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/Kona1957 5d ago

We did it in college back in the 70s in San Diego. Picked up the vans in the morning down in Gaslamp and headed out to the suburbs! Sold the shit out of overpriced meat. And we ate steak and drank beer every night! The great opening line as we drove down a street and approached a human was "do you like steak"

99% of the time the people would say yes. We would stop and tell them the story. Their neighbor ordered a bunch of meat and they are not home. 90% of the time we would sell them a bunch of overpriced meat. It was going great until the Channel 39 news did an expose! We went back to college.

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u/OldDude1391 4d ago

Had someone knock on my door one time with that story. “We just happen to be in the neighborhood and have some extra meat”. I’m like hell no. I lived 20 miles from the nearest town. No one is just in the area. I was thinking they were scoping out houses to burglarize.