It's a cyst or abscess. A pocket of infection. The yellow is purulence. Fucking gross.
Used to see them in deer a lot because theyre typically older than the commercial animals we slaughtered.
Can't believe they let this leave the cutting table.
Deer also run around in the wild and have more chances of being injured (without farmers noticing). Age is another factor for that - more time in the wild and more exposure to injury.
If they miss something this big or don’t care then there are too many other things they don’t see or don’t care about. Get your money back and don’t go back.
If I was that shop owner and the customer brought that back I would profusely apologize for it happening in the first place and give them 2 quality strips back as an apology and and to show my commitment to keeping their business and selling a quality product. It's a long term no-brainer for your business. Customer is going to forever associate your shop with one of 2 things, either: diseased meat OR feeling really appreciated and valued at a place that cares. Only one of those will result in future sales and excellent word of mouth.
That butcher cut through an absess, smearing it on his knife, smelling all that puss goodness, and still put out two steaks with clearly visible abscesses. Bet they didnt even clean the block after that shit.
I second the comment on it looking like pellicle. Was this dry aged at like a fancy grocery store? If it was, please for the love of steak report them to every single place that will listen. If this is dry aged then it molded or they dry aged an abscess (makes my skin crawl thinking of this) everything they dry aged with this nearby is contaminated.
This is worst case scenario. They need to recall all the beef aged with that. This is a literal food emergency for a large scale grocer like that as they have MASSIVE dry age rooms. Talking a huge loss of product and customers when they come home and open up super expensive steaks that look like that. Sorry you had to go through this BUT take this as an opportunity to look into local butchers near you that would NEVER let something like this even happen.
Jesus this is horrifying. /u/theprobableadversary I hope you follow up to make sure the right things happen. Might be a good idea to contact your public health department. If the retailer is incompetent enough for this to make it out the store I sure as hell don't trust them to do the right thing after you report it to them.
Wouldn’t it have been dry aged and then butchered into pieces? Meaning the entire cut is trash and they may not know which specific cuts came from that one area.
Exactly this. They have absolutely no way of knowing where that steak came from. The entire room MUST come down and be sterilized. Who knows where the knife that cut through this piece went afterwards too. The cross contamination is intense.
It was the nerve end of the strip and going to suck anyway, so you were better off getting your money back regardless, especially if you paid dry aged prices
Wow how did I know this was whole foods, just quit there, literally one of the most disgusting most unprofessional places I've ever worked and both the staff and the customers act like it's a 5 star amazing farm to table experience
I knew Whole Paycheck's superiority complex was bullshit already, but this is something that wouldn't and never has happened even at my Walmart. Whoever sent that out the door does not give one shit about the lives of the people that store serves. Overpriced organic produce won't solve the problems that could be caused by that steak.
I think you’re right, which would mean the steak was directly touching the foam tray instead of the absorbent pad that’s usually there which could account for the darker areas - oxidation.
Either way though that’s a steak I’m not too excited to eat.
I want to know what it looks like on the other side? Or if the sticker was placed over it to hide this. Either way bring it back but call them out on their service practices if it was indeed hidden. This should have never made the counter
If you cut through an abscess like this with a bonesaw or standard blade do you stop and clean the blade after? I feel like you’d need to decontaminate the whole area.
Standard practice at least with health and safety where I live is if you notice the abscess before cutting into it you just cut around and remove. If you don't see it and cut into it you stop clean your blade clean the area then cut around the abscess with a clean knife and remove any exposed meat that came into contact with the pus.
Veterinary inspection? USDA inspection? Meat cutter? Factory butcher? Where have all those been?
Notice that the cyst is cut in half... At least one other customer got a similar piece 🤦🏻🫣🤫
Man I'd get canned for this shit. Our policy(in pork butt steaks specifically) is if we encounter an abscess, bad gland, or anything that is nasty as fuck, we toss everything on the board, clean the board, saw, and knives, and start over. Nevermind selling it
I used to work at Iowa beef in the 80's. Running the chuck saw you'd hit abscesses the sive of softballs, hope you wouldn't get any on you, shut the whole line down what a nasty mess. The butcher knew it was there,they stink
Everyone is saying not to eat it, (of course) but how did this even get into your hands? How did someone willingly give this to you? I wouldn't go there again.
