How to Get the Benefits of Organ Meat Without Eating Organ Meat
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How do you eat organ meat if you don't like organ meat? It's the single most common thing people say to us about liver, and there's a genuinely easy answer.
A customer named Lisa left us a five star Google review, and buried in it is the best description of this problem I've read.
Here's the whole thing....
It's been a pleasure to deal with the folks at DD. Not only is their beef top of the line, they go out of their way to make sure it all works out. I made an order and one piece of it was missing. I live fairly close, so I agreed to come down and pick up the missing roast. Well, I picked up a sealed box, got home several hours later and to my surprise there were 2 roasts in the box! As a thank you for making the extra trip!
Also, we really love the Primal ground beef! I've never been one for the offal, but I know how good it is for our health. This is the perfect mix, I can't even tell it's not full ground beef, and the girls who I babysit LOVE it, so they are also getting much needed nutrient dense meals.
Thank you Dirty Dog for setting new standards for quality of beef, quality of customer service and ethical treatment of animal and land.
I know what you are thinking.
Yes, we missed a roast.
Don't worry. We take this kind of mistake seriously, and Jackson will be spending the long weekend in the Freezer to atone for bringing such dishonor upon us.
Don't worry, he will be provided with a blanket and small campstove, the point is to think about his failure not to freeze solid.
"I've never been one for the offal, but I know how good it is for our health"
But the part I actually want to talk about is that second paragraph, because Lisa described exactly why we started making Primal Blend in the first place.
That's everybody.
Everybody has seen a reel about how liver is basically nature's multivitamin. We know its amazing for you and filled with all kinds of special nutrients, and our grandparents ate it and everyone had boundless energy and thriving Pineal Glands and lustrous hair and whatever.
We get it.
And nonetheless, most people just.....don't like to cook and/or eat it.
That's why Primal Blend exists
We kept our ear to the streets, and decided to just mix a little liver and heart into our ground beef.
Ten percent liver, five percent heart, blended into 100% grass-fed ground beef. So you can just make tacos or meat sauce or burgers (if you're brave enough) and enjoy the benefits of beef organs with none of the cooking or tasting beef organs.
Does it actually work?
And in case you were wondering if that is really true....
"I can't even tell it's not full ground beef, and the girls who I babysit LOVE it"
You (and your loved ones) will truly never know.
This is the ultimate white-lie of any relationship. Just simply omit the fact that tonight's dinner includes 10% Liver and 5% Heart.
No one's gonna be any wiser, and you get to sit back and know that you had the strength to do what is right for everyone else. Like that purple Thanos guy in the Marvel movies who kept getting attacked by those ungrateful vigilantes while he was just trying to fix the universe....
Pretty sure that was the moral of those films.
Plus your loved ones will thank you when the nutrient megadose kicks in and they see clearly through their third eye.
Why the animal's diet matters more here than anywhere else
Worth saying, since this is the one place it really counts: liver and heart are filtering and storage organs, which means what the animal ate over its life shows up here more than in any other cut.
Ours come from cattle that have eaten nothing but grass their entire lives, on pastures we never spray. (Here's the 40+ plants our cows actually eat, and here's why we won't spray a pasture.)
How to get it
If you would like to pull off the same crime act of love at your own dinner table, you can order Primal Blend here.
If you are the kind of person who WANTS all the organs (the real, unground, fully formed versions), we made a Nose-to-Tail box just for you. And for the full story on why organs vanished from the grocery store in the first place, here's where to buy 100% grass-fed beef organs and what happened to them.
Your Farmer,
Josh
P.S. Not sure what size share is right for you? Take our Beef Share Quiz for a personal recommendation. Everyone loves a quiz.
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