(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best meat & seafood

Buying pepperoni can be tricky. Normally we'll just grab whatever pack is at the grocery market. Luckily for me I have an Italian market near me and they make their own pepperoni. Its my go to choice as its better than the name brands like Hormel. But there are other options such as buying pepperoni from Amazon.
Check it out! I have listed these from best rating to worst rating and there are some more than these on Amazon if you look at a specific pepperoni and then under the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" or "Sponsored Products", but Ive tried to list the most popular ones. Put the pepperoni on your holiday wish list!


Olli Pepperoni, $15.00, 5/5 stars (only 2 reviews)...

https://www.amazon.com/Olli-Pepperoni-Salami-6-ounces/dp/B00DS1FY6S/

Vermont Smoked Pepperoni, $6.99, 4.5/5 stars...

https://www.amazon.com/Vermont-Smoke-Cure-Pepperoni-Uncured/dp/B01HEHVKKU/

Margherita VERY BEST, $3.79, 4.5/5 stars...

https://www.amazon.com/Margherita-VERY-RATED-Pepperoni-Sticks/dp/B00E6RRHK4/

Boars Head Pepperoni, $13.95, 4/5 stars...

https://www.amazon.com/Boars-Head-Whole-Pepperoni/dp/B00KOVU29O/

Bridgford Pepperoni, $21.84, 4/5 stars...

https://www.amazon.com/Bridgford-Pepperoni-World-16-Ounce-Sticks/dp/B0029JW96I/

Margherita Premium, $15.79, 4/5 stars...

https://www.amazon.com/Margherita-Premium-Selling-Pepperoni-Sticks/dp/B00AL059UU/

Battistoni Pepperoni, $10.49, 4/5 stars...

https://www.amazon.com/Battistoni-Pepperoni-7-oz-Stick/dp/B004RBQ00C/

Battistoni Classic Pepperoni, $16.99, 5/5 stars (only 1 review)...

https://www.amazon.com/Battistoni-Classic-Italian-Pepperoni-Stick/dp/B009SYTYVA/

Fortunas Dry Cured Pepperoni, $18.95, 3.5/5 stars...

https://www.amazon.com/Natural-Nitrate-Gluten-Cured-Pepperoni/dp/B003B4GPYW/

Fortunas Pepperoni, $52.95, --> AGAIN, but with 5/5 stars...

https://www.amazon.com/BUNDLE-Natural-Nitrate-Pepperoni-Package/dp/B0077UWJAA/

It's pretty expensive.

Meat animals have been selectively bred for generations to be as meat-dense as possible. We've doubled the size of the turkey and the cow in under a hundred years. When humans put on weight, it's in the form of fat, unless they exercise in specific ways to bulk up muscles: but this makes the meat tough and stringy.

Here's an assertion that the average human is about 40 per cent muscle tissue, aka meat: that seems very high to me, because cows, which are bred to be meat, are about 40 per cent usable muscle tissue. (Once they've been dressed, they're about 65 per cent meat, but that's because things like bones and skin have been stripped away.) I'm going to go out on a limb and say that because we've doubled the size of meat animals, a human has only half the usable muscle tissue of a cow, so 20 per cent.

The average adult human worldwide weighs about 137 pounds, so 20 per cent of that would be about 27 pounds of meat. (We're not going to count organ meats: when we ask for beef, we don't expect to get beef liver or kidneys.) It's not all equal quality, though — the muscles that get the most use will be toughest (I'm guessing the brachioradialis, in the forearm, won't be good for anything except stewing), while the tenderest will probably be the glutei maximi, aka the buttocks: they're the largest, so even if they're not the very tenderest (they do get kind of a workout keeping the body upright), they will provide the largest roasts and therefore be valuable.

If we're capturing free-range humans and stripping them of their meat for sale, then the cost of the livestock is fairly low but the quality is extremely variable. If we want to control for quality, then we need to raise the humans in pens and feed them specific foods, which will add to the cost, a lot.

