Pink Slime Is Back
Posted in: Today's ChiliRemember the great "pink slime" panic of 2012? Well, it’s back—both pink slime and the ridiculous panic surrounding it.
Remember the great "pink slime" panic of 2012? Well, it’s back—both pink slime and the ridiculous panic surrounding it.
"Fifty years hence, we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium." – Winston Churchill, 1932
Humans love to get high. So much so that people were recreationally using nitrous oxide (commonly called "laughing gas") for nearly a century before it was used as an anaesthetic. So when chemists in the 1930s started proposing the use of nitrous oxide in consumer products like whipped cream canisters, some people naturally assumed that the end result would be rampant casual drug use.
Today’s restaurants love automation. Whether it’s conveyor belt sushi, iPad ordering or drones