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White Beef

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guajolote

guajolote

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Last night some Heartland eGluttons had dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant. We ordered a salad called Bo Tai Chanh, sliced beef and onion salad tossed w/lime juice, basil and topped w/crushed peanuts . The beef was white, it looked just like chicken. There was no breading or batter on the beef.

What caused this? Any ideas?

Adam Balic

Adam Balic

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Beef from paler cut of meat (girillo etc), beef marinated with limes juice, loose some blood, lime juice denatures proteins in beef, so it looks paler.

Beef also could have been soak to remove blood so that people wouldn't freak about eating 'raw' beef.

Beef was actually chicken.

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Jinmyo

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Did it taste like beef? Or like chicken?

"I've caught you Richardson, stuffing spit-backs in your vile maw. 'Let tomorrow's omelets go empty,' is that your fucking attitude?" -E. B. Farnum

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Serving fine and fresh gratuitous comments since Oct 5 2001, 09:53 PM

Jinmyo

Jinmyo

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I think Adam might be right about it being bleached by lime etc.

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"I've caught you Richardson, stuffing spit-backs in your vile maw. 'Let tomorrow's omelets go empty,' is that your fucking attitude?" -E. B. Farnum

"Behold, I teach you the ubermunch. The ubermunch is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the ubermunch shall be the meaning of the earth!" -Fritzy N.

"It's okay to like celery more than yogurt, but it's not okay to think that batter is yogurt."

Serving fine and fresh gratuitous comments since Oct 5 2001, 09:53 PM

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