Any you old timers go back to the day of Swift Protein beef, it was the first beef to be shot with enzymes to make it tender. if you didn't grind the trim off it by the evening of the second day it would be mushy and slick, if it got to that point you best have some potato whiter to mix with it to take the smell away. Protein beef lasted about 5 years. Swift also had a Tu-Tender beef which was milk cows shot with the same enzymes, most of the time you could cut two loins off them and your saw blade was shot the bones were so hard, I hated that junk. One other thing I hated about the Swift Protein was when you carried it and you didn't put some type of cloth on your shoulder the red ink that it was rolled with would get on your shirt collar, I use to go home and get the looks and questions about did I have a girl friend kissing on me at the store.
I never knew they did that to beef. I only have heard of and worked with pork like that. But the pork wasn't very long ago. Maybe 15-20 years. It was junk.
Proten was the only beef used by Piggly Wiggly in the middle 70s.I believe it was injected with papaya..Swift would deliver from truck to rail.I dont remember any problems with the trimmings and I thought it a quality product.It was nice and tender and our customers loved it.We also carried a Baby Beef which I hated.
eq2695, the beef was good, had a great taste and you right I remember something about it being injected with papaya.
I was with you my brother on that baby beef, young ones now a days need to be thankful they didn't have to cut it, the boning off of it was a time killer
Usedyo have that in petersfeild uk swift meats as we were part of vesteys.Had to slaughter quite quickly or the animal would fall over two hrs max.Also the steaks were too soft if that makes sense.