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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/ShoresidePhoenix on 2024-07-09 03:00:36+00:00.

I work in a grocery store deli so I get all kinds of people not understanding the basics about the food they put in their bodies. One particular day though I had a customer come in and ask for roast beef. While there was an open chub (what we call the hunks of meat destined for slicing) it was close to it’s sell by date and looked visibly dry. I decided I wanted to go above and beyond for the customer and open up a new chub (I was going to slice up the old chub later for pre sliced meats or for sandwiches). Upon pulling out the new chub, the customer incredulously says “don’t you have anything without blood in it?” Ignoring the fact that the reddish liquid you see from meat is myoglobin and not blood (hemoglobin) that juice is where most of your flavor and moisture is going to come from. After a couple of attempts to explain this to the customer I just gave up and went to cut up the old chub for them. I would of course later be told I had received a complaint for giving a customer dry meat. It’s a petty compliance and nothing really came of it but I like to think that I made at least one person think briefly about what they were putting in their body, and that maybe us lowly workers might actually know something about the products we sell.