# Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution - McDonald's won't use Pink Slime Anymore **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 1, 2012, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-olivers-food-revolution-mcdonalds-wont-use-pink-slime-anymore/611384 "2012-02-01T03:17:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-olivers-food-revolution-mcdonalds-wont-use-pink-slime-anymore/611384/21 "2012-02-01T15:14:32Z")
The difference between ground beef and pink slime strikes me as simply one of degree. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-olivers-food-revolution-mcdonalds-wont-use-pink-slime-anymore/611384/22 "2012-02-01T16:06:41Z")
Hey, Jamie probably gushes over haggis-only God knows what stuff is in haggis!šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-olivers-food-revolution-mcdonalds-wont-use-pink-slime-anymore/611384/23 "2012-02-01T16:51:13Z")
"After touring the BPI plant, he described it as ā€œthe Willy Wonka of meat factoriesā€”lots of dials and whirling stuff, all stainless steel and immaculately clean.ā€[7] " Erā€¦ perhaps this gentleman is not all that familiar with the Willy Wonka factory? Unless he is and they always have to stop slime productin to drag the damned chocolate river for the bloated corpses of children. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-olivers-food-revolution-mcdonalds-wont-use-pink-slime-anymore/611384/24 "2012-02-01T17:54:21Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > The difference between ground beef and pink slime strikes me as simply one of degree. Possibly, just texture. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-olivers-food-revolution-mcdonalds-wont-use-pink-slime-anymore/611384/25 "2012-02-01T18:04:59Z")
I do not eat burgers often, but when i do I eat yummy burgers. I buy steaks at my local grocery store and have the butcher grind the meat (no extra charge). I make patties, sometimes add some seasonings/etc and put them on the grill. Cook them _just barely_ medium rare (rare for my gf) and serve on a toasted bun. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-olivers-food-revolution-mcdonalds-wont-use-pink-slime-anymore/611384/26 "2012-02-01T18:21:57Z")
> [@](#): > > "After touring the BPI plant, he described it as ā€œthe Willy Wonka of meat factoriesā€”lots of dials and whirling stuff, all stainless steel and immaculately clean.ā€[7] " Heā€™d prefer a filthy, blood-splattered meat plant? Yeah, food in its pre-cooked state often looks gross. All of us who have ever actually cooked real food know this already. None of this is news. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-olivers-food-revolution-mcdonalds-wont-use-pink-slime-anymore/611384/27 "2012-02-01T18:26:28Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Heā€™d prefer a filthy, blood-splattered meat plant? Of course not. His statement was a genuine compliment. ---
**Author:** ![markm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@markm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markm)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-olivers-food-revolution-mcdonalds-wont-use-pink-slime-anymore/611384/28 "2012-02-01T18:48:19Z")
Hope he avoids: Olives Cashews Hominy and a bunch of other food that is processed with evil chemicals ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-olivers-food-revolution-mcdonalds-wont-use-pink-slime-anymore/611384/29 "2012-02-01T21:08:59Z")
I agree with the ā€œso whatā€ camp. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-olivers-food-revolution-mcdonalds-wont-use-pink-slime-anymore/611384/30 "2012-02-01T21:31:01Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > But, when we pay over $5 for a hamburger shouldnā€™t it be all ground beef? Five dollars? That better also come with a McBlowjob. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-olivers-food-revolution-mcdonalds-wont-use-pink-slime-anymore/611384/31 "2012-02-02T03:30:22Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Thatā€™s what the FDA calls it. They allow up to 15% in hamburger. So a hundred pounds of burger yields 115 pounds with the filler in it. 15/115 = ~13%. If they can sell hamburger thatā€™s 15% filler, that would be adding up to about 17.6 lbs of it to every hundred pounds of ground beef. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-olivers-food-revolution-mcdonalds-wont-use-pink-slime-anymore/611384/32 "2012-02-03T11:59:56Z")
[Jamie Oliverā€™s Mcnugget failure.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9B7im8aQjo) (Basically, Jamie gets his ass handed to him by a bunch of grade school children.) Um, yeah JO is a real piece of work. :rolleyes: More like the Nancy Grace of culinary cuisine. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-olivers-food-revolution-mcdonalds-wont-use-pink-slime-anymore/611384/33 "2012-02-03T15:15:44Z")
what a slippery slope. now pink slime, later Soylent Green. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-olivers-food-revolution-mcdonalds-wont-use-pink-slime-anymore/611384/34 "2012-02-03T21:00:12Z")
