Burgers ,meatballs,etc.

[owdhamer]

Do any ABERS work in food preparation plants that make meat products, and what really happens.

[pusskin]

In the 60's, my friend said that she worked in a branston pickle type factory, and said we'd be shocked at what goes on the floor and then scooped up and put into jars. She nearly vomited as she told me.

[ummmm]

I think standards are higher now.

[Smowball]

God if we knew what went on in ANY food factory then we would starve to death!

[Mrsspagnoli57]

A friend used to work in a factory producing cakes-the only difference between the cakes packaged for Tesco, M&S and Sainsbury was the colour od the hats of the staff on the production line. All this 'burger' stuff makes you wonder if it really was mad Cow disease at all or the combining of different animal DNA in the final product. I never ate burgers before-there's no way I'd start now.

[losgigs]

Like Maggiebee, I had a summer job as a student, but in a bakery. Put me off eating shop-bought cakes for a very long time, and rarely touch them now.

[gollob]

I used to have butchers shops back in the 1990's and used to make my own sausages. We made a pork sausage which had 80% pork with fresh leeks and mushrooms and sold for 89 pence per pound. They were a superb sausage. I aslo made a beef and pork sausage which contained 50% meat and sold for 50 pence per pound. The pork sausage was so so much the better yet for every pound of pork sausage we sold , we sold five times as much of the pork and beef sausage. This used to annoy me so much but it was the publics choice

[888sally888]

So happy to be a vegetarian ;)

[Sparkles62]

Studied microbiology and food tech in the 70's, was sent on a placement to a fectory where they made luncheon meat/spam. Loved spam fritters prior to that, took many years before I ate it again. its made from all the rude bits that you dont see on the butchers counter.