What would be in a burger aside from beef?

filler like bread crumbs, and eggs… just like mom used to make.

It could include by-products of the cow,still making it 100 beef.

@YoH Can beef by-products still be advertised as beef?

Pink slime

Read The Jungle.

@kevbo and @MacBean Enough said… I’m scared to click on the link, I don’t think my lil vegetarian soul could take it… I’m assuming it’s something I don’t really want to know about

I think that it can be advertised as beef.

Haha! f you’re a veggie, you have nothing to fear. (I’m pretty sure I haven’t had a burger since.)

A LOT. Watch Food Inc.

@kevbo The USDA has given pink slime the stamp of approval (I’m not implying that they’re right, just that they did) as something that’s ok in beef. So I’m assuming that something advertised as 100% pure beef can still have pink slime?

It could include rubber boots and dead sheep.

One of those is not a joke.

In the early days, McDonalds used to mix 25% oatmeal in with their ground beef. Their competitors caught on and started advertising 100% pure beef, so they had to cut out the ‘filler’.

Possibly a little bit of Racoon

cheaper burgers might be partly soya protein or breadcrumbs.

If we’re talking about burgers in general and not fast food burgers, mine usually include onion, garlic, Worcestershire sauce, and olive oil. I expect that a McDonald’s burger includes various flavorings at the least, probably some sugar, artificial flavor, preservatives…and everything everyone else has said.

It’s what’s in the beef that’d worry me ;)

@YARNLADY Thanks, that makes sense.

@snarp “Even if you don’t eat fast food, you’re eating meat that’s being produced by that system.” Trust me, there’s plenty to worry about in the ground beef you buy at the store too. Any amount of ground beef contains beef from thousands of different individual animals in it. Since all of them spend most of their lives standing in their own shit and eating corn, many of them are diseased. This makes it very likely that some bits of diseased cow are in a given amount of ground beef. Your store-bought ground beef will also have pink slime in it, because that’s how ground beef is made.

While McDonald’s might have some synthetic “grill flavor” and more preservatives, you can guarantee that the ground beef you bought from the store is no less dangerous or disgusting.

@aeschylus I don’t buy ground beef, I buy ground bison from a local ranch from a local butcher.

@snarp Awesome.

Sorry for my presumption, but you know how easy it is to get worked up about things like this.

Keep fighting the good fight.

I just watched Fast Food Nation in class. I highly recommend you watch it. It will give you an unfortunate answer to this question though.

Veggie or turkey. Both absolutely gross.

@aeschylus No offense taken. My behavior is far enough from the ordinary that there’s no reason for you to expect it.

My butcher is great, he also has started carrying angus beef from a local ranch that’s all natural, no hormones, and grass fed and he makes his own sausage too. He’s also located at a market that’s basically in the middle of the ghetto. Makes it an interesting place because there are rich foodies who shop right alongside dirt poor neighborhood folks. It’s nice to see healthy food available in that neighborhood, the supermarkets there suck. I think I’m one of the few middle class people from my neighborhood that goes there.

My teeth.