Well, it's meat the same way Spam is meat. It was getting a lot of press a few years back, Jon Stewart was expressing his love and devotion for it so I had one. It was tasty. A few weeks later I drove to San Diego and picked up an old fellow hitch hiking. I bought him one (I forget what I had) and he liked it. Never had another, I read about all the processing.

But pork is sort of whitish/greyish. The color of the frozen item doesn't bother me.

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I generally don't do Mickey Dee's anymore. The food has generally gone downhill (or my tastes have changed) since I worked there many years ago. However, one of the better MRE's contains something very McRib-like. I think it says on the package "Pork Rib, Boneless, Imitation", but I like to refer to it as the treif and treif, since the "McRib" is accompanied by some oddly good New England clam chowder. I know I'm weird for liking MRE's, but I'm okay with that.

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Same here. Plenty of places that are quick for lunch while providing better locally made products.

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Perhaps so but they lack the convenience. As to the better locally made products, I'd have to see it to believe that just because it is local, it must be better. I have had locally made products that were more expensive but didn't taste any better than a supermarket.

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Because waiting in a drive thru in MickeyDee's for 15 min sucking exhaust fumes, then slobbering "food" all over your car, is convenient. I could order carry-out by phone and pick it up in the same time.

1. Pork is whiteish gray ("Pork, the other white meat")
2. Lots of people, espcially hispanics and cajun French eat tripe, heart and stomach, mostly without the benefit of being packaged in a fake rib. Go to virtually any street taco stand or truck or real Mexican restuarant and see for your self. Those meats are commonly eaten over the country. I remember my grandfather cooking up tripe or calf's brains with scrambled eggs.
3. As someone stated, there is an MRE meal with that patty in it. It's damned good when you are hungry. Good enough for soldiers, should be good enough for you...
4. not day to day food, I suppose, but one now and then ain't gonna kill you.
5. y'all are way too squeamish......

Ah, I see. Hence the "convenience factor". I see a long wait, I move on. Also, I don't slobber my food like you do.

Further to that, you still have to park your car, go in, get the food and come out or if you park badly, it could be an expensive lunch when they ticket you and here they are vigilant around critical hours that they can make the quota. Either way, it is a push when it comes to waiting a few minutes or moving to the next one a few yards down the road or parking at a restaurant, assuming they have convenient parking.

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2. As does my family -- mostly tripe and brains... still, you know what you're eating then; it's not a mystery meat.
3. I didn't think that the military was known for the quality of its food

Oh, and Spam? I ****ing love it..............

I haven't eaten Swine since 2008.

Now Turkey bacon, that's another story.

Gotta have it on my weekly Western Whopper.

(Hold the pickels please)

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Actually, it's not the fact that offal is being served, it's the deceit of calling it something else and the food science that's applied to make it appear like something else. In other words, culinary deception.

When going to a restaurant, any restaurant, shouldn't the paying customer be made aware of what he or she is buying, or is the restaurant entitled to creative labeling?

http://gothamist.com/2013/11/13/the_disgusting_depressing_truth_beh.php

The bun alone makes up 34 of the 70 ingredients in a McRib.

MCRIB BUN
Ingredients: Enriched Flour (Bleached Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, Yeast, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Contains 2% Or Less: Salt, Corn Meal, Wheat Gluten, Soybean Oil, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean and/or Cottonseed Oils, Dextrose, Sugar, Malted Barley Flour, Cultured Wheat Flour, Calcium Sulfate, Ammonium Sulfate, Soy Flour, Dough Conditioners (Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, DATEM, Ascorbic Acid, Azodicarbonamide, Mono- and Diglycerides, Ethoxylated Mono- and Diglycerides, Monocalcium Phosphate, Enzymes, Guar Gum, Calcium Peroxide), Calcium Propionate (Preservative), Soy Lecithin.

McRib is to BBQ what pink slime is to Prime Filet Mignon.

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OK. So you know. What now? As long as it doesn't poison me and cause me to die, in the traditional sense, once in a while isn't that bad. It is like a cigarette now and then. OTOH, a pack a day, not so good.

Well, no military or place serving massive crowds is going to be as good as individually prepared food. You have to make something to cater to 1 person, it easier to custom make. 50, harder. 500, even harder.

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I never let religion tell me what I can or cannot eat or do.

I hate turkey. I eat it it because I want to be polite at thanksgiving. I'd rather have ham.

Not keen on them either.

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