Just another reason to never eat at Mickey Dees...
The list of ingredients reads like the washings of a slaughter house.
What's Lurking in the McRib
"According to TIME’s Meredith Melnick and Chicago Magazine’s Whet Moser, there are roughly 70 ingredients in the limited release McRib. Pork patty, bun, barbecue sauce, pickle Slices and slivered onions are the ones we can see and that are listed as ingredients by McDonalds. The ones we can’t see are a bit more troubling.
Moser explains that the pork patty is actually characterized as a “restructured meat product” that tends to be made of pig heart, scalded stomach and tripe. When these ingredients are cooked with salt and water, proteins are extracted and act as a form of “glue” that helps keep the reshaped “rib” meat together:"
Chicago Magazine Article
Time Heartland article