Well....pink slime is back.

ammaturesmoker said:

Nasty stuff

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dls1 said:

 
Pink slime isn't back. It never went away. Same for meat glue, or transglutaminase. Both were sensationalized by the press a few years ago, consumers were in an uproar, and eventually, everything calmed down and went back to normal. Just business as usual.

Most of the time I grind my own beef or pork, but when I don't, I buy it from a butcher where I know exactly whats being ground. I would never touch those packages of ground meat shipped by the producer.

Caveat Emptor!

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gr0uch0 said:

dls1 said:

 
Pink slime isn't back. It never went away. Same for meat glue, or transglutaminase. Both were sensationalized by the press a few years ago, consumers were in an uproar, and eventually, everything calmed down and went back to normal. Just business as usual.

Most of the time I grind my own beef or pork, but when I don't, I buy it from a butcher where I know exactly whats being ground. I would never touch those packages of ground meat shipped by the producer.

Caveat Emptor!

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Backlash was strong and swift when this story first broke a few years ago.  Some producers of the goo did shut down their operations until the torches and pitchforks subsided, and they cranked back up again.  It's now back front and center due to a recent court ruling in favor of Beef Products Inc.:  they sued ABC News to the tune of $5.7B for defamation in dubbing its product "pink slime", and turning public opinion against the company and the stuff.  ABC was hoping that this would settle and go away, and BPI was pushing for a trial by jury.  South Dakota's supreme court ruled in favor of BPI, so this thing is headed for trial. 

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ChileRelleno said:

The Truth always hurts.
No good deed goes unpunished.

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Disco said:

 
The other option is to buy your ground beef in Canada. Pink slime is banned here due to the use of ammonia to produce it.

Disco

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Mr T 59874 said:

 
Thank you, thank you, been looking for an additional excuse to go to the Stampede again.

T

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1. You need to compare Canadian Beer to US.
2. You need to sample quality Canadian Rye Whiskey.
3. It is a lot of fun.
4. You get to meet a bunch of Canadians. Some of us aren't even nuts. Well a few aren't.
5. You need to compare the quality of Canadian Rodeos to American Rodeos.
6. There is world class fishing on the Elk River on the way there.
7. There are a lot of great golf courses on the way there.
8. You can go to a Calgary Stampeders football game. Their coach, Dave Dickenson was a quarterback at the University of Montana.
9. I have a bunch of friends from Montana who come up for golf and curling. They say we are almost as good as Montana. Of course I think we're better but that is another post.
10. To say Yeehaw!

Disco said:

Har! There are may excuses:

1. You need to compare Canadian Beer to US

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Shyzabrau said:

I've only spent time in Vancouver but Canada still has some catching up to do in the craft beer side...

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dirtsailor2003 said:

Hmmm, I haven't been to the Stampede in way too long!

Plug in Ian Tyson into the radio, grab some Kokanee beer and head north!

I don't have to worry about pink slime, we grind our own.

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Disco said:

And the fight is on! I will speak well of great American craft beer. However, I will put some of my favourite Canadian brews up against any in the world. 

The only way to solve this is for both of us to drink a lot more beer to compare. I don't really want to but inquiring minds want to know!

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Shyzabrau said:

I am certainly a believer in the scientific method!

Let the experiment begin!

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