Ask your butcher for a chuck eye. If they are a good butcher they won't laugh at you.

Big stores carry these often like walmart, costco, safeway, food lion to name a few. Smaller towns or citys will have a harder time finding them and some places they are just down right rare. It all depends where you live.

The chuck eye is also referred to as poor mans ribeye. The chuck roll butts up against the ribeye but when it is butchered they become separated. Its only the first 2 steaks of the chuck roll to make true chuck eye steaks. Many companies cut to many steaks off the chuck roll and they name chuck eyes instead of calling them what they really are chuck steaks. Chuck steaks are not as tender and are not chuck eyes.

Meat departments or butchers a lot of time grind them, make stew, or just leave them in roast form and sell in the counter.

Just ask your butcher, if they are good they will let you know if they have them or how long it will take them to get. Sometimes calling ahead really helps the butcher hold them aside as they can save them through out the day.

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[dallows]

DISCLAIMER: I tried this and it’s currently day 3, I’m still in the back of a butchers van somewhere driving through South America.
Will update when I know more but I believe there is more to this than merely a type of meat cut.

[markosmywords]

I was gonna scroll past but the phrase “do you wanna hear a meat secret?” was too confusing to ignore.

[einflinkeswiesel]

I will go on my quest now.
Look to my coming at the first light of the fifth day. At dawn, look to the east

[Crit-Chance]

"Morning, what can I do ya for?"
"Lemme get a uh, chuck eye."
"... Sssshhhh my friend, my friend! Keep your voice down. How do you know about this, did the guild send you?"

[jolopopo]

i asked my butcher for a chuck eye, he said they they hardly ever have any but they might have some in the back and told me to follow him. I do and we walk to the back where he took out a crow bar and broke my kneecaps

[clemente]

“You’ll never find this on sale”

“You’ll only find this when it’s on sale”

[JY]

BUTCHERS HATE HIM.
See how this man bought 10, 000 chuck eyes in an afternoon using one simple trick.

[Dheeidjdndbd]

I asked my butcher for this, and he immediately turned his knife upon himself, pierced his chest, grabbed me by the collar and whispered to me: “the burden is yours now” and then slipped away into peaceful oblivion.

[sirbeerus]

God dammit!! I was just minding my own business then this guy gave me a quest. I will leave at the first sunrise.

[TheHuskyK]

Butcher: “Whadduya want?”
Customer: “Lemme get the chuck-eye”
Butcher: “….I see that you have knowledge of the dark arts”

[Duane]

The man in a trench coat behind the Arbys
“Wanna know a meat secret?”

[RenghisKhan]

Reminds me of trying to get spare ribs in a French village in '86. My parents were not fluent in French and I saw the butcher just getting more confused so I stepped in pointed at my ribs and said 'from pig' in French, the butcher looked even more confused but at least he said 'arrète s'il vous plait', went into the back of the shop and returned with half a pig's ribcage. He looked at me in disbelief and asked if this was what I meant. I said yes with the look on my face one might expect from a 16 year old boy when confronted with what looked like infinite spare ribs. It was quite obvious he had never sold spare ribs before. He thought real hard for a couple of seconds and came up with a really low price, looking at us questioningly. My parents thought the price was per kilo and agreed. So we got the entire thing for said price. But before we could leave he asked us to give him a couple of seconds upon which he returned to give us the other half of the pig's ribcage.
It's a miracle I survived diner that evening.

[BroBuster]

"You never see these in ads"
"You can only find them when they're advertised"
Ayo?

[richjames]

Yeah the butcher is going to laugh at you because he's saving that cut for himself

[Chatta-Ortega]

The first rule of chuckeye is you never talk about chuckeye.

[drewsiph]

“You’ll never find these on sale. They’re not in any advertisements. You’ll only find these when chuck-roasts are on sale in your local adds.”

[sylvieshuu]

"hey can I get some chuck-eye cuts"
Butcher: *glances around, leans in* who gave you this knowledge

[patdawg]

The problem with chuck eyes (from the butchers’s perspective) is that you can only get a few (2, maybe 3) from one entire shoulder clod. Hence why they’re only available when chuck roasts go on sale. It’s bad business to cut into a giant cut of beef for maybe 1 pound of steak and have a giant clod left that you can’t sell because no one in their right mind wants to pay $6+ per pound for chuck. 12 years in the Meat Department and I finally had an opportunity to share some of my knowledge. Thank you for this opportunity!

[kiegaming]

"Otherwise known as a poor man's ribeye"

"These are super rare"
"These never go on sale"

[MrNoBody]

“I need Chuck Eye.”

Butcher: “So who sent you, the CIA? FSB?”