/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.12702006]

Has anyone bought or been approached by door to door meat salesmen? Somehow my dad fell for it, and ended up spending 150 bucks on awful "steaks"

[Anonymous No.12702016]

meat is never awful

[Anonymous No.12702023]

>>12702016
This stuff was filled with water and had awful seasoning on it.

[Anonymous No.12702067]

>>12702006
Why the fuck would you even answer the door?
NEVER, answer a knock on the door, or a phone call. EVER!
Don't be fucking stupid. Absolutely nothing good can happen when a random stranger summons your attention. Get a biting dog, strong lock, and a door camera. Also, shut off the phone ringer. Any call or visit will be prearranged many hours in advance through text methods.
THIS IS NON-NEGOTIABLE, TIMES HAVE CHANGED

[Anonymous No.12702069]

>>12702067
I agree 100% and told him this.

[Anonymous No.12702090]

I've had it happen before, but I haggled him down from a whole case of various cuts for $400 down to just the ribeyes and filets for $50.

Got 6 ribeyes and a dozen filtets.

Also why the fuck would you ever buy meat that has seasoning on it already?

[Anonymous No.12702112]

>>12702006
door to door salesmen haven't been a thing since the early 90s, my dude.

[Anonymous No.12702118]

>>12702006
Yes, and I sicc'd my dogs on them. Pretty humorous as they flailed their arms around while my dogs nipped their calfs. Fuck gypsies.

[Anonymous No.12702135]

>>12702112
wrong

https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/selling-meat-out-of-the-back-of-a-van/83-544825073

https://wset.com/news/local/lynchburg-police-warn-of-door-to-door-meat-selling-scams

[Anonymous No.12702147]

Buy a strip of ribeyes from Costco. Portion it out and freeze properly. There you go. You have a months worth of steak for like 90 bucks.

[Anonymous No.12702155]

>>12702067
>>12702069
Guys you're scaring me

[Anonymous No.12702205]

>>12702112
Wrong. Kirby still sells vacuums that way.
>>12702006
My grandpa did a few years ago, forget the company name. Some of the meats were okay, others were pretty shit. Total scam in any case.

[Anonymous No.12702223]

>>12702205
based fuller brush man

[Anonymous No.12702244]

there was a guy who spent 20 minutes trying to sell my mom pizza hut coupons for 30 bucks
she bought them
they were really good coupons honestly like buy 1 large get 2 larges free shit paid itself off real quick and then some

[Anonymous No.12702265]

Who would buy meat from a guy with a briefcase full of steaks?
Like how is this even a thing?

[Anonymous No.12702270]

>>12702265
Its a refrigerated truck full of steaks

[Anonymous No.12702272]

>>12702067
It could be Ellen's refrigerator giveaway

[Anonymous No.12702273]

>>12702270
Still?

[Anonymous No.12702274]

>>12702272
It could be me with a gun.

[Anonymous No.12702275]

It's a way for retards to exchange their food stamps for actual cash.

[Anonymous No.12702297]

>>12702155
>avoiding strangers because you're scared
wrong mentality, do it because you don't give a fuck

[Anonymous No.12702303]

>>12702155
Get with the times, there are too many people out to scam and take advantage of you to risk answering your phone when you receive calls from unknown numbers or get an unsolicited knock at your door.
Buy a gun.

[Anonymous No.12702310]

>>12702273
Some people are pretty dumb and you can make money off them.

[Anonymous No.12702322]

>>12702006
My parents did once. But the guy fucked up and left half his stock behind by accident and my parents made out like bandits.

[Anonymous No.12702373]

>>12702006
I've never heard of door-to-door meat salesmen; however locally there's an old guy that supposedly has a butcher shop out on his farm in the sticks, and he drives his ratty old pickup with a huge chest freezer in the bed and he'll set up in some abandoned parking lot, you have to be psychic to know where and what days he does this, then he sells frozen beef from the freezer on his pickup that he butchered out on his farm.

That gets all of my Ah, Hell-No!

[Anonymous No.12702383]

>>12702373
I for one would definitely buy some missing-persons meat from him.

[Anonymous No.12702386]

If i'm looking to get fucked during my meat purchase, i'll choose something decent quality like Omaha steaks.

>t. recently ordered 32 individually packaged burgers for $60.

[Anonymous No.12702414]

>>12702067
>Any call or visit will be prearranged many hours in advance through text methods.
Most people knocking on my door are my elderly neighbors coming round to give me food or exchange a favor.
They're too old to figure out a text message and putting these sorts of restrictions on our neighborly interactions would dishearten them immensely besides.

The runner up is parcel delivery, which cannot be pre-arrainged further than an "out for delivery" status update (assuming I have a tracker code) on the carrier website at about 3am, meaning the delivery guy can show up anywhere from 10am to 8pm if at all.

