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Location: The end of the Earth, SE AR | We live in the middle of nowhere, down 3 miles of gravel and then down 1/2 mile of a gravel lane where the road dead ends into our house. Yesterday this guy shows up and wants to sell me $3.50 lb rib eye steaks out of what looks like a small chest freezer out of the back of his beat up little "chevy luv" sized pickup. Unlike his scruffy truck, this guy was nicely dressed and had the air of a suave salesman about him. He said it was grass-fed beef from Illinois. I told him I was sick with a sinus infection and wanted to go back to bed and he said he'd stop by again. I told him no, thanks, I didn't really need any beef. He gave me the creeps and I was glad Ruger, my mastiff was standing by my side the whole time and the coonhounds were barking at him. Stupid me, I didn't get his license plate#. I've seen these types of folks parked in town in the grocery store or Alco parking lots but never knew they drove around selling their meat.
Where do they get their allegedly "quality grass feed beef " and is it legal for them to drive around selling it? I wish I hadn't felt like crap and been woken up by him so I could have thought more clearly and gotten a better ID on the truck and gotten the license plate number. |
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Location: South Georgia | I have wondered how they could make any money doing that. |
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 Chasin my Dream
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Location: Alberta | My mom has a fish guy that comes to her door to sell, he is legit and sells a known product. Proper paperwork is required and honestly if your unsure ask for their paperwork, the guy my mom gets has been coming for 20 plus years! |
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| Where's the beef???
It's in the ice chest, in the trunk of my Oldsmobile.....would you like to buy some? |
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| I tell you what would make me laugh, is if someone would load down the back of an El Camino with ice and drive around selling shrimp out of the back of it. Don't forget to throw in a few cases of beer......but, dang, that would be hilarious. I wish I had an El Camino...... |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | Around here I wouldn't buy a used fart from those guys. The quality of the beef is very low grade. Much of it is injected with this mysterious "solution" that has papain and other liquids. Papain is an enzyme that is used to tenderize meat that is as tough as shoe leather.
The fish is poor quality as well, if you decide to give that a try. I bought both meat and fish from them. Ended up feeding the beef to my dogs. For all I know it was horse meat. |
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Location: Kentucky | There was a guy that showed up at our house selling meat from the back of a truck. My sister and I were in the backyard laying out by the pool and he just walks up to us asking if we wanted to buy meat. Uh, excuse me??? Total invasion of privacy! I told him no. We always have weirdos showing up at our house. We live on a dead end street at the very end.
We've had someone come to our house wanting to sell us aerial photos of our property, someone selling meat, and someone selling vaccuums. What the crap.
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Location: Bandera, TX | Murphy - 2014-03-19 10:12 AM There was a guy that showed up at our house selling meat from the back of a truck. My sister and I were in the background laying out by the pool and he just walks up to us asking if we wanted to buy meat. Uh, excuse me??? Total invasion of privacy! I told him no. We always have weirdos showing up at our house. We live on a dead end street at the very end.
We've had someone come to our house wanting to sell us aerial photos of our property, someone selling meat, and someone selling vaccuums. What the crap.
Ewww.... I would get a very large dog, or better two. |
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Industrial Srength Barrel Racer
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| There is a small refrigerated truck aound here that sells it. I bought it ONCE - it was CRAP and when he came back I told him so! The meat was edible, just tough and not good quality - not at ALL what I am used to. |
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  More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | Our BB Imaclown's dad bought around $1000 worth of beef from one of those guys. He handed them the money and when they went to the vehicle to get the beef the guys took off with his money. I haven't heard if he's found the guys or not. |
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| I also live on gravel road, in the country, I finally got fed up with these creeps, purchase a $20 NO SOLICITING sign, put on my gate, so far they stop, my husband said if they come back just pull out the 357, that way they will get message not to come back |
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| CYA Ranch - 2014-03-19 11:27 AM Our BB Imaclown's dad bought around $1000 worth of beef from one of those guys. He handed them the money and when they went to the vehicle to get the beef the guys took off with his money. I haven't heard if he's found the guys or not.
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | There is no way in he** that I would be buying meat, fish out the back of someones truck that I dont know, how would you know if it got spoiled or to warm at one time then they ice it again. This sounds really unsafe.  |
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 That's White "Man" to You
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| My wife surprised me with about $600 worth of it a few months ago. I told her that was strike one and two.
