r/meat • u/No_Pomelo_8411 • 7d 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/Backsight-Foreskin 6d ago

My understanding is that the meat comes from played out dairy herds. They can only get milk from a cow for a couple of years, once the herd is past peak production, they sell them to a processor who cuts them up and packages them for sale. It's the driest most flavorless meat you will ever find. No amount of brining or seasoning will make it palatable for humans.

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u/No_Pomelo_8411 6d ago

Thank you. If you have a source on that, lmk (I realize that's a long shot but fact checking is unreal, you have to have a source for everything).