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pink slime at McDonalds

McDonald's Announces End to 'Pink Slime' in Burgers

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Shlime

I have not touched any Fast Food or Soda in 22 years.  The last time I had "Crap" was in 1990.  I went to a BK and had a Whopper, Fries and a Coke.  The next day I had pains in my stomach for 3 days.  Sometimes even the Processed Salad Mixes they buy give me terrible "gas".  I just got in from BJs buying Organic Chicken Stock to make some soups. (Pacific Brand which is really darn good and I think the best thing next to home made)  and I watched this woman pull up to the checkout with a cart load of Soda, Processed Foods, Gatorade etc.

   It's practically unavoidable these days to be 100% free of preservatives, but you really have to check the labels and ingredients.Organics are expensive and most cannot afford them all the time. But I try to cook for myself most of the time as the more you read the labels, the more scared I get about what I'm eating.

 

[hunter]

Here here!

I agree completely. Okay I do succumb to McDonalds fries occasionally (but they are doing something odd as they are way saltier than they used to be).

I don't buy organics all the time - I can't afford it - but I do believe in cooking from scratch using simple ingredients (e.g. "whole wheat flour == ground wheat" and such).

Most restaurant food makes me kind of sick. It's amazing what can be done to salads to make them a)fattening and b) stomach pain making!

 

[whirlykenmore78]

Pink Slime, Not in my kitchen.

People wonder why everyone is so damn sick and full of allergies these days. Hello it's the shit that's in our food! At home I try to cook always from scratch and use as much all natural product as I can. I am very proud to say that the restaurant I am sous chef at has a nearly all scratch kitchen. The crap that is put in low quality food to cut costs would astonish most people.

 

[westie2]

This is the reason we have always had a good sized garden.  Surplus from normal eating is our bounty to dan or freeze.  We go organic with our garden. 

 

[sudsmaster]

I always suspected the meat in fast food burgers wasn't exactly what came from the cow. But the recent ad campaign touting the return of the "McRib" brought out some interesting info:

There is no rib meat in the McRib.

What is there is partially digested scraps such as stomach linings, heart, etc., all ground up and macerated with (you guessed it) that pink slime and then reconstituted back into a gelatinous mass that sort of resembles rib meat. Yuck.

I like the convenience of frozen entrees, but now if I read that the meat in the entree is "mechanically separated" or anything other than original cuts of whatever, I pass on it. That means passing on the chicken tenders (which are ground overly processed chicken bits pressed into cute little shapes), etc. That breading can hide the fact that it's not real meat.

I confess to having a bit of a weakness for KFC chicken. Legs and thighs, often $1 a piece if you buy a bucket worth. At least it's real chicken. Don't buy it very often, though. Original recipe.

 

[tolivac]

Guess I don't have to worry--don't eat at "mickey D's" and don't want to.

 

[whirlcool]

We used to occasionally get a hamburger from a fast food place Burger King was my favorite, but over the past few years we have been hitting Subway/Quizno's instead. A few weeks ago we did stop at McDonalds since I had a taste for Chicken Nuggets. While I was eating them, Karen was chiding me about "Do you know what's in those things?" "Do you know if it's even real?" "They are probably made from Chicken Meal, just like there is in dog food, and you know what THAT stuff is."
What did Karen have? A prepackaged salad.

I did notice that the french fries had kind of a soapy taste to them. They weren't as good as I remembered.

 

[qualin]

Well, I had a McDonalds Hamburger recently and it never occured to me how spoiled I am eating "Real" Hambugers from the Mom & Pop places.

The hamburger patties tasted like gravel, they almost didn't have any taste.

When I'm used to eating burgers at places like Five Guys, South Street Burger Company and other restaurants which serve them, (Like a few local bars for example) going to McDonalds to eat a burger is like... well.. it's food you eat to stop hunger, not food you eat to enjoy the taste of.

Companies like McDonalds, Wendy's, Burger King, etc, are really great at feeding massive amounts of people for dirt cheap. However, what people don't know is that the Asians, especially the Chinese, have mastered this art... and it's one hell of a lot healthier too!

Now I have a yearning for some Chicken Chow Mein...

