{"id":27436,"date":"2012-04-17T18:58:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T00:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/17\/kobe-beef-its-not-whats-for-dinner.html"},"modified":"2012-04-17T18:58:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T00:58:11","slug":"kobe-beef-its-not-whats-for-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/17\/kobe-beef-its-not-whats-for-dinner.html","title":{"rendered":"Kobe Beef: It&#39;s NOT what&#39;s for dinner!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not in the US, at least.  No matter what it says on the menu.  It&#39;s similar to disputes with Europeans over labels like &quot;Parmesan Cheese&quot; that isn&#39;t Parma or Champagne that&#39;s not from, well, Champagne.  No steak is imported from Japan to the US, and Japan doesn&#39;t export any authentic Kobe beef except (only in the last year) to Macao.   #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs-images.forbes.com%2Fthumbnails%2Fblog_1476%2Fpt_1476_3390_o.jpg%3Ft%3D1334704779' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/larryolmsted\/2012\/04\/12\/foods-biggest-scam-the-great-kobe-beef-lie\/'>Food&#39;s Biggest Scam: The Great Kobe Beef Lie &#8211; Forbes<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIt is impossible to say exactly what you are getting in your &quot;Kobe&quot; slider, or $100 Faux-be strip, but one thing is certain &#8211; it is not Japanese Kobe beef.  For the past two years, it has not been any&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not in the US, at least. No matter what it says on the menu. It&#39;s similar to disputes with Europeans over labels like &quot;Parmesan Cheese&quot; that isn&#39;t Parma or Champagne that&#39;s not from, well, Champagne. No steak is imported from Japan to the US, and Japan doesn&#39;t export any authentic Kobe beef except (only in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/17\/kobe-beef-its-not-whats-for-dinner.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kobe Beef: It&#39;s NOT what&#39;s for dinner!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-27436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years.html","url_meta":{"origin":27436,"position":0},"title":"Still chatty after all these years","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Mar-21 12:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Stupid Evil Podcast is ... well, it was fun.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DDtB-SEB Podcasts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DDtB-SEB Podcasts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/podcasts\/ddtb-seb-podcasts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":136275,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/and-lo-there-shall-come-another-seb-podcast.html","url_meta":{"origin":27436,"position":1},"title":"And, lo, there shall come another SEB Podcast!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-May-18 2:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been an astonishing three years since +Les Jenkins and I did one of his Stupid Evil Bastard podcasts (the biggest takeaway from which was that it had been three years since we previously did it, and that was clearly way, way too long). 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