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29 July 2005
I ate potted meat 4 hours ago... ...and now I don't feel good.
Nope, it just was what it was. Does that stuff actually expire? I am in Idaho right now Melissa, potted is more than just an adjective here, it's a state of blonde-haired life.
it really shouldn't be in your stomach anymore, so there's no point in trying to puke. do you have the jruns? I'd take an imodium, then.
try drinking a nice warm herbal tea, maybe pop a Maalox
sometimes I just eat an apple, peeled, and feel better
Partially defatted cooked beef fatty tissue??? What the hell is that? Yes, yes, I understand that it's obviously some fatty beef tissue that was previously more fatted than it is now, but what does it all MEAN?
No, no, I've changed my mind. I don't want to know. Don't tell me. Please. I'm so sorry, never mind.
OK, I'm back. I also don't want to know about the partially defatted pork, so don't tell me about that either. Was this an actual food product that one can just go and buy like a regular person? This is allowable under the regulations of civilized countries?
Doesn't sodium nitrate explode? Thus the jruns? OK, that's it. I'm not talking about this anymore. Sorry. Really. I'm dropping it now.
puddinghead: I think it's sort of a conceptual food. You're supposed to think about it - where it comes from, how it's made, etc. - rather than actually consuming it. As DeepFriedTwinkies as discovered.
Just one last thing, then I'll move on, but I am also agitated by the MECHANICALLY separated chicken... what is that, for the love of God? I can't even bear to think about it. Like, what, this is too gross for humans to touch? I don't know. I don't want to. This whole Zen of concept food is just to much for me.
Potential Health Effects
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Ingestion:
May cause gastroenteritis and abdominal pains. Other symptoms may include dizziness, bloody diarrhea, convulsions, and collapse. Purging and diuresis can be expected. Small repeated doses may cause headache and mental impairment. Rare cases of nitrates being converted to the more toxic nitrites have been reported, mostly with infants.
Mechanically Separated Poultry is a paste-like poultry product produced by forcing crushed bone and tissue through a sieve or similar device to separate bone from tissue.
so they take all the chicken bits they can't use, crush them up, and squeeze them in a metal box with a mesh at one end. whatever oozes out is "mechanically separated poultry".
so they take all the chicken bits they can't use, crush them up, and squeeze them in a metal box with a mesh at one end. whatever oozes out is "mechanically separated poultry".
They also use some of that stuff in McNuggets, and in most chicken products in a cute, unnatural shape.
Well, I have survived the day and am intrigued by the concept of a Twinkiedog, although not enough to actually try one. I will bribe a teenage boy to try one I think, they will eat anything.
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