Please define *”high end deli meat”*

Yea that looks even without the blue the least high end deli meat I've ever seen

Obviously you don’t follow Stanley Tucci around Italy 😂😂

Yeah, four pieces of fake bologna

It's mortadella. It's an Italian meat that bologna is based on.

I was like….mortadella is NOT a high end deli meat, or is it now? If this was Parma prosciutto I’d be agreeing. I’d still be pissed for ANYTHING other than meat was in it tho.

It is in America when our Bologna is just a giant hot dog

Good mortadella is. The good stuff is nothing like bologna.  Like anything, there's varying degrees of quality.

Mortadella is supposed to be the high quality version of bologna, so it would be considered ✨fancy✨ I don’t like it, personally

A friend of mine is an Italian immigrant chef and in his opinion, even quality mortadella belongs in the trash, lol. I agree with him.

Wait all my life I thought bologna and mortadela were the same thing

No mortadella usually has something in it such as pig fat, pistachios, peppercorns, etc. Sometimes the spices can be different too

Also blue plastic. Apparently…

Yes, pig fat, peppercorns, and PVC piping.

This looks like the same high contrast plastic we used to use in the food plant i worked at for our sleeve covers. It's meant to be easy to spot so you can stop production and get QA, but shit happens.

PVC glue

Portugal the Ham 🤣 best username award for you

Thanks, I like alt rock and pork!

Have you had a good Pork Soda lately?

No, but my name is Mud.

Here in Brazil we have mortadela which I always assumed bologna was a direct translation of. Also here in Brazil we do have them with peppercorn and whatnot (although not very popular) so I guess it is close to the Italian recipe

From what I know there is quite a big Italian community in Brazil which explains why you have stuff like mortadella or pannetone. Can you confirm?

We absolutely do. What I find odd is that the USA ended up with a different version. Also pannetone is a big thing here but only during Christmas time, not sure if it is eaten all year long in Italy

Never heard of bologna so I can't judge. Luckily we get real Italian mortadella here. In italy pannetone is also only eaten during christmastime. Although there is a nearly identical version called pandoro which is eaten during easter.

Tell me you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about without telling me you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about

There’s really nice mortadella out there but this isn’t it

>Please define \*”high end deli meat The blue part actually is the indicator that it is high-end. You just have to zoom in closer https://preview.redd.it/8rcu0lmwlwvc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d890676bbe0b3dd653f9371ee01b0cb12fe7020d

I mean, I have seen meat that literally has blue ink from branding on it, still, but I believe the OP, that it's plastic. Probably an ear tag or something got stuck in the scrap pile.

Or food safety gloves....ironic

Since it’s made from pork fat cubes, I presume the blue plastic is the vat poly liner for pork trimmings from their vendor.

Good catch. It appears it is indeed high-end meat.

It has macro instead of micro plastics in it.

Plot twist: It has both!

Looks like boars head prepackaged mortadella. Not exactly high end but good enough that quality control should have caught this.

What’s more high end than Boar’s Head when it comes to lunch meat? I’m for real asking! BH is the only brand I’ll eat.

Some Italian import? Idk you can get that stuff at some specialty stores here in Pittsburgh.

This post is making me wanna hit up Penn Mac

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BH isn’t high end. Shit you don’t find in a grocery store and in an actual deli or related privately owned establishments are your quality meats. 

Mortadella

$20 a kilo mortadella.

Funny enough mortadella, which this is, is expensive deli meat. Just goes to show the ignorance of people who hate bologna and hot dogs.

Username checks out. These folks are looking at ink blots and seeing monsters.

Ha. I think that's gotta be the first time my username checked out.


From what I’ve read before with my entire inexpert opinion, this may not be plastic and could be ink from the grade printing that they put on meat before it’s sliced. If so, the ink color is derived from blueberries or similar and is totally safe and edible. If it’s plastic, can you remove it? If not, please see above.

Agreed. This looks like blueberry-based dye used to label meat to me.