[Anonymous No.12702416]

yeah. I did have someone come to my door once with the background story of "I was just in the area delivering meat and your neighbor wasn't home so I was wondering if you might want ... then proceeds to list all these different cuts for low prices" I told him no and that was that. I later heard the scam is it's really cheap crappy cuts of meat that they're trying to sell off as more expensive cuts. Not as common as the white van speaker scam or the guy with the miracle rug cleaner type scam though.

[Anonymous No.12702470]

>>12702416
It should be legal to beat solicitors for as long as they remain on your doorstep.

[Anonymous No.12702658]

>>12702416
>speaker van scam
kek my brother fell for that shit, came home with 200$ worth of 'speakers' but they were fucking garbage

[Anonymous No.12702676]

>>12702006

I don't know about that door to door but there's a booth that sets up in the mall parking lot near me and constantly advertises their "20 ribeyes for 30 dollars" deal. If you actually go, they shill a bunch of different expensive packages before they'll let you buy the "ribeyes" and they're really crappy, tiny before cooking and filled with liquids.

[Anonymous No.12702734]

>housecvcks have to deal with door to door scammers
laughing my ass off from my gated 2nd story apartment.

[Anonymous No.12702742]

>>12702734
>apartment

[Anonymous No.12702755]

>>12702742
wow boy this sure looks awful, eh? a mcmansion or a trailer is so much better.

[Anonymous No.12702774]

>>12702755
Disgusting, imagine being proud of paying someone else to let you stay in their cube month-to-month.

[Anonymous No.12702793]

>>12702774
Imagine losing all your equity when the boomers die off and there are no buyers for abandoned single-family detached housing in panera land

[Anonymous No.12702808]

Happened to me with Omaha steaks about 10 years ago.
>hear knocking on door
>go answer it
>two dudes with boxes
>hello anon, we are here to sell steaks
>an order was supposed to go to your neighbor but they never answered and we need to sell this meat
>50 dollars for 4 new york strips
>lolno.jpg
>okay how about 30 dollars
>deal
They were about a pound each so it was a good enough deal. I'm not sure what they do, but those steaks were extremely tender. Abnormally so.

[Anonymous No.12702858]

>>12702793
>"owning land, bad!"
Okay retard.

[Anonymous No.12702866]

>>12702734
Lmao @ living in a shoe box surrounded by others

[Anonymous No.12702870]

>>12702112
i still get retards trying to sell me roofing or pest control, even jehovas witnesses.

[Anonymous No.12702879]

>>12702414
We don't all live in a retirement community my man.

[Anonymous No.12702882]

>>12702793
>owning land makes me Donald Trump
Lol? Technically I own a few acres of swamp in florida that my grandpa bought from a huckster in the 70s before he died. There's some trivial tax we've been paying for generations because the idea of actually going to florida and dealing with that piece of shit properly in garbage people land sounds like a nightmare.

You're underwater on a house nobody will want. You have a few months left before the next recession starts to kick in, I'd suggest you start inquiring about listing agents.

[Anonymous No.12702885]

>>12702882
Oops meant that for the real estate tycoon up there >>12702858

[Anonymous No.12702896]

>>12702866
I'm not even laughing at him for living in a hamster cage, I'm laughing at him being proud of it.
>>12702882
The fuck are you even talking about? Go shit up /tv/ if you're in the mood to act retarded.

[Anonymous No.12702931]

>>12702896
I'm talking about the difference between "owning land" and having equity. Is this a language barrier? Do I need to link the version of wikipedia that only uses 2500 distinct words for every article?

[Anonymous No.12702933]

rather just eat human meat instead. It’s far more nutritious and cheaper per pound

[Anonymous No.12702941]

>>12702931
>>>/tv/
Designated shitposting board is that way retard.

[Anonymous No.12702946]

>>12702941
Cleetus please. This started out as a steak thread, you started freaking out about apartment buildings, I came along to help you out with your misconceptions. If you're feeling like you're suddenly drowning in crazy new ideas, that's on you. You can either look up the common words, or you can bow out of the conversation. But you're the one who started this, so you don't have grounds for complaining that it's no longer a food discussion.

[Anonymous No.12702947]

>>12702274
You give away guns door to door?
That's old fashioned as fuck.

[Anonymous No.12702949]

>door to door meat salesmen
Do Americans really do this?

[Anonymous No.12702957]

>>12702947
Just the bullets.

[Anonymous No.12703055]

>>12702006
Reminds me of the time I almost bought €100 worth of apples from some door to door farmer who I couldn't understand

[Anonymous No.12703104]

>>12702933
For all you know, that's what they're selling.

[Anonymous No.12703187]

>>12702006
Apparently my grandparents fell for it, as evidenced by this box I found in their garage

[Anonymous No.12703214]

>>12702414
Those old people you're being nice to are the same boomers who ruined the country.

