Winston
Platinum Member
Both pictures are steaks cut off the strip loin, but they come from opposite ends of that loin.That just looks like a steak. The texas steak should have horns on it.
Yes, Texas is the leading cattle producer in the country. And Texas has more cattle on feed, that is in the feed lots, being fattened up, corn fed, makes the meat sweeter. Absolutely terrible for the cows, they weren't made to digest corn. But where does that beef go? Being serious.
I see hundreds of boxes of beef a week. I review grind logs, for hundreds of stores, documentation of just where every bit of meat, that goes into ground beef, came from. To the actual processing plant. And that is just it. I don't really pay much attention to where they are located, but thinking back, I don't think there is a single processing plant in Texas that I see. Oklahoma, sure. Kansas, a damn bunch. Nebraska. And Canada, some really high quality stuff from there. No Texas.
And Iowa. Hell, they ain't even in the top ten but you can bet one thing, you open, even a vacuum sealed primal, you know it came from Iowa. It is stamped all over it. "Iowa Beef". Sometimes it is awesome, most of the time it is nothing to get excited about. I am going to make a point of looking the next few days, looking for Texas beef. If I do find some, well we have found where the real focus needs to be. And if I don't, then that is a different focus.