My friend Morag writes in:
Finally, something more disgusting than Holiday Luncheon Meat (obtained in Dallas):
Armour Potted Meat (Food Product)
INGREDIENTS: Mechanically separated chicken, beef tripe, partially defatted cooked beef fatty tissue, beef hearts, water, partially defatted cooked pork fatty tissue, salt, Less than 2 percent: mustard, natural flavorings, dried garlic, vinegar, dextrose, sodium, erythorbate, sodium nitrite.
This charmer provides 130 calories, of which 80 come from fat. Just a 3 oz. serving provides 25% of your daily allowance of cholestoral, 20% of your saturated fat, but only 14% of your total fat allowance and 31% of your daily sodium - there are 750mg of salt in this puppy, er, food product.
"Not a significant source of fiber or sugars."
In a second e-mail, Morag notes that another Armour food product is Armour Star Pork Brains in Milk Gravy . Mmm, mmmm.
I couldn't help but notice that Armour food products are but one of a family of product lines from the Dial Corporation, the others being:
- personal cleansing
- laundry care
- air fresheners
Does Dial Corp. buy their raw materials in bulk?
Comments
I guess that Dial defats the beef fatty tissue to get the tallow for soap, then puts the remainders in the potted meat.
It's nice to see a corporation being ecologically responsible by using the whole animal and not just adding to the toxic waste pile.
(... and no, I'm not sure where the earnestness of the comment ends and the sarcasm begins.)
Posted by: Morag | August 22, 2003 5:10 PM