[Anonymous No.12703219]

>>12702006
>buying meat from the back of a van?
Why would anyone do this?

[Anonymous No.12703223]

>>12702006
Yes, it is a scam for boomers and women.

[Anonymous No.12703224]

>>12703187
>cook frozen
is this evidence that it's 50% water by weight?

[Anonymous No.12703236]

>>12702067
Isn't it an amazing time to be alive?

>"Hell is other people."

[Anonymous No.12703247]

>>12703214
Doubt it. None of them worked in any field that had direct involvement in ruining the country.

[Anonymous No.12703260]

>>12702373
Does he look like this guy?

[Anonymous No.12703264]

>>12703219
How do you think meat gets into a market

[Anonymous No.12703299]

>>12702155
Welcome to 2019.

[Anonymous No.12704228]

>>12702006
i'm so glad my dad is a genius and not a bumbling dipshit like most dads

[Anonymous No.12704297]

>>12702006
No, but I dogsit for a couple of rich Boomers that buy from Schwan's for some stupid reason

[Anonymous No.12704329]

>>12702006
nope i have yet to have that happen to me

though while in high school another student was selling some extra deer jerky him or his parents had made at home that was really good

[Anonymous No.12704340]

>>12702067
Read it in dale gribbles voice.

[Anonymous No.12704355]

>>12703260
Based Pickton poster

[Anonymous No.12704676]

>>12704297
My extended family waste their entire food stamp supply a month on this.

[Anonymous No.12704776]

>>12702067
Burglars will almost always knock before attempting to break into your house. It's a pretty foolproof method of finding out if anyone's home. If you actually answer they will ask if you want to buy magazine subscriptions or ask you directions to school or some shit.

[Anonymous No.12704788]

>>12702016
My dad's meat is.

[Anonymous No.12704879]

>>12704297
Boomers can have some unusual habits.

[Anonymous No.12704962]

>>12704297
Ice cream and frozen salmon?
The fuck?

[Anonymous No.12704992]

>>12702793
Imagine buying property for boomer tier MUH INVESTMENT reasons and not to have a secure safe home to raise your children

[Anonymous No.12705016]

>>12702067
Based and tweaker pilled

[Anonymous No.12705463]

>>12704776
See this is why whenever there's a knock on my door I just stand in my living room naked with a shotgun

[Anonymous No.12705498]

>>12703224
>cook frozen

Yeah the guy who came to my house with a "hey we delivered to your neighbors but they won't answer and we need to sell all this meat" schtick also insisted that I don't need to thaw the steaks but just throw them on the grill frozen. He told me that's how he does his steaks and they're the best steaks he's ever eaten. I ended up kind of ripping him off and we paid like $40 for 10 NY strips, 8 filets, and like 2 pounds of hamburger meat because I told him that I didn't have anymore cash but would be calling him back next week for a full order. I never called him back and he never came back either. He looked like some guy in his forties, probably divorced and alcoholic but trying to turn his life around so his ex wife can let him see his kids more often.

Anyway...throwing frozen steaks on the grill...yeah that's fucking retarded. Allow to come to room temperature, season generously with salt and pepper, and cook in pan until medium rare. I hope that guy did end up making his millions in the door-to-door meat sales industry though.

[Anonymous No.12705571]

>>12702118
cute dogs anon

[Anonymous No.12705579]

>>12704992
Imagine buying useless property in methville, USA and not having a decent school system to educate your children so you have to lock them inside wearing bible verse chastity belts so you can fill their brains with far right religious horror stories because you believe your children can never do the right thing without fear of punishment by an all-seeing ghost

[Anonymous No.12705590]

>>12702006
put one of these up on your front door & gate at your property line if you have one

[Anonymous No.12705630]

>>12705579
cringe

[Anonymous No.12705668]

>>12705579
Finally, a fellow enlightened atheist.

*tips fedora*

[Anonymous No.12705675]

>>12702006
I've never been directly approached by one but I almost went to one when I saw his van parked by where I live. It seemed a bit dodgy so I didn't do it but they're pitchmen and can sell cats and dogs to unsuspecting old ladies.

[Anonymous No.12705746]

>>12702755
That looks awful holy shit, fuckin huge windows everyone can see your place through. I only have a tiny window and it's already a pain to cover it with tinfoil.

[Anonymous No.12705770]

>>12702118
thats literally assault, and you and yuor dogs should be put down.

[Anonymous No.12705788]

>>12702386
that's $7.50 per pound. you got hosed, broski.

[Anonymous No.12705796]

>>12705788
Meh, it's decent quality meat, and individually packaged so I can have them in the freezer and only pull 1 or 2 out at a time.

and because they're individually packaged, they defrost very quickly.