 

[twinniefan]

Maccas

I am the same as you guys, if Macca's relied on me to stay in business they would have gone broke many years ago, I only go there maybe twice a year.The only fast food I like is Subway,I mostly have a 6 inch with ham and salad, however I must confess to the occasional italian meatball style with salad.
Regards.
Steve.

 

[whirlcool]

Karen wanted to chime in on this:

Oh, this is so disgusting! Pink slime? And that's all we know about. What about the stuff that we haven't discovered yet? This is another reason why we cook at home.

Allen here...

I agree. It IS very disgusting. Has anyone seen a TV news coverage of this? They actually SHOW the slime!

 

[tolivac]

And--from a person I knew that worked at a meat packing-slaughterhouse---you may be eating the steer-cattle magnets-oval shaped magnets given to the cattle to swallow to prevent nails and such from getting into their intestines-when my freind threw the gut piles into the "gut grinder" he would hear the magnets being shredded-so--in the "pink Slime" a little,iron,cobalt,nickel,added to the mix.

 

[112561]

Rich in iron and other vital minerals! Bleah............

 

[polkanut]

We have a bar here in Wausau that buys all of its meats from a local meat market, and it is also the same market we patronize.  Zillman's Meats has been in business since approx. 1960, and they are also members of our church.  The bar (The Chatterbox) is a neighborhood bar that does cooked-to-order $2 burgers on Tuesday's using fresh ground chuck from Zillman's.  Zillman's slaughters and processes all of the meat that they sell, and it is all locally raised as well.

 

The Chatterbox also does other daily specials, but is most famous for the Tuesday burger special. 

 

With all the crap added to grocery store meats, this was a deciding factor in our switching to venison instead beef in our diet. 

 

[arbilab]

With at least a million dollars' worth of food chemists on staff McDouche still can't make what little actual beef is there taste like anything but salt. When I ate there I had to add mustard and ketchup until it oozed out to make it taste like anything at all.

UK dog food eh? And low grade at that. Let me guess. All the additives are not there to make it taste like beef, they're there to make it NOT taste like Windex.

We have a regional chain here called Whataburger. Local beef, NOT frozen. Or Kroger's fresh ground in my kitchen. That's where I burger.

Don't let it get around but I will sneak into Taco Bell occasionally.

 

[qualin]

I would like to try Whataburger and Sonic In And Out sometime the next time I'm down in the states. We don't have these up here. We have two Five Guys places here in Calgary and they're always usually packed full of people. I think that's probably the closest approximation?

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

So what's Next???? McTRIPE??????

Well, after reading about "what's really in a fast food hamburger" & other gory details, I think I better stick to my wife's & her family demands--and that's Kosher Meat!

(Even though I hate to give up my shell-fish--and no way anyone could do anything to "slime up" that, in any undesirable way...!)

Doesn't help that I've seen tripe & other "non-edible parts" of animals, frozen & packaged pass through my check-out line...

No more "treif-icking" for me, then... (Though somehow I dared myself to try a newly-added-to our deli menu-pulled pork sandwich for lunch...)

-- Dave

 

[arbilab]

Look at the Whataburger location map. I think you'll find southeast and southcentral only. Started in Corpus Christi TX, now headquartered in San Antonio. Sonic started in Oklahoma City. They were pretty good but I think something changed in the mid 90s.

 

[sudsmaster]

Well, if you want McTripe today, get the McRib.

I don't eat fast food burgers any more, except for In 'n Out Burgers. That stuff at least tastes like "real" ground beef, not some chemically processed partially digested and re-constituted jelled crap like in the Big Mac.

At home I make a big salad (red bell pepper, celery, carrots, sliced radish, romaine lettuce etc) every few days, toss it with virgin olive oil, put in sealed container, and refrigerate. Then I use it with meals and lunches. When it runs out, I make more. That way I avoid fast food/restaurant salad cooties. I add some balsamic vinaigrette before serving.

Lately I've also been making simple deli ham/american cheese/whole wheat bread/lettuce sandwiches to take to work. No microwave battles (and company microwaves are often crawling with bacteria growing on splattered food inside). That plus a Yoplait and a Hansen's smoothie takes me through two breaks and a 30 minute lunch. Haven't gotten the stomach flu/norwalk yet this winter, knock on wood.