There isn’t a whole lot of news every week that comes from major fast food chains, and there is virtually NO news from them that is positive. However, McDonald’s defied that expectation this week by announcing that it hasn’t used ammonium hydroxide in its hamburgers since August of last year, and that ammonium hydroxide is commonly called “pink slime.” Now, I applauded McDonald’s for about ten seconds. Really, I did because it’s so rare that McDonald’s displays even the slightest shit about its customers or that its food will kill far more kids than drugs or texting while driving ever thought about. So I gave a very quick kudos to the company for doing something it wasn’t legally forced to do and for that something to possibly (God forbid) cost them a little bit of money in the way they do things.
And then a much larger reaction began to grip me and refuse to let go. Primarily, I was consumed with the thought of “HOLY SHIT THERE HAS BEEN SOMETHING CALLED PINK SLIME THAT ISN’T FIT FOR A WOUNDED HOG TO EAT ALL THIS TIME IN THEIR HAMBURGERS!”
As a part time person who is critical of the fast food industry and as an equally part time consumer/reviewer of those same terrible/much-craved products BOTH sides of me were disgusted. The reviewer part because I realize McDonald’s hamburgers didn’t taste good even before I knew what was in them—-I’m pretty sure they are made of equal parts old tire treads and expired dog food—-and the human being part for obvious reasons.
Apparently, ammonium hydroxide makes high fructose corn syrup look like health food as AH or, again, “Pink Slime” is commonly used for fertilizers, household cleaners, and even homemade fucking explosives when it is not being used to “clean” McDonald’s ground beef in order to make it edible for humans. Apparently, it takes meat that you could not legally serve humans and puts it through a dish washer process to make it legally edible by the bare minimum of FDA standards. Oh, and also it’s called “Pink S-L-I-M-E!”
So, as you can tell this is another one of those mixed blessings in the war against fast food. On the one hand, it’s great news that this obviously horrible product is out of a major restaurant chain’s meat. On the other hand, and not to beat a dead horse, but a substance that can be used to make a bomb was inside every hamburger you ate for decades.
Ha ha
WTF? Wow, no more McDonald’s for me and my kids. Shit!