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[Adam]

On 6/6/2017 at 4:18 AM, Redondo said:

What is mechanically separated chicken?

Take a look at the ingredients list of food products including Slim Jims, hot dogs and other inexpensive meat-based foods that don’t actually look like meat and you’re bound to encounter mechanically separated chicken or turkey, usually as one of the primary ingredients.

The name of this one ingredient sounds pretty ominous. What exactly is being separated, and why are machines needed?

So what exactly is it? Is it actually chicken? And how is it made?

According to the USDA, “Mechanically separated poultry (MSP) is a paste-like and batter-like poultry product produced by forcing bones, with attached edible tissue, through a sieve or similar device under high pressure to separate bone from the edible tissue,” which is then treated with a small amount of ammonium hydroxide as an anti-microbial agent.

The definition of “edible tissue” is stretching it a bit here as it essentially refers to anything left on the bones, including nerves, blood vessels, cartilage, and skin, as well as a small amount of meat.

The resulting product is the poultry equivalent of “lean finely textured beef,” also known as “pink slime,” even though the production method is different. Consumption of mechanically separated beef was banned in 2004 due to fear of mad cow disease.

Mechanically separated meat (which also includes pork), is found in plenty of foods, including chicken nuggets and frozen pre-formed chicken patties, but while there’s a limit on mechanically separated pork in hot dogs (20 percent), there’s no legal limit on mechanically separated chicken in hot dogs, so you may want to check the ingredients list before your next cookout.

Yum!!

[gotbeer]

Total Solar Eclipse 2017: Google Simulator Lets You See What the Eclipse Will Look like Where You Live

https://eclipsemega.movie/simulator?lat=47.56170075451973&lng=-122.266845703125

Guess So Cal will only get a partial eclipse.

[gotbeer]

Love triangle eyed in apparent murder-suicide at nudist camp

No word on if a concealed weapon was used. 

[Redondo]

• Kansas man who robbed bank to escape wife gets home-confinement sentence

A Kansas man who robbed a bank last September and told police that he was hoping to get caught so he would get prison time to escape his wife, was sentenced Tuesday to six months of home confinement after pleading guilty, The Kansas City Star reported.

Lawrence John Ripple took the guilty plea in January. He told the judge on Tuesday that he had heart surgery that left him depressed when he committed the bank robbery, the paper reported.

His public defender told the court that ripple had lived a law-abiding life and was in a stable relationship with his wife. He has four step children, the report said.

Ripple handed a note to a bank teller in Kansas City, demanding cash and warning he had a gun. Ripple took the money0-- $2,924-- and went to sit in the lobby where he told a guard he was the “guy he was looking for.”

Officers arrived quickly. An FBI agent wrote in the affidavit that Ripple had earlier been arguing with his wife. He told investigators he wrote the note in front of his wife, telling her he would “rather be in jail than at home.”

[Tank]

back in college we used to kid about being with a girl who was less than good-looking. we'd call her a coyote date, as in when you wake up in the morning and see what she looks like, you'd rather chew your arm off to escape than wake her.

[cez]

On 6/2/2017 at 5:56 PM, Redondo said:

Craziest driver's license ever?

One Arizona man said he is the first person in the state to take a Driver's License photo, while wearing a colander on his head.

The man said he finally won the right to wear the colander in the photo, and said as a Pastafarian, it is his religious right to wear it in the photo.

"I was almost expecting to receive that letter, and was pleasantly surprised when the license actually did arrive in the mail," said Sean Corbett, who tried several MVD locations to get the photo approved, and succeeded in his last attempt. He said the pasta strainer is a symbol of his religion, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

"The Pastafarians believe the Earth was created by an unseen flying ball of spaghetti, and the world was created in four days," said Corbett. "The whole premise behind Pastafarianism is you're just supposed to enjoy life and do whatever you really need to do while being slightly intoxicated."

hazbro says it all

[Redondo]

Teen stuns 'AGT' crowd, judges

I was surprised when I heard his voice and how powerful it is.

[Tank]

yeah, his song was pretty compelling. great voice.

[cez]

 

[arch stanton]

14 minutes ago, GOPSnowflakesHateCezero said:

 

Is he wearing the racoon on his head?

[cez]

Barry Larry Terry may indeed be wearing a raccoon on his head. 

[gotbeer]

Beaker!

[JAHV76]

35 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

Beaker!

 

[gotbeer]

Amazon is buying Whole Foods for $13.7 billion

Amazon Fresh just got a whole lot better.

[Tank]

2 hours ago, gotbeer said:

Amazon is buying Whole Foods for $13.7 billion

Amazon Fresh just got a whole lot better.

i hope it'll spark a drop in prices. that is one terribly expensive store.

[gotbeer]

Four missing after tsunami strikes Greenland coast

Magnitute 4 quake caused it. 

[ten ocho recon scout]

On 6/2/2017 at 5:56 PM, Redondo said:

Craziest driver's license ever?

One Arizona man said he is the first person in the state to take a Driver's License photo, while wearing a colander on his head.

The man said he finally won the right to wear the colander in the photo, and said as a Pastafarian, it is his religious right to wear it in the photo.

"I was almost expecting to receive that letter, and was pleasantly surprised when the license actually did arrive in the mail," said Sean Corbett, who tried several MVD locations to get the photo approved, and succeeded in his last attempt. He said the pasta strainer is a symbol of his religion, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

"The Pastafarians believe the Earth was created by an unseen flying ball of spaghetti, and the world was created in four days," said Corbett. "The whole premise behind Pastafarianism is you're just supposed to enjoy life and do whatever you really need to do while being slightly intoxicated."

Pastafarian! Thats rad!

[Homebrewer]

British Tabloids..

 

PORK THRASHER

 

Drunk farmer 'starts fight with his own pig but dies after having three fingers and his privates bitten off'

[gotbeer]

10 Times Dad Was A Genius In Calvin And Hobbes

Such a good comic strip.

[Lou]

and then there's cals and his family enjoying another typical day together...

 

 

[Homebrewer]

11 hours ago, gotbeer said:

10 Times Dad Was A Genius In Calvin And Hobbes

Such a good comic strip.

My all time favorite.

[gotbeer]

3 minutes ago, Homebrewer said:

My all time favorite.

There is an app called GoComics that I just found.  One of it's strips is Calvin and Hobbs and it puts a different one out each day. 

I only wish that Far Side would get with tech and instead of having a calendar, come out with a changing background app that would have a different far side each day.  Oh to dream.

[Homebrewer]

7 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

There is an app called GoComics that I just found.  One of it's strips is Calvin and Hobbs and it puts a different one out each day. 

I only wish that Far Side would get with tech and instead of having a calendar, come out with a changing background app that would have a different far side each day.  Oh to dream.

You can only find a limited amount of C&H online, as his books still sell pretty well.

I got the hardback book set of all of C&H as a gift many years ago. It's one of my most prized possessions.

[Tank]

the far side was brilliant. 

[Redondo]

Jarvis is accused of having a sexual relationship with the student under the age 16 while she was a teacher at Woodford County Middle School and Veterans Park Elementary School, WKYT reported. She allegedly sodomized the student in May 2016 and had sexual intercourse with him a month later at Woodford County Middle School, where she worked since 2013. She resigned from her position at the school in June 2016.