I've Been Slimed!

If you are from the US, I am sure you have heard of "pink slime".
I am getting a little tired of hearing it.

BPI is now on their campaign to save the ammonia poofed mechanically separated meat.

Governors are getting involved.
Tom Vilsack, my not so beloved ex-governor and current secretary of agriculture is too.

"People are being laid off and that is just wrong for something that is safe."
"They've been doing it for 20 years and no one has gotten sick or died."

Really?

How does anyone really know?
They never mark anything.

Besides what about the recalls of millions of pounds of ground beef that has what in it?
Oh, that's right.
Perfectly safe to inject pink sort of beef stuff.

"But, meat won't be as lean."

That's a crock of crap too.

How do I know?
My parents used to buy a side of beef at the locker when I was a kid and it was leaner than what you could buy in a store.
Later on, they bought calves and had them butchered after they got bigger.

If you were raised on beef like that, you know beef doesn't taste the same anymore.

BPI is trying to make consumers feel like they are being the bad guys.
BPI and the government were never honest about what they were doing.

If you knew half the stuff that is "generally recognized as safe" by the federal government you would be saying "EWWWWW!".

People want to know what is in their food, bottom line.
Mark what it is and if people don't mind, let them buy it.
Others can avoid it if they want.

Choices are good.

And if you have ever picked up a can of chicken or chicken noodle soup and saw the ingredient "mechanically separated chicken" and wondered, now you know what that is.

You didn't think that was only beef did you?

Decisions, Decisions!

I took an unscheduled break.
Something, I apparently needed.
I didn't realize I did.

But, I had nothing I wanted to put down into cyberspace.
I thought of saying pen and paper. But, that's not right. Keyboard and CPU just doesn't have the same ring.
As I was saying-

I had

Nada
Zero
Zilch

All the thoughts in my head were just not there.

Than I realized the A-Z challenge starts-
This coming Sunday!

Holy crap!

My brain seems frozen.
What do I do?

First plan of action-
Finish my list of recipes for Yummy Stuff.

Amazingly enough, I am stuck on the same letters as last year.
There are not as many k recipes as you'd think.
Almost every food that starts with the "k" sound seems to actually start with a c.
Unless you count kohlrabi, which I have never cooked.

I don't have anything done for this delightful blog.
I have a few ideas.
That is as far as that goes.

But, isn't that the fun?
For me, it is.

See, what I can just pull out of my brain that day.

Now, I must go decide where to plant my onions in the garden!

I Just Want Some Bath Salts

That's all I want.
Bath salts for my bath.

Can I have any?
I don't know.
Can I?

Can I?

"Bath salts" are illegal in the state of Iowa.
Bath salts are fine though.

This is all just a little confusing.
They are called the same thing.
But, quotes around the words make them bad.

"Bath salts" are a synthetic drug and are not to be confused with bath salts- which are for putting in your bath.
If you find it in the health and beauty section, you should be good.

But, there is a list of the "bath salts" that aren't really bath salts.

Taken from IA DPS-

"Known street names or product names for the “bath salts” of concern include Black Rob, Maddie, Magic, MDPK, MTV, Super Coke, as well as packaging labeled as “Bath Salts” or “Incense” and including a product name such as Aura, Blue Silk, Bonzai Grow, Charge Plus, Euphoria, Hurricane Charlie, Ivory Wave, Lovey Dovey, Ocean, Pixie Dust, Red Dove, Scarface, Vanilla Sky, White Dove, White Girl, White Lightning."

So, if some employee accidentally places these in the health and beauty section of the store, you need to take this list OR memorize( your preference) it so you don't get arrested for drug possession.

Maybe I will have to figure out how to make my own so I can "effervesce" without fear of consequences.

You don't think they would raid my house, do you?

" I don't know. She's so quiet. Who knew she'd have a "bath salts" lab on her property? Are you sure she wasn't making bath salts?"