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What is this colored fiber in my chicken?

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Re: What is this colored fiber in my chicken?

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Post by Larrikin »

bambax wrote: post #3

Brown meat is much much more delicious; why would anyone prefer white meat is beyond me. And the irony is that, in buying "heavy breasted chicken", customers pay for something they can't consume (assuming chicken is priced by the pound in the US).

America is the only country I've ever been to where white meat cost more than dark meat.

For me it was an early lesson I learned in cooking, thinking I was improving a recipe by using breast when a recipe called for thigh simply because skinless boneless breast was more expensive.

Re: What is this colored fiber in my chicken?

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Post by grzm »

polotics wrote: post #12
Devagamster wrote: post #2

This is kinda terrifying. I can't put my finger on why exactly but dang.

Well, meat is murder. Eat less, live longer.

Please don't move discussion onto well-trodden, general ideological grounds unless you have something truly new to say. There's plenty to discuss on the specifics of the submitted piece.

Re: What is this colored fiber in my chicken?

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Post by ncr100 »

Fake meat cannot come soon enough - poor bird was encouraged to grow in an unhealthy manner resulting in dead tissue inside it while it was still alive. I wonder if it was painful for the bird having this tough dead tissue at the core of its breasts.

Re: What is this colored fiber in my chicken?

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Post by dom0 »

sturmeh wrote: post #7
bambax wrote: post #3

Brown meat is much much more delicious; why would anyone prefer white meat is beyond me. And the irony is that, in buying "heavy breasted chicken", customers pay for something they can't consume (assuming chicken is priced by the pound in the US).

Maybe because studies in the past two years suggest that red meat is actually quite dangerous with frequent consumption.

Humans and many other animals have been eating meat for billions of man-years (this is a software site after all), I kinda doubt "actually quite dangerous" is a fitting description. Bungee-jumping without a rope is "actually quite dangerous", for example.

Re: What is this colored fiber in my chicken?

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Post by pymai »

dom0 wrote: post #16
sturmeh wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe because studies in the past two years suggest that red meat is actually quite dangerous with frequent consumption.

Humans and many other animals have been eating meat for billions of man-years (this is a software site after all), I kinda doubt "actually quite dangerous" is a fitting description. Bungee-jumping without a rope is "actually quite dangerous", for example.

they might be talking about antibiotics in the meat, which wasnt a problem until recently

Re: What is this colored fiber in my chicken?

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Post by milesrout »

sturmeh wrote: post #7
bambax wrote: post #3

Brown meat is much much more delicious; why would anyone prefer white meat is beyond me. And the irony is that, in buying "heavy breasted chicken", customers pay for something they can't consume (assuming chicken is priced by the pound in the US).

Maybe because studies in the past two years suggest that red meat is actually quite dangerous with frequent consumption.

No they haven't. Red meat is not dangerous. Cooking red meat the way Americans tend to (disgustingly fried everything) is, but disgustingly frying anything is bad for you.

Re: What is this colored fiber in my chicken?

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Post by nsebban »

milesrout wrote: post #18
sturmeh wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe because studies in the past two years suggest that red meat is actually quite dangerous with frequent consumption.

No they haven't. Red meat is not dangerous. Cooking red meat the way Americans tend to (disgustingly fried everything) is, but disgustingly frying anything is bad for you.

People fry red meat ?!

I have spent much time in the US, but I think I have never seen that...in restaurants at least. And I'm kinda glad I didn't.

Re: What is this colored fiber in my chicken?

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Post by adventured »

milesrout wrote: post #18
sturmeh wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe because studies in the past two years suggest that red meat is actually quite dangerous with frequent consumption.

No they haven't. Red meat is not dangerous. Cooking red meat the way Americans tend to (disgustingly fried everything) is, but disgustingly frying anything is bad for you.

Fried is not the primary manner in which Americans consume red meat, I like how you got the anti-American attack in there though.
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