How rude of the hostess! It looks delicious.
Parts is parts!
You’re right. However, many grocery stores have dropped using pink slime as a filler. Many butcher shops send their trimmings to a rendering plant to have any leftover meat on bones separated and sold to different manufacturers and even pet food companies. I remember when the owner would do some butchering for a few special customers and even back then he would send the bones to a rendering plant. Stuff use to make me sick. I helped to butcher the hogs. We used everything, except the innerds. Many unsuspecting people have little to no idea how their meat is made and handled before it goes into the meat case.Parts is parts!
Much of the supermarket and fast food meat we eat today is mechanically separated meat (MSM), mechanically recovered/reclaimed meat (MRM), or mechanically deboned meat (MDM a paste-like meat product produced by forcing pureed or ground meat under pressure through a sieve or similar device to separate the bone from the edible meat tissue. It is sometimes called white slime or pink slime. The process entails pureeing or grinding the carcass left after the manual removal of meat from the bones and then forcing the slurry through a sieve under pressure. This puree includes bone, bone marrow, skin, nerves, blood vessels, and the scraps of meat remaining on the bones.
Yum!
Polish sausage (kielbasi) is big here in part because we have a high Polish population. There's even a kielbasi festival held with a contest for the best. I grew up on the stuff. One popular seller just celebrated their 100th anniversary, The store's most recent owner passed away though and the new ones are having trouble replicating the original even with the same recipe.
