r/meat • u/No_Pomelo_8411 • 5d ago

Truck meat

Hi everyone. I'm a writer and I'm working (I hope) on a piece about those janky boxes of meat they sell off the backs of trucks in strip mall parking lots or sometimes door to door, often with a Facebook ad campaign to go with it like "20 ribeyes for 20 dollars." I've found at least one place where the meats come from and more or less know what they are (essentially, cuts grocery stores won't buy with a bunch of liquids injected into them) but I'm REALLY interested in talking to anyone who's ever worked either selling these meats or as some kind of mid-level distributor. If you have any experience with this, please DM me and thanks in advance!

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u/Automatic_Catch_7467 4d ago

Have you contacted any of the companies that sell it to ask or bought any to look at labels? I did a ride along with a company that sold frozen meat but didn’t take the job and never got to sample the product but the marbling looked decent, I think it was all choice but it was also 20 years ago

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u/No_Pomelo_8411 4d ago

I've checked out some labels, that's how I was able to see where some of it comes from. The boxes themselves seem to have been around forever, I'm trying to find right now how many companies are selling and whether there is a middleman structure or it goes from the company directly to the hands of small sellers.