A North Austin Supermarket Has Forced Us To Learn What "Pizzle" Is

Texas Monthly ^ | Mon June 16, 2014 2:58 pm | by Dan Solomon

[a fool in paradise]

It may not have occurred to you that when you give your dog a chew treat, you may well be giving the pooch a product that may well be made out of...

You may also be unaware that..., as a meat product, has a name that—seemingly mercifully—is not ..., but which is "pizzle," perhaps the only word gross enough for the thing that it describes.

But all of this is presumably less gross than the fact that a North Austin supermarket allegedly put pizzle—which is meant to be labeled as inedible beef not fit for human consumption—on the shelves for unsuspecting customers. As KXAN reports, MT Supermarket deliberately altered the labels...

The Texas Attorney General’s Office filed the suit that names the North Lamar location of MT Supermarket where employees sold “non-inspected, adulterated and misbranded beef pizzle as human food.”

The suit alleges a manager and employees at the supermarket took the pizzle from boxes “labeled inedible beef, not intended for use as human food and repackaged the pizzle in consumer size packages, then labeled the pizzle as human food.”

The suit goes on to say the defendants labeled the packages to indicate the pizzle was inspected and from a registered source...

[MarMema]

The Koreans feed the pizzle to the dogs and cats first and then as they say ..."Soup's On!"

I hate them for it.

[MarMema]

But what is this guy doing, do you know?

[4yearlurker]

I cut meat for close to 30 years,starting in 1975 and I have never heard this term. Why would inedible meat be packed in a box? It all went in the barrel to be picked up once a week by a rendering company.

[Mister Da]

Pizzle is an apt description of our current national leadership.

[verga]

Hmmm ... word of the day treatment seems in order. John Kerry is a walking pizzle.

We could change Chris Matthews nickname from tingles to Pizzlehead.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

The really shocking thing in that picture is the price tag. $3.99/lb for that?

[cyborg]

fo shizzle i don’t have a pizzle.

[left that other site]

$6.66?

Hmmmmmmmmm

Are you sure that isn’t beephomet pizzle?

[AZLiberty]

The Chinese market in Phoenix has plenty of frozen pizzle for sale.

[Responsibility2nd]

BABY MAMA: Yo. The baby needs changing. He’s gots a dirty diaper.

BABY DADDY: Fo shizzle?

BABY MAMA: Nuh uh. Just pizzle.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I’ve known what a pizzle is for years when I read about how colonial India police used to beat people with them for riot control. I’ve also seen walking canes made of them. Dried of course.

[a fool in paradise]

It's indirect or second hand consumption. The Koreans feed the pizzle to the dogs and cats first and then as they say ..."Soup's On!"

Kind of like the Tur(key)-Duck-(Chick)En?

[a fool in paradise]

Pizzle is an apt description of our current national leadership.

Jimmy Carter had stagflation.

Barack Obama has the pizzle fizzle.

[Moonman62]

What part of the cow is the angus?

[glennaro]

Mmmm. Liver!

... with some fava beans ... and a nice Chianti

[a fool in paradise]

Someone used to steal the G from the Black Angus Resaurant sign so eventually they painted it on the wall.

[Moonman62]

Jack in the Box “Angus” commercial:

http://www.adforum.com/creative-work/ad/player/6697648

[ApplegateRanch]

That would cause a riot in the Tenderloin, when the store sold out.

[Slings and Arrows]

But now you can buy one!

[Slings and Arrows]

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