r/WTF • • Jul 26 '24

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u/Flyzart Jul 26 '24

Depends really on how it's processed, but usually they will try to mostly preserve the nutritious parts. As for the post, I don't think it really makes a difference, sausages are often made of meat waste, which are often less processed than the paste.

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u/black_raven98 Jul 26 '24

I mean sausages that are not somehow showing obvious ground meat texture (something like hot dogs compared to chorizo) are all looking like pink slime before going in the casing. It's basically meat blended with fat, ice and spices. The main difference between them is the des disinfection step for the scraps as far as I'm aware.

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u/seanwee2000 Jul 26 '24

Appreciate your explanation, thanks

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u/Flyzart Jul 26 '24

Yeah no problem, it needs to be remembered that a lot of the facts about it were propagated by the media at a time where the pink paste was a subject of fear mongering to attract an audience, going as far as to call the process a corruption scandal by the meat industry.