what you want or intended to order.
I got a freakin’ Big Irish at Bennigan’s instead of the simple American Boca Burger that I had ordered.
When I questioned the wait was to WTF, she insisted that was what I ordered because as I was placing my order verbally as “American Boca Burger” my finger was resting on the burger page, supposedly on the picture of the Big Irish. :dubious:

*A heart attack on a bun. Something stacked like a Big Mac, but huger! :eek: