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No Pink Slime at The Singing Pig BBQ Restaurant

Oliver Exorcises Dog Food Grade Pink Slime From McDonald’s Burgers

Now that Food Revolution’s Jamie Oliver has succeeded in humiliating McDonald’s into terminating the use of that disgusting pink slime as the cornerstone for their pseudo hamburgers, McDonald’s released a statement claiming that at the beginning of last year they made a decision to discontinue to the use of ammonia-treated beef in their hamburgers, but [wink, wink] it has only been widely reported within the last few days.
McDonald’s denies that Oliver’s show had anything to do with discontinuing the use of ammonium hydroxide — “an ingredient in fertilizers, household cleaners and some roll-your-own explosives” — in its otherwise inedible scrap meat masquerading as McDonald’s hamburger.
M. Alex Johnson with MSNBC reports that besides being used as a household cleaner and in fertilizers, the compound ammonium hydroxide releases flammable vapors, and with the addition of certain acids, it can be turned into ammonium nitrate, a common component in homemade bombs.
“It’s also widely used in the food industry as an anti-microbial agent in meats and as a leavener in bread and cake products.”

Oliver’s campaign to get fast-food chains to stop using the pink slime began in April when he included a segment on what he called “pink slime” on his TV show. Oliver demonstrated how it’s made from scraps that are soaked in ammonium hydroxide and then ground into a pinkish form that looks something like hamburger meat.
Oliver claims the pink slime is in 70% of U.S. beef, out of both fast food restaurants and public school cafeterias.
“The use of treated scrap meat to me as a chef and a food lover is shocking,” Oliver said. “Basically we’re taking a product that would be sold in the cheapest form for dogs and making it ‘fit’ for humans.”
The Daily has reported that the USDA plans to buy 7 million pounds of the pink slime for public school cafeterias in the next several months.
According to the Daily, the USDA buys the treated ground beef from Beef Products Inc., a South Dakota-based company that pioneered the practice of rinsing beef scraps and by-products normally relegated for dog food with ammonia hydroxide, a mixture of water and ammonia found effective in ridding meat of bacteria such as E. coli.

Thank You For Your Facebook Reviews

Kevin & I would like to share with you how blessed we feel to have your reviews on Facebook and Trip Advisor.  We so appreciate you taking the time out of your busy day to add your comments.  So thank you and a BIG HUG from The Singing Pig BBQ Restaurant in Williams, Arizona!

Kathi & Kevin

Live Music at The Singing Pig BBQ Restaurant

They just show up and jam together.  It's pure love of music that brings them together from all parts of the world.

Kevin learns to cook

When I was in the Air Force I decided to live off-base.  This was a great idea for then I would not be held hostage to mass cooked Mystery-meat and powdered Mashed Potatoes.

The off base food allowance didn’t let me eat out often or buy frozen prepared Grocery Market food.   I could run through a month’s allotment in about a week.  It was in 1971 that I discovered I could buy whole chickens for a fraction of the cost that in either a restaurant or a frozen dinner aisle.  The only drawback that I could see is that I knew how I wanted food to taste but I didn’t know how to get there.  My first attempt at spicy chicken took the glaze off of the plate.  There had to be a better way. 

            I learned that the list of ingredients on a can or package was listed in the descending order of abundance in that product.  Whether it be a can of sauce or a frozen package, if garlic was listed fifth, then the first four things were in greater abundance.  At last, I could get the basis for a formula for my recipes.  It went like this, Ingredients: Chicken, Tomatoes, tomato paste, Green chilies, water, salt, chicken flavoring (bullion), spices, Monophosphwhogivesaratsbutt.   So I started.  Pound of chicken, can of diced tomatoes, small can of paste, can of diced green chilies, t-spoon minced garlic,

1/2t Knorrs, a little pepper.  I figured that chicken would not dissolve anything so I took my years of college and surmised that I had to mix everything that wasn’t chicken and add it to the chicken in the pan and let it cook slow.  I had previously learned that if you cook in haste you get burned food that is either cold, undercooked, or raw in the middle.  Slow cooking was my friend.  We will cover the disadvantages to this new friendship when we discuss starches.