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Originally Posted by Mutt
well here's this guy's recollection of the Arby's meat - and there's a Snopes story about it.
there's some truth to this dude's story, the Arby's roast beef comes in these bags filled with what the company calls 'self basting' liquid - it's a gross gelatinous type liquid. i've seen the kids at Taco Bell open up similar bags of their taco filling meat - it's incredibly gross looking.
"I used to work at Arby's as a teenager, and this is the truth: It is NOT roast beef. It is some sort of scientific abomination. First, it comes in big, clear plastic bags in the form of some kind of brown, sewer-water looking liquid with tiny bits of mystery meat in it. The whole thing was about the size of a flat basketball. It must be comprised of a gelatin-like substance that coagulates when cooked or something. We would insert several of the bags onto a rack inside a type of cooker where it would take maybe an hour or so to turn solid. We would then remove it, slit the bag open and slice it in the machine like a normal deli-meat would be. Its totally FAKE."
LINK TO SNOPES.COM article |
Kid is just spreading more myths that he either is just fibbing about or never worked for them.
I did leave out seasoning in my deli meat explanation. Some gelatin would be released when they steam cook it in the bag. Typically they pretreat most meats before putting them in the plastic vacuum bags. Almost all have modified food starch. Some would be smoked, some rolled in black pepper, flavoring, and yes many have self basting liquid solutions poured into the bag.
Example here is a packaged turkey breast since it is easier to explain and show the oddness of the shape.
As you can see that is a giant rectangular oval of turkey breast with no bones. There of course are no turkeys running around with a breast shaped like that (go look at a fresh turkey, cooked or raw). A turkey breast is shaped like a taken apart yin-yang symbol. Each half of the symbol would represent a single side of the breast. If you take the two breasts and push the wide part (near the neck) to the thin piece (near the ass end) you will get a near rectangle. Cook it in a vacuumed sealed bag to hold it together while it cooks with some food starch or even natural proteins and they will just hold together when you take them out of the bag. They are also ready to eat right then with no extra cooking needed.
Hopefully the image posted.
