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Cooking & Baking

surrealAmerican

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2. I"m pretty sure the styrofoam trays were used for supermarket meats by the 1970s.

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Original post)

Thu Dec 25, 2025, 12:18 PM

21 hrs ago

It was one of the reasons my mother wouldn't buy meat at the supermarket. She figured the were hiding the unappetizing side with that styrofoam, We got meat at a butcher shop, where you could see the whole thing before they wrapped in paper.

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Let me think Jilly_in_VA 23 hrs ago #1

I"m pretty sure the styrofoam trays were used for supermarket meats by the 1970s. surrealAmerican 21 hrs ago #2