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Since when does a baseball card company make hamburgers? Kids didn't want hard tooth-breaking sticks of gum anymore, so they slapped hamburger patties inside instead?
Since when does a baseball card company make hamburgers? Kids didn't want hard tooth-breaking sticks of gum anymore, so they slapped hamburger patties inside instead?
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Anyone ever look at the nutritional values on any prepackaged hamburgers. Were talkin' 80% or MORE fat intake per burger. Those shouldn't even been on the shelves
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I'm still waiting to hear about a recall for beef sold in Kroger. I swear the last package of ground beef I bought from them wasn't really beef.
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@catcherintheeye: These \"hamburgers\" are made from the 62-year-old gum shavings from the baseball card packs. The ecoli came from the factory floor.
@lo_fro: The answer is don't eat meat bade by a baseball card co.
@lo_fro: Because nobody died from Hepatitis that they caught from the green onions at Chi-Chi's a couple years ago.
Lo-Fro, why stop with meat? Better not eat lettuce, mushrooms, tofu, or spinach either. They've all had food poisoning contamination scares in the past year or so. Better stick with the vitamin pills and boiled water.
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I'll stick with the beef I buy from the local supermarket that's ground fresh everyday. I've never had a problem with that and it tastes better than anything frozen.
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See,ever since videos games became popular again in the early 90's,baseball card sales have been at an all-time low.Thus,some baseball card companies have had to branch out in other markets to make ends meet.Topps now sells meat,and I think Fleer makes condoms now:P
Better stick with the vitamin pills and boiled water.
@bcostin: Didn't a report come out a while back saying that the Vitamen A in multivitamens was actually bad for you?
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@mupethifi: Seriously. I don't want to go victim blamin' here, but I'm honestly curious as to what kind of person buys prepackaged hamburgers? I'm just not seeing the benefit, besides saving like 3 minutes it takes to pack the meat (and it's not like pre-packaged burgers don't fall apart on the grill anyway).
I mean, the grocery store ground meat isn't the healthiest meat in the world, but:
a) It's cheaper
b) It's ground on site, within the last 48 hours
c) You control the leanness
Seriously, what's the product benefit?
Most of this stuff was sold well over 2 months ago and they're just now recalling it?
I have read that the way huge slaughterhouses produce ground beef means that the average hamburger can contain flesh from up to 50 cows. Apart from the obvious choice of becoming a vegetarian, one way to reduce e.coli risk is to ask the butcher to grind the beef while you wait. This is pretty common in Europe, you just point to the chunk of beef you want, and they grind it in front of you. Packaged ground beef is just too risky, you have no idea where it comes from, what's in it or who prepared it. At least if you have your local butcher grind it you know what you're buying, and it's less likely to have been sprayed with feces as underpaid, under-trained workers try to get their hourly quota done faster in a massive slaughterhouse clear across the country.
I believe the answer here is: don't eat meat.