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Whiteboy - 2014-03-19 11:45 AM My wife surprised me with about $600 worth of it a few months ago. I told her that was strike one and two.
Awww poor thing, hope you were not to hard on her  , I bet that guy will be back trying to sell more to her pretty soon. |
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That's White "Man" to You
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| Southtxponygirl - 2014-03-19 12:01 PM Whiteboy - 2014-03-19 11:45 AM My wife surprised me with about $600 worth of it a few months ago. I told her that was strike one and two. Awww poor thing, hope you were not to hard on her , I bet that guy will be back trying to sell more to her pretty soon.
The good thing for her is she is actually the boss, I only think I am! And as far as him coming back...I hope not! |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Whiteboy - 2014-03-19 12:06 PM Southtxponygirl - 2014-03-19 12:01 PM Whiteboy - 2014-03-19 11:45 AM My wife surprised me with about $600 worth of it a few months ago. I told her that was strike one and two. Awww poor thing, hope you were not to hard on her , I bet that guy will be back trying to sell more to her pretty soon.
Lol, glad that you see that she is the boss and she only lets you think you are sometimes  . Just be ready I bet he will be back trying to sell her more, once you buy from these people they seem to always come back  |
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The Bird Lady
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Location: The end of the Earth, SE AR | I didn't realize people would actually trust their digestive systems to eat meat out of the back of a truck.
I was wondering if anyone had heard if it was just an excuse to "case a joint" and come back and try to steal stuff. |
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Location: Texas | Outside of Breckenridge,Texas there is always someone selling "Fresh Gulf Shrimp" out of a cooler! How can it be fresh when you live 7 hours from the coast? I would never buy any seafood or meat out of the back of someone's truck. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | I bought meat out of the back of a Swanson's truck once. Actually, I think it was tamales.  |
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Location: Nebraska | I just saw on the news a couple days ago that a semi hauling beef from NE down to TX never made it to its destination. Maybe that's where the beef went! |
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| I seriously cannot get over the price of beef right now in the stores. It just seems like it's getting harder and harder to keep afloat in this country. |
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That's White "Man" to You
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| When I was in high school I worked for a tow truck company. There a semitruck loaded with oranges that had wrecked on the freeway. You should have seen all the people stopping to grab a bag of oranges from the wrecked truck! Seriously...for a bag of oranges?
ETA: sorry that probably seemed random, but that was in reply to the meat being stollen from the missing meat truck.
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Location: Kentucky | Whiteboy - 2014-03-19 1:19 PM
When I was in high school I worked for a tow truck company. There a semitruck loaded with oranges that had wrecked on the freeway. You should have seen all the people stopping to grab a bag of oranges from the wrecked truck! Seriously...for a bag of oranges?
Oranges are high... especially those Cuties. They are almost 7 bucks for a 3 pound bag here. |
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More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | Murphy - 2014-03-19 12:21 PM Whiteboy - 2014-03-19 1:19 PM When I was in high school I worked for a tow truck company. There a semitruck loaded with oranges that had wrecked on the freeway. You should have seen all the people stopping to grab a bag of oranges from the wrecked truck! Seriously...for a bag of oranges? Oranges are high... especially those Cuties. They are almost 7 bucks for a 3 pound bag here.
Those Cuties rock! |
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More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | Whiteboy - 2014-03-19 12:06 PM Southtxponygirl - 2014-03-19 12:01 PM Whiteboy - 2014-03-19 11:45 AM My wife surprised me with about $600 worth of it a few months ago. I told her that was strike one and two. Awww poor thing, hope you were not to hard on her , I bet that guy will be back trying to sell more to her pretty soon.
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I keep my change in my pockets
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Location: MN | CYA Ranch - 2014-03-19 11:27 AM
Our BB Imaclown's dad bought around $1000 worth of beef from one of those guys. He handed them the money and when they went to the vehicle to get the beef the guys took off with his money. I haven't heard if he's found the guys or not.