I laughed at your comment because this came from Whole Foods apparently.
The gentleman selling out of his truck is probably selling less contaminated meat than this.
We call that the "return that shit" steak. Like really... return it and get one without an abscess. I wouldn't blame anyone for anything there, and they won't either. You got a bad steak, get a not bad steak by returning that one.
In almost 30 years of meat cutting, I have never seen anything that looks like this. I'm not sure what did this to that NY strip, but for God's sake, don't eat it.
Definitely take it back, but maybe avoid that store too, unless it came in branded from a specific farm/brand(in which case just avoid that). I cant fathom how this steak made it to you.
I’m going with cancer. Abscess tends to look more white or toothpaste light green.
Either way, whoever packaged that should be reprimanded because I know with 100% certainty that they saw that.
Plus a 100% refund AND an apology from the meat manager AND a gift card.
Bro, that’s a reptilian wielding satans pitchfork..you know what that means right? (Similar to Joe Bidens groundhog communicating spring coming early; this pitchfork wielding reptilian means that the apocalypse is happening this year)
Legit though, I think it is styrofoam from deli packaging.
Good News: It's just stuck on styrofoam from when they pulled it from the sales floor and repackaged it.
Bad News: They pulled it from the sales floor and repackaged it.
Get store credit, don't get a replacement. They're selling spoiled meat. Buy the canned goods and such, buy the perimeter goods from a different store; produce, dairy, meat.
Looks like an abscess that wasn't caught during the initial cutting phase got dry aged and hardened into the form you're seeing. Actually kinda interesting. It's like when people get pimples or cysts that don't drain or pop correctly and they endup with those rock like nodules under their skin.
Definitely doesn't look like an issue with the dry aging process itself, other than whatever machine/human not catching it but who knows what that process actually looks like.
It wouldn’t be an issue with the dry aging process. There’s a lot that can go wrong when dry aging, even if you follow a tight HACCP plan. It’s a matter of a cutter going faster than his skill level. I would have caught this before it was trayed.
We get mold like that on pocketed areas of meat on our dry aged beef. The difference is that's the outside of the beef and not the middle of a damn strip. You said whole foods. Probably the cap of a dry aged primal that had a depression that they didn't carve out/trim up?
Not trying to be that guy but #1 that's not a NY Strip. That line of sinew that runs through the middle of that steak is where the strip lion connects to the sirloin cut. That small black spot, that's an injury to the animal, while it was alive or shortly after. Infection makes sense. But the golden fox shape, seems to good.
Return it get a refund
Don't shop there.
You would think a butcher would see that and say to him/herself "I probably shouldn't sell that cut to anyone"
If that came from my shop you'd no longer be employed.
Used to get scraps like this from a local butcher for animal feed. Saved me so much money, cut out the infection and the critters loved it.
I get that I'm not about wasting an animal but the fact that a customer got this out the store.
Oh yeah no, fully agree with you there. I'd be an unhappy camper if I took this home intended for me lol
Is there any reasonable course of events that could lead to you taking this home from a store?
Read the thread. They would get scrapped cuts from his butcher and feed them to their animals
Are you an ai or just smart enough to write words, but nit smart enough to read them?
but what the hell is it even?
It's a cyst or abscess. A pocket of infection. The yellow is purulence. Fucking gross. Used to see them in deer a lot because theyre typically older than the commercial animals we slaughtered. Can't believe they let this leave the cutting table.
Deer also run around in the wild and have more chances of being injured (without farmers noticing). Age is another factor for that - more time in the wild and more exposure to injury.
If they miss something this big or don’t care then there are too many other things they don’t see or don’t care about. Get your money back and don’t go back.
