RFK Jr. Suggests Buying Liver or 'cheap cuts' Instead of Steak

Monday, March 02, 2026

. "If you buy, you know, a porterhouse steak, it's going to, it is going to take you back. You can buy liver or the cheaper cuts of steak that are very, very affordable," [Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.] added.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 10:30 AM | 31 COMMENTS | permalink

Updated Dietary Guidelines for Americans released earlier this year placed proteins like red meat at the top of the new upside-down food pyramid, alongside vegetables and fruits.

But the cost of red meat has shot up over the last year. The average cost of a pound of ground beef went from $5.54 to $6.75 between January 2025 and January 2026, the highest cost on record, despite a statement by President Trump in his State of the Union address that the price of beef is falling.

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Trump will have us all eating tripe and scrapple.

#1 | Posted by horstngraben at 2026-03-02 10:56 AM

OH NO! POOR PEOPLE FOOD!

Definitely do not eat the oxtail eggrolls from the island place down the street. Stay away from those. Shoe leather. Terrible.

#2 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-03-02 11:01 AM

foodsalternative.com

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-02 11:06 AM

#7 | Posted

That stuff is offal!

#4 | Posted by horstngraben at 2026-03-02 11:17 AM

Trump will have us all eating tripe and scrapple.

#5 | POSTED BY HORSTNGRABEN

Wait. I love scrapple! If you fry it up nice and crispy yum yum!

Good luck finding any. It's nearly impossible to find scrapple anymore.

#5 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-03-02 11:23 AM

Definitely do not eat the oxtail

Oxtail can be quite tasty when cooked properly (pressure cooker or dutch oven with a heavy lid is best, or low and slow if you must), if you like the taste of beef.

#6 | Posted by horstngraben at 2026-03-02 11:23 AM

It's nearly impossible to find scrapple anymore.

Pretty easy to make. My grandpa (RIP) loved that stuff. I think it reminded him of his youth in Pennsylvania.

I can't do liver. It stinks.

#7 | Posted by horstngraben at 2026-03-02 11:27 AM

"Pretty easy to make. "

That's what I was told. I tried. I suck at it. Apparently. My wife's was better but still not the same. Just wasn't the same as what I grew up with in Virginia. I could still get it in Virginia but I can't find it at all in Ca.

#8 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-03-02 11:32 AM

I can't do liver. It stinks.

#11 | POSTED BY HORSTNGRABEN

Agreed! Liver and tripe.. definitely depression era food.

Guess that's where we are headed.

#9 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-03-02 11:35 AM

Step up! Save the starving billionaires, at any cost.

#10 | Posted by Jaspar at 2026-03-02 12:00 PM

I just ate two hard-boiled eggs, hummus and bean salad for lunch. High protein, low fat, high fiber, and I'll wager my meal cost about $1.50. For a man who gives a lot of health and nutrition advice, Heroin Bob sounds a lot like a drug-addicted rich lawyer. Better he were to read horoscopes since he would be more accurate there...

#11 | Posted by catdog at 2026-03-02 12:04 PM

Dude needs to STFU. I like having the good stuff be cheap, if everybody starts buying it it's gonna get expensive.

Have you priced oxtail or tongue lately? It's not cheap. And beef liver is hard to even find sometimes.

Keep eating steak. Leave the good stuff for me.

#12 | Posted by DarkVader at 2026-03-02 12:15 PM

Oxtail can be quite tasty when cooked properly (pressure cooker or dutch oven with a heavy lid is best, or low and slow if you must), if you like the taste of beef.
#10 | Posted by horstngraben at 2026-03-02 11:23 AM | Reply | Flag:

Shhhhhh. If people find this place it's going to be too busy.

The jerk chicken was also flawless, and they have coco bread.

Well done "peasant" food beats rich people food pretty consistently. Go to fine dining now and it's a bunch of single bites plated extremely nicely.

#13 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-03-02 01:52 PM

Trump Now Has a Giant, Crusty Rash on His Neck

www.yahoo.com

Stinky's been eating too much liver.

#14 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-03-02 02:08 PM

The only meat we need.

