McD’s drops “pink slime” from its burgers
This oughta’ help that next fast food lunch go down better.
McDonald’s is no longer using an additive filler known as “pink slime” in its world-famous hamburgers.
What, you don’t know about the pink slime?
That’s spare beef trimmings treated with ammonium hydroxide to make them safe and possibly tastier.
Pink slime, for all its yumminess, has been the target of some serious criticism, ranging from newspaper reports to a campaign by TV chef Jamie Oliver to get rid of the stuff.
As gross and potentially dangerous as it sounds, the government has said pink slime is not a threat.
Ammoniated beef trimmings were deemed good to go five years ago during a U.S. Department of Agriculture crackdown on ground beef, even though the meat “comes from the parts of the cow most likely to harbor pathogens,” according to Huffington Post. The ammonia supposedly kills any bacteria in the beef.
Eat up.
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quit being a d-bag
January 30th, 2012
2:07 pm
Rodney, why such a douche? Delta’s ready when you are to go wherever you might be happy. Then again you’d probably mock and be a smarta$$ to the pilots that are flying the plane and criticize everyone around you.
Jason Marcus
January 30th, 2012
2:09 pm
I like big pink wongs. What’s wrong with a little pink sauce to go with them?
Sha'Londria
January 30th, 2012
2:12 pm
I stop @ McD’s maybe once every two or three years, and then only if I’m famished and nothing else is around. I find their food to be disgusting and the counter service usually rude and indifferent. The pink slime news comes as no surprise.
Innocent Bystander
January 30th, 2012
2:35 pm
Add this to the long list of reasons I do not eat at McDonald’s. Disgusting.
Evansdawg
January 30th, 2012
2:55 pm
Have you seen the pink stuff that the chicken McNuggets are made of??? Wretch.
LawDawg
January 30th, 2012
2:58 pm
d-bag: Delta is also ready to lose his luggage along the way.
BG
January 30th, 2012
3:23 pm
Cheap food is poor quality.
BigJake
January 30th, 2012
3:33 pm
And folks wonder why I haven’t had a McD’s burger since high school in the 70’s, when it was the only place in town.
Trish
January 30th, 2012
3:33 pm
This is for the comment made by Sad To Say…I sorry that you think that people who eat at McDonald’s is less intelligent..To me that just shows that you are not as smart as you think you are. Intelligence has nothing to do with eating at a fast food restaurant. True it isn’t healthy and would cost more to eat at everyday than buying what you need and taking it to work with you. But if I am not mistaken have they not found that some foods that are bought from a grocery store have added ingredients that are just as well not good for us??????
Bob Barker
January 30th, 2012
3:34 pm
Have you checked out the ingredients list for a Slim Jim? First item is “mechanically separated chicken…”
jvillebil
January 30th, 2012
3:42 pm
Monday’s begin early and end late for me. I decided to take a quick break here in Fla and read a few things on AJC. This article cracked me up, but not as much as the comments. I literally laughed out loud in my office by myself reading these. Anyone that has raised kids that lived near a McDonald’s has made several visits or has deprived them of the Ronald McDonald experience. Quite frankly I never like McDonald’s and every time I took my kids I never ate as a father. I always refered to it as Crackdonalds. Now that my children are in college they never go there and oh they also call it Crackdonalds. I personally don’t think eating at Crackdonalds has anything to do with your IQ has several people stated earlier. But as far as this article and the comments; I’m luving it!!
@ Buffy
January 30th, 2012
3:44 pm
Sorry, Hon. I don’t work in a cubicle, not that there is anything wrong with that. I don’t “have an MBA and run a $5 million company”. I OWN my company and answer to NO ONE. Not quite as large as the one you are employed by, but it’s enough for all of my family’s needs and most of our wants be taken care of and to have a very happy life. Sounds like you are the one making generalizations. Go hit the crack pipe again, you white trash skank.
Moderate
January 30th, 2012
3:46 pm
Im sad to say.. I agree with you sad to say.
Rodney
January 30th, 2012
3:51 pm
Y’all are funny – I’m betting my label of “d-bag” has more to do with me taking a swing at UGA rather than anything else I’ve said or my attempt at rationality.
