So is this shit legal in the U.S.?

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Transglutaminase

Is it actually harmful?

Dmtdust wrote:

I looked it up, it seems to certainly have the potential to be harmful, especially if meat isn't cooked enough.

So did I.  It didn't necessarily appear that way to me. 
Show me some harmful.

phoQ wrote:

Except for being mislabeled, how is this different from hamburger, chicken nuggets, or fish sticks?

The fact that it's mislabeled means you're paying a lot more for it.  These high end scraps used to be made into high quality hamburger.  It makes me wonder if modern hamburger is at least partially made from the crap that used to go to the dog food factory.  If so, this may be why dog food is now full of corn meal and soy, with a few ground up eyeballs and buttholes for flavor.

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MSG Tripps wrote:

Dmtdust wrote:

I looked it up, it seems to certainly have the potential to be harmful, especially if meat isn't cooked enough.

So did I.  It didn't necessarily appear that way to me. 
Show me some harmful.

It's dangerous because beef can easily become contaminated with feces and undesirable bacteria during the butchering process. It is much safer to have a large cut of beef which you then use to cut off individual steaks. Only the outside of such a product would have the potential for contamination when butchering. During the cooking process, the outside gets cooked to a temperature which would kill any harmful bacteria. However, if you take smaller pieces of meat, which could be contaminated on all surfaces, and then glue them together, you now have a "steak" which is contaminated on the inside. So now you cook and serve that steak rare or medium rare, as many people prefer, and the contamination is not killed by the cooking process because it is on the inside. The potential for a deadly bacteria is greatly increased.

Tall Paul wrote:

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I've been saving this one for a banner, but it'll do for this thread. Bon Appetite!

I've always thought pig and cow buttholes were ground up for pet food and the ass flora they contain got sterilized during the canning process.  I hope the pigs asses are being sent to Muslim countries for the faithful to consume.

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If you are of a certain age, you were more than likely feed stuff like this by your ignorant mama.
I survived...

Scrapple...


And head cheese....


And blutwurst all purply...


Haggis...


And hog jowls...


And cow tongue all slurpy...


Pink little sweetbreads all fried up with eggs...


These are a few of my favourite things....

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fnord wrote:

None of that shit bothers me, because I haven't and will not eat these thing.  Not even to be polite if they are set in front of me by a host would I eat any of this shit, and I've eaten many foods in the past I would have preferred not to out of politeness.  But I love the parody of "My Favorite Things."

Actually, apart from the Haggis and Hog Jowls, I really *do* like the other things.  I don't eat them very often, as most are horrid for your system, but they're tasty IMHO.  I particularly like beef tongue on rye with mustard... yum.

Burrito de Lengua.  Lovely that.

Tall Paul wrote:

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I've been saving this one for a banner, but it'll do for this thread. Bon Appetite!

What is the difference in flavor of inverted vs. straight up pork rectums?

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Tongue used to be cheap, but over here it's at a premium. But stew a tongue or two in one pot and oxtails in another, then combine and reduce the broths makes a beef stock worthy of the effort!