I don't see imaclown posting here any more. I wonder how she is? I know she got caught in a mess on here awhile back. |
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 I Chore in Chucks
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Location: MD | I'd rather buy beef from wal*mart than some guys truck. No idea if the meat is handled like it should, what's been done to it... I'm glad we have a Mennonite church a mile up the road and they sell meats and pies and dairy products fresh from their farms. That's something I sure don't feel guilty buying and eating!! SO YUMMY |
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More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | dawnb - 2014-03-19 3:06 PM CYA Ranch - 2014-03-19 11:27 AM Our BB Imaclown's dad bought around $1000 worth of beef from one of those guys. He handed them the money and when they went to the vehicle to get the beef the guys took off with his money. I haven't heard if he's found the guys or not. I don't see imaclown posting here any more. I wonder how she is? I know she got caught in a mess on here awhile back.
I see her at jackpots. She's had some changes in her life but she's doing good and looks amazing.  |
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Location: Lone Star State | I had two guys come to my BACK door to sell their meat. It scared me to death and was thankful my mother was with me. I have a pasture of cows at my house and a feeder steer in the barn but I guess he wasn't very observant.
My parents bought some years ago and was horrible.
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Location: Arkansas | In the spring we regulary see people sellng sea food out of the back of their trucks in parking lots. I looked one time, those shrimp were on dirty water and had been dead for ages! Said they came straight from the Gulf...yeah, last year. Buy them for a trip straight to the ER. |
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | Whiteboy - 2014-03-19 12:19 PM When I was in high school I worked for a tow truck company. There a semitruck loaded with oranges that had wrecked on the freeway. You should have seen all the people stopping to grab a bag of oranges from the wrecked truck! Seriously...for a bag of oranges?
This makes me think of a story about my dad.
He was driving home from work one evening ( a very curvy and dangerous road ) when he saw a flatbed truck and trailer off in the ditch. He had (obviously) wrecked and damged the T posts he was transporting and they weren't of good enough quality anymore to sell at the MSRP, so he paid $1/each and bought as many as he could fit in the bed of his pickup.
I certainly wouldn't be buying any meat from a source that I didn't know. Sounds like a scam and t kinda makes me think about Jordan Belfort (The Wolf of Wall Street) first job (a scam)... Going around to houses telling people that the seafood he was selling was of restraunt quality and he didn't sell everything on his truck for that day and he could get people "really good prices for it". |
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Location: Southwest Minnesota | We do have guys that sell the meat around here that are legitimate. However, last spring someone pulled in my yard in a cargo van with a deepfreeze in the back and was trying to sell me beef. I got a serious creepy vibe off this guy and told him just to get off my property. I even had a couple guys stop me when I was moving horses from my father-in-laws to my place. I was riding one bareback and ponying another...they stopped and asked me if I wanted to buy any beef...Seriously dude, where would you like me to put that?!?!? |
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| chuckie31 - 2014-03-19 3:45 PMWe do have guys that sell the meat around here that are legitimate. However, last spring someone pulled in my yard in a cargo van with a deepfreeze in the back and was trying to sell me beef. I got a serious creepy vibe off this guy and told him just to get off my property. I even had a couple guys stop me when I was moving horses from my father-in-laws to my place. I was riding one bareback and ponying another...they stopped and asked me if I wanted to buy any beef...Seriously dude, where would you like me to put that?!?!? You could have strapped it to that pack horse you were ponying. LOL
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| If the Schwan man comes in the Schwan food truck, he is legit and buy some chicken strips and ice cream for sure.
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Location: Eastern OH but my heart is in WV | I live in a small town in Ohio. Had them show up here twice. The second time they were VERY, VERY pushy and I became extremely uncomfortable. They left though with no incident but my husband was a councilman at the time. So "No Soliciting" signs went up around the town real quick after that. (I was not the only one that had an issue with them that day). He told me if they showed up again without proper paperwork to call the police.
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Location: Eastern OH but my heart is in WV | sodapop - 2014-03-19 3:56 PM
If the Schwan man comes in the Schwan food truck, he is legit and buy some chicken strips and ice cream for sure.
It is like the home ice cream delivery truck!!!!!!! Momma knows she is having some good ice cream that evening when he pulls up |
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Location: Somewhere in the middle of nowhere | I am so glad that we raise our own beef....it sure is hard to beat home grown beef! |
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Location: Here | CYA Ranch - 2014-03-19 11:27 AM Our BB Imaclown's dad bought around $1000 worth of beef from one of those guys. He handed them the money and when they went to the vehicle to get the beef the guys took off with his money. I haven't heard if he's found the guys or not.
