My first job was at a small grocery store when I was 15. Small as in 8 aisles big.
They used to make "Ham Salad" and they could never keep it on the shelf. Folks would buy it up as soon as it hit the shelf and even come in asking "when you going to put out more ham salad?". The standard response was "probably in a few days".
No one ever questioned it...but the reason it was always "just a few more days" is because the meat guy would wait for the processed meats to expire before grinding them up and making Ham Salad.
He would open up all the expired packs of Oscar Meyer lunch meat and other expired deli meat and add spices and run it through the grinder and mixer a few times to make what they called Ham Salad. Packaged it up in those nifty 1lb salad containers and watched it fly off the shelf!
They used to make "Ham Salad" and they could never keep it on the shelf. Folks would buy it up as soon as it hit the shelf and even come in asking "when you going to put out more ham salad?". The standard response was "probably in a few days".
No one ever questioned it...but the reason it was always "just a few more days" is because the meat guy would wait for the processed meats to expire before grinding them up and making Ham Salad.
He would open up all the expired packs of Oscar Meyer lunch meat and other expired deli meat and add spices and run it through the grinder and mixer a few times to make what they called Ham Salad. Packaged it up in those nifty 1lb salad containers and watched it fly off the shelf!