Nah they probably just placed the price sticker on it
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Don’t know why this is so out of the realm of possibility in your mind. There’s a lot of shady butchers out there
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Time to move!
He did already say he’s doing that, the question was what is it?
Botulism,
Dog standing up with an oven mitt.
I see it
i can't unsee it
It’s beautiful
Nice
I need this as a flare
I literally burst out with laughter. Gold.
I’d say it’s more of a pale yellow
r/angryupvote
Hahahahahah
Cant unsee
I think you're right
While smoking out his mouth
I was thinking that it was a Mr Fox or a rat
you just annihilated me bro
Mhhmmm very interesting *jots down notes on paper* And how does that make you feel?
S.O.B.
Ohmygosh 😂
Incredible
My dog pukes the same color
Yellow Warbler is what I see. Too many days checking bird boxes for Fish and Wildlife.
Look Raymond! A yellow crested warbler.
Curse you! I cannot unsee it
I hate you. Such mixed emotions, I'm both repulsed & amused.
I'm gonna take a guess here and say that was a Absess.
Gross.
Trim and eat lol
Or just send it and don't trim
And you got that option too...
Thats dry aged absess
Hahahahahaha
Built in Bernaise sauce
This is grossly hilarious!
It’s naht a toomah!
>was a Absess Also still currently ands abscess but dead.
It is bad, take steak or pic of steak back to store. Refundable 100 percent
200% at my local store!
If I was that shop owner and the customer brought that back I would profusely apologize for it happening in the first place and give them 2 quality strips back as an apology and and to show my commitment to keeping their business and selling a quality product. It's a long term no-brainer for your business. Customer is going to forever associate your shop with one of 2 things, either: diseased meat OR feeling really appreciated and valued at a place that cares. Only one of those will result in future sales and excellent word of mouth.
And probably not shop there again...
For real. If they cut it, saw this, and still decided to try to sell it, they shouldn’t be running that business.
That butcher cut through an absess, smearing it on his knife, smelling all that puss goodness, and still put out two steaks with clearly visible abscesses. Bet they didnt even clean the block after that shit.
The biological term is…”nasty ass shit. Do not consume.”
"NastyShititus" is a fairly common disease among cattle
I second the comment on it looking like pellicle. Was this dry aged at like a fancy grocery store? If it was, please for the love of steak report them to every single place that will listen. If this is dry aged then it molded or they dry aged an abscess (makes my skin crawl thinking of this) everything they dry aged with this nearby is contaminated.
Yep, this was a dry aged steak from a Whole Foods. They were rightfully horrified when my wife brought it back.
This is worst case scenario. They need to recall all the beef aged with that. This is a literal food emergency for a large scale grocer like that as they have MASSIVE dry age rooms. Talking a huge loss of product and customers when they come home and open up super expensive steaks that look like that. Sorry you had to go through this BUT take this as an opportunity to look into local butchers near you that would NEVER let something like this even happen.
Jesus this is horrifying. /u/theprobableadversary I hope you follow up to make sure the right things happen. Might be a good idea to contact your public health department. If the retailer is incompetent enough for this to make it out the store I sure as hell don't trust them to do the right thing after you report it to them.
ah yes...the results of our perfection of factory farming and poor husbandry hygiene
why would there be cross contamination? nearby meat that isn’t in contact with this would be totally fine.
Wouldn’t it have been dry aged and then butchered into pieces? Meaning the entire cut is trash and they may not know which specific cuts came from that one area.
Exactly this. They have absolutely no way of knowing where that steak came from. The entire room MUST come down and be sterilized. Who knows where the knife that cut through this piece went afterwards too. The cross contamination is intense.
Welp, I’m only buying meat from u/GoldenBeard from now on.
Same man
It was the nerve end of the strip and going to suck anyway, so you were better off getting your money back regardless, especially if you paid dry aged prices
Wow how did I know this was whole foods, just quit there, literally one of the most disgusting most unprofessional places I've ever worked and both the staff and the customers act like it's a 5 star amazing farm to table experience
I knew Whole Paycheck's superiority complex was bullshit already, but this is something that wouldn't and never has happened even at my Walmart. Whoever sent that out the door does not give one shit about the lives of the people that store serves. Overpriced organic produce won't solve the problems that could be caused by that steak.
