Mountauk muncher likes it raw.
Attention supermarket shoppers: Please do not eat the raw ground chuck.
Now, you’d not think a message like this would be necessary, but apparently in Florida it is. One of the owners of the Deep Hollow Ranch in Montauk (founded in 1658 and the nation’s oldest cattle farm, if you go in for trivia) was actually arrested Monday for devouring a packet of ground beef while strolling the Rines’ IGA in Indiantown, Florida. Maybe she was just craving iron?
Montauk’s Diane Leaver grazed away on the open pack, carrying the styrofoam tray with $1.98 worth of raw ground beef around the store, then dropped the package and proceeded to the checkout, like she had done nothing more than eaten some purloined M&Ms. Both impressive and completely disgusting. Horrified clerks called the police, though it’s not clear if they were upset about the misbegotten meat, or worried Leaver might be some sort of zombie.
That’s what living in Montauk year-round can do to you, kids. All we can say is, those horses better watch out when she gets back.
