Last week at Sam's I got the 2 pack cryo pork butts for either $1.48 or $1.68/lb...I really can't recall which. I also got a prime packer brisket for $2.48. I'm almost scary surprised by what a prime brisket goes for there. Makes me wonder, but I've seen it three times like that now (I really only go to Sam's when I need smoking meat, which is much rarer than I'd like). Every time I've gotten a prime brisket for around 2.50, and the choice ones 6 ft down the case are about .10/lb less.
This was the first time I've bought pork butts at Sam's (I'm recently converted from Costco), and I wasn't impressed. They were big (a total of 21 lbs for the pair), but one had some black stuff on one side that appeared to be blood (dark red, almost black, and not runny, more like a gel) along with some other stuff I couldn't decipher what it was (almost like a big vein, firm white thing) that I hadn't seen before on a butt. This was on the smaller of the two, and it cooked up a lot different. Much tougher than the larger one, which was so tender I couldn't pull it out of the foil in one piece...even using both hands! I mixed the two meats together, and the end product tasted fine, but I was thinking the whole time how much better it could have been. The briskets I've got their, however, have been the best that I've ever made.
