Sunday, January 18, 2009

Inevitable: The Whole Foods Test

Let me just get to the point. I went to Whole Foods here in Bend to get a brisket for the weekend's meals (you know, first in tacos, then as BBQ, then some for the dogs, then just shoving it into your mouth cold on Sunday night). I got corn-fused pretty darn quick when, looking frantically into the glass carnivore case, I did not immediately apprehend said poor-person's cut of meat. Certainly there must be another meat section, round the corner, perhaps, or already smoked or something in their in-house smoker. Wait a cotton-pickin' minute: this ain't Texas, sistah. You got spoilt there in that Metroplex surrounded by cow and buffalo-killing fields. Here in Bend, sad to say, what stared back at me from inside the meaty case, was a barely 2-pound, non-organic, brisket. From a cow. No organix, no buffalo. Well, now, I know it's not neighborly to complain in your host's house about the menu, so I won't. Like the humble new-comer I am, I'll just mention on closing that the cheese selections in all the groceries around here are superior! Plus I know Whole Foods is hardly any town's representative of local food. I've got lots to learn here and these places might help:
Cinder Butte Meat Company
Pine Mountain Ranch (buffalo)
Fresh Start Farms (beef, chicken, pork)
and Eat Wild in Oregon