You walk into a supermarket. On the delicatessen counter there are some sausages whose label reads: ‘not less than 100% meat’; in other words, there is nothing in them other than meat. But it also reads: ‘contains herbs, preservative and colour’ so, quite obviously, it must be less than 100% meat . It works like this. Say you have 5 lbs of raw meat, but after cooking it, its weight has dropped to 4 lbs. The law allows you to make up that other lb. with a cheap filler. You now have 5 lbs of the mixture and, because it weighs the same as the original meat, you can call it 100% meat! Asking my butcher the same question elicited a different answer. He told […] Read More
