Wow! What a nasty thread to read as I'm eating my egg salad sandwich. I'm soooo glad that I'm 90% vegetarian. I'm also going to read labels on everything from now on!
Headcheese...i am now compelled to share that I spent a summer working in a deli outside of Pittsburgh with a bunch of "old world" people that frequented the counter...so we carried things like headcheese and blood tongue...and I quickly learned that it was my job to carve this stuff up so that people could eat it!!!
It was YEARS before I could eat any form of deli meat...and I still will select just about any other option first...
This Forum Police Officer is grossed out as well, and will be going home to purge her pantry of cream of chicken soup tonight! On a related note, I just started making homemade baby food for my 6-month-old to reduce the amount of perservatives and fillers she gets. I wonder if "mechanically seperated chicken" shows up in those disgusting baby food concoctions they sell at the store.
Anne Williams Attorney Editor M. Lee Smith Publishers, LLC
Ugh this is all quite unappetizing, but if I started reading all the ingredients of everything I ate I'd probably never eat another thing, except chocolate of course! I am a big fan of chicken broth though and I don't really care where it comes from cause I fill up an ice cube tray with it and freeze and then give the cubes as treats to my dogs! They love them!
Ain't nothin' better than a can of Dinty Moore Beef Stew and eight Ritz crackers. Just don't look too hard at the ingredients. Be suspicious of ANY liquid in a can that you pour into a recipe. Unless it's water! And, for you vegans, don't forget that most vegetables are actually grown in hog snot and manure.
Now I do feel compelled to go through my pantry!!!!
Since the atkins thing, we've done away with a lot of the processed-precooked kind of foods...but I have no doubt that there are some "parts" lurking in my pantry. My hubby LOVES spam...maybe sharing parts of this thread will cure him....then again, maybe not and that might be worse!!!
AWilliams...can you share about making the baby food??? Do you just take your dinner and put it in a food processor????
My baby, Sophia, is just six months old, so I'm just starting my foray into the world of home made baby food. She is only eating one-ingredient meals right now, so I have made her butternut squash, sweet potatoes, carrots, zucchini, peas, and pears. My main method is to peel, dice, and steam the foods individually in my steamer. I then puree them in the blender or food processor. For the peas, I bought a can of no-salt-added peas and cooked the dickens out of them on the stove on low heat and then pureed them. Yum. Tonight's project is steaming and pureeing fresh peaches from a farm stand. I'm hoping to buy a lot of farm-fresh produce while it's still around and then freeze it. Once she graduates to meats, in about a month or so, I'll puree chicken and beef after I cook it without any seasoning or spices. So far it's been really easy and lots of fun.
Anne Williams Attorney Editor M. Lee Smith Publishers, LLC
I think in some parts of the South, it is classified as a sin to not raise your child eating stuff cooked with hamhock or salt pork in the pot. So, you must stop this nonsense no later than the day she turns one.
Don't worry Don, my mother-in-law slips her sweet tea and sausage gravy when she thinks I'm not looking. I'm sure that pickled pigs feet will be soon to follow.
Anne Williams Attorney Editor M. Lee Smith Publishers, LLC
This is too gross!! I have always been a label reader and just assumed that mechanically separated chicken was icky, but man I had no idea!Is anyone going to continue to eat food products with mechanically separated chicken??
Beef stew, all potted meat products, vienna sausage, most sausage patties, processed salmon, smoked beef or pork sausage, fish sticks, crab meat patties and frozen chicken patties are all made with 'mechanically separated' meat. The label may not say so since it's not a government requirement.
Okay Scorp - you have got to explain to me how someone who is grossed out by mechanically separated chicken advocates putting army worms in otherwise perfectly good banana bread!
Close your eyes and ponder a fish stick and one of those pressed chicken patties. Do they appear to be identifiable fish and chicken pieces or do they look more like they were run through a grinder machine after some minimal boning exercise, then pressed into a solid-liquid shape? It's assembly line mechanical separation of meat from most of the bone, grinding, sloshing, solidifying, shaping, quick freezing and packaging. Look for the label that says "New and Improved". This is the box with minimal head parts. Enjoy.
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...double nasty!
Pleeeease, Forum Police, where are you when we need you. This is x rated for the taste buds. Porno for the brain and digestive system.
Down the garbage disposal!
"Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts,
Mutilated monkey meat
French fried parakeet
Rollin' down Main Street
And me without a spoon!"
x;-)
and sadly, it's all true.
Headcheese...i am now compelled to share that I spent a summer working in a deli outside of Pittsburgh with a bunch of "old world" people that frequented the counter...so we carried things like headcheese and blood tongue...and I quickly learned that it was my job to carve this stuff up so that people could eat it!!!
It was YEARS before I could eat any form of deli meat...and I still will select just about any other option first...
gross gross gross gross.
Anne Williams
Attorney Editor
M. Lee Smith Publishers, LLC
Since the atkins thing, we've done away with a lot of the processed-precooked kind of foods...but I have no doubt that there are some "parts" lurking in my pantry. My hubby LOVES spam...maybe sharing parts of this thread will cure him....then again, maybe not and that might be worse!!!
AWilliams...can you share about making the baby food??? Do you just take your dinner and put it in a food processor????
Anne Williams
Attorney Editor
M. Lee Smith Publishers, LLC
Anne Williams
Attorney Editor
M. Lee Smith Publishers, LLC
Ignorance really is bliss...
I would NEVER think to make that bananna bread, I put it out there to have some fun! By golly, I think it worked.x}>
gross gross gross....
I never liked processed food much anyway....