Last I heard their boss read about it knew who they were and turned them in to the police!
I have had those guys show up too
I always ran them off NO way NO how |
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | nmeastplains - 2014-03-19 4:30 PM I am so glad that we raise our own beef....it sure is hard to beat home grown beef!
It really is the best! Seems about every other year my parents will have a cripple that they'll feed out and keep a side and sell the other one.. I told them I want first rights to the other side. Those are some of the best burgers I've ever had. |
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Location: Land Of Oz | RidenFly - 2014-03-19 12:19 PM I seriously cannot get over the price of beef right now in the stores. It just seems like it's getting harder and harder to keep afloat in this country.
I do beef markets. Looking at last year's prices, cattle prices have almost doubled since last year. Not projected to go down either. |
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Location: You never know where I will show up...... | HotbearLVR - 2014-03-19 10:11 AM Around here I wouldn't buy a used fart from those guys. The quality of the beef is very low grade. Much of it is injected with this mysterious "solution" that has papain and other liquids. Papain is an enzyme that is used to tenderize meat that is as tough as shoe leather. The fish is poor quality as well, if you decide to give that a try. I bought both meat and fish from them. Ended up feeding the beef to my dogs. For all I know it was horse meat.
If you ever decide to purchase beef out of a truck again, let me know. I am sure we can get something chased in for you. It won't even be injected with anything. Other than maybe a few cuss words. |
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Location: You never know where I will show up...... | RidenFly - 2014-03-19 12:19 PM I seriously cannot get over the price of beef right now in the stores. It just seems like it's getting harder and harder to keep afloat in this country.
The nation's cow herd is the smallest it's been since 1952. That is a good part of the reasoning. Lots of herds were culled pretty hard the last several years due to the droughts nation wide.
In my area a lot of the pasture and hay lands used to feed cattle have been torn up for farming purposes.
The price of ag land has gotten out of control, so it's easier to make money farming the dirt to pay for the land, than it is to raise cattle and pay for the land. Even with the good prices cattle are bringing. My family does both, so I can attest to that. |
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Location: Here | rockinas - 2014-03-19 5:12 PM RidenFly - 2014-03-19 12:19 PM I seriously cannot get over the price of beef right now in the stores. It just seems like it's getting harder and harder to keep afloat in this country. The nation's cow herd is the smallest it's been since 1952. That is a good part of the reasoning. Lots of herds were culled pretty hard the last several years due to the droughts nation wide.
In my area a lot of the pasture and hay lands used to feed cattle have been torn up for farming purposes.
The price of ag land has gotten out of control, so it's easier to make money farming the dirt to pay for the land, than it is to raise cattle and pay for the land. Even with the good prices cattle are bringing. My family does both, so I can attest to that.
Exactly Here too. |
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More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | SG. - 2014-03-19 4:47 PM CYA Ranch - 2014-03-19 11:27 AM Our BB Imaclown's dad bought around $1000 worth of beef from one of those guys. He handed them the money and when they went to the vehicle to get the beef the guys took off with his money. I haven't heard if he's found the guys or not. Last I heard their boss read about it knew who they were and turned them in to the police!
I have had those guys show up too
I always ran them off NO way NO how
Excellent news! Thanks SG! |
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More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | rockinas - 2014-03-19 5:12 PM RidenFly - 2014-03-19 12:19 PM I seriously cannot get over the price of beef right now in the stores. It just seems like it's getting harder and harder to keep afloat in this country. The nation's cow herd is the smallest it's been since 1952. That is a good part of the reasoning. Lots of herds were culled pretty hard the last several years due to the droughts nation wide.
In my area a lot of the pasture and hay lands used to feed cattle have been torn up for farming purposes.
The price of ag land has gotten out of control, so it's easier to make money farming the dirt to pay for the land, than it is to raise cattle and pay for the land. Even with the good prices cattle are bringing. My family does both, so I can attest to that.
Plus if the dirt farmers can't make a go of it on the torn up pasture land they get government subsidies.
I'll just stop and go have a Maui 7 before I have a heart attack. |
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What is the deal with the guys that sell beef out of the back of their truck ?