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Sam the Heat Meat Cutter Man

My husband used to work in a grocery store Way up inside the freezer of a place known as Michigan It was bitterly cold up there from November through February You could get frostbite inside your house This grocery store had a wonderful employee, the head meat cutter Others could be fired all day long, but not this one. We will call him Sam because if I call him T.J. he might sue me. So T.J. I mean Sam would take a bite out of all meat, and declare it good. The store had a policy. If your meat was bad, they would refund you money. With Sam around, it never happened. Sam was a gift. He could eat anything. If you left a T-bone outside for three weeks, and it got rancid and had maggots Sam would still take a bite out of it and declare it was okay, yummy in fact. The store had a reputation for never giving back a meat refund. And it was all thanks to T.J. I mean Sam.

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