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Publix has long been considered Florida's favorite supermarket, but it seems customers are turning their backs on the grocery giant. One frustrated shopper recently took to Reddit to air their grievances after picking up a prime tenderloin steak at a Publix store in Yulee, Florida. A photo of the package showed the meat priced at a jaw-dropping $61.49 — or $49.99 per pound. 'This is criminal,' the customer wrote. 'You can get a full ribeye or tenderloin dinner with table bread, 2 sides and softdrinks in Florida at a Outback, texas roadhouse or Longhorn for $26 - $31,' one wrote....

When you order a steak at a restaurant or steakhouse, you expect the meat to have been cut directly from the source and not modified in any way. In a bid to cut costs, though, some restaurant and hotel chains use "meat glue" to bond pieces of meat together to create real-looking whole steaks, specifically filet mignon, the most tender cut of steak. Fortunately, there are several ways to tell when a restaurant does this. First, let's explain how restaurants form or pre-form filet mignon. They start by covering leftover chunks of meat with transglutaminase, an enzyme that the body...