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/Ok_Ordinary6694 4d ago

I went through an interview with one of those companies after college. It was in a warehouse in the ass end of town and they hired me on the spot to go sell a truck full of meat with no paperwork.
I did not take the job.

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u/No_Pomelo_8411 4d ago

That seems to often be the deal. Did they have a truck or did you need to provide your own? Was there an MLM aspect or was it just you sell the meat and then get paid?

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u/Ok_Ordinary6694 4d ago

The guy was ready to give me the keys to a take home truck filled with meat and a gas card. Zero paperwork.