pork products
Gelly
naturally pink? Pork chops, if I remember right, are kind of light
brown. But ham is pink. So is there light and dark meat pork?
And then, raw bacon is dark pinkish/reddish.
Which of these uses an unnatural food coloring, or are there actual
variations in the color of pork depending on what part of the pig it's
taken from?
There must have been a time when they didn't add brown coloring to
pork sausage, and it was pink until it was cooked.
Miki
Sausage, whether pork or beef or chicken, is rarely made from the
wholesome parts of the source animal. Most often it contains things
such as pulverized gristle, shredded ear cartilage, mulched blood
vessels, and other parts of the source animal that cannot be offered
as cuts of meat.
Ham is usually cured or smoked and therefore isn't really raw meat.
That might help explain its colour.
What I really want to know is why it's called a _ham_burger when it's
made of beef.
Miki
Mark Earnest
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**Hamburg, Germany,
Just like Frankfurt, Germany.
Where we get all our hamburgers and hot dogs, ultimately.
Science Stunted Bonsai Brain
> naturally pink? Pork chops, if I remember right, are kind of light
> brown. But ham is pink. So is there light and dark meat pork?
>
> And then, raw bacon is dark pinkish/reddish.
>
> Which of these uses an unnatural food coloring, or are there actual
> variations in the color of pork depending on what part of the pig it's
> taken from?
Curing meat is what changes the color of ham and bacon, I believe.
See the bit about nitrates and nitrites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curing_%28food_preservation%29
Craig
it sometimes)..i find it to be a bit dry when cooked..yet i like bacon...the
only pork i ever came close to enjoying was the roast pork my mothers friend
would cook among other things on christmas day when it was her (my mothers
friend) turn to host christmas..it was always moist and tender and with a
good dollop of apple sauce the whole experience was great...mmmmm yum..:-)
Take care
Craig
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Science Stunted Bonsai Brain
> I'm not too keen on pork (i dont hate it as such ..just prefer not to eat
> it sometimes)..i find it to be a bit dry when cooked..yet i like bacon...the
> only pork i ever came close to enjoying was the roast pork my mothers friend
> would cook among other things on christmas day when it was her (my mothers
> friend) turn to host christmas..it was always moist and tender and with a
> good dollop of apple sauce the whole experience was great...mmmmm yum..:-)
I could care less about roast pork or ham served like at a holiday
meal.
However, I like ham sandwiches and bacon.
Gelly
wrote:
I actually dislike the stuff myself, except for bacon and pepperoni.
Plain ham is pretty gross to me.
I have heard it said that pig meat is very close to human meat...
supposedly modern cannibals (or maybe they just fantasize etc) call
human meat "long pig".
Miki
In Medieval England, human flesh sold by street vendors was called
"two-legged mutton."
Miki