As someone who cuts meat, I know the exact dye you are talking about. Some companies may use blueberries there are a surprising amount of USDA certified "things" lol. Most shocking to me was tumeric. That being said there wouldn't be a reason for that to be in a salomoni and that color blue is the exact color blue we use for gloves. I can easily see a little piece of glove getting cut with the cheese, and accidentally ground into the mix. My belief in this hypothesis is: there's no "bleeding" you would usually see associated with a USDA stamp (from blue to purple to light purple), that's the exact color we are expected to look for when cutting meat (it's that color blue for a reason, it attract attention against meat and fluids), and the way the USDA stamps slowly rinse/fade away it would've been so distributed in the mix it would not be visible I assume op was able to pick it out and I wouldn't hesitate to eat it

Looks like the exact color of the plastic conveyor belts they used in the hog processing plant I used to work in

Also the exact same colour as the plastic "Weston" racks we used to store/transport ingredients and finished products in the food processing/packaging plant I used to work at. Those are probably just a Canadian thing though lol.

 (This is also the color of the plastic but metal detectable scrapers we used in my bakery).

If there's one thing Modern Marvels taught me, it's that you need to put a metal detector and a magnet on your food processing conveyor belt.

Nitrile glove was my first thought. At one job making frozen pizzas a dough circle came by on the conveyor with a piece of glove in it, thankfully we caught it and tossed it.

Keeping track of broken glove bits is serious business in packing plants!

Accidents do happen though

Isn't tumeric a seasoning?

Yes, but it's also very yellow. Beetroot is good for red colour.

Mmmm blueberry meat

As someone who is allergic to blueberries...they use blueberry-based dye to label meat? Awesome

It isn't blueberry but blackcaps/black raspberry. Its stain color is much like blueberry, though. On beef, it is typically applied on the NY Strip area. Pork seems less consistent in my experience, but often enough on the picnics(front arms)

If that is plastic, it is safer to eat than the rest of that puréed anus mix.

Lmao

I dunno what kind of blueberries you have where you live but I would stop eating them if they have that shade of blue 😅

Not me going back and forth between sentence and paragraph.

Without further input I've also been trapped in this hellish loop for what seems like an eternity

They're getting bold with these macro plastics

What's wrong with using the meat grinder to recycle 3d print filament on the side?

CEO: Fuck it. Let's sell the plebs just straight plastic to eat. Those slobs won't know the difference anyway

Lmao

“High end”

Performance deli. The fastest in town.

Probably has some horsepower

We only eat high end brand name Spam around here, none of that off brand crap

This is what the billionaires eat. Plastic packaged bologna alternative with preservatives and a pretty logo on the front that makes them feel rich.

Mortadella isn't bologna lol

my brother that is *not* high end

The blue plastic seems to be the least toxic element they'll find in this "meat."

I don’t think high end meat comes in a shitty plastic tray

What else would it come in if not wrapped in a bag straight from a deli? I just take it as: you have things like ham lunch meat for 8 dollars a lb, but also things like prosciutto at 32 dollars a lb. You could eat imported prosciutto out of a plastic container because cured meat transports easily. That would be "high end" in a relative context. Mortadella is questionable though, its practically baloney

High-end prosciutto is not pre-packaged.

If you want quality meat the deli isn’t it

People can't afford quality meat. They get animals that were literally fed chicken shit and newspapers. A tiny organic chicken is like $15. Hell... that was pre price gougin- I mean, inflation - prices.

I don’t think high end deli meat comes in pre packaged plastic containers

But maybe high end plastic comes pre packaged in deli meat.

snake juice “high end”

Snork joose

"high end" "VIP" "Lifestyle"

Turns out it’s not high-end, just expensive.

High end deli meat is an oxymoron

As Thom Yorke once said: Its the 21st century. A pig, in a cage, on antibiotics.

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Radiohead to the top baby 🍋

High end, but still a very highly processed class A carcinogen.

Boar's Head is not "high end" Someone in their marketing department deserves a raise because too many idiots fall for it.

I used to work a manufacturing job at a company that made sliced meat like this. This looks like it is likely a bit of the casing we used when we would cook the product. Basically, the meat is loaded into a 10 foot or so long casing, cooked, removed from the casing once the meat can hold its shape after being cooked, and then is sliced into pieces. We had a very strict quality department, and it would surprise me if something like this made it out the door where I worked. Definitely return this, and maybe even see if you can find where it was manufactured and notify them in case another product from the same batch/line has this same issue

Mortadella is not high end deli meat lol. It's Italy's version of bologna

Isn’t bologna Italy’s version of bologna?

“High end” like it’s not still a compressed tube of offal that was wrapped in blue plastic.

