Pink Slime Is Back.. GOOD!

It is being reported Pennsylvania schools will now join school cafeterias in 6 other states that will serve the stuff. I have no problem with it.

As a kid I grew up on scrapple, hot dogs and sausages.



Who doesn't like hot dogs?
Schools, ball parks and food carts have been serving them up for years.

America loves them!..


Hunters already know sausage can be made from almost anything, even road kill. Customers of farmers markets can buy dozens of varieties of sausages who's ingredients vary and are considered family secrets.

Then there's scrapple. Good scrapple uses a whole pig's head which is boiled down along with it's liver, heart and whatever else one can scrounge up that still may be laying on the butchering table. Mix it up with some cornmeal, fry it up and your good to go.mmm, mmm :-)

Frankly I think this whole bruhaha over pink slime began when uneducated reporters starting chirping about things they know little about. The same reporters who probably have no idea what's in the hot dogs they've been eating countless times from food carts outside their studios or at a ball park.

About the most negative thing said by those against 'pink slime' is the ammonium hydroxide used in the process. Besides it being the familiar ammonia many of us buy in the grocery store, it has been in puddings, baked goods, cheese, chocolates and others for years.

I'd be more worried about the allowable FDA limits for insect parts in various foods (up to almost 10% by count in coffee). Or the amount of rodent hair the FDA allows in foods (less then 4.5 per cup in macaroni or noodles).

FACTOID:
Did you know that human hair is considered the same as rodent hair by the FDA?

Pink slime?
     Really.. it's no big deal.