Egg and bacon
Egg, sausage and bacon
Egg and spam
Egg, bacon and spam
Egg, bacon, sausage and spam
Spam, bacon, sausage and spam
Spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam
Spam, spam, spam, egg, and spam
Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam
Lobster thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce garnished with truffle pt, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.

#15 | Posted by Petrous at 2026-03-02 02:18 PM

RFKJR Antoinette: "Let them eat liver."

#16 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-02 02:23 PM

#19 | Posted by Petrous at 2026-03-02 02:18 PM | Reply | Flag:

Pacific islands, especially Hawaii, have gourmet local versions of spam. Delicious.

#17 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-03-02 03:50 PM

Spam is just a cheap terrine, but there are some great ones out there.

#18 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-03-02 03:51 PM

How about more bologna, you brain addled crank.

#19 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2026-03-02 04:39 PM

Scapple is easy to find in NJ.

Donnerboy you live in California don't you?

Scrapple is a Middle Atlantic thing.

I didn't know you even had it in California.

Live and Learn.

#20 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-03-02 06:06 PM

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

Hannah Arendt

#21 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2026-03-02 09:28 PM

#24

---- off and die, Russian ----

#22 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-03-02 11:44 PM

Right answer, wrong math.

Until proven otherwise, I assume anyone saying a rib eye is their favorite steak don't really know what they're talking about.

Shame is some of the lesser known cuts have started to become popular.

Tri tip. Picanha. Flat irons. Eye of round steaks. Hell, even getting a good chuck roast with a nice chuck eye. Pull the eye, cook it as a steak (yes, I get the contradiction here...) and use the rest for stew or low and slow. I feel like even flank steaks used to be much cheaper and less popular than now.

Cheaper cuts were always the smarter buy, if you knew how to cook them.

#23 | Posted by jpw at 2026-03-03 03:19 AM

If that's not a Marie Antoinette statement, I don't know what is.

#24 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-03-03 03:02 PM

Spam is just a cheap terrine, but there are some great ones out there.
#22 | Posted by sitzkrieg

Need the deets!

#25 | Posted by censored at 2026-03-03 03:26 PM

What's particularly funny to me in this is the future-MAGAt freakout when Michelle O'Bama (she's actually Irish!) suggested people drink water. And now Hair Furor's polio-peddling minion is telling us to eat some strong-flavored animal parts that a huge portion of this country hates with a passion.

Map Reveals Most Hated Foods in the US
Liver is America's Most Hated Food
At the top of the list of the most hated foods is liver, which received the harshest reception nationwide. Forty percent of respondents said they hated it outright, with another 15 percent saying they disliked it.
www.newsweek.com

#26 | Posted by censored at 2026-03-03 03:32 PM

Republicans: Biden is banning beef!

RFK Jr: Liver is technically beef

#27 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2026-03-03 04:54 PM

#29 | Posted by censored at 2026-03-03 03:26 PM | Reply

Usually fine dining places. Houston specific, mmm, Turner's Cut, Cafe Rabelais, Bistro Mistral, Etiole Cuisine at Bar, Maison Pucha Bistro, Le Jardinier..

#28 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-03-04 09:43 AM

Cheaper cuts were always the smarter buy, if you knew how to cook them.

#27 | Posted by jpw at 2026-03-03 03:19 AM | Reply | Flag:

Skirt steak was a "cheap cut" until the 80s. Once fajitas were popularized the same cut wasn't cheap anymore.

#29 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-03-04 09:46 AM

I feel like I could get one easily for about half the cost of a ribeye or filet. 1.25 to 1.5 lbs for $8-10. Now it seems like they're just below the price per lb of both of those and I'm lucky if I find one for less than $15.

#30 | Posted by jpw at 2026-03-04 10:18 AM

Usually fine dining places. Houston specific, mmm, Turner's Cut, Cafe Rabelais, Bistro Mistral, Etiole Cuisine at Bar, Maison Pucha Bistro, Le Jardinier..
#32 | Posted by sitzkrieg

Good to know. Thanks!

When you said "Spam is just a cheap terrine, but there are some great ones out there" though, I got my hopes up that there was some amazing canned Spam that somehow escaped my notice.

Perhaps one day ...

#31 | Posted by censored at 2026-03-04 04:32 PM

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