Just keep proving my insinuation … btw, I’m perfectly happy here. Born, raised, and educated (Oglethorpe).
The fact remains that a large number of posters agree with me. Sensible, moderate fast food (McDonald’s or otherwise) intake is not a common denominator amongst the intelligent.
Elitism, however, seems to run rampant amongst another group …
Rodney
January 30th, 2012
3:53 pm
And it appears my skill at proofreading my own words has lapsed in this mid-afternoon haze … I meant to say “… is not a common denominator amongst the unintelligent.”
Fire away.
David
January 30th, 2012
3:56 pm
WOW and we’ve been eating this all along and never knew.
SirReal
January 30th, 2012
4:02 pm
Buffy, I think you crossed some toes today. I dont think your job was relevant to the subject matter.LOL Plus who cares if you run a 5 mill company. Thats chump change these days.LOL Now if you had said, i OWN a company like that…different story. Also, your MBA doesnt mean a thing. You can be easily replaced just like the rest of us.lol I think @Buffy was right. You seem to be making generalizations.
Super size me should have shown people that something wasnt right. Another blogger was rigth though. Its in ALL the beef products. Check his link. Its true. Yum yum…lol
Hamburglar
January 30th, 2012
4:02 pm
The Grimace did it!
upstream
January 30th, 2012
4:06 pm
Sounds like a Mc Tummy Ache!
NOM NOM NOM
January 30th, 2012
4:07 pm
Still looking for my cat over here.
LawDawg2
January 30th, 2012
4:13 pm
I’m retired, but wonder who LawDawg is billing for her time on this.
As for the rest: Get Real. Has anybody noticed what kids eat off the floor, yard, flowerbed, under the bed, taken out of the dog’s mouth? We vertebrates have been eating whatever we can find for 400 million years. (and, thinking on it, most of them have died along the way….).
Just thinkin'
January 30th, 2012
4:14 pm
Is this the same stuff Cousin’ Eddie was grilling with in the Vegas dessert when the Griswolds were visiting on Vegas vacation?
Buffy, is running a $5 “million” company difficult?
Jen
January 30th, 2012
4:16 pm
Go watch Food Inc. You might think twice about eating McDonald’s (or any fast food for that matter) again. As one poster said above, “cheap meat = poor quality”. Support your local farmers.
jvillebil
January 30th, 2012
4:16 pm
LOL NOM NOM
LawDawg2
January 30th, 2012
4:16 pm
I’d love to know if it’s @Buffy’s company! Better balance than a Mondrian.
Samantha
January 30th, 2012
4:21 pm
That’s just PLAIN NASTY!!!
rod
January 30th, 2012
4:22 pm
Eddy Freddy, you go from pink slime to funding wars? I pray that was you I saw get tazzed at the occupy rally
Sad to Say Get a life for God’s sake
jvillebil
January 30th, 2012
4:25 pm
I worked on a remote caribbean island for almost a year. Only got to come home every 40 days or so. My first trip over I stayed almost 2-months, eating only fish and conch. Only one mom and pop grocery store and the closest town 45 minutes away, well actually only town. When I finally got back to the United States and my wife and kids picked me up at the airport on a Friday evening, they all asked, “Where would you like to go for supper? Steakhouse, Italian, anywhere.” My reply, “Just get me to the nearest fast food joint I want a big on greasy American burger and I don’t care who’s it is.” They looked at me like I was nuts but it was the best tasting burger ever. LOL. But I did tell them to pass up Crackdonalds and any other would be fine. McDonald’s = Great Marketing but lousy burgers. But each to his own.
A
January 30th, 2012
4:28 pm
This is the reason I’m a vegetarian.
Ronald's bad stepbrother
January 30th, 2012
4:29 pm
I think I’m gonna McBarf
jvillebil
January 30th, 2012
4:33 pm
As far as the pink slime goes, I always thought that was mayo and ketchup mixed???
Hilliard Crump
January 30th, 2012
4:48 pm
Sooooooooooooooo…….
Nutritionist
January 30th, 2012
4:51 pm
I eat nothing but Chinese food so I have absolutely nothing to worry about.
