On Nov 5, 9:36*am, John Kuthe > wrote:
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> > On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 06:18:49 -0700 (PDT), Nancy2
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> > > Time.com's Healthland story recently detailed how "this salt bomb"
> > > with the "bizarre cult following" is made up of 70 ingredients,
> > > including a substance most commonly used to make gym mats and shoe
> > > soles." *I'm sure they haven't changed the recipe since the original
> > > was so successful.
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> > > This might indicate that it isn't real rib meat with holes where the
> > > ribs were removed. *Just possibly. *Maybe.
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> > Thanks, I lost my appetite for it when an image of the unsauced patty
> > was posted. *It's probably just a composed piece of meat and I'm not
> > wasting my money on an experimental sandwich just to confirm it.
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> > All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
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> "piece of meat"? Don't kid yourself. I'm sure it's a well ground up
> slurry containing some actual meat (or meat by products!) and lots of
> chemicals, then forced into essentially an injection molding machine
> and then subjected to heat for cooking, so it holds it's shape.
> Probably on a very large scale machine too. 1000's produced an hour,
> I'll bet.

The patty itself is probably >99% pork+water+salt.
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> John Kuthe...
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--Bryan