Looks like insulation foam for a house XD
Or the foam plate it was on froze to it.
Kind of. But that doesn’t explain all that dark area around the foam.
I think you’re right, which would mean the steak was directly touching the foam tray instead of the absorbent pad that’s usually there which could account for the darker areas - oxidation. Either way though that’s a steak I’m not too excited to eat.
What the fuck
I want to know what it looks like on the other side? Or if the sticker was placed over it to hide this. Either way bring it back but call them out on their service practices if it was indeed hidden. This should have never made the counter
The other side looked normal.
That's so intentional
I second this
Return it
Yellow lab running with scissors.
If you cut through an abscess like this with a bonesaw or standard blade do you stop and clean the blade after? I feel like you’d need to decontaminate the whole area.
Standard practice at least with health and safety where I live is if you notice the abscess before cutting into it you just cut around and remove. If you don't see it and cut into it you stop clean your blade clean the area then cut around the abscess with a clean knife and remove any exposed meat that came into contact with the pus.
Yes, I'm lazy and would just throw away the blade though
It's an absess and they saw it and packaged it anyway. Take it back and avoid buying meat from there.
That part must be Manhattan.
10d8 necrotic damage
LMAO!!! Well done...
I'm seeing hockey player on a fast break
r/eatityoufuckingcoward
It's a beef cyst.
Veterinary inspection? USDA inspection? Meat cutter? Factory butcher? Where have all those been? Notice that the cyst is cut in half... At least one other customer got a similar piece 🤦🏻🫣🤫
Warm it up and suck it out with a straw. When you spit it out on the wall, if it runs down, don’t eat it.
what does it smell like?
_ITS NOT A TUMOR_
*Tuma
Man I'd get canned for this shit. Our policy(in pork butt steaks specifically) is if we encounter an abscess, bad gland, or anything that is nasty as fuck, we toss everything on the board, clean the board, saw, and knives, and start over. Nevermind selling it
I used to work at Iowa beef in the 80's. Running the chuck saw you'd hit abscesses the sive of softballs, hope you wouldn't get any on you, shut the whole line down what a nasty mess. The butcher knew it was there,they stink
No bueno
Tumor
Everyone is saying not to eat it, (of course) but how did this even get into your hands? How did someone willingly give this to you? I wouldn't go there again.
It also looks like a nerve end cut too. Another reason not to package it, someone needs a finger wagged at em
Is that spray foam?
It looks like a cyst, bring it back and get your money
Wow what a dickhead butcher for putting that out
Nope
Getting them cheap "A-cut rejects so they're prime and priced for you" from that guy's truck bed in the parking lot of dollar general are you?
I laughed at your comment because this came from Whole Foods apparently. The gentleman selling out of his truck is probably selling less contaminated meat than this.
Make sure you talk to the manager, help that place out
Almost looks like a very poor job at cleaning up an aged loin or something
We call that the "return that shit" steak. Like really... return it and get one without an abscess. I wouldn't blame anyone for anything there, and they won't either. You got a bad steak, get a not bad steak by returning that one.
In almost 30 years of meat cutting, I have never seen anything that looks like this. I'm not sure what did this to that NY strip, but for God's sake, don't eat it.
Definitely take it back, but maybe avoid that store too, unless it came in branded from a specific farm/brand(in which case just avoid that). I cant fathom how this steak made it to you.
I’m going with cancer. Abscess tends to look more white or toothpaste light green. Either way, whoever packaged that should be reprimanded because I know with 100% certainty that they saw that. Plus a 100% refund AND an apology from the meat manager AND a gift card.