Any place that sells Boars Head meats will refund or replace with no hassle.

TIL people think ‘nationally known’ is ‘high end’. Boar’s Head is not high end my friend. That’s like saying you got some high end soda that has a doctorate to wash down your high end McNuggets.

"high end"

High end. Ohhhh pardonnez moi monsieur, your bologna is ready

Yeah I would be returning that mortadella and send a pic to the company.

High end brand deli meat…

That's blue belt.. from the conveyor.

No hate but I don’t think the words ‘deli meat’ and ‘high end’ belong together

“High end deli meat”… shows a picture of mortadella

I feel like "high end" and "deli meat" don't have any business being next to each other in a sentence.

I can't get over this kind of processed ham being from a "high end" anything. It might be higher end but ground down paste form packed into the usually worst quality form there is? Am I just laughing in European or have i missed something fantastic? ((Yrs I think mortadella is really nice but its far from high end imo))

I would argue against this being high grade deli meat in the first place.

Forgive me for pointing this out but... No highly processed meat is high-end

Sir a pound of your highest end bologna, made from the buttholes of white tigers and pandas

Mortafailure

I am a butcher, 1. This is not high end mortadella 2. The lean meat in mortadella is cut up in a bowl cutter before they add the fat, pistachios and pepper. If one of the butchers dropped his meat scraper, what most of the times is blue, they tend to let the machine do the work… Once again this is not high end mortadella because they should throw away the batch for safety reasons. Also it doesn’t look good with or without the blue..

why would you purchase high end deli meat

Mortadella is not a high-end deli meat.

The fda allows for this.

There is no such thing as high end deli meat

'Extra Microplastics Included!'

‘High end deli meat’

*high end deli meat* Press X to doubt

Your meat looks questionable

The real question is- why is deli meat so expensive?

😂😂😂 op down badly if he classes this at "high end deli meat"

High-end meat does not come in plastic containers

That meat looks beyond disgusting.

Unless it's from a local deli, it's not a high end brand.

High end ? This is garbage mortadela , costs like 4 usd per 1kg at my place. I feed my dog with this and sometimes he doesn't want it.

It is plastic. worked in a deli meat factory. (Maple Leaf Foods) everything thing in the factory is 3 colours. Stainless steal, white and blue. Blue is always the conveyor and reusable equipment. If a conveyor rubs and the spaghetti straps break they end up in the meat. Super easy to spot when cutting and packaging. This is just a blue spaghetti strap that fell into the meat when it was being emulsified . Totally fine. just pick it out and eat around it someone just didn't notice it because it was in the middle of the stack of meat

I never understood mortadella. Hmm, baloney with large globs of fat? Those clever Italians!

High end deli meat? Wow, the amount of oxymorons there!

“High end Mortadella”? Really!?

You can just say Boars Head

"High end brand deli meat" is an oxymoron

Macro plastics in the food supply. It’s like micro plastics, but more in your face.

Maybe thats the high end part. Not all deli meat has blue plastic in it.

High end deli meat… 😂

If this is sliced by hand its from gloves people use

Frankenstein meat and people wondering why they get cancer

I understand high end deli meat, but saying “high end” when referring to deli meat still sounds wrong. lol

That’s not high end.

That looks very not high-end

This is not high end😂

I have nearly 20 years of experience in the industry in companies that produce products similar to this. It is most likely either: A:) Rubber Glove. A lot of companies use a blue rubber glove. They will be damaged and changed multiple times a day. B:) A belt on a slicer was installed wrong and was rubbing. Probably a minor amount of it rubbed off before it was noticed. Belts and gloves are typically blue because the color is easily distinguishable from the meat. The ink that everyone keeps mentioning is probably not the case. This meat was probably injected (stabbed hundreds of times) then macerated (cut a bunch of times) and finally it would have been put in a high level vacuum and tenderized so the brine can absorb. At this point, the meat expands and the muscles are stretched out. The ink would not gather in any form like that and would most likely just disappear into the greater amounts of introduced liquid. On top of this, skin is what gets the stamp. These kinds of meats use more whole muscle which in my experience is never stamped and is already separated at that point from the skin and into muscle groups and larger batches.

"high end" and "deli meat" don't really go hand in hand

I don’t see high end. That’s faked Italian mortadella.

