Food fraud in America: What are you really eating?

Yahoo! ^ | 3/11/2014 | Victor Paul Alvarez

[goodwithagun]

Rhode Island Rep. Joseph McNamara is currently trying to pass legislation that would make fried squid the official state appetizer. Since Rhode Island is the squid capital of the world – hey, they have to be good at something – chances are the fried rings served there are exactly what they claim to be. Elsewhere, however, they may be serving you deep fried pig anus and calling it calamari.

[goodwithagun]

This calamari tastes like pig a$$!

[BitWielder1]

Ick! But soon enough all food will be 0bama-food imported from factories China.
A serving of Soylent Green anyone?

[mountainlion]

We eat unmarked GM foods, Horse meat, animal byproducts fillers and such. Some bread has ground up wood products.

I got to stop as I am getting a stomach ache.

[carlo3b]

Whoa.. We eat them thangs.. I would know a squid from a pig’s anythingy.. :)

[Doomonyou]

[edcoil]

Heck from Diners, Drive-in and Dives, I don’t think there is anything we DON’T eat.

[RobertClark]

This reaffirms my decision to only consume single ingredient products. For meats, I purchase from a local organic farm (Ratchford Farms - Amazing!!!), heck they even spring water their beef! I make my own ground beef and sausages. I know what I consume, because I make it myself. Fortunately, I don’t eat carbs so I don’t worry about the chemical cocktails that are in processed crap in the stores.

A story ran today in a nearby paper about a butcher blending beef hearts in with his ground beef and lamb - amongst other things. Glad I saw the light a while ago!

[Chickensoup]

In the seventies it was quite the desirable thing to blend organ meats in with ground beef to increase nutrition.

[Squawk 8888]

Nothing wrong with beef hearts, they taste like any other cut but they are very tough. Grinding or stewing is the best way to do them.

[Figment]

I live in the south. I guarantee that I know people who would order pig anus before they would squid and ask for seconds

[Dogbert41]

"They say it's calamary, but it's really pig anus."

"Well at least it's not people."

[Figment]

“A story ran today in a nearby paper about a butcher blending beef hearts in with his ground beef and lamb - amongst other things.”

What would you expect him to do with beef hearts? save them for transplants?

[MNDude]

I saw that White Castle is selling fish tacos. Anyone know what that really is?

[Figment]

“In the seventies it was quite the desirable thing to blend organ meats in with ground beef to increase nutrition.”

In the seventies? It’s still done, and it won’t harm you in any way

[colorado tanker]

I saw a study a few weeks ago that you are about as likely to be served another fish as the one on the menu at most restaurants.

[muawiyah]

Tell me, why did the butcher ruin his blend with a bunch of stinking dead sheep meat? Did they find out

[US_MilitaryRules]

Yet.

[muawiyah]

A dispute in the family ~ i prefer pigmeat of all kinds and she loves dried squid on a stick.

We'll never resolve this one.

[PGR88]

however, they may be serving you deep fried pig anus and calling it calamari.

You have just described my entire life.

[Calvin Locke]

Food has always been adulterated. Hills of chalk have disappeared as it was added to flour in Roman Empire. Dutch wine merchants in the late 18th century colored wine with vegetable and insect dyes. Heck, going back to Rome, Pliny the Elder complained about the abuse of wine even then.

More contemporary, with seafood, the wings of skates are punched out to resemble scallops...