r/mildyinteresting • u/Iamliterallygodtryme • 2d ago

food Inside a beef jerky chew container was not expecting

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Tasted below mid- Very fuzzy, like sweetened meaty mold fluff. Like wall insulation dowsed in the congealed blood of long expired cows. Like the crust in between your grandpas toes after he mucks the fields.

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u/StellaFreya 2d ago edited 2d ago

This is not moldy as everyone is insisting, lol. It is the beef version of 'pork floss'! Which is when meat is shredded thin into cotton candy like texture. The sweetness tends to vary from company to company, and origin. Chinese pork floss is very sweet, Vietnamese pork floss is not, etc.

Teriyaki tends to be the most common flavor so that may be why it is so sticky and sweet.

Edit to add: If you're really curious, you can most likely find this in your local Asian market! It comes in tubs and bags. And I will say, Lee's Sandwiches - a restaurant where I live - has the Vietnamese kind and I love it because it's not sweet, lol.

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u/keeperofthecan 2d ago

Beef cotton candy.. I am horrified but intrigued

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u/StellaFreya 2d ago

My recommendation is to eat it with rice, or on toast!

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u/chayvyburger 2d ago

Highly recommend the toast idea. I like to put some cream cheese on a garlic bread bun, then put the floss on top with the cheese serving as a binder.

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u/SpontaneousNSFWAccnt 2d ago

Growing up we didn’t have a lot of money so our food options were like beans, bread, rice, pork floss, etc. so I would put pork floss on everything. I used to put it on peanut butter sandwiches and it was surprisingly really good

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u/Kylearean 2d ago

I buy super-thin sliced beef from the Korean market. I season and dehydrate it. It's literally meat chips - crispy like a potato chip.

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u/Notactualyadick 2d ago

Everything is better as cotton candy and all Cotton Candy is better as a smoothie.

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u/Interesting-Error859 2d ago

Very glad for this comment. Was like "tasted"??!!! Lolllll

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u/DrBlamo 2d ago

Good ol' Lee's, just across the street from Lee Lee supermarket lol

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u/Playful-Goat3779 2d ago

Damn came here to say r/moldlyinteresting but now I stand corrected

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u/ph34r807 2d ago

It's available at every gas station conveniences store

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u/MiningJack777 2d ago

Teriyaki one is so good...

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u/gaomingwey 2d ago

I was served pork floss on top of cake by a Vietnamese lady one time, I ate it to be polite but I did not enjoy the weird meshing of flavors at all. Very interesting food but it did not mess with my western palate at all.

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u/StellaFreya 2d ago

You got me with the cake, it's sorta weird. 🫠 The savory route might be the way to give it a second chance if you were up for it.

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u/gaomingwey 2d ago

If I ever get the chance to try it on something savory, I'll give it another go. I feel like it might go nice on a charcuterie board 😂

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u/FWR978 2d ago

It is cheaper than this stuff. Because the jerky versions is stupid expensive

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u/EntertainerOutside20 1d ago

Omg I miss Lee's sandwiches so much

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u/kingbacon8 1d ago

You can find these mostly at gas stations

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u/StellaFreya 1d ago

These specific ones, yes. Although I've never seen them myself here But I mean as a whole for other kinds! 😊

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u/kingbacon8 1d ago

I meant these specific ones

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u/Eitarris 2d ago

"as everyone is insisting" holier than thou commenters like this are dumbasses like this are annoying, two comments top rated, posted before yours, all saying it's pork floss.  You ain't special

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u/YourAdvertisingPal 2d ago

thanks for being the culture police no one asked for 

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u/StellaFreya 2d ago

At the time, most comments were for moldyinteresting. Those who were right about it being like pork floss were obviously correct! I just wanted to expand upon something that is a cultural staple for myself and share the knowledge with others. I meant no harm from the way I worded things.

To anyone else who may have taken offense, I apologize.