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Grocery Chain: Our Shoppers Want Pink Slime

Hy-Vee will offer beef with and without the stuff at its 235 stores

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 30, 2012 8:49 AM CDT | Updated Apr 1, 2012 8:01 AM CDT

(Newser) – Apparently everyone isn't grossed out by the much-discussed pink slime: Indeed, some customers are demanding it. Thus the 235-store Hy-Vee grocery chain has decided to sell ground beef with and without the product, also called lean, finely textured beef, the Iowa City Press-Citizen reports. Residents of cities that produce pink slime—like South Sioux City, Nebraska—complained when Hy-Vee last week announced it wouldn't sell beef which includes the substance, the company said. (Who else wants to eat it? Governors.)

The beef product known as pink slime or lean, finely textured beef.
The beef product known as pink slime or lean, finely textured beef.   (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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JaneAnderson
Jun 10, 2012 11:28 PM CDT
Any store that would carry pink slime just because some of their complaining customers work at plants making this gunk is a store that I would not purchase my meat from.  So I went to a mom and pop grocery store, their butcher ground up a sirloin tip (one of the leanest of cuts).  And cut off all visible fat too on request.  Put it through the grinder 3 times.  Am very pleased, and it is cheaper than from the chains.
hidflect
Apr 1, 2012 10:36 PM CDT
This explains a lot. When I was the burger loading lackey at Burger King, the patties would go from frozen box sitting inside the freezer door right into the chain driven char-griller. An amazing machine, brilliantly designed. That thing would roar with multiple, strategic gas jets like a V1 rocket. The fat dripped precisely to reignite and give the burgers their smoked flavour. Unpleasantly, the burgers coming off the end needed to be scraped on both sides to remove the thick coating of grey goo that exuded. I assumed that was cooked blood. One day I surreptitiously dropped a patty onto the ground to observe what it was like unfrozen. It was to my surprise that it melted into a round blob of pale pink paste of about the same consistency as custard. Now I know the full story. And yes... I still eat BK.
RobLAL
Apr 1, 2012 8:33 PM CDT
So we have the latest Death du Jour that's supposed to kill us all, manufactured fear mongering by elitist snobs who would eat dog crap if you told them it was a local delicacy. Why do people listen to these clowns? Beef skirt used to be trash that was thrown out. Now people pay $15-20 to eat it as fajitas. People should reject anything these jackasses who wipe with Kobe beef have to say.

 
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