I think it's safe to say that, in the absence of breeding programs to make humans more suitable for meat production, the costs incurred in raising them for meat are going to be higher than for other livestock, because there's just not that much meat per animal and humans have specific dietary and physical needs that farmyard animals don't. There's no way to know for sure, of course, but I'll hazard a guess: good-quality human meat is going to be in the vicinity of a really good cut of beef, say filet mignon, which Amazon will sell you right now for about $27 a pound, or wagyu, which Amazon also has available, for about $55 a pound. Since beef where I live is currently going for on average $10 a pound (CAD, ≈ $7.70 USD), I'd say that human is three and a half to seven times as expensive as cow.

Yes you can—once it's down to a "cube-able" consistency, it's just glace. I do it with chicken stock all the time, because I usually only have chicken bones on hand. I get about 32 half-inch cubes out of a single leftover chicken carcass. See my post here, and here's Jacques on the subject. I use cubes of glace all the time, straight from the freezer. It's a great way to boost any kind of sauce, soup, or rice.

Also, for "brown" stock (veal), I buy commercial glace de viande. It's nice to have both on hand. Beefy foods get glace de viande, pork and chicken get my glace de poulet.

> People can't go without food. If all but the most expensive foods have trans then I guess it just sucks to be the poor people

Nah. I make little, but buy frozen chicken breast for protein and potatoes for carbs. Neither has trans-fat, both are cheaper than processed junk. I do enjoy processed junk from time to time, but that's beside the point.

> They can't afford to make the healthier option, so they get to enjoy their heart disease inducing foods.

Again, don't make that decision if you don't want that outcome.

12 frozen pizzas = $83.15

20lbs of chicken = $108

Go to your local grocer and check out potato prices. Buy a couple apples at 1.50lb.

I get it. It sucks. Its easy to throw some processed shit in the microwave and call it good. But its not good for you, so if health is important to you don't do it. Why demand the government do this for you though? Also, why do people give such little respect to people with less than them? Do you think that just because you have a higher social status than them you should advocate for the government being involved in their decisions? Is that really your idea of empowerment?

> The company, who only exists because the government allows it to exist

Oh I see, like a king right? The government says what goes?

Not in the US(Constitutionally anyway. People are working on that though). The government is granted rights. They don't have them de facto. However that is changing, and there are movements in the west where people want politicians to have more de facto control over their lives. This is what I don't understand.


> You can choose not to buy a home built with asbestos. You can choose to avood buildings built with asbestos. Government should just require labeling such buildings, right?

Nah. Try again. Government buildings, schools, markets. You have to go in certain buildings. You do not have to buy certain foods.

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and I have one final thing you can do for him.
Take him to a Korean restaurant and ask for "pork belly" (Sam Gyup Sal) It is the Korean version of bacon and it is delicious. The "sam" means three layers of fat. If you can find a a place with "oh" that means 5 layers. It is delicious. I know it sounds weird but it tastes great and it is basically bacon. Bacon is Meat Candy too!
EDIT- Surprise me!

I purchased this ham a few months back and found it to be very good. I just purchased another for Christmas.

The company that makes it sells it in various sizes, but that size should work with a bit of delicious leftover.

If you decide to order it from amazon, please consider using smile.amazon.com which lets you select a charity that Amazon will donate a portion of your purchase price to.

Here is a fun and easy one for the grill...
Occasionally I pick up a couple of Eye of Round roasts, common and cheap meat. Find some beef base, it usually comes in a container and is moist. Tones is my favorite if you can find it. Then add 1:1 your favorite rub, often I use Montreal Steak here, but do what you like. Smear the mixture heavily over the entire roast, and then grill over a medium-high heat for 30min. flip then another 15+ checking your temp for doneness. Slice thin across the grain for tenderness and serve. It is surprisingly good and cheap!

I don't remember the exact technique I used. It was a couple months back. But I don't think it was lacking flavor. It was just an overpowering "cat food" aroma that spoiled it for me.