Mystery Meat
January 30th, 2012
4:54 pm
@jvillebil Thanks for the positive first comment. I personally added several of the humorous comments under several different aliases hoping to make someone laugh (as laughter is the best medicine other than pink slime). I always look for the ground beef in the grocery that has the darkest shade of pink slime (nearly red). I think it is the freshest! Enjoy the weather in Jville, FLA!
Monroe's First Redcoat
January 30th, 2012
5:01 pm
“Pink Slime” sounds so much better than “Rat Parts”…..
NOM NOM NOM
January 30th, 2012
5:38 pm
Nutritionist — “I eat nothing but Chinese food so I have absolutely nothing to worry about.”
Indeed. There’s no possible way that duck feet, beaver tails and squirrel colons could ever be bad for you.
Just be sure you don’t order a “bear claw” at breakfast time, because there’s no telling what you’ll actually get.
bigguy
January 30th, 2012
5:51 pm
It’s my wife favorite recipe….mixed with a little Draino
Anita
January 30th, 2012
5:54 pm
OMG!!! This is disgusting. I am no longer eating at McDonalds. Just unbelievable! YUK!!!!
MattMD
January 30th, 2012
6:08 pm
You would think that if one truly ran a million-dollar company they would be aware that they indeed have to answer to their clients/customers.
Laura I
January 30th, 2012
6:16 pm
If I remember correctly Jamie Oliver’s example was about chicken nuggets and not burgers. Also big deal McD’s is removing it has anyone checked the ingredients in school lunch programs?
Mc Doctor
January 30th, 2012
7:09 pm
I’m with you S2S. Everyone that eats McD’s is an idiot. As for me I’ll stick with Wendy’s, Krystals, and BK. You know…the good stuff
RalphMouth
January 30th, 2012
7:20 pm
This is still what they make McNuggets out of…
http://i.imgur.com/4udvF.jpg
jenkum huffer
January 30th, 2012
8:03 pm
spooks like the slime
jenkum huffer
January 30th, 2012
8:10 pm
i hear Micky D is coming out with the new Mc. Tube Steak. How about some of that special sauce?
Jamal Jenkums
January 30th, 2012
9:31 pm
Who cares? It is just swoogie chow they feed the pavement apes anyway. Humans don’t eat this crap. They must take EBT.
Buffy "The McBiscuit" Slayer
January 30th, 2012
9:41 pm
Bite me Ms. Braggart! If you actually “run” anything, it’s your fat, lazy azz down to Micky-D’s to shut your brat-tards up so you can go back to bed with mayor McBuck. Ubama wiper. Oh, good comment Sorry To Say…
Beel
January 31st, 2012
1:49 am
Some are asking “is it (pink slime) safe?” That depends on wether or not you trust the USDA. Personally, I don”t. It should be obvious by now that just about EVERY government agency should be suspect, at best. There seems to be a new corruption scandal in Washington every week. Read some of the articles about this stuff and make up your own mind. I already have. Let’s not forget that the”chicken” in the McNuggets comes mostly from China and that the so-called “apple juice” comes from apple powder re-constitued into juice. the powder also comes from china. Just look at the box , it says so right on the label! Motts apple juice containers sold at McDs, Burger King and the rest of them.
Dan Williams
January 31st, 2012
10:12 am
Buffy is so full of pink slime.
mary cabrera
January 31st, 2012
7:54 pm
There is some news out there, and you can google it, that some diagnoses of Alzheimer’s are actually CJD, or SCJD. Variant CJD is what is also known as Mad Cow Disease. Many scientists believe the different types of CJD are actually linked to mad cow. There are many blogs you can go to. Check out justice4andy.com. It is UK based but there is alot of info there. Mad Cow is here and is being swept under the rug. Go to this link: http://creutzfeldt-jakob-disease.blogspot.com/2009/07/usa-hiding-mad-cow-disease-victims-as.html. You will be horrified at what you don’t know.
mary cabrera
January 31st, 2012
7:56 pm
Oh, almost forgot. Scroll down the page to the video. That is what I wan’t you to see.