Slimelent Pink? šŸ˜› I think Iā€™ve eaten too much McDonaldā€™s in my life. I am so sick of their beef. Havenā€™t eaten there in a couple months, I donā€™t think. All their burgers taste like to me is salt. Iā€™d rather get a nice fresh burrito from Los Comales any day of the week. But weird processing doesnā€™t bother me. Iā€™m not a scientist and I canā€™t test all my food for chemicals before eating it. If the FDA says itā€™s safe, I have to believe that. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-olivers-food-revolution-mcdonalds-wont-use-pink-slime-anymore/611384/35 "2012-02-04T03:54:23Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > [Jamie Oliverā€™s Mcnugget failure.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9B7im8aQjo) (Basically, Jamie gets his ass handed to him by a bunch of grade school children.) > > Um, yeah JO is a real piece of work. :rolleyes: WTF? Is this idiot Jamie saying we should just throw away perfectly good chicken carcasses just because _he_ thinks theyā€™re icky?! I mean, talk about wasting good food! Heā€™s slinging araound this filleted bird expecting those kids to get all grossed out, and thereā€™s nothing to get all grossed out about. Blending in the chicken skin into the puree? The chicken skin is the best part, you dumbass. Putting the results through a sieve? Thereā€™s nothing gross about that, itā€™s just a fine grind. Hey, hand me that chicken carcass pal. Iā€™ll make soup. What a wasteful smarmy jag-off. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-olivers-food-revolution-mcdonalds-wont-use-pink-slime-anymore/611384/36 "2012-02-04T13:58:42Z")
> [@x-ray\_vision](#): > > If that were true, I think they would have got on McDonaldā€™s case years ago for claiming on its menus that their patties are made of 100% USDA-inspected beef and spices. The trimmings are the beef & the ammonia is a spice! šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-olivers-food-revolution-mcdonalds-wont-use-pink-slime-anymore/611384/37 "2012-02-04T19:22:18Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > Getting upset over the way the stuff looks, or the name that itā€™s called, is totally stupid. The only criteria should be whether it is good for you or not. If it is _healthy_ for you (in moderation) and _safe_ to eat, I donā€™t care what it looks like in its uncooked form. > > If the stuff is indeed bad for you, then Iā€™m all in favor of getting rid of it. Yeah thatā€™s the thing, _every single piece of food_ is gross to _someone_. Some of the forms food takes while being processed are obviously gross to _almost_ everyone, but meh, I just canā€™t get upset over it. Iā€™ve seen a lot grosser stuff and the reality is it doesnā€™t bother me as long as it is palatable in its final form. I donā€™t know how many supermarkets still do this, but the meat department of the market I worked in while in high school made all their own sausage and hamburger from real cuts of beef/pork that came in from a larger commercial slaughterhouse (we didnā€™t get whole animals, but large sections of frozen animal that had been processed somewhat by a slaughterhouse.) The process of turning meat into sausage or hamburger is _disgusting_ even when done without any ā€œfillerā€ (sausage by its nature has to have _some_ filler, and hamburger is typically bound with fat which can be seen as sort of a filler as well.) Thereā€™s a reason Bismarck said that people donā€™t want to see laws or sausage being made, that doesnā€™t mean we donā€™t eat sausages. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-olivers-food-revolution-mcdonalds-wont-use-pink-slime-anymore/611384/38 "2012-02-04T19:27:04Z")
Mmmā€¦ pink slime. I like to think thatā€™s whatā€™s in the ā€œ[TUBBB](http://guyism.com/wp-content/uploads/Simpsons-Tubbb.jpg)!ā€ on the Simpsons. ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-olivers-food-revolution-mcdonalds-wont-use-pink-slime-anymore/611384/39 "2012-02-04T19:28:20Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I do not eat burgers often, but when i do I eat yummy burgers. I buy steaks at my local grocery store and have the butcher grind the meat (no extra charge). I make patties, sometimes add some seasonings/etc and put them on the grill. Cook them _just barely_ medium rare (rare for my gf) and serve on a toasted bun. Iā€™m not actually much of a fan of ground steak burgers. Years ago when I needed to lose weight I would do that because they are leaner, but to me a **good** hamburger is 73/27 ground beef. Itā€™s fatty, oozes when cooked, and is fucking delicious. Ground steak is ā€œokayā€ but it just isnā€™t as good as a real burger, at least not to my tastes. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2012, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-olivers-food-revolution-mcdonalds-wont-use-pink-slime-anymore/611384/40 "2012-02-04T19:47:10Z")
That stuff looks delicious! Put it in a Blizzard cup, sprinkle it with some Snickers chunks and Iā€™m sold! šŸ™‚ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-olivers-food-revolution-mcdonalds-wont-use-pink-slime-anymore/611384.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-olivers-food-revolution-mcdonalds-wont-use-pink-slime-anymore/611384.md?page=3)