Where do all the points (deckles) go!

Mosca

If all you can usually get in supermarkets is flats,

and for every flat there is a point,

then what happened to all the points?

I've heard two explanations. The first one makes sense, that they're turned into hamburger. The second one, that I'm a bit skeptical about, is that they are cut off and sold to unsuspecting easterners as tri-tips.

So what happens to the points?

Eggcelsior

Ground Beef. Wrong end of the cow to call it tri-tip and there is no way you could serve medium rare due to all the connective tissue unless you Sous Vide it. 

Sea2Ski

And to make real - I mean real corned beef and pastrami. 

Philly35

I see a lot of corned points in the supermarkets. Heck, I even got a couple in the deep freeze!

jbjet45

I live in Missouri and i can get a brisket point in a vacuum sealed bag with all the spices to make it a corned beef.  There are half a dozen in there every time I go it seems like.  I bought one and tossed the spices and just did it like a regular brisket and the cubed it into burnt ends.  It was pretty good for vacuum sealed meat,  but I have made better.  Not bad for burnt ends though