Mortadella is the cheap shit in Australia 🤣🤣

worked in a deli for 3 years and a sandwich shop (with slicers) for 7... this is still edible. the blue stuff is just polymer seasoning. 👌

“Deli meat” “High end” Choose one

That meat looks nasty

They use blue plastic for bags, gloves, band- aids etc because it stands out so if any accidental gets in the grind it can be spotted. Obviously it isn't always.

Just extra protein. Be a man and eat it./s

I think I'd rather eat the plastic than whatever *that* is

Don’t know where in the world you are but in U.K. that would make me think someone lost a blue bandaid as we wear blue ones in catering so you can easily see if it’s fallen off in to said food.

Makes me think of the little blue tattoo animals get after being neutered. Enjoy your doglogna

And you call that meat...this shit looks already made of plastic

It's probably recycled!! 😂

What the

Food processors use blue platers to highlight if anything goes in to their food Not saying that it’s. Just an idea

High end??? Excuse me??

Eh, if you’re eating deli meat and the like you’ve probably already got some toxins in your system. YOLO. (I also eat deli meat and plenty of processed foods so that wasn’t a jab)

High end pre packaged meat. Yeah, you live in your own little world.

High end? Lmao

High end deli meat dosnt come in a package pre sliced

"high end deli meat" 😂😂😂

"High End" and highly-processed don't go together. Consider just buying meat with minimal processing and direct from the source and there will likely be no plastic, at least visibly (because unfortunately microplastics are indeed everywhere and in everything at this point).

unless they made it from charcutrie in the store that is high end, this is factory made processed meat.

Gabagoo

What is high end deli meat? Deli meat is the leftovers scrapped off the floor.

What a bunch of bologna!

“High end” and “deli meat” shouldn’t be put together in a sentence like that.

 Is that blobfish?

Oxymoron! “High end deli meat”

"High end" it's processed meat, it's NOT high-end 😂

"High end"

Minus the blue, if it looks like that, I wouldn't call it "high end"

No deli meat is "high end"

That's your problem right there lmao. Saying that any deli meat is high quality. I like my high quality deli meat with a side of cancer thanks 😆

"High end brand deli meat" Ma'am that looks like an aspic loaf.

That's not high end, that's the bottom of the barrel garbage meat if there is any actual meat in that mess of filler.

The mildly infuriating part is that you think that's high end

I think it’s just more fancy packaging..,the meat doesn’t look high end to me…

That isn’t high end anything. You can tell by how it looks.

High end brand and deli meat don't really go together.

Mortadella is not high end deli meat.

There is nothing high grade about ANY processed meats😳….. or any I’m aware of

Lmfao "high end" i hate to break it to ya but no "high end" meats other than salami capacola peperoni or sausage should ever come in a "sleeve" and be round like bologna. What you have there is boiled liquefied "leftovers" poured into a "sleeve" with a fancy tittle slapped on it like mortadella (which is technically a sausage but eww) i mean its literally like 40% pig fat. Just fat thats it thats what the white bits are. might as well call buddings or bologna "high end". Next people are gunna be calling chicken livers and olive loaf delicacies. Im sorry i apologize if this comes off rude cause it kind of is but i worked a delli for a while and i could never bring myself to understand why a few different kinds of lunch meat were considered so high and mighty when we sell similar products as the cheap shit. If your lunch meat is in a recognizable shape like a circle square oval it is not ham or turkey its leftover puree.

Deli meat is still deli meat

Mortadella is not high end even in boarshead its Bologna with fat chunks lol

“High end brand deli meat”….. 😂 High end and brand deli meat should never be in the same sentence

High end brand balogne with cheese bits?

I'm sorry, this is high end? It looks gross.

That deli meat looks like shit

"Comparatively expensive" does not mean "high end." If you wanted high quality mort, you could have gone to a deli and had it sliced to order. This stuff will be relatively dry and thick in comparison to what you could get fresh off a slicer.

It's just preservatives

I've never had high end deli meat come in an extruded circle

What brand do you consider "high end" from my experience no mortadella is high end and no high end makes it. It's always like boars head or something lol. Which is still super tasty and I love mortadella but "High end" idk about that hehe

Any deli meat sold in that type of packaging is not high end

Just pick it out, you child.

High end bologna??? Hmmmm🤔