Posted on 06/16/2014 4:50:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The leftover beef trimmings derisively known as 'pink slime' is making a comeback two years after a series of graphic news broadcasts devastated sales.
Two of the largest makers of the ground beef product are reporting a rebound in customers thanks in part to rising prices of its higher-quality counterparts.
Average ground beef prices have jumped 10 per cent this year to an all-time high of $3.808 per pound in April, according to the Bureau of Labor.
Cargill Inc's sales of finely textured beef have tripled since March 2012, and the agriculture company now has about 400 customers for the product, which is made from trimmings that have been separated from fat and treated with ammonia or citric acid to kill pathogens, the Lincoln Journal Star reported on Saturday.
That's more customers than Minneapolis-based Cargill had before the controversy erupted after ABC News aired a series of reports on the meat, prompting a consumer backlash, according to Cargill director of communications Mike Martin. Sales, however, are still 40 per cent below their peak, he said.
Jeremy Jacobsen, a spokesman for Beef Products Inc, which dubs its meat 'lean finely textured beef', also confirmed a sales boost. Both companies didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
Mr Jacobsen said his lawyers advised him not to comment further pending the outcome of the Dakota Dunes, South Dakota-based company's $1.2billion defamation lawsuit against ABC, which accused the network of misleading consumers into thinking the product is unsafe....
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BBQ'ed
“I prefer smoked tongue.”
Bleahhchch!
I am not going to eat something that came out of some animals mouth.
I’ll have an egg, please.
Not everybody gets food stamps & welfare. I couldn’t even get SNAP in the aftermath of Katrina. They laughed at me and said that white, middle-aged men pay for the goodies, they don’t get them.
LOL and milk.
Maybe a little bee vomit on toast.
I used to love bee barf on toast.
But now I can’t have sugar.
Rabbit and squrriel need no hard times to be on the menu.
On a stick!
Now that’s funny!
would you like some cow brains to go along with those eggs?
No. No brains. You should never eat brains or anything to with brains, or spinal cord.
It’ll kill ya.
Pic seems racist, somehow
Sorry but I knew a family that ate brains like sausage and they were still living when I last saw them at the ripe old age approx. mid 80s.
Spushi!
He'd slice it up thin and lay it out real pretty on a big platter and, when the last slice came off the plate, he'd get this sh*t eating grin on his face and say: "Ya know what ya ate, dontcha?"
Hee Hee..
“I eat Spam, too, home skillet, I didn’t be dissin’ it, blood.”
I eat it when I am doing Atkins. Deviled ham also.
We have some Spam in the surivial box. I’ll eat it if I slice it real thin with a cheese slicer and then fry it in a pan like fried baloney.
Remember, the government tells us there’s no inflation.
I have been visiting my 92 and 83 year old aunts all week. The other day we were talking and the 92 year old says........I wish I had a possum to eat. I almost died laughing. They were raised really poor and ate everything.
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