What do they put in sausage that's so bad?

[bradley]

Yeah....too many things wrong with that statement. You do realize that it's fiction with a political agenda, don't you...? This is what President Roosevelt said about Sinclair:

"I have an utter contempt for him. He is hysterical, unbalanced, and untruthful. Three-fourths of the things he said were absolute falsehoods. For some of the remainder there was only a basis of truth.” (Source: letter to William Allen White, July 31, 1906, from “The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt,” 8 vols, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1951-54, vol. 5, p. 340.)

I haven't read Sinclair's The Jungle since high school. However I believe he exaggerated food safety procedures as a rhetorical tool in order to incite furor and accentuate overall poor working conditions -- which weren't at all fictional. In that respect, the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire (occurring 5 years after the Jungle was published) was also a large turning point in worker rights and safety....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire

I personally try to eat the whole animal, including bone and organ meat. Asians eat this way and are extremely healthy. So that aspect of hot dogs and sausages containing whole animal parts doesn't bother me, especially if they employ natural animal casing.

However I avoid any foods with food preservatives such as nitrites and nitrates and instead opt for fresh foods.

 

[Jeff7]

Hot dogs are just the industrialized manifestation of the "use every part of the animal" mantra.

 

[jiggyest]

Salami!

http://imgur.com/a/eOcP1

 

[Red Squirrel]

It's pretty much all the parts that would normally not be sold as cuts of meat. Lips, anus, penis, internal organs, eye balls etc. If they have a rodent problem in the building, they probably throw rats and mice in there too, whatever they can find that can be grinded up really.

If you buy from a real butcher I'd imagine the quality is probably better and they use mostly real meat. But hey, if it taste good on the BBQ, don't overthink what's in it.

 

[feralkid]

I don't really care what they put into sausage; I'm far more interested in what they put sausages into. >_>

Anus. Just so much anus. Delicious anus.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

I would much rather not know... Especially since some sausage is absolutely delicious.

 

[MongGrel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeBt8_MMpU8

 

[MarkXIX]

We evolved a digestive system to handle whatever is in there. If it tastes good, who cares?

 

[Leyawiin]

Depends on who makes it. Like any product some have better quality ingredients than others.

 

[Rakehellion]

Maybe you'll get a roast with a tumor in it.

 

[AmdEmAll]

Maybe you'll get a roast with a tumor in it.

D:

 

[vi edit]

Chorizo has some things that sound pretty unappealing....

Salivary glands and lymph nodes. YUM!

 

[Humpy]

Maybe you'll get a roast with a tumor in it.

That's awesome! And something I've never thought about. Butchers must come across all sorts of weird shit when they are slicing up meat.

 

[brianmanahan]

my people use all parts of the pig

 

[brianmanahan]

Maybe you'll get a roast with a tumor in it.

 

[John Connor]

Knew a woman that worked at a plant and I asked her this question and she said "lips and assholes." LOL

It's why I buy Hebrew hot dogs.

 

[EEVV]

Knew a woman that worked at a plant and I asked her this question and she said "lips and assholes." LOL

It's why I buy Hebrew hot dogs.

Seems legit

 

[blankslate]

soylent green


.....

 

[Cyco]

As long as it tastes good, who cares? I've been eating sausage/hot dog/slim jims/etc since I was a kid. I have an idea what's in those, but so fucking what? I'll keep eating the mechanically separated/whatever goodness.

 

[pcgeek11]

My wife makes our own sausage out of nothing but premium cuts of pork and pork fat.

 

[CPA]

If it tastes good and doesn't give you the squirts, who the fuck cares?

 

[rh71]

Yet people eat insects of the ocean with no problem.

 

[Scarpozzi]

I think it's mostly lips and peckers. (ref. Slingblade)

 

[OverVolt]

Its pretty damn close to 50% fat.

Nitrosamines formed from sodium nitrate curing are some of the most well established carcinogens. There was actually a major push to reduce stomach cancer rates in the 70's by reducing the amount of nitrosamines formed in food processing. Antioxidants help prevent their formation but they are still there. Stomach cancer rates did in fact go down.

 

[Puppies04]

What goes in a sausage?

Anything that you wouldn't be able to sell if it wasn't minced up and squeezed into tubes.