Be wary of salesman's meat.

[Shockeye]

Sales of recalled meat suspected

Associated Press

KOKOMO, Ind. — Health officials are urging people not to buy meat from door-to-door salesmen because some of it might have been recalled two years ago.

The Howard County Health Department has received several complaints about cheaply priced meat being sold from vehicles, said spokeswoman Sue Norris.

“Usually you don’t get a bargain like that unless something is wrong,” she said. “We don’t have anyone in Howard County with a permit to sell large quantities of meat door to door at this time.”

Local and state Department of Health officials issued a warning that said some of the boxes of meat have identification numbers that might be linked to a 2003 recall.

All meat and poultry transported and sold within the state must be inspected.

“We have this problem every summer where people are selling food without an established permit,” said Norris.

People have been selling meat from vehicles for years, said Scott Gilliam, a manager for the state health department.

“This is really nothing new, except there was an individual out of Ohio who is facing charges there and, to my knowledge, no one has caught him yet,” Gilliam said.

Gilliam said anyone selling meat is required to have a county license so that the truck, product and supplier of the meat can be inspected.

“They aren’t easy to spot so we have also enlisted the local law enforcement, and that is where we have left it,” Gilliam said.

[WayAbvPar]

Heh. Spin City had an episode where Paul opened a politically-themed restaurant; he got shut down for Health Code violations after poisoning everyone with surplus government meat he bought on the cheap. Life imitating art?

[HaemishM]

Who the fuck would buy MEAT from a guy going door-to-door? I mean, I balk at buying firewood door-to-door.

[Zephyr]

My SO is a health inspector for the township we live next to.  We no longer have an ice cream truck in the neighborhood as one day she asked for his non-existent permit and he never bothered to come back to show her.  She also terrorizes the Girl Scout bake sales, as technically it is illegal in NJ to make food at your home and put it up for sale, unless the prep area has been inspected and the preparer has taken a course on food safety.  Surprisingly our apartment, and the kitchen in particular, is a complete mess.

[Shockeye]

Alleged Chicken-For-Sex Offer Lands Meat Man In Jail

POSTED: 10:16 am CDT June 15, 2005
UPDATED: 11:24 am CDT June 15, 2005

KEENE, N.H. -- A door-to-door meat salesman from Maine is accused of assaulting a potential customer after she turned down his offer of chicken in exchange for sex.

Ryan Park, 22, of Waterboro, Maine, is accused of grabbing the woman in Stoddard, N.H., and forcefully kissing her after she rejected his offer last month.

Park has been charged with assault and is due in Keene District Court on June 28.

[Merusk]

Who the fuck would buy MEAT from a guy going door-to-door? I mean, I balk at buying firewood door-to-door.

We have guys that come around and try to sellOmaha Steaks from time to time.  And one other individual that tries to sell us some unnamed butchery's similar service.  We always pass.

[Alkiera]

Who the fuck would buy MEAT from a guy going door-to-door? I mean, I balk at buying firewood door-to-door.

We have guys that come around and try to sellOmaha Steaks from time to time.  And one other individual that tries to sell us some unnamed butchery's similar service.  We always pass.

I've ordered stuff from Omaha Steaks before.  Not from a salesman, but from their website.  It was really pretty good.

Alkiera

[Yegolev]

Health officials are urging people not to buy meat from door-to-door salesmen

Why are morons encouraged to live?  Would anyone here buy meat from a door-to-door salesman?

[Bunk]

Well, I'll admit to having bought prawns from a door to door guy. He showed up at our shop with a cooler full. Everyone new he'd been fishing them illegally, but he was selling at about half market value.

About two hours later, a fish and game warden shows up at the office asking abou this guy. We all dutifully tell him about this unlawfull scoundrel. We just don't tell him about the 10 pounds of prawns sitting in the lunchroom fridge.

[WayAbvPar]

Who the fuck would buy MEAT from a guy going door-to-door? I mean, I balk at buying firewood door-to-door.

We have guys that come around and try to sellOmaha Steaks from time to time.  And one other individual that tries to sell us some unnamed butchery's similar service.  We always pass.

I've ordered stuff from Omaha Steaks before.  Not from a salesman, but from their website.  It was really pretty good.

Alkiera

My in-laws buy Omaha steaks in bulk- they really are quite good, especially for the price.

[Yegolev]

Buying food from a real company is fine.  I buy food from Home Bistro occasionally.  Great stuff and best of all, it's ready in less than fifteen minutes.  Seafood, at least, you can kinda tell when that has gone bad.  Buying meat, and chicken of all things, from some jerk on your doorstep... whatever, go ahead.  I won't be doing that.  Thanks for increasing my health insurance premiums.

[Paelos]

Homer:    Your old meat made me sick!
Apu:        Oh, I'm so sorry. Please accept five pounds of frozen shrimp?
Homer:    This shrimp isn't frozen!  And it smells funny.
Apu:        OK, ten pounds.
Homer:    Woo hoo!

[HaemishM]

Oh, I'd have no problem ordering Omaha Steaks from the company. But buying it from some fucker that rings my doorbell? Not going to happen. There's just way too many variables in that equation, not the least of which being the guy's name is Hannibal, the meat has a sedative and my kitchen is an attractive place to stew a human liver away from the prying eyes of the police.

[Paelos]

Oh, I'd have no problem ordering Omaha Steaks from the company. But buying it from some fucker that rings my doorbell? Not going to happen. There's just way too many variables in that equation, not the least of which being the guy's name is Hannibal, the meat has a sedative and my kitchen is an attractive place to stew a human liver away from the prying eyes of the police.

Yeah well you chose to live in Mississippi.

[HaemishM]

I hardly think being born here was much of a choice, but touche. 

[Furiously]

I hardly think being born here was much of a choice, but touche. 

They don't have U-hauls in Mississippi?

[HaemishM]

They do, but all the exits are blocked by burning crosses.

[CmdrSlack]

When I went to school at Univ. of Alabama, we'd sometimes get guys selling meat door to door...they were the suppliers for the frat and sorority houses and would hit up the houses near sorority row and old fraternity row with the surplus from their deliveries.  One of our roommates used to live at one of the frat houses, so we always bought from the meat and seafood guy who delivered to his house.  But I guess that's more of a trusted source than some random dude with meat in a cooler or whatever.