They may call it lean textured beef, but who knows what the hell it is..
Hey, Navy! Do you know what this soylent green consists of?
I thought it was vegetables added to the beef to satisfy the veg-heads.
Why would a Governor do something like that? Does he have stock in pink slime?
“I don’t KNOW what’s in it - just shut up and eat your slime”
The triumph of raw emotion over reason.
About 10 years ago, I stopped liking drive-through hamburgers as much as I once did.
All of them. Carl’s Junior (Hardees I think elsewhere). McDonalds. BK. Even Wendy’s, which once seemed wonderful.
They just didn’t taste the same ... none were ever truly delicious any more. I still like them ok. Wendy’s can pull off pretty good burgers. In ‘n Out can put together a tasty sandwich. But not even they, taste like what you could cook in the backyard.
Why is that?
I wonder if all of them, changed to including the pink slime?
Whoever thought of the name ‘pink slime’ is a genius.
Could anything sound nastier?
But, it’s probably no worse than a lot of stuff we eat.
I asked for it at the grocery store, but they were out.
Actually it’s what’s referred to in the industry as “Bader meat”. It’s perfectly good and wholesome in it’s content and derivation.
A machine called a Bader or similar machine removes the remaining meat on the bones that cannot be removed by hand. It’s more finely textured because of the process that the machine uses (high pressure) to remove the remaining meat. A small percentage is added to regular ground product so that the texture is basically unchanged.
Frankly, this is much ado about nothing.
This is reminiscent of ‘You don’t want to see them make sausage’ group.
It does prove how easy it is to ‘panic’ a group though.
Lets start calling coffee “Black Urine”, make it official and let all the ‘newscasters’ talk about it nightly.
Kind of like years back some one on the local news (DC area) kind of threw in (as a gag) a comment of an impending ‘toilet paper shortage’.
In less than a week, there was a toilet paper shortage as all the lemmings ran off and started scoffing up all the toilet paper they could find.
BTW, being a ‘Westpac Warrior’ back in the 50’s and 60’s no telling what kind of goodies the natives were selling us on the street corners or even what the USN was using to ‘stretch’ the commisary dollar and we ALL have pet names for different things.
When someone says “This tastes like $hI-”, I just reply, “having never (knowingly) eaten $hI-, I can not comment”.
Thanks for your opinion.
This Iowan was VERY glad to see this. Rather than single-handedly try to prevent an out-of-control freight train from going off a cliff, Hy-Vee had understandably caved in to public pressure. That pressure started rolling and gained all its momentum out of sheer ignorance.
There's nothing wrong with "pink slime." It's 100% lean beef and it's a good value.
But, apparently, I'm in the minority even around here. To quote my fifth-grader when the earlier story came on the car radio, "Why is the governor talking about PINK SLIME?! THAT STUFF IS SOOOO DISGUSTINGLY GROSS!!!!" (which led to a discussion about what he thought he *knew* about the subject).
(I have no affiliation with the beef industry whatsoever, other than as a satisfied customer.)
When it's outlawed (and can't you see that coming?,) the same people railing against it now will be furious that there's no cheaper packages of ground beef available.
Pink slime.
Isn’t that another name for “code pink”?
Fascism is as fascism does. Governors have no business in trying to intimidate private retail operations into how they respond to consumer pressure.
BTW, for many, the issue isn’t necessarily whether pink slime is healthy or not, it’s an issue of labeling: knowing what a product contains, so that one can knowingly choose or avoid a particular product.
Terry Branstad, the pro-Pink Slime Candidate!
Yeah, I’d want THAT on my resume!
Continues the trend of Democrats becoming too dense to realize when something is a political loser anymore.
The video clip "Pink Slime Chicken Nuggets Video" is from our Interesting Facts and Statistics Category.
Video Details: Meat processors can eek out a few more percent of profit from chickens, turkeys, pigs, and cows by scraping the bones 100% clean of meat. This is done by machines, by passing bones leftover after the initial cutting through a high pressure sieve. Because it's crawling with bacteria, it will be washed with ammonia. Then, because it tastes gross, it will be reflavored artificially and dyed with artificial color. The resulting paste goes on to become the main ingredient in many of America's favorite mass-produced and processed meat-like foods and snacks: bologna, hot dogs, salami, pepperoni, Slim Jim-like jerkys, and of course chicken nuggets.
Several months ago the Internet got excited about “pink slime,” something the meat industry makes from leftover cow parts to get more meat out of cows. Videos like this one began circulating the web and getting mixed up with gross pictures like this one (which seems to actually be chicken nugget slime – as best I can tell, beef “pink slime” stole the name from chicken “pink slime,” which is actually slimy, whereas the beef “slime” just looks like solid little meat trimmings.)
“Unlike LFTB, many nuggets and cylinders are made with mechanically separated meat. Chicken, turkey, and pork carcasses, already picked clean of presentable cuts, are pushed through filtering machinery under high pressure, removing every last scrap of tissue. The resulting fragments are used in chicken nuggets, turkey and pork sausage, and many other processed meats.
Mechanically separated beef, unlike chicken, turkey, and pork, is no longer approved for human consumption, because of concerns that bovine spinal cord fluid could spread mad cow disease. The final bits of beef are recovered via other methods that, while highly mechanized, are less traumatic to the carcass, minimizing spinal fluid leakage. So if you’re averse to ingesting spinal fluid, beef-based pink slime is actually a better bet than chicken nuggets or hot dogs containing pork or poultry.”
So, is pink slime any worse than pink cylinders, yellow nuggets, brown breakfast sausage patties, or any number of mystery meat products? Probably not. And for what it's worth, it isn't even slimy.