Andrew, don't know about where you live, but in the good old fat USA, all
this crap is battered and deep fried. Eaten mostly by folks that consider
gravy a beverage.
From: Andrew Fildes [mailto:afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 4:34 PM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Nathan's PAD 30/12/2010: the Puerto Rico that few tourists
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Why? It's all in the name. My friend the chef chemically separates meat from
chicken carcasses because he hasn't got time to pick at them nor can afford
to waste them. He does this by the refined and very advanced technique of
boiling them in salted water to make stock and soup. :-)
I could be pedantic (who, me?) and point out that removing meat from the
bone with a knife is 'mechanical'. So is ripping it off by hand, in some
sense.
I seem to remember that mechanical separation of chicken is done on
carcasses after the breast and leg/thigh sections have been sliced off. I
understood that some sort of centrifuging was involved. Because a lot of
small bones like ribs are still in there, it is then converted to a paste
and cooked to 'manufactured' meat found in chicken nuggets, sausages,
sandwich loaf and so on. I'd suggest that this product is possibly more
healthy than regular chicken from a fast food joint because (with the
exception of nuggets) it often hasn't been coated in batter and deep fried.
It also contains proportions of bone and bone marrow which are quite healthy
products (ask any dog) and high in calcium.
Of course, like any minced product it requires some preservative because
they go bad quickly - the processing heats it slightly and the surface area
is immense. And of course it tastes foul. But it isn't necessarily any worse
for you than many other forms of meat, could be healthier in some ways and
does recover material that would otherwise be wasted or devalued as animal
feed.
You are just responding squeamishly to the industrial style nomenclature.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 05/01/2011, at 1:06 AM, John Hermanson wrote:
> Speaking of fast food, have you ever read about "mechanically separated"
> chicken used in some chicken nuggets? MacDonalds doesn't do this, but
> this type of "food" should be illegal.
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