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meat easy meat a person who is easily overcome or outwitted.
meat and mass never hindered man proverbial saying, early 17th century, indicating human need for physical and spiritual sustenance.
meat and potatoes in North American usage, basic and essential aspects.
one man's meat is another man's poison proverbial saying, late 16th century; the Roman poet Lucretius (
c.94–55 bc) in his
De Rerum Natura has the comment, ‘what is food to one person may be bitter poison to others’.
See also
dead meat,
God never sends mouths but He sends meat,
God sends meat, but the Devil sends cooks,
the nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat,
strong meat.
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Studying Meat Reducers Can Help Businesses Understand What Compels People to Intentionally Reduce Meat Consumption Despite Their Current Consumption Habits.
M2 Presswire; 7/17/2008; 700+ words
; ...Additionally, those who have reduced meat consumption over the last year are...this behavior over the next year. - Meat reducers include a variety of meats in their diet, with the most frequently consumed meat being chicken, which is followed...
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Meat processing by-products management trends
Magazine article from: BioCycle; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...curl in the tail." In fact, meat processing generates almost as many by-products as it does meat cuts. For example, when a...from edible muscle and organ meats to hair, bones and paunch manure...products. Historically, some meat processing byproducts such as...
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 "Doings, The (Hinsdale, IL)")
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'Meat Guy' beefs up business with personal service
Newspaper article from: Doings, The (Hinsdale, IL); 1/23/2009; ; 640 words
; ...and started his own, Internet-based meat home-delivery business, The Meat Guy. A lack of prime and choice meats in many retail outlets led him to sell...have closed has made finding quality meat difficult. "People still refuse to...
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Meat prices heat up for summer season.
Newspaper article from: Times (Munster, IN); 6/1/2007; 700+ words
; ...higher-than-average meat prices are going to...plants where we buy our meats are going dark one...demand for grilling meats like rib steaks...time, prices for end meat -- chuck, rump and...The price of end meats, meat at the ends of the...
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Meat loaf is low-fat comfort food
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 3/19/2003; ; 643 words
; ...FROM PRINTED VERSION Sun-Dried Tomato Meat Loaf with Red Currant Wine Sauce is comfort...slimmed-down recipe for sun-dried tomato meat loaf, stylishly bathed with red currant...If you decide to freeze one of these meat loaves, make half the amount of red currant...
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Meat Judging Competition Can Be Fierce.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 3/13/2002; 700+ words
; ...and take notes. They competed last month in a meat judging intercollegiate contest in the meat lockers at the Houston Food Bank during the 2002...isn't a football game. This is competitive meat judging, where collegiate teams, wielding ballpoint...
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Meat and poultry see the "lite." (low fat meat) (New Products Annual)
Magazine article from: Prepared Foods; 3/15/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...their meat products. Supermarket meat cases overflowed with lite lunch meats, franks and sausage varieties. Poultry...sell in 8-oz. boxes. PROCESSED MEAT AND POULTRY 1990 Luncheon meats 139 Franks 29 Meat 58 Poultry 97 Seafood 180 Sa
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Meat Group Says There's No Federal Law Regarding Acceptance of Downed Animals.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 12/27/2003; 700+ words
; ...complicated. Despite assurances the U.S. meat supply is very safe, confirmation of a...state heifer has many shoppers eyeing the meat case with subtle new standards. But the...chuck was processed by a high-quality meat processor: define high-quality. Then...
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Meat-case evolution: new product entries, changing consumer demand, branding and merchandising efforts, and increased efficiencies combine to create new energy in the retail meat case.(Special report: State of the Meat Case 2003)
Magazine article from: Meat Retailer; 8/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...and technology advances in the meat supply industry offer retailers...introductions are sparking energy in the meat and poultry categories, according...cases. Beef, pork, and other meats chalked up 250 new meat product entries in the first six...
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Meat processors serving up tips to consumers on cuts
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 4/14/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Cargill Inc. - the second-biggest U.S. meat processor behind Tyson Foods Inc. - is...out what to do with a particular piece of meat, online promotions and advice, and cuts...eight of 10 shoppers were baffled by the meat case at their stores. There's always...
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Nippon Meat Packers, Inc.
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...In the later 1970s, Nippon Meat Packers began taking global...company founded Day-Lee Meats, in Los Angeles. Since then, Nippon Meat Packers has set up affilites...Chicken. Introducing new meats and meat products to the Japanese diet...
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SIC 5147 Meats and Meat Products
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries
...the wholesale distribution of meats and meat products in 2001. The total...40 percent of the market. Meats and meat products represented 2,375...their cases contained processed meats, as well. The "fresh meat case may be moving toward providing...
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Meat Loaf
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
Meat Loaf Singer Went Mobile with Bat Meat Loaf Pinched Bat II a Commercial Success Selected discography Sources Some folks say they dubbed Marvin Lee Aday “Meat Loaf” after he stepped on the foot of his high school...
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Meat
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
MEAT MEAT. For most human beings, meat is a highly desired food, but it is more of a treat than a staple. Meat, whether obtained from hunted or domesticated animals, is more expensive than staple carbohydrate-rich foods because of the investment...
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Meat, Salted
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...Salt has been used by the meat industry as a dry application...uncured), and restructured meats. Salt added to a meat system serves three main...sausage, and noncomminuted meats, for example, ham...ingredients, after the meat itself. Other ingredients...
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