should one eat pre-marinated meat?

[pianistimo]

personally, i think it's dangerous.  it's a way to hide what the meat actually is or the quality of it.  much better to marinade it yourself, right?  (yes...i'm cooking some pre-marinated stuff we got at costco.  i think it's horse meat).

oh dear.  i just tasted it.  it IS horse meat.  it doesn't taste like beef.  i thought it looked a little 'floppier' in the package.  not that floppiness is the distinction. 

[Petter]

Eat it.

[thalbergmad]

Fascinating thread number 500

[dnephi]

I love the StarKist Tuna packages where they preflavor it--- JUST TASTES AWESOME.

Much more palatable than eating plain tuna.

[iheartpiano]

We bought pre-marinated teriyaki chicken breasts from Costcos and I didn't care for it at all.  The flavor was just really odd. 

[thalbergmad]

My old mum has been using the same butcher for 50 years.

I have therefore never sampled anything from Costcos.

Thal

[deliaatje]

Ideally you pick and grow your food yourself.  I like nuts.  Toasted bread is tasty.  Apples, pears, peaches,  cherries, crop salad, spinash, potatoes.   Joao Pires has olivetrees in her garden, I even think she makes her own olive oil.  That's fantastic.  I'm often tempted by exotic flavors, chili, peanuts, chocolate (all stuff that doesn't grow round here), but I think that man should meanly eat what grows in his neighbourhood.  Oh, I forgot, jam is also very tasty, orange-jam and cornflakes.  Pre-marinated meat, I shouldn't buy it.  I marinate myself, for a pound of meat (a cup of palmoil, a teaspoon salt, a teaspoon pepper, a teaspoon ginger, a teaspoon chili, a teaspoon tabasco, two spoons of soyasauce, two of worcestersauce, two of ketchup, two of fishsauce, two of honey, one of limejuice, one of curry etcetera...)  But don't eat too much meat, certainly no horse meat.  I only eat animals that I presume I could kill myself.  A chicken, if I can catch it, a piggy, when I'm not alone... but I avoid cow and horse, for christ sake...  look at the beauty of that animal ! And a sheep, what a cute animal, I never could kill one so I don't eat it...
Anyway, enjoy your meal...

[dnephi]

My old mum has been using the same butcher for 50 years.

I have therefore never sampled anything from Costcos.

Thal

When I run out of money for food, I could go to Costco/Sam's Club.  I'm not a member, so I can't buy anything, but it is a free meal.

Daniel

[squinchy]

In Costco we trust! Maybe the marinade had meat tenderizer, protein of papya, etc. But you know what horsemeat tastes like?

When I run out of money for food, I could go to Costco/Sam's Club.  I'm not a member, so I can't buy anything, but it is a free meal.

Daniel

I don't suppose they check your card on the way in?

[a-sharp]

One should not eat meat. 

[dnephi]

In Costco we trust! Maybe the marinade had meat tenderizer, protein of papya, etc. But you know what horsemeat tastes like?

I don't suppose they check your card on the way in?

I went the other day to see if membership was worth it.  Whild doing so, I was told that you only had to be a member to BUY stuff.  THis was, however, Sam's Club, so Costco may differ.