mystery meat

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mystery meat

n. any unidentified meat. (Collegiate.) There are no hints as to what this mystery meat is—except its strange pinkish color.

See also: meat, mystery

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There are fetal skeletons in glass domes - and a piece of the mystery meat that rained down on a Kentucky farm in 1876.

HAIR-R AISING; OZZY AND JACK MEET BUNCH OF ODDBALLS IN TRANSYLVANIA MUSEUM OF THE WEIRD

THE TIME OF FROZEN TV DINNERS evoking thoughts of gravy-drenched mystery meat are long gone.

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What's typically left in the freezer as fall approaches are larger pieces of meat some people might consider difficult to cook: shanks, shoulder roasts, the neck, and those random packages of mystery meat labeled "stew" or "jerky.

Pre-season prep: the freezer cleanout: call it "fall cleaning." Make room for a new stockpile before notching this season's tags

Whatever the caf is serving-unless it's mystery meat again.

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Three of the lamb curries contained no lamb at all but beef instead, and one contained mystery meat impossible to identify.

Waiter... where's the lamb in my lamb curry? In Brief

Just like you can't use generic dorm rooms anymore, you can't have generic food service that's not sustainable--you can't serve chicken nuggets and mystery meat," he says.

Digging into sustainability: energy efficient, low-waste and locally-sourced dining gets institutions closer to overall environmental goals

and midnight, TRAV) Foods that Andrew found challenging to eat are recalled as he looks back on encounters with mystery meat and fermented fish, as well as some of the most putrid smells and unappetizing textures served to him over the years.

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Gaetz said : 'It turns out the speaker was right not to order the health-care mystery meat from the federal cafeteria'.

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With corrupt practices such as these in Chinese factories and processing plants, who is to say that instead of receiving a shipment of processed chicken or turkey from China that American consumers won't instead be getting and eating some other type of mystery meat treated to look like chicken?

Peking's poultry and pig: with Chinese-produced food products often being found to be adulterated or even poisoned, it is surprising that the United States is allowing China to process U.S. chicken

It might not sound especially appetizing to us here on the ground, but for an astronaut whose only other option is dehydrated mystery meat, it could be little slice of heaven.

NASA Bites On 3D-Printed Food: Automatic Pizza Assembly Machine Could Fuel Astronauts To Mars

A LAMB curry has been found to contain a mystery meat - sparking fears it could be DOG or CAT.

Fears of dog or cat in curry

The WTO announcing that big agribusiness corporations must be allowed to sell mystery meat here, despite U.

Trade group rules against meat labeling

If matter seemed like a kind of cosmic mystery meat, then panpsychism removes the mystery by telling us exactly what kind of meat matter is made of--mental meat.

McGinn, Colin. Basic Structures of Reality: Essays in Meta-Physics

If you too are being nagged about devouring mystery meat in the street, invite your friends over for a pseudo-street-food party.

Buttered Up: On voting and sausages

I heard about mystery meat when I was younger, but I don't hear much about it anymore," Lavallee says.