Tesco Finest Sausages - What Are They In?

gik

zaax wrote: »

Special Army Meat

That's either SAM or SPARME! What meat is in it though?

wealdroam

The labelled ingredients in the classic variety of Spam are chopped pork shoulder meat, with ham meat added, salt, water, modified potato starch as a binder, sugar, and sodium nitrite as a preservative.

MrsAtobe

gik wrote: »

I've got to ask...what's in the meat that is sold as SPAM?:D

Spiced ham.

Azari

brendon wrote: »

I was recently reading the Frylight FAQ page and come across the following statement:

The Sunflower Lecithin is a product derived from Sunflower seed and gives the product its non-stick property. It is not composed from chemicals.

I always loved the car sticker that said: "Nuclear Power - No Thanks", together with a picture of the largest nuclear reactor for many trillions of miles and from which we get all our non-earthbound-nuclear power.

geerex

"Inorganic" to me means synthetic. Perhaps they should have said "non*-organic".

(*for the forum thickies, "non" is what you mean when you type "none". Except, when you mean "none", of course.)

PenguinJim

They did say "non-organic", geerex. It was the OP who took this to mean "inorganic". Not a bad English assumption, but in Real Life it just means they did not qualify for the slightly-arbitrary British label of "organic" (which doesn't literally mean "organic" anyway), as kwikbreaks sort-of-covered.

bap98189

SpammyTheSpammer wrote: »

The packet states "natural non-organic pork casings" and is also on the web page here:-

This confuses me. With my "O" level in chemistry, does this mean an "natural inorganic pork casing". If so, how can pork be "inorganic".

Sausage skins used to be made from intestines, specifically from a layer in the intestine called the sub-mucosa. They are normally made from pig intestines, but can be made from sheep, goats, cattle or even horses. This is the only type of sausage skin allowed to be called "organic".

The modern food industry prefers artificial casings because they are cheaper to manufacture. These are made from collagen, which is extracted from animal skin, processed, and then extruded to form the casing. I wouldn't say there is anything natural about them, but as they originate from an animal product, the food industry disagrees.

SpammyTheSpammer

So my sossies are in some extract of animal skin that has gone though a process to extract something called collagen which is then extruded to make the sossie casing. This is an alternative of the meaning of the word "natural" that I have not encountered before, but do understand.

The animals are not reared "organically" as described by the Soil Asscociation, hence I end up with sossies in "natural non-organic pork casings".

OK, now all is clear to Spammy, I shall remove the skins in future....

SerialRenter

SpammyTheSpammer wrote: »

OK, now all is clear to Spammy, I shall remove the skins in future....

Collagen as a sausage casing has been used for the last 50 years or so. It's not going to do you any harm to eat it as quite a bit of your body is made from it.

Plus sausages without casing would look very sad. Poor little sausages.

SpammyTheSpammer

In indigestible (to me) skins. No, they are EVIL!