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[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 84 points 2 weeks ago

Well if McDonald’s wins this one, then the meat industry should keep its mouth shut about “soy milk” and “impossible burger”.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 55 points 2 weeks ago

Have you ever eaten one? I'd be surprised to learn it was mostly meat.

[-] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Hahaha, now that you say that, I'd also be surprised. It tastes and feels more like a meatloaf kind of product, like finely ground meat with the maximum amount of filler product before you actually start to taste sawdust. Mmmmmmmmmm

[-] Gork@sopuli.xyz 51 points 2 weeks ago

Enshittification has reached all processed food. Take Totinos pizza rolls, they don't even use real cheese anymore, they use "Imitation Mozzarella Cheese". The knockoffs aren't any better, the Walmart Great Value brand pulls the same crap. Only the Aldi version (Mama Cozzi) uses actual cheese.

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[-] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago

Domino's pizza uses "cheese made with 100% mozzarella cheese"

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 47 points 2 weeks ago

For those playing at home, "made with" doesn't have an FDA definition, so it only means there was a nonzero presence of mozzarella cheese in the manufacturing process. Basically, homeopathic cheese.

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

But that's the great thing about capitalism, it gives you so much choice. You can buy the pizza rolls with imitation cheese in the red packaging, or the blue one, or even yellow!

[-] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Or you can pick up the one made that day in house and packaged up fresh. Or even but the raw ingredients it you are feeling brave.

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[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

I thought the fediverse doesn't have ads?

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago

Pointing out which brands don't fool the consumer is an ad? The bar seems really low nowadays.

[-] dumbass@piefed.social 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

I thought the fediverse doesn’t have ads?

If you're asking whether you thought that, we can't answer for sure.

[-] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

So is it an ad for Totinos or Aldi?

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Which one do you want to buy?

[-] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Aldis. The store name wasn't required to call out a brand that allegedly uses real cheese.

[-] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

It is if you're talking about a store brand, which the op was.

[-] kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

Who told you that?

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They are allowed to. Not here. Named cheese, must contain cheese. Named sausage, looks like sausage, musst be sausage.

[-] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

To be fair the McRib was shit from the beginning. I still crave one every few years.

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

I've never had one, but I assume it tastes like the 90's elementary school "rib" sandwich from the cafeteria. Maybe worse.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago

I had one, or more accurately one bite. The best way to describe it is boiled meat coated in a sugar sauce. Fucking disgusting.

[-] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

I can't compare, I never had yours. It's minced pork, a very strange BBQ sauce it's been heated in, some pickles and raw onions. The sauce is mainly acidic/sweet IIRC and the onions only provide texture. It's very strange, but somehow it scratches an itch. I haven't had one in years, but maybe I'll get one later and update the description.

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago

That description is pretty accurate, you're just missing the weird melty texture of the not-quite-meat.

[-] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah. If only I could explain why I enjoy it sometimes.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah but the animal they originally made it from went extinct.

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Damn, I had some random off brand pizza rolls I bought a few months back. Just checked the label. Sure enough. Imitation cheese. Guess I need to start checking that before I buy them in the future.

[-] ericatty@infosec.pub 3 points 2 weeks ago

I bought some pizza rolls a couple years ago for nostalgia. They didn't taste anything like I remembered.

Did they change more than the cheese since the 80s and 90s?

[-] WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Keep in mind you also aren't a child/teenager anymore. I used to love Doritos and mountain dew 15 years ago, but I never touch either anymore.

[-] ericatty@infosec.pub 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, but they taste the same. At least the Doritos do last time Ibjad any.

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[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 33 points 2 weeks ago

Foodstuff-like product ^TM^

[-] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago

meat flavored reprocessed byproduct slurry.

[-] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 8 points 2 weeks ago

Stop it you two. I'm getting hungry.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Homogenised meat-flavoured protein disc

[-] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Boiled gelatinous meat product with ligaments and tendons removed.

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 weeks ago

Another lawsuit filed claiming the McFlurry contains zero flurry.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

Shamrock shakes contain no vegetable product.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 2 weeks ago

I actually think they stopped stirring them. It always seems like the ingredients aren't mixed properly. At least in Germany.

[-] Voyajer@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Watch this go the same way as boneless wings with bones in them

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

Boneless wings is just chicken nuggets sold at a premium.

[-] WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

He is referring to the Ohio Supreme court ruling that boneless wings can have ~~wing~~ bones in them summer 2024

But I also want to point out that chicken nuggets are different than boneless wings (or chicken chunks as well call them in my area). Nuggets are chicken scraps that are processed and molded into shapes. Chunks/boneless wings are chunks of chicken breast and are 100% actual meat plus breading.

[-] xep@discuss.online 12 points 2 weeks ago

The complaint states the McRib is made from restructured pork using various cuts, none of which are actual rib meat

So it's still mostly or entirely pork, maybe?

[-] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yes, its release coincides with pork prices.

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[-] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

I'd die of embarrassment being a part of this. Just an absolute waste of time and a cash grab.

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Was it ever? Also, haven't they been sued for this before?

[-] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

They never said it was a rib sandwich they said it’s a McRib sandwich. Those are two completely different things

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago
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