Arby's Meat Mountain

[TLO]

Would you the whole thing?





http://time.com/3192955/arbys-secret...meat-mountain/

There’s a $10 Secret Menu Item at Arby’s Called the Meat Mountain
Samantha Grossman @sam_grossman

Aug. 27, 2014
And it's quite literally a mountain made of ALL the meats

Well, this is truly the stuff of Ron Swanson’s wildest dreams. Arby’s has a secret menu item (meaning it’s not on the official menu but you can request it and they’ll make it for you) called the Meat Mountain. It’s a truly formidable tower of meats, and it all started because of this promotional photo:

Do not. We repeat. Do not be intimidated by the meats. pic.twitter.com/FLbkvx4p0j

— Arby's (@Arbys) August 26, 2014

Arby’s created that poster to remind consumers that the chain sells plenty of meats besides its famous roast beef, the Washington Post explains. This marketing strategy worked, apparently, because people started coming in asking if they could order that entire stack o’ meats. And lo, the Meat Mountain was born. Here’s what the $10 monstrosity-on-a-bun includes, from the bottom up:

2 chicken tenders
1.5 oz. of roast turkey
1.5 oz. of ham
1 slice of Swiss cheese
1.5 oz. of corned beef
1.5 oz. brisket
1.5 oz. of Angus steak
1 slice of cheddar cheese
1.5 oz. roast beef
3 half-strips of bacon

A few people have been brave enough to try it:

This is an insane sandwich from @Arbys and of course I had to try it. http://t.co/SSItsjzJ3Q #Meatcraft pic.twitter.com/oeIKHUagB5

— John Dodge (@dodgerman) August 26, 2014

What Arby's "Meat Mountain" really looks like pic.twitter.com/NMFxcUUPSj

— Byron Crawford (@byroncrawford) August 27, 2014

Unfortunately, the Meat Mountain doesn’t seem to be something all Arby’s employees know about just yet. The Wire’s Adam Chandler ventured to an Arby’s in Queens in search of this elusive meat monster and was met with blank stares. A manager told him the request was impossible. So he ordered everything required to assemble the Meat Mountain himself, spending $29 instead of the expected $10.

But can you really put a price on the incredible feat of scaling the formidable Meat Mountain?

[Pepe Silvia]

Originally Posted by BigMeatballDave

Gelatin?

Arbys meat comes in a big gelatin blob.

[notorious]

At the processing distributor it's made in a huge vat and it looks like Pepto-Bismol.

[Pepe Silvia]

Originally Posted by notorious

At the processing distributor it's made in a huge vat and it looks like Pepto-Bismol.

yuck

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by PackerinMo

Arbys meat comes in a big gelatin blob.

Originally Posted by notorious

At the processing distributor it's made in a huge vat and it looks like Pepto-Bismol.

Lie some more.

[Pepe Silvia]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

Lie some more.

In that nasty food thread I remember a bunch of posters comparing it to souse, that's gelatin.

[PHOG]

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by PackerinMo

In that nasty food thread I remember a bunch of posters comparing it to souse, that's gelatin.

You're making a chicken/egg argument in bad faith. 'Gelatin' is inherent in meat. Without connective tissue, animals would fall apart. Rendering connective tissue/'gelatin' how you make meat tender juicy and delicious.

It's how you get gravy, broth, soup, pan drippings, etc.

But you want to pretend that gelatin is some mysterious industrial substance that evil corporations invented and try to pass off as meat. It's lazy and it's stupid.

[notorious]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

Lie some more.

The guy that told me visited the processing plant.

Take it for what it's worth. I believe it 100% since I've known the guy for 10+ years, flown him all around the US, Canada, and Mexico to visit every kind of food processing facilities known.



He owns a beef-packing plant, deals with Tyson, Wal-Mart, and a few other big-time food vendors.


He would lie. Yep.

[Pepe Silvia]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

You're making a chicken/egg argument in bad faith. 'Gelatin' is inherent in meat. Without connective tissue, animals would fall apart. Rendering connective tissue/'gelatin' how you make meat tender juicy and delicious.

It's how you get gravy, broth, soup, pan drippings, etc.

But you want to pretend that gelatin is some mysterious industrial substance that evil corporations invented and try to pass off as meat. It's lazy and it's stupid.

Tin Foil wasn't my intention.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by notorious

I'm not lying, some dude told me some stuff, and I'm passing off this second hand shit as first hand fact because he seemed like a good dude. You'd totes like him.

Understood.

[BigMeatballDave]

Originally Posted by PackerinMo

Tin Foil wasn't my intention.

What is Tin Foil?

[BigMeatballDave]

Originally Posted by PackerinMo

Arbys meat comes in a big gelatin blob.

Never noticed it on the sandwiches I ate.

Which was usually the turkey.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by BigMeatballDave

What is Tin Foil?

They mix it with meat powder, snips, snails, puppy dog tails, Mountain Dew Code Red, and Slurm, in an industrial vat and call it Big Montana!!

[PHOG]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

You're making a chicken/egg argument in bad faith. 'Gelatin' is inherent in meat. Without connective tissue, animals would fall apart. Rendering connective tissue/'gelatin' how you make meat tender juicy and delicious.

It's how you get gravy, broth, soup, pan drippings, etc.

But you want to pretend that gelatin is some mysterious industrial substance that evil corporations invented and try to pass off as meat. It's lazy and it's stupid.

Said the evil corporation....

[Pepe Silvia]

Originally Posted by BigMeatballDave

What is Tin Foil?

That's what they call conspiracy theorists, you tell them to grab some Tin foil.