Pink Slime...

[Frank Capua]

Gross! And how come I'm just hearing about this crap?

[mclarke]

Do ya think the producers might need to come up with a new name for this product? Connective tissue scraps doesn't seem to have the required cachet and I believe your use of the reference " crap ' is a little too blunt.

My concern is where I am going to get my daily recommended ammonia requirements if I don't have access to pink slime ; might have to talk to SpongeBob.

[Frank Capua]

Apparently the name to look for on the label is Lean Finely Textured Beef or LFTB. Fortunately for me Publix claims they never used the stuff so I'm most likely LFTB free. That and I don't go to Taco Bell or McDonald's.

However upon reading how it's made it's difficult for me to understand why the USDA allowed them to use the word "Lean". Somebody must have been paid off.

[cheeseczar]

railroad actually posted that he/she ate a pepto and garlic sandwich.

I'd call that a pink slime on any day.

[Snow61]

I first heard of this about a year ago during an episode of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution. They do the same thing with chicken parts and it's used to form chicken nuggets and other chicken products.

A few weeks ago one of the daytime talk shows did a segment on the Pink Slime in frozen burger patties and the prepackaged tubes of ground beef. It looks like pink toothpaste. Disgusting.

Since then both Michael Symon and Alton Brown have done segments on their shows about buying quality cuts from your butcher and making your own hamburger meat by grinding it up in a food processor or using a meat grinder. They say you really need to get to know your local butcher and ask questions. Find out what is in the products they are selling. Also, according to Alton, you can pick out the high quality cuts and ask the butcher to grind it for you.

[ZUL8TR]

That Jamie Oliver bit on how they make chicken nuggets was disgusting. I haven't had processed chicken since.

Kroger among grocers dropping beef with 'pink slime'
Kroger Co. and Stop & Shop announced Thursday that they will join the growing list of stores that no longer will sell beef that includes the additive with the unappetizing moniker.
The chains joined Safeway, Supervalu and Food Lion, among others, which have said they won't sell beef with the filler.
On Thursday, Walmart updated its statement to say that it will have new products in stores as quickly as possible, and that its meat department and customer service staffers will tell customers who inquire about the new meat offerings.
Whole Foods, A&P and Costco said they have never sold beef products with the additive.
Supervalu Inc. -- which operates and owns stores under the Acme, Albertsons, Cub Foods, Farm Fresh, Hornbacher's, Jewel-Osco, Lucky, Shaw's/Star Market, Shop 'n Save and Shoppers Food & Pharmacy banners -- said that customer concern prompted it to stop carrying products containing the filler.


http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/2...NESS/203230329

[railroad]

railroad actually posted that he/she ate a pepto and garlic sandwich.

I'd call that a pink slime on any day.

Ah, that's nice. You remembered.
And it's 'he'.

From what I read, schoools can opt to have pink slime included in their lunch meats. Who would opt in for this garbage?

[Frank Capua]

Ah, that's nice. You remembered.
And it's 'he'.

From what I read, schoools can opt to have pink slime included in their lunch meats. Who would opt in for this garbage?

One imagines the same folks that don't have a problem with chicken nuggets. At first bite back when they first came out I could see from what remained of the nugget that it wasn't on continuous piece of chicken.

Now Chicken Breast Tenders are different and with a little buffalo sauce I prefer them over wings.

[irloyal]

Gross! And how come I'm just hearing about this crap?

If you really take the time to find out about this stuff, you'll notice that it gained wider use when the GOVERNMENT started mandating that meat providers document the percentage of fat in a product. Government forced even the best meat processors to use this stuff incrementally to assure that their meats were X% fat content so they would not get fines for having too much fat content in their products.

If you've ever eaten a hot dog or bought a processed meat advertised as X% lean/X% fat you've likely eaten some pink slime.

Personally, it doesn't bother me too much. I mean I wouldn't purchase a pink slime steak, but I'd rather eat most processed meats here in the US than a lot of the stuff I've seen in other places around the world.