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Ah, good old penny pinching corporate behavior! Reminds me of Taco Bell and their “beef”. How much meat needs to be in a product to be meat? More than 35%! http

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• chipotle_coyote 6y ago
  According to Taco Bell, it's 88%, not 35% -- and the plaintiffs in that suit settled without disputing the 88% figure, changing their story to say, more or less, "all we wanted was for Taco Bell to actually give us the real number." https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2011/04/22/135539926/with-lawsuit-over-taco-bells-mystery-meat-is-a-mystery-no-longer https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2011/04/22/1355399... 12% seasoning is still a lot by weight, to be sure -- it's something like four tablespoons per pound of ground beef -- but a lot of these "fast food companies aren't using real food!" stories get overly sensationalized, and this one never came across like it had a whole lot of there there.
  • tzs 6y ago
    At least beef is the only meat in it. If a restaurant wants to reduce the amount of beef in something to save money, as a lacto ovo bovo porco vegetarian I'd much rather see them compensate with more seasoning than by adding some cheaper meat like turkey or chicken like many places do.
• markdown 6y ago
  Wait till you find out that soy milk doesn't actually contain any milk and is just soy juice.