Not all ground beef/hamburgers have Ammonium Hydroxide in it, and it's technically consumable. I'm honestly most of the time confused why people are making such a huge fuss about it. They only ever knew it was happening after Food Inc came out, and the "pink slime" hit the fan. Recently, McD's, BK, and Taco Bell have stopped using it, and if you're equating Ammonium Hydroxide to bad quality, do you really doubt that coming from those companies? I've always been a strong supporter of knowing exactly what you're eating, and when it comes to hamburgers, I have a lot of criteria. Kind of comes down to why I don't really eat hamburgers that often.

I don't eat ground beef that has been frozen, and if it can't be cooked medium rare, it's not worth eating. I'm not a huge fan of "food fads" so I don't really care about organic, grass fed, etc etc, just give me good quality meat with good quality ingredients.

Wheres the choice for your average joe like me who enjoys a good burger. Nothing too extravagant but nothing cheap? Something like In-N-Out or Five Guys, Or one of my homemade dirty burgers.


That's my choice.

My father was a butcher's apprentice back before the Pure Food and Drug act. He would never eat ground beef unless he ground it himself, because he didn't trust what would be in the meat. Like him, I will not eat hamburgers or any ground beef outside of that which I have made myself.

I only eat ground beef if I ground it myself from a cow I helped birth, name, raise and slaughter. You have to name them or they're just bastards, bastard ground beef doesn't taste nearly as good as fresh killed Rachel ground beef. I only feed them the grass from the lands of my slain enemies. If there are no slain enemies at hand, or those enemies I did slay didn't have much land, I just feed them corn. And whiskey, rye whiskey!

Mmmmm, grass fed slain enemy drunk Rachel cow burgers......

bhodilee wrote:I only eat ground beef if I ground it myself from a cow I helped birth, name, raise and slaughter. You have to name them or they're just bastards, bastard ground beef doesn't taste nearly as good as fresh killed Rachel ground beef. I only feed them the grass from the lands of my slain enemies. If there are no slain enemies at hand, or those enemies I did slay didn't have much land, I just feed them corn. And whiskey, rye whiskey!

Mmmmm, grass fed slain enemy drunk Rachel cow burgers......

You forgot to say that the steers (why would you name a steer "Rachel" - is that like a boy named "Sue"?) drank the tears of the women of your slain enemies... and that the grass on those lands was fertilized by the blood of your slain enemies....

Some Conan you are!

rpm wrote:You forgot to say that the steers (why would you name a steer "Rachel" - is that like a boy named "Sue"?) drank the tears of the women of your slain enemies... and that the grass on those lands was fertilized by the blood of your slain enemies....

Some Conan you are!

We don't eat Steers for the same reason we don't eat Bucks. They don't taste nearly as good

I do lament the fertilizer and tears though, that's inspired genius.

I only eat burgers that I make myself from cows and pigs raised on my friend's farm. Almost all of the local chains in my town use locally and naturally raised Angus so I do let the kids eat burgers out.

I can trust the Amish in Lancaster to have great meat for hamburgers, plus superb bacon, very good cheeses.............hmmm, now i'm getting hungry.

bhodilee wrote:I just feed them corn. And whiskey, rye whiskey!

Mmmmm, grass fed slain enemy drunk Rachel cow burgers......

...Hold The Mayo!