Ok, this last weekend I remembered why we hardly ever have Ox Tail soup. Saturday the bride went out and did what she does best (went shopping). So I hit the store to come up with something to fix for dinner. I was looking at a freash cut brisket and saw that it was gonna be $35-$40 for a good brisket so I thought WTF I can spend the same amount of money and have Ox Tail. so I went 411 discount shopping and found where I could find the cheapest price for Ox Tail. and bought 7-8 lbs. of Ox Tail and placed my order. I spent $40-$45 on Ox Tail and went home to begain the best soup ever. after cooking it for about 6 hours and deboneing it all. I was ready to add the rest of my goodies and begain the best soup ever only to find out that this was the most expencive pot of soup ever. So, as it is all over i've spent $65-$70 on a pot of soup!
WTH? Now I know why it is only once and a while...
SOunds like an episode of Sanford and Son
Bossman, you just rattled up another memory from days gone by. My wifes' dad has been in the cow business or meat business most of his life :cowboy . If the Lord blesses him with continued days, he will be 90 this year, still butchering cattle, not a full time operation but one that keeps at least one additional employ pretty much full time. Ox tail, like beef heart and liver was something that some customers did not care for. There was always some so called "trash" meats in the big freezers for the family to utilize. Ox tail was one of the offerings. Ox tails were seperated at the joints and then boiled with good seasoning, onions and served over a bed of rice. Mighty good and greasy :chef ! Grandpa always refered to the ox tails as "swinging steak". There are usually several pounds of lean meat on the head of a large beef and this was usually salvaged by the butcher, it is called "head meat". Grandpa came up with a concoction that he calls "Alpha and Omega" stew. The meats being head meat and ox tail, the beginning and the end. When he had a full range of services, custom kill, retail and wholesale, he bought hot dogs by the case for retail sales. Hot dogs had the colorful name "tube steaks". Recalling those days makes me want to go to a meat market and get a few pounds of "swinging steak"! Treefarmer
I had never had ox tail until I got married. My wife is from Korea, and it's a staple dish over there. She gets it occasionally from the Oriental Market, and it tastes like pot roast to me. The dog sure does love to gnaw on the bones!
Treefarmer I remember as a kid we useto have it all of the time because it was cheap and never had a problem finding it. I guess that word got out that is was tastey and caused the price to go sky high. My folks had an old man that would come to the house and butcher our beef. That is when everything was keep and used, don't forget about the tripe now that is some more good stuff.
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