For the occasion you do want a beef patty, you might try Schweid & Sons "The Prime Burger". I had the best burger I've ever made at home the other night with those.

Famous Dave's "Devil's Spit" Pickle Chips are also a must-have burger condiment as well IMO. They're not nearly as spicy as the name and label would suggest, but the flavor is amazing. Wickle's Pickles are a strong second-place if you can't find Devil's Spit.

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> Anti-oxidants are good at preventing harm, oxidation is what's harmful for your body.

No, that's not clear at all. I provided the link for a reason. Anti-oxidants have links with higher mortalities, cancer, and destroy the benefits of exercise.

> Sardines are super cheap most of the time (less than $1 a day for a can), they're also really good for you. You're not going to get 8g of fish oil and 22g of protein for much cheaper anywhere else.

OK, I admit I don't pay too much attention to sardine prices. I thought they were more like $3 a can. (Looking on Amazon, prices seem to be more like $2 a can.)

> I'm also not a huge fan of nubrain, I like smart powders for most of my stuff. The rest I get my uncle to buy from China super cheap of Alibaba because he deals in import/export.

Neither Alibaba nor Smart Powders do modafinil, though. I like SP too - for what they carry. (I like the idea of bulk buying on Alibaba, but really - what am I going to do with 30kg of piracetam?)

Haha - we find a way to make even bacon a little lamer here. This is pretty much what people think about when they think bacon in the US: https://www.amazon.com/Tyson-59809-Hickory-Smoked-Bacon/dp/B004Q3N1LW I think it's laid out that that to make it look like there's more meat than there actually is.

It's improved a bit in the last 10 years or so, and now we can get thicker, better quality strips in a regular supermarket.

Two other ingredients you could add to the above are roast pork concentrate and/or miso paste

I don't know what kind of ramen you're using, but at the risk of sounding like a snob.. and considering how cheap ramen already is, I recommend a good quality instant ramen brand like myojo chukazanmai.

I received a big sac of toasted honey nut baby crabs as a gift. They were pretty good. Crunchy, sweet, and a little crabby. They seem to come in somewhat similar packaging. https://www.amazon.com/Takuma-Dried-Baby-Crab-Snacks/dp/B018TC5FRS

I love your show, and it is literally the very first youtube channel I ever subscribed too. However, I can't figure out for the life of me why the crabby patty isn't crab.

As someone who lived in Maryland, I'd always imagined (more like hoped) it was Phillips Lump, and the awesome crab cake recipe on the can that made up the patty.

Fellow keto eater here. Here's what I do for shorter trips. Hillshire farms summer sausage. (20 oz) 1 stick is 1900 calories, 160 grams of fat and 110 grams of protein. Throw in a handful of nuts or an avocado and your golden for your days food and meet your macros if you track that kind of thing. Its neat, Requires no stove, fuel, cookware or dishes.(Saves weight) Its clean and compact to carry and eat too.

https://www.amazon.com/Hillshire-Farm-Classic-Summer-Sausage/dp/B014DRSEQM/ref=sr_1_1_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1518823470&sr=8-1&keywords=hillshire+farm+summer+sausage

EDIT: Keep in mind that even though the summer sausage goes over your macros in fat for hiking this is actually a good thing. It is the fat your Ketosis adapted body turns into energy. So as a hiker (Not as your daily diet) the extra fat will be needed as your energy source and help prevent hitting, "Walls".

I love this idea. Heading to the store tonight to buy more shells.

*And even though no one asked, if anyone is curious where to buy shells I go to a specialty food market and buy escargot shells because you get a lot of uniform shells for a decent price. Something like this

Here are some I found on amazon. After shipping it's $19 for 24 shells.

http://www.amazon.com/Escargot-Shells-Large-Empty-pcs/dp/B00308B23S

And here are some with prime shipping $15 for 36 shells.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004Y18ANU/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=1944687722&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B00308B23S&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1NNXV16A71672SS1G50K

Both have reviews with people who have used them with shell dwellers.