Like a lamb to the slaughter

 I needed some hamburger and went to the store that I used to work at. I should have known better. They rarely have what I want and lately the meat case has looked pitiful. I wanted burger so I could make some meatballs and some taco meat so I was looking for about 3 pounds. They had exactly 2 packs of burger and neither one looked very good.

I asked if there was anyone in the meat department. The deli girl went and looked and walked out with one, one pound pack of burger. She said he was working on it then. She asked if this was enough.

I looked at the burger in the pack and thought, no way is that extra lean. I even said it out loud but she made no attempt to go check to see if it was correct. I wish I would have taken a picture of the raw burger but I didn't think of it. Plus it wasn't close to how much I wanted. Against my better judgement I bought it.

I knew when I was cooking it that it wasn't extra lean. There was way too much grease in it.

I got over a 1/2 cup of grease from this meat and I even took a little video of it after I poured it into the foam tray

Now that I look at the price sticker I'm even wondering if that price is correct. $3.63 a pound for extra lean burger seems a little on the cheap side. Did I go back to the store? No, I didn't because I didn't have to buy it but I did anyway.