Pink Slime Ground Beef Taste Test

A journalist from the Associated Press recently taste tested a half-pound burger made with "pink slime" and one without, the results, it turns out, "pink slime" doesn't taste very good and had an unpleasant texture.  To view the entire "pink slime" taste testing experience.

Note: "pink slime" is what the meat industry calls "lean, finely textured beef," a low-cost filler made from fatty meat scraps that are heated to remove most of the fat, then treated with ammonium hydroxide gas to kill bacteria such as E. coli and salmonella.

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