Finally, here is the picture of walmart ground beef on the left and butcher ground beef on the right. Pink slime, who knows.
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Finally, here is the picture of walmart ground beef on the left and butcher ground beef on the right. Pink slime, who knows.
Finally, here is the picture of walmart ground beef on the left and butcher ground beef on the right. Pink slime, who knows.
Finally, here is the picture of walmart ground beef on the left and butcher ground beef on the right. Pink slime, who knows.
Blissful nor you nor I have any way to tell if Walmart slimed their beef. Nor the butcher either. The one on the left is lighter, on the right as darker and more red, but who can tell if their GB got slimed? They don't even have to list it in ingredients because pink slime is technically the same as beef. It is beef!The stuff on the left could have been slimed. Clearly the stuff on the right is quite lean. Fatty beef is naturally a lighter color than lean beef and could have been made lighter with slime.
Blissful nor you nor I have any way to tell if Walmart slimed their beef. Nor the butcher either. The one on the left is lighter, on the right as darker and more red, but who can tell if their GB got slimed? They don't even have to list it in ingredients because pink slime is technically the same as beef. It is beef!
It's yucky beef...
Oddly enough, in the commercial environment, pigs not only get fed meat but probably get fed pig meat too. Which means that the public is being fed cannibal pigs.Oddly enough, in the wild, pigs eat plant material, not meat.
I think the public is turned off by the term "slime". It certainly doesn't sound very appetizing. And then add to that 'left over bits and pieces' doesn't help the image any. But the final blow is the word "ammonia." That is a cleaning agent and poison at that. We don't hear the word 'gas.'
I doubt the public will ever accept it. The plants that produces the pink slime has shut down its processing plants (there are three of them) in the hopes that they can open again within the next 60 days. Their employees will receive a full salary during those 60 days.
I think they call it LFTB, "lean finely textured beef."
For home use I do grind my own, but for the most part it saves me money. I like my ground meat pretty lean and the really lean at the store is absolutely criminal in pricing at times.
When I have a burger out I can eat a McDonalds or Burger King on the go and not have a complaint. I find I can enjoy food, good or bad, without being a snob about it. Some people hear the word McDonalds and they will put their nose in the sky.
I think too many people get too caught up in making sure they only eat the most organic, free range, unprocessed blah blah blah that the forget to try and just enjoy things... or mayhaps it is just me.
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I think too many people get too caught up in making sure they only eat the most organic, free range, unprocessed blah blah blah that the forget to try and just enjoy things... or mayhaps it is just me.
Gourmet Greg said:Pink slime is food! It just took a few detours after getting cut off the side of beef, and sniffed some ammonia gas ("Wheeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!") before getting back together with its ground cousins. Just think of it as part of your hamburger getting high on ammonia before jumping in your plate.
Really. I think the idea of this thing is the real controversy, not the healthfulness of it. It's still beef, it still has whatever fat content your product has on the label. If anybody could taste or measure the ammonia they would have already said so.
And here's another question for you pink slime objectors. (I'll admit I'm one of them.) If you really don't like the idea of pink slime, why are you eating sausage? (If you are...) I'll bet whatever goes into your sausage is far worse than a pink slimed hamburger.