Because of this, Live Science reports, the trimmings are even more susceptible to E. Coli and Salmonella. It might be in your hamburger. No burger is safe. Well, maybe the test tube burger. According to Huffington Post , as of September, four states have allowed pink slime back into their school cafeterias, joining the three states that never stopped serving it. This was after the national controversy over pink slime erupted in spring Surely, most people realize that we set our table every day thanks to the labors of other life forms: honey, from bee regurgitation, yogurt, from bacterial metabolism, and multiple cheeses from calf enzymes rennets or via fungal decomposition.
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Read more from this special report: Hot Dog! The Science of July 4th Food. It looks weird. Enjoy your school lunch. Get smart. Sign up for our email newsletter. Sign Up. Read More Previous. Support science journalism. The aroma was luscious. The meat was juicy, tender and nicely seared.
The taste was savory and meaty, with big beefy flavor. The chew had just the right texture, substantial but giving. Basically, everything you would want in a burger. The pink slime burger also was perfectly seared and drew me in with an equally alluring aroma.
But no juices collected on the plate. Or dribbled out. Or were apparent in the meat in really any way. The taste was — OK. I took another taste of the first burger, then back to the pink slime burger. It was not bad. But nor was it good. It was flat. I added more salt.
It was simply one-dimensional. And then there was the texture. Unpleasantly chewy bits of what I can only describe as gristle, though they were not visible, seemed to stud the meat of the pink slime burger. Of course, I did take another bite. In the interest of good journalism, I ate both burgers entirely.
And then I felt sick. Show Caption. By Associated Press and J.
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