Slim Jim.............................do you REALLY want to know?

[Uncle Bob]

Think about this when you feel the urge...............

What's In A Slim Jim, Really? (chowhound.com)

[Jerod Broussard]

Did you think they ground up Prime ribeyes?

Love my Slim Jims

[texastweeter]

Yep. I mean in Pittsburgh hot like they use cow salivary glands...still eat the hell outta them too. I ain't skeerd. (of course this is coming from someone that tried coyote more than once, so...)

[Jerod Broussard]

texastweeter remind me to pass on anything you offer in October

[Davek8282]

I've tried coyote cooked two different ways, neither of which I would repeat or request. Beaver is perhaps the poorest tasting wild meat that I have tried. Always "game" to try though.

[klflowers]

I ate a bunch of these last week. Mom was back in the hospital ( she is OK and back home now) and I was there late every night. The only thing open was a gas station, so I had the slim jim and cheese combo packs 3 nights on a row.

[Jerod Broussard]

You can't tell me that it was a Slim Jim only Gas Station. NO Funyuns??? You know, the really healthy stuff.

[klflowers]

Jerod Broussard they had hot dogs and sausages on those rollers. I wasn't that brave

[texastweeter]

And snoballs!

[Purc]

Oh Yeeeeaaaaah......

Macho Man

[texastweeter]

GOAT

[hoovarmin]

I only buy Wagyu Slim Jims

[Uncle Bob]

Gold chainer........................................... ..........................LOL

[smokenoob]

humble bragger……😁

[Smoker_Boy]

They make Slim Jim's about 10 miles from where I live.

[58limited]

No surprises in the article for me, and the ingredients they list aren't as bad as I'd thought they would be.

But it did remind me of the old Wendy's commercial: "Parts is parts"

[bbqLuv]

I like scrapple so why not Slim Jims
The 8 US Beef Grades Explained (Beef Quality Guide) – Fauna Facts

• Prime
• Choice
• Select
• Standard
• Commercial
• Utility
• Cutter
• Canner

Then you get the scraps for scrapple, also made from pork

[Purc]

I like scrapple too

[WayneT]

Where does Food Lion’s favorite grade, pink slime, fall in that list?

[captainlee]

Last one I ate I was about 12 years old thank God.

[Michael_in_TX]

So, basically cat food? (I'm not helping am I?)

[Uncle Bob]

When I was a wee lad we moved from Chicago to SoCal traveling via route 66. We stopped for lunch at a small restaurant somewhere in either NM or AZ run by "natives". I had a tuna sandwich, it was awful. Dark meat, strong fishy odor, and tasted gamey. A year or so later I was cat sitting my neighbors kitty. When I opened the food can marked tuna I had a DeJa'Vu moment; same color, smell, and, presumably taste (no way was I testing)..............ah ha!

[Jessterr]

Uncle Bob Thanks my friend, haven’t laughed this hard in a long time. Nothin’ like fresh fish in the New Mexico desert.

[Oak Smoke]

We have a convenience store chain named Allsups. They have world famous beef and beef burritos and a burrito called a chimichanga that take the place of slim Jim’s in my world. Their burritos make Taco Bell look like amateurs when it comes to promoting regularity.

[radshop]

Spoiler alert*
An executive at America's largest fast food taco chain told me what's in their ground beef...
cows' lips and a** holes.

[HawkerXP]

Last time I ate at the Bell (mid 90's) I barely made it back to work in time for the splashdown.

[JoeSousa]

It is great that there are products like this that can effectively take the lower grade meats and other scraps and turn them into something delicious. Take low grade meat, add some fat, grind it up, and you have a great sausage.

[Donw]

Having a Dad who owned the local grocery store and butcher shop our family always ate the lower grade meats and leftovers. Slim Jims were a step up from our normal fare. I haven’t had one in decades but now I just might for nostalgia’s sake.

[klflowers]

We won't mention Vienna Sausages...

[Donw]

Potted meat, or Vienna Sausages, or Underwood Deviled Ham, with saltines, a Coke, and a Camel cigarette was considered a workingman’s lunch by all the male customers coming into my Dad’s store around noon.

[jerrybell]

Potted meat...Sling Blade

[Murdy]

@WayneT

Yes. Potted Meat:

http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/cat_steve_dont_eat_it_old.html

See the first article at the top of the page.

[bbqLuv]

We won't mention Little Smokies . . . .