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It's not honestly lean beef. If it were, it would be red. It's connective tissue, with a bit of lean beef mixed in. This has a different nutritional profile. T
by burfog 8y ago
It's not honestly lean beef. If it were, it would be red.
It's connective tissue, with a bit of lean beef mixed in. This has a different nutritional profile. There is less iron, and the amino acid proportions are different.
We could call it "pureed tendons, ligaments, defatted fat tissue, cartilage, lean beef, and ammonia or citric acid". That is a long and unwieldy name. The common name, known to consumers, is pink slime.
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- captainbland 8y agoYeah although calling it 'slime' is basically just trying to bring about associations with, for instance, rotting meat or vegetables (which often end up with a slimy texture) for the sake of shocking people and bringing in an audience of predominantly more well off people who "would never eat that". So rather than give it a name which is deliberately off-putting it's probably better to give it something vaguely neutral and otherwise let it stand on its own merits, whatever they may be.
- burfog 8y agoPeople eat okra, escargot (snails), and natto. All of those have slime. The name "pink slime" isn't from ABC. It's from an FDA employee who got to examine the stuff.
- captainbland 8y agoRegardless, we wrap literally everything else in shiny marketing nonsense. Using it to get people to eat the entire edible part of the animal rather than wasting it is kind of a win from an environmental POV. I mean arguably it'd be better if we just stopped eating meat, but that doesn't seem like it'll happen any time soon.
- dmurray 8y agoUsing "beef" to mean "unspecified bits of cow used as food" isn't exactly butchering the English language.
- RHSeeger 8y agoUsing "ground" to mean something that isn't actually run through a grinder, and "ground beef" to mean something the is created differently than what people have called "ground beef" is intentionally misleading. I honestly can't even imagine how anyone can see it any other way; it's baffling to me.
- dragonwriter 8y agoPink slime is definitely beef, but it's not ground.
- fl0wenol 8y agoGuessing you're not a big fan of combination beef pho.
- ksec 8y agoAgain, that is not true. They are not cognitive tissues but beef. You could call it Processed Beef if you want, but it doesn't have a vastly different nutritional profile.