Do you know what you're eating?

[Speed Demon]

I just finished reading an article about additives in ground beef. It's called "pink slime".
Basically, it is meat by-products. All the stuff that is normally used in the production of dog food.

It is said that 70 percent of the ground beef sold in super markets today contains this "filler".
Nasty-looking stuff. Just another underhanded way to cheat the buying public.

My opinion: Do not buy ground beef anymore. If you have to have hamburger, buy a top round roast and grind
it yourself. Or, if there is a small local meat market, buy from them. There is a rapidly growing number of complaints about this additive in food products.

Do a search on pink slime. See what you think about it.

[henwrench]

Not one for the Just For Laughs board then...

                                                       henwrench

[Speed Demon]

Definitely not, Henny.

I don't know if this stuff is nasty enough to gag a maggot, but it might make it hard for him to enjoy his meal.

[Speed Demon]

I took out some ground beef and cooked a patty as a test. Now I know what it is that I've been observing during the cooking process.

As the burger heats up a brownish-colored ooze starts dripping from it and pools at the bottom of the skillet.
I've been calling it meat snot, for want of a better name.
I kept a spoon handy to remove it from the skillet. Slimy looking stuff that did not appear appetizing in the least.

Did you ever see the snot dripping from a cow's nose? That is what it reminds me of, with the exception of the color.

I threw the burger and the rest of the uncooked meat into the trash can. I'm permanently done buying ground beef.

Might as well eat your own puke. Probably better for you. At least you'll know where it came from.

[Pete C]

Saw Jamie Oliver on TV a few months ago showing how they make 'pink slime' - its all the left over parts from an animal like lungs and bones and things all ground up.  When he made it into burgers and fed it to a bunch of kids, they all preferred it to the 'proper' food he'd made!  You're right though Gene, you don't know what's in your food these days.

[Speed Demon]

Pete, at least rat droppings and fly wings are recognizable, if not all that appetizing.
Its difficult to make a habit of eating something I cannot identify. Especially something that slimy.

I stopped drinking fresh water after I discovered that fish pee and poop in it.
Thank goodness for Budweiser!

[Geir]

I love mashed lungs 

[Speed Demon]

Geir, is that road-killed lungs, or did you rip them out fresh?

Go ahead. Rip its lungs out. If you dare.