As I eat a Tech Person’s lunch at my desk while I have the chance, I notice it has little pieces of nasty looking meat in it. Where do they get this stuff, cleaning the saws that cut up beef for TV dinners? The sink in the staff lunchroom?
That’s not meat . <snort>
Good gad, man, you could have posted before I ate it!
Mmmm… textured vegetable protein… the nonmeat that resembles all (cheap) meat.
I guess that makes you “noncarnivorousplant”.
It’s a hobby, not a lifestyle.
Then again, one must strive to improve oneself.
Little pieces of nasty looking meat IS PEEEEEOPLE!
You’re snorting it? What is it, heroin? 
Textured Soya Protein. More Textured Soya Protein.
OK, I made that last sentence up.
Oh yeah. Instant Lunch Ingredients:
real meaty stuff :eek: (kinda)
'Course, my favourite method of preparing an “instant lunch” is to yell “Heeeey honey, could you get me a saaaandwich…?!” 
Hell, they have to do something with the cockroach colonies and piles of mold that thrive in the cooking vats and it’s cheaper than cleaning them out.
Naw, roaches are kind of yellow/green and gooey inside.
This is more like the stuff the dog can’t get off the bone.
Obviously, the dog did get it off the bone. Otherwise how did it wind up in your lunch?
You missed bolding “Beef Extracts”.
Mmm, meat squeezins!
Boy, does that sound dirty.
Also, (and I promise I hardly ever do this)…
Band name!
Ah, beef extracts. Invariably, pieces of meat fall onto the floor during the processing…um…process. Larger pieces are simply picked up and thrown back on the conveyer where they go their merry way. Our story, however, concerns those smaller, difficult to pick up pieces. It doesn’t make (or cents) sense to have an employee pick up those tiny slivers of meat and gristle and return them to the process- it would, in the long run, cost more than the product was worth. In days of old rats and maggots took care of these waste scraps. Yes, it was unsanitary to work and process food in the presence of these vermin, but it saved labor costs. In 1954 an astute young industry CPA noticed 2 things: 1) the rats and maggots were getting a free meal, and 2) pre-cooked, frozen meals were gaining in popularity. He devised a simple, yet insanely brilliant plan - provide all the workers on the processing floor with company issued footwear. Workers would don these boots at the beginning of their shift, wear them all day, and then turn them in at shift’s end. The workers loved it. They had become tired of ruining their own shoes with blood and grime as they worked each day. Shoes were not cheap and they made a mere pittance of a wage. Management loved it even more. For the price of a few workboots they had installed an efficient collection system. The small pieces of meat and gristle on the floor, especially when mixed with fat and blood, stuck firmly into the myriad deep grooves cut into the thick, rubber soles of the boots. When turned in at the end of each shift a special machine would “extract” the “beef” from the bottom of the boots. Hence the ingredient listing “beef extract”. Truely a win/win situation for all of the humans at the slaughter house, but the rats and maggots were pretty peeved.
[sub]NOTE: Somewhere between 0 and 100 percent of the story related above was manufactured from whole cloth with no added animal protien.[/sub]
Brilliant!
And eerily plausible.
Heh.
In the interest of fightin’ ignorance and all, beef extract, aka concetrated Bo(vine)-J.
Well now, that’s damn interesting.
Thursday I had Chicken. I could tell precisely what was in it.
Noodles, six pieces of corn, five peas, and, er, seven little reddish brown square thingies.
Today I had another brand of beef, and those little beef fat things looked exactly the same.