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How To Make Your Own Underwear Made Of Beef

10:30PM February 7, 2012 | Andrew Tarantola

The thing with edible panties is that if I’m going to have to eat something that’s been girding my partner’s loins for the last half hour, I don’t want it to taste like a warm Fruit Roll-Up. I want to chow down on something meatily delicious — like this pair of Brief Jerky. More »

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Something Smells About Meat & Livestock Australia’s Billboards

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4:00PM November 10, 2011 | Alex Kidman

Quite literally, in fact. Vegans aren’t going to be happy with the marketing group’s latest efforts, which includes billboards that smell of cooking meat. More »

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Who Knew Cutting Meat Could Be Such An Intense Competition

4:00AM August 19, 2011 | Casey Chan

The Texas Roadhouse Meat Cutting Challenge is an event that brings in the best butchers from around the country to compete with one another to see who can cut meat precisely while still making it pretty pretty and delicioso. More »

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Japan’s Buying And Burning All The Radioactive Beef It Can Find

1:55AM July 22, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Japan’s nuclear beef problem is getting worse. Bloomberg reports over 1200 caesium-tainted cows have been detected – double the initial estimate. And their meat’s already been eaten around Japan. The solution? Buy it and incinerate it. More »

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How To Grind Meat For 240,000 Burgers In One Hour

8:00AM May 14, 2011 | Max Behrman

I love cheeseburgers. But people like Eric Schlosser and Upton Sinclair have to ruin everything, forcing me to consider where my burger came from. So I had to ask: What’s the most powerful meat grinder in existence? More »

Science

Grass-Fed Beef Is The New Performance Enhancing Drug

10:00AM May 1, 2011 | Casey Chan

Organic! Local! Grass-fed! Fanned with palm fronds! All those terms used to describe food usually mean diddly squat to me because I’m a simpleton eater. If it tastes good, it is good. But athletes – people who need to care about their body – are starting to get into eating grass-fed beef craze because of the health benefits. More »

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Taco Bell Clarifies: That Recent Lawsuit Is Bogus—Our Seasoned Beef Recipe Is 88% Beef!

3:00PM January 27, 2011 | Rosa Golijan

Ready for more beef drama? After a terse initial response to a lawsuit claiming that only 36% of its ‘Taco Meat Filling’ is actually beef, Taco Bell has followed up with a fairly detailed breakdown of the mysterious recipe. More »

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Taco Bell’s Angry Because ‘False Statements’ Are Being Made About Its Food

12:04PM January 26, 2011 | Rosa Golijan

There’s a lot of talk right now about what really hides inside Taco Bell’s beef – better known as “Taco Meat Filling” – and so naturally the fast food restaurant was bound to chime in with some rather angry words: More »

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This Is What Hides In Taco Bell’s ‘Beef’

3:25PM January 25, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

Taco Bell doesn’t use beef in their “beef”-based pseudo-Mexican delicacies. They use a gross thing called “Taco Meat Filling” as shown on their big container’s labels – which customers can’t see. And the list of ingredients is not very appetising: More »

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Infrared Cameras Can Spot The Tastiest Beef

2:40AM February 4, 2010 | Mark Wilson

Good meat is about more than proper marbleisation. Apparently quality of fat has a lot to do with its flavour, which is why researchers are re-purposing cameras to tell the best cuts from the just OK. More »