"I will state this as clearly as possible:
You cannot buy Japanese Kobe beef in this country. Not in stores, not by mail, and certainly not in restaurants. No matter how much you have spent, how fancy a steakhouse you went to, or which of the many celebrity chefs who regularly feature “Kobe beef” on their menus you believed, you were duped."
- Larry Olmsted, _Forbes_ 2012-04-12
Read the article.
(ETA: Don links parts 2 and 3 of the article downthread here)