‘Pink Slime’ Losing Place on School Lunch Menus
Evan McGlinn for The New York Times
Orchard Gardens K-8 School in Boston no longer serves beef containing “pink slime,” or lean finely textured beef, an ammonia-treated filler.
By JESS BIDGOOD
Published: March 24, 2012
BOSTON — Andy Gomez, a ninth grader at Brighton High School, was not sure why hamburgers and meatballs had disappeared from the cafeteria, but he was not happy about it. “Today I just ate peanut butter and jelly,” he said. “I don’t like the chicken patty.”
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The absence of ground beef at lunch last week — at Brighton High and 43 other public schools here — could be explained by a peek into the freezer, where 21 boxes of ground beef products sat, cordoned off from the rest of the meat by a clinical-looking cover of white paper reading “Do not use.”
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