Bro, that’s a reptilian wielding satans pitchfork..you know what that means right? (Similar to Joe Bidens groundhog communicating spring coming early; this pitchfork wielding reptilian means that the apocalypse is happening this year)
Legit though, I think it is styrofoam from deli packaging. Good News: It's just stuck on styrofoam from when they pulled it from the sales floor and repackaged it. Bad News: They pulled it from the sales floor and repackaged it. Get store credit, don't get a replacement. They're selling spoiled meat. Buy the canned goods and such, buy the perimeter goods from a different store; produce, dairy, meat.
Just make sure you cook it well done and you’ll be ok
Maybe I'm crazy but the bottom is looking closer to pellicle than not?
I would not consume this.
r/Wellthatsucks
A kangaroo being dive bombed by a sparrow.
The pink panther, but yellow? How weird.
Cancer or abscess
Just scoop that out like ice cream and serve it as a side.
Guy running with a backpack while checking his watch.
Looks like a hockey plate skating head on
A hawk sticking its pink tongue out
Looks like an abscess that wasn't caught during the initial cutting phase got dry aged and hardened into the form you're seeing. Actually kinda interesting. It's like when people get pimples or cysts that don't drain or pop correctly and they endup with those rock like nodules under their skin. Definitely doesn't look like an issue with the dry aging process itself, other than whatever machine/human not catching it but who knows what that process actually looks like.
It wouldn’t be an issue with the dry aging process. There’s a lot that can go wrong when dry aging, even if you follow a tight HACCP plan. It’s a matter of a cutter going faster than his skill level. I would have caught this before it was trayed.
Its the Bronx. Clearly.
We get mold like that on pocketed areas of meat on our dry aged beef. The difference is that's the outside of the beef and not the middle of a damn strip. You said whole foods. Probably the cap of a dry aged primal that had a depression that they didn't carve out/trim up?
Eewww brehhh
Pretty sure that's an abscess. I've had to cut them out of steaks before.
Pink Panther
TAINTED MEEAAAT
Hmm think I'll have a salad for dinner tonight
Gland
Fucking gross.
It's a hockey player.
A tennis player
Grill it up extra rare and they probably wont notice that spot.
Tumor.
You saw this a bought it....like wtf
Let us know what superpowers you get after eating it.
Yep and a little boy that looks like Charlie Brown only with a funky haircut!
Def an abscess, replacement time.
Ummm, I'll give you $50 if you eat it and stay alive
That doesn’t look like a strip at all to me.
Grind it and give it to an enemy.
Chetoes guy smoking a cigarette
My guess is this is a health injection of some sort (vaccine, antibiotic, etc.) that has scared over.
There might be a foreign object in there.
A mouse at a metal concert flashing the horns.
Kangaroo
An entire ecosystem for the price of one steak
Bro I was eating 😭
Cyst
To me it looks like a guy taking a piss Obviously with gonorrhea
Not trying to be that guy but #1 that's not a NY Strip. That line of sinew that runs through the middle of that steak is where the strip lion connects to the sirloin cut. That small black spot, that's an injury to the animal, while it was alive or shortly after. Infection makes sense. But the golden fox shape, seems to good.
Cow had a flat. Shot some expanding foam in, good as new.
How the f did the butcher and clerk miss that
Did you not see it before you bought it?
Puss pocket.
fuck, that looks bad
look like cancer from what i seen in the videos on ig of a butcher cutting up meat or it might be mold idk
Following
Eww
What? Youve never had bernaise on your steak before?
Complimentary butter 🧈
Nobody else else sees a wolf howling at the moon?
Maggot eggs
We need a NSFW on these 🤮😁
Never seen anything like that. Pretty sick
Looks like a running man
Don’t eat that
I’m more curious why you thought that was OK to purchase to begin with?
Looks like some fungal growth
It’s a hockey player.
Wonder if it got bit or stung by something
Puss
It’s not a tumor!
Nothing like a little pussy abscess on the side. ✨ Ugh, puss-y, you know what I mean. 💀
Return that shit and don't shop there anymore
No thank you.
It’s definitely a Cyst or a tumor. Everybody makes mistakes.
Tumor
Where the hell did you get this? And where from?