# Meat Bars? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 24, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-bars/940698 "2021-04-24T14:26:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-bars/940698/61 "2021-04-28T16:20:01Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > so I ended up eating them _shudder_ . > [@kayaker](#): > > so I ended up eating it. I detect a pattern. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-bars/940698/62 "2021-04-28T16:20:05Z")
I went to business school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the 1980s; Madison also happened to be the headquarters of Oscar Mayer. In one of my market research classes, we had a guest lecturer: the director of market research at Oscar Mayer. He spent most of the hour talking with us about the varioust types of research that they did. At the end of his talk, he invited us to ask questions. My friend Mark asked, “So, what exactly do you put in the hot dogs?” His reply was, “Oh, good stuff, stuff you’d eat…meat.” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-bars/940698/63 "2021-04-28T16:49:58Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > … My friend Mark asked, “So, what exactly do you put in the hot dogs?” His reply was, “Oh, good stuff, stuff you’d eat…meat.” 😛 If he’d been truthful that would have sounded more like > … My friend Mark asked, “So, what exactly do you put in the hot dogs?” His reply was, “Whatever we can’t put anywhere else; including into the garbage.” 🤢 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-bars/940698/64 "2021-04-28T16:51:45Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > > [@kayaker](#): > > > > so I ended up eating them _shudder_ . > > > [@kayaker](#): > > > > so I ended up eating it. > > I detect a pattern. I’ve seen GSDs eat day-old roadkill. I’ve not seen @kayaker do that. Yet. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-bars/940698/65 "2021-04-28T16:57:01Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I had a girlfriend who liked McDonald’s chicken nuggets. When she’d come upon a hard bit (probably a bone) she’d pick it out of her mouth and say, ‘Beak!’ or ‘I found a beak!’ 😛 Yeah, my dad called those “Chicken Nug-guts”. 🤢 ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-bars/940698/66 "2021-04-28T18:01:52Z")
Meat Bars and [Long Yellow Things](https://www.deviantart.com/ericsonic18/art/Long-yellow-things-829975153) ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-bars/940698/67 "2021-04-29T00:27:49Z")
I saw this video of a bird farmer/breeder (?) using hot dogs ([aka a glizzy](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/glizzy)) as a reward for rheas (well, one rhea) that don’t attack him. It’s got it all: a bird named Kevin mauling an arm, a brown matron hen, a well-meaning but unprotective dog, an effective garbage can lid defense. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/CNvkOuuUWoc/maxresdefault.jpg "How To Survive A Rhea Attack (training Kevin p1)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNvkOuuUWoc) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-bars/940698/68 "2021-04-29T03:30:49Z")
At the height of the “pink slime” controversy, I attended a presentation by Temple Grandin, the slaughterhouse expert who also happens to be autistic, and someone asked her about that in the Q&A. She said that she’s all for it, because it allows processors to extract about 15 more pounds of usable (not necessarily edible) products from each cattle carcass. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-bars/940698/69 "2021-04-29T03:43:05Z")
Hell maybe it’s an Autistic Thing, but I agree with Ms Grandin: I’m in favor of mechanically-separated meat because it’s more efficient and, therefore, more respectful of the animals, and people expecting me to find it disgusting because they slap a new name on it and pull their best “disgusted” faces when they talk about it isn’t going to change my mind. They might as well be six-year-olds trying to convince me liver is gross. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-bars/940698/70 "2021-04-29T04:42:36Z")
Can’t remember who, but years ago some stand-up comic pointed out that when Native Americans used every part of the buffalo, we’re all reverential & talk about how respectful they were, but when white people use every part of the cow, it’s considered disgusting. {bah-dum tss!} ---
**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:** [April 29, 2021, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-bars/940698/71 "2021-04-29T11:30:07Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > I’m in favor of mechanically-separated meat because it’s more efficient I’ve tried mechanically tenderized meat products and was impressed. Aldi has fake filets; chuck cut into a round shape, tenderized, bacon wrapped. They were ok, but did not pass for filet mignon. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-bars/940698/72 "2021-04-29T12:06:24Z")
> [@Ynnad](#): > > I was going to buy a couple pieces of frozen, ready-to-cook chicken cordon bleu a few days ago but a careful reading of the ingredients revealed that the “chicken breasts” were formed by some sort of emulsion of chicken meat and other things. So it’s more of a [Pozharsky cutlet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pozharsky_cutlet) cordon bleu, then. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-bars/940698/73 "2021-04-29T13:31:24Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > so do jack in the box tacos allegedly Oh, jesus, I haven’t had a pair of those delicious little abominations unto humanity since I moved outta Texas a year ago. Looks like the closest JITB is in Illinois, almost 250 miles away. Dang. I sincerely miss those greasy things! > [@Ynnad](#): > > I was going to buy a couple pieces of frozen, ready-to-cook chicken cordon bleu a few days ago but a careful reading of the ingredients revealed that the “chicken breasts” were formed by some sort of emulsion of chicken meat and other things. I put them back on the shelf. Some of us ain’t so fancy. Thanks for reminding me to add these to my grocery list! ---
**Author:** ![LordSebasticook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce73a5/32.png) [@LordSebasticook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordSebasticook)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-bars/940698/74 "2021-04-29T13:35:16Z")
A “tender” is a specific muscle from a chicken. These are more expensive because their is much less tender on a chicken than there is breast meat. Chicken fingers or strips are usually made from strips of breast meat. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-bars/940698.md?page=3)