Our creative meat producers here today would make Native Americans proud.
The idea, of hunting an animal, and letting nothing go to waste... Ahh yes. Such a noble ideal. We make it extreme. Take a cow or pig for instance..
First you get leather, then the meat cuts, bone is ground into meal/protien for dog food. ears/hooves for dog treats,The unusable stuff leftover there..divided into two parts, fat and gristle, and meatier areas like the brain lungs etc.
Brains, lungs, etc.. are eaten by people regularly.. but not as much as is produced. it gets dumped into the bin for other foods we love. But first to the gristle/fat. The first sifting of it goes to make a wonderful product we call souse meat. The leftovers.. rejects if you will..are processed and seasoned to make "Spam". And you think that's the lowest step? Nope. Stuff not up to spam standards are processed into "Treet" Likewise... leftovers from "treet" go into "Imitation Processed Meat Products" which have soybeans added for texture.

Now for the meaty stuff. Ahh Yes, the lungs, brains, Pig Snouts, Testicles, etc.
Intestines are used to make sausages casings. or chitterlings if eaten. yum.
Sausage... Is probably the most noble product of this area. It's made the best selections/most solid cuts. Next step down are all beef hot dogs. Which aren't really all beef. (Look at the ingredients closely) Yup. Lotsa fillers.
Balogney, comes next. Yes, As the cuts become more blended, the more fillers/seasonings are added for texture/flavor. You wouldn't be able to eat it without them. it would be like hard tofu. The next step down.. are the red hot dogs. The 60 cent packs you see on sale. The reason it's red.. is because... it would be white as a sheet.. otherwise. Yum.
Vienna sausages are next on our list. Although it isn't a sausage, it's squirted through a machine and pressed into one.
Ok. Now.. You've waited this long. Here we go for absolute rock bottom.
The last Item I mentioned has remnents that can't be solidified.
Hence you have "POTTED MEAT" Yep. Vienna Sausages are "Potted Meat" with a hard on. Potted meat is about as low as you can go. Large amounts of powdered bone. eyes. Slurry, Unusable protein grade organs.

It's acutally much lower grade than dog or cat food. Try and feed it to your pet. They won't even eat it. But yes, we smear it on a cracker and chomp away.

I'll spare you the stuff about "Imitation Imitation Pasturized processed cheese Products" Yes they exist.
Well that's it for now.
Until Later.
-Floyd


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Hence, when it comes to hotdogs.. Kosher is the way to go.. hahahahaha...

My favorite offputting ingredient is "mechanically separated chicken" listed as an ingredient on Slim-Jims.. a bit off-subject, but how awefully descriptive do they need to be..?

In the end it IS the taste that matters.. and if I do buy hotdogs, I buy Kosher; not for reason of random parts, but for overall flavor.

If you like it; who really cares what's in it as long as it doesn't kill or poison you, yes?

Consider how hypocritical we are...
We squirm at the thought of eating "Innards" of an animal..
Chitlins, spleens, kidneys etc... and we think other cultures are barbaric in doing so,
yet we scarf down the above mentioned foods without hesitation. All which contain those elements
to which we gawk in fascination. I guarantee you, that the foods they cook, with fresh innards are a hell of a lot more healthy than the macerated mush we congeal into a patty or squirt out of a tube.
I think we should institute a time to plate date on all foods. Foreign outdoors markets: Time to plate less than 2 days. USA= Time to plate (TTP) 2 months.(With the proper chemicals) or even longer.

It's funny how they never tell you the date of packaging.. they only tell you the "Best if used by" date

and that is usually a soluble ink that can be wiped away by store personnel.

Truth in advertising.. Isn't it a law?

Welcome to Mcdonalds, how would you like your (30%beef 65% Soy Protein 5% other) putrification patty today?
Would you like extruded potato based solidifications with wheat fillers and beef extract?

Those cooked entrails are looking mighty good right now.

Welcome to America... ugh.

I do have to say, we are so incredibly and predictably bourgois about the straight forwardness of our food.. making us oh, so wasteful..

then, look at McDonald's, as you said; that making us insane hypocrites and blissfully unaware like little "hamburger" eating droids..

I'm off to the butcher's for beef and the dairy for some fresh curds.. at the very least I can assure myself there is nothing MSG or mystery-meat-filler about any of it.

Great thread, Floyd. Cheers!