Philly Among 12 Best Meat Cities in America

This month CNN reported on the 12 best meat cities in America. Guess who made this list – Philly!

In order to give an accurate report and determine the hierarchy of meat cities, CNN convened a group of nine experts in beef, burgers and barbecue to see what their top 10 were, and made that half of the final score. They then factored in per capita meat consumption, drawing from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Nielsen sales figures and survey responses provided by the health assessment platform Sharecare. Finally, they threw in the number of steakhouses – CNN says that BBQ and burger joints aren’t tracked – as determined by a market research firm and the number of events staged to celebrate seared animals.

To my surprise, but maybe not others, Philadelphia ranked 8^th in this report.

Here was our city’s breakdown: Experts – T-10^th, Consumption – 1^st, Steakhouses – 3^rd, and Events – 12^th

CNN noted that according to the USDA, meat represents the largest slice of overall food spending in America by almost double the second largest expense, and leading the field is the City of Buttery Love – also known as the City of Brotherly Love.

Here are just a few of the most popular places to chow down on meat in our great city:

City Tavern

Butcher & Singer

Barclay Prime

Geno’s Steaks

Pat’s King of Steaks

Chima Brazilian Steakhouse

And if all of this isn’t enough to entice you to eat some meat, then consider this – men especially, a new report out of Loma Linda University Medical School in California recently found that vegetarians and vegans had on average 50 million sperm per ml. Meat eaters had a dramatically higher amount – 70 million sperm per ml.