[Anonymous No.12705799]

>>12704776
>foolproof way of getting killed, raped and eaten in no particular order

[Anonymous No.12705812]

>>12705796
complacent dumbasses like you are their target market.

[Anonymous No.12705824]

>>12702755
>>12705746
It's like retard level Manhattan buildings that block light. I suspect that most people don't really live in buildings like that, they buy them as investments because some company has to spend money to dick rate. One can also loan out the apartments to people visiting and also to hook up with hookers.
They all look very clinical and not anything that would wind up in Architectural Digest, they look like something some raghead arab would buy.

[Anonymous No.12705833]

>>12705812
well yeah no shit.

I never said it was good value, literally read my post.

>If i'm looking to get fucked during my meat purchase, i'll choose something decent quality like Omaha steaks.

[Anonymous No.12705858]

>>12705833
Value. That depends on how long you hold on to something in a good location while getting good use of it.

[Anonymous No.12705861]

>>12705788
>yfw that's the price at 70% off

[Anonymous No.12705884]

>>12705861
After the cunts multiplied the price by 4x or 5x, then they can do a 70% off and still make out like bandits. Those going out buisness signs really draw in the tourists.

[Anonymous No.12706187]

>>12702006
I know a guy that used to do this silly shit
Big time dope addict
He would buy a couple coolers of cheap "meat glue" parts is parts steaks
He would hustle the stuff at truck stops, railyards, and day labor warehouses that paid by the day.
Get enough cash for his fix for a couple days
Get fucked up
Repeat the process
He got sober
Now he's scamming jebuss freaks as a traveling revival minister
Makes a pretty good living, using his church mission scam as a tax dodge

[Anonymous No.12706461]

>>12702067
stop living in shitty parts of the world. Half my doors don't even have locks on them and if someone spends half an hour to drive to my door step I liusten to his proposal. Even if he sells shitty meat, its at least shitty meat delivered for free to my door step.

[Anonymous No.12706486]

>>12706187
He sounds pretty based

[Anonymous No.12706967]

>>12702067
>tfw I knock on peoples door when I go shut their power off
>mfw they dont answer and come outside once i do it

I mean they would have had their lights still on if they where not retarded like that.

[Anonymous No.12707198]

>>12705579
See the income thats afforded me the ability to own 6 acres also allows me to send my kids to one of the top performing private schools in WA instead of tossing them in public schools to get ignored while Mrs Smith tries to deal with Tyrone and Jose disrupting the class and having all funding go to Drag Queen Storytime.

Also an atheist but since 2008 I unironically prefer the company to Bible thumpers than authoritarian left wing cucks like yourself.

[Anonymous No.12707324]

>>12704340
Based and Dalepilled.

[Anonymous No.12707329]

>>12707198
>bible thumpers aren't authoritarian and the equivalent of koran thumping sharia law muslims
>muh scary progressives who seek rights for oppressed groups are the authoritarians
Rethink your thoughts, they're literally retarded.

[Anonymous No.12707353]

>>12702006
Yes, my boomer wife and I were outside doing lawnwork one evening when a guy cruising our neighborhood saw us and pulled into our driveway. It wasn't a fancy van like in OP's pic either, it was a run-down, dingy pickup truck with a freezer in the bed connected to his truck's battery. Wanted to sell us all kinds of cuts ranging from $150 to $500. Kindly told him no and sent him on his way but not before he started getting aggressive and refusing to drive off without a sale.

>>12702112
If you live in a gated HOA community maybe. Non-HOA neighborhoods are plagued by door to door salesmen. We get anywhere from 3 to 10 in ours weekly, ranging from roofing, siding, energy efficient windows, pest control, satellite TV, cable TV, internet, homeschooling materials, etc.

[Anonymous No.12707360]

>>12702067
>Absolutely nothing good can happen when a random stranger summons your attention.

Schizopilled but also based.

[Creamy soups No.12707514]

>>12702067
I dont answer the door if I'm not expecting anyone because it's almost always a salesman. One time though my buddy was on a jog and he had to badly take a shit and my house was the nearest place he could think. He kept knocking in the door for like 5 mins and I eventually answered it as diarreah was dripping down his leg. He said he could see me in the window and why the fuck i wouldn't answer it. Anyway I let take a shower and I gave him some clean clothes. We still laugh about how defeated and crushed he looked when I answered the door seconds after he lost control, years later.

[Anonymous No.12707576]

>>12702016
Mr Hickey, you fucking psycho.

[Anonymous No.12707724]

>>12707353
>>12702205
>>12702135
>>12702870
Literally haven't had any come to my door, my friend's door or anyone's door since the early-mid 90's.
Closest we've had is the local Jehovah's Witnesses come around but they only try every 6 months or so.
Gated communities aren't a thing unless you're elderly or rich.
I feel sorry for you guys. Shit must be annoying.