Can you/do you buy hindquarter meat?

Spinoff from another thread: Can you buy hindquarter meat in your butchers? Will you eat it if you can? Is it a sefardi or ashkenazi hechsher? where do you live?

(many kashrus authorities do not allow hindquarter meat since it is very difficult and time consuming to perform nikkur in the hindquarters)

For a precis of the subject see here. http://oukosher.org/index.php/common/article/whats_the_truth_about_inikkur_achoraim_i/

Gold Member Joined: Dec 25 2008 Posts: 2034

Yum!

In israel, eating it when I can... Never saw it anywhere else. Bought in a mainstream grocery store with my Frum like me Israeli friend.

Once a friend brought a new York roast home from israel and three families split it. Good thing customs didn't stop him even though he declared it!

Thing I miss most about eating unkosher was new York steak....well, and shellfish but no onions for that anywhere kosher!

Platinum Member Joined: Nov 17 2008 Posts: 5047

Can't buy it where I live -- big city OOT USA. I'd use it (I'm a BT and grew up eating some of those cuts) if it was available with a hechsher I'd use (there aren't too many of those).
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Diamond Member Joined: Feb 14 2007 Posts: 2887

It is widely available in Israel.
I don't think you would be able to get it with a mehadrin ashkenazi hechsher, but it is definitely available with a mehadrin sefardi hechsher.

We had it one time because once a shochet who knows how to do it came.

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Gold Member Joined: Dec 25 2008 Posts: 2034

It was about 150 nis a kg last week, which is about $40 cad/us a pound

you mean $20 a pound.

Thats slightly more than I would pay for a rib steak. (the most expensive cut - $18 a pound - maybe/probably cheaper in the usa)

Platinum Member Joined: Jan 01 2006 Posts: 48152

I have no idea what I buy.

Diamond Member Joined: Nov 30 2006 Posts: 2595

I've never seen it for sale here, but I would buy it if they sold it with an acceptable hechsher (Sephardi is fine)

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I would buy Filet Mignon if I could find it anywhere. I heard that it is sold in Pomegranate in NY but it's a bit of a hike for a cut of meat.

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