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I know this is a stupid thing to get upset about, but it annoys me SO MUCH that they refer to it as something that 'bleeds'. Real burgers don't bleed! Nor do st
by melq 8y ago
I know this is a stupid thing to get upset about, but it annoys me SO MUCH that they refer to it as something that 'bleeds'. Real burgers don't bleed! Nor do steaks, or any other cut of beef you might purchase at the grocery. The red, translucent juices that come out of a burger or steak are red for the same reason the meat itself is red: myoglobin. Not blood.
- acheron 8y agoThank you, I thought the same thing. If your meat has blood coming out of it, you need a new butcher.
- craftyguy 8y agoFor folks who don't know, actual blood in meat is a quick way to spoil the meat. No one wants that.
- smnrchrds 8y agoEnglish is not my first language, so I always assumed blood and bleeding refer to any red liquid. I mean, we talk about blood oranges [0] and bleeding trees [1] and no one assumes there is any real blood involved. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_orange https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_orange [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corymbia_opaca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corymbia_opaca
- spuz 8y agoThat's true, but when you are talking about meat, it's usually safe to assume 'bleed' means to 'bleed blood'.
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- drb91 8y agoWhen people refer to a “bloody steak”, they aren’t implying the red liquid is actually blood.
- thaumasiotes 8y agoI would guess that most people are, just as most people who refer to menstrual blood intend to imply that it is actually blood. Is menstrual blood actually blood? That's not a question with a definitive answer; it is obviously different from the normal kind of blood you'd find in blood vessels, but it's also fundamentally similar. "Blood" is not an elemental or even homogeneous substance, so it can be hard to say that something isn't blood. But most people who refer to something as "blood" have never given it a minute's thought. If you cut meat and get a thick red liquid, of course that's blood. Where else would blood come from?
- narag 8y agoI've lost count of how much people I've met that actually thinks it's blood. In my experience, it's the default assumption.
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- bobwaycott 8y agoI’ve long encountered most people believing it is actual blood.
- lhorie 8y agoIs it? Maybe I'm odd in this regard, but knowing that blood coagulates and having seen how blood sausages look like, I implicitly understand that "meat bleeding" is not actual blood.
- c3534l 8y agoI think as a non-medical term "blood" is potentially broad enough to cover both hemo- and myo-globin. It's not like when our ancestors in ancient antiquity used the word they had any clue about what the underlying biology, they only know what they saw and experienced.
- melq 8y agoI don't think it's controversial to presume that most people understand blood to be the opaque, dark red, viscous liquid that is pumped through the circulatory system. That fluid is very different from the thin, watery, red-tinged, translucent liquid that might be found in muscle tissue.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoActually, the stuff found in muscle is called either interstitial fluid or lymph. It is exactly the same thing as blood, minus the blood cells. It comes from the blood and is eventually returned back to the blood.
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- melq 8y ago>It is exactly the same thing as blood, minus the blood cells. This is like saying that tea is exactly the same as water, minus the tea. I'm not sure what your point is.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoSince most people talk about meat bleeding, I don't really think most people make a big distinction between the two things to begin with. And it is blood, minus some of the components. The fluid portion is identical.
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