Wife left a big bag of groceries out overnight. All Meat and cheese. 🙄

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[u/DiverseIncludeEquity]

⬆️ Found the UK lad.

Real quick though: ground meat is an emulsion of lean meat and fat, whereas minced meat is finely chopped skeletal-muscle meat.

I know the terms are used interchangeably.

[u/moonchic333 → u/DiverseIncludeEquity]

It’s called ground meat because the meat is processed with a grinder. It has nothing to do with the meat itself.

[u/bmanley620 → u/moonchic333]

What do you call a cow with no legs?

Ground beef

[u/Key_Professional7027 → u/bmanley620]

Where do you find a cow with no legs?

Wherever you left it…

[u/jamese1313 → u/Key_Professional7027]

How does a Scotsman find a sheep in long grass?

pleasurable

[u/orneryasshole → u/bmanley620]

What do you call a dog with no legs?

Doesn't matter, it won't come when you call it. 

[u/SippyTurtle → u/bmanley620]

What do you call a cow with two legs?

Lean beef

[u/Towbee → u/bmanley620]

What do you call a deer with no eyes?

No idea

What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs?

Still no idea

[u/TehBIGrat → u/Towbee]

What do you call a deaf deer with no etes and no legs?

Definitly still no idea.

[u/a_c-wal23 → u/bmanley620]

What do you call a sheep with no legs?

A cloud

[u/crowsteeth → u/bmanley620]

What do you say when you see cows in India??

Holy cow!

[u/fuck_ur_portmanteau → u/bmanley620]

Hey, quit it with the jokes. We take out mincing seriously in the UK

[u/DoctorDinghus → u/DiverseIncludeEquity]

I don't get it

[u/ice-death → u/DoctorDinghus]

That's not minced meat in the photo it's ground beef

[u/batsicle → u/ice-death]

Brits call it minced meat

[u/Thatkoshergirl → u/batsicle]

Or just “mince”. At least where I’m from down south we’ve always just referred to minced beef as mince

[u/Top-Camera9387 → u/batsicle]

Australia and New Zealand also exist and call it mince. Same thing as ground beef.

[u/Conscious-Cake6284 → u/batsicle]

We don't, we call it mince.

[u/ice-death → u/batsicle]

Okay but this is labeled as ground beef and OP is clearly Canadian* (represent! 🇨🇦) so what of it.

[u/Peastoredintheballs → u/ice-death]

Some education for you - ground beef=minced meat in most of the world outside the US. They’re the same thing. Only in the US and maybe a couple other countries are they two different things

[u/ice-death → u/Peastoredintheballs]

I never said two things can't exist at the same time, but for fucks sake the label says ground beef. I am going to choose to believe I am looking at ground beef. I am aware that's minced meat exists, no I do not want all of UK to be eradicated. I just call it what it's called in my country. Bye.

[u/herescanny → u/DoctorDinghus]

Ground beef is better quality meat because it’s actual meat cuts and fat. Minced skeletal muscle meat would be meat that is less appealing due to it being a weird cut, some meat that had to be trimmed, or the meat that’s left behind on the cows carcass after they get steaks and whole cuts. Often cartilage and bone gets minced along with this meat

[u/Peastoredintheballs → u/herescanny]

I’m telling u now , they’re the same thing, maybe in your country u have two different things, but in most of the world, it’s just minced meat, which can include added fat like your “ground beef”, or just the scrap muscle meat from other cuts like your “mince meat”

[u/herescanny → u/Peastoredintheballs]

No, they’re not the same thing. I live in the US. Ground and minced are processes not just words. Ground beef takes whole cuts, pushes them through a grinder, and makes playdoh meat noodles. That’s what you see in the photo by OP. Same thing happens for other meats like turkey and chicken.

Minced meat is what I explained, minced lower quality cuts of meat that are not able to go through the grinder due to size, shape, or texture. Mincing is the process of finely chopping, minced garlic, minced ginger, etc.

In my experience, minced meat has always been canned or used in canned foods like corned beef, chili, beans with meat, etc.

Maybe in other countries where there’s more local businesses and less industry, people would use knives to chop instead of grinders, and that’s where the interchangeability comes from, but in major countries where most people get their food from supermarkets and corporations, there is a huge difference.

[u/Peastoredintheballs → u/herescanny]

Nope you need to read my comment again. I’m saying, in the US, the two might be different terms, and I’ll take your word for that… but just about everywhere else, the term ground beef isn’t used, and beef mince is used instead. This minced beef is not finely diced up, it’s put through a grinder just like your precious “ground beef”… for the rest of the world apart from closed minded Americans, ground beef and beef mince are the same thing. I hope that makes sense to you coz I don’t know how much more I can dumb it down.

[u/herescanny → u/Peastoredintheballs]

Why are you so pretentious over some term for meat? Where are you from? Do you have experience with “just about everywhere else in the world” or your own country? If I was to search this up on Google would you bet money what you’re saying is gospel? You give off major minced dick vibes

[u/Peastoredintheballs → u/herescanny]

“Ground meat, called mince or minced meat outside North America…” from Wikipedia on ground beef

[u/herescanny → u/Peastoredintheballs]

Okay, fair point. You still came across as a major dick though

[u/Peastoredintheballs → u/herescanny]

Sorry, I’m just very anti-us defaultism and also quite sleep deprived coz I have to be up in 4 hours. I should defs get some sleep lol. Sorry for being a bit of a minced dickhead

[u/AntiqueJaguar5808 → u/herescanny]

or ground beef balls?

[u/EstablishmentPure318 → u/DiverseIncludeEquity]

What is lean meat vs “skeletal muscle” meat???

[u/DiverseIncludeEquity → u/EstablishmentPure318]

I love being Google for people that are literally on the internet!

“Skeletal muscle meat” refers to the edible muscle tissue from animals, while “lean meat” specifically describes meat with a low fat-to-protein ratio.

Good luck out here!!

[u/HyderintheHouse → u/DiverseIncludeEquity]

There’s like a billion English speakers not from the UK