Following my badly photo edited photo of a new product advertised on the tube, I have to ask, what could possibly make up that 28% that is not meat?
After all, a sausage is considered a fairly meaty dish, on par with a steak or a chop. Any self respecting BBQ would happily serve sausages alongside the other protein rich dishes. But with only 72% meat, are sausages in fact a rip off that is representative of life as a whole.
Instead of going for the juicy steak or an exquisite cut of meat, we settle for less, something easier to chew, but something deeply unsatisfying. Something far more harmful than any dull side of meat could do to us and ultimately, something that is just not as natural as a slab of the chewy stuff?
Maybe I am reading too much into this, but proclaiming that a sausage has 72% meat, raises more doubts than jubilation. Just what is the remaining 28% made of? Suggestions please...and also, is that all we can hope for, just 72% of life? Oh well, I feel like some bangers and mash...mmm, 28%...
72% is regarded as an excellent score in many exams. At Cambridge, it'll get you a first, and I assume it's a similar story at UCL. Is the tertiary education system in the UK subliminally lowering our expectations of our favourite meat products, and by extension, life itself?
ReplyDeleteI suppose if 72% of life is meat, then the rest must be pretty pap
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