Remember "pink slime"? The 2012 scandal about feeding us ammonia-treated scraps?

[CoffeeCat]

127. The other day, I cooked a 5-pound package of hamburger...

…and I went to drain it in the sink. I drained it into a colander. Under the colander was a bowl to catch the
grease. I let the bowl sit on the counter to thicken, so I could throw away the grease in the garbage (and avoid putting it down the drain).

What I found was bizarre.

There was the usual layer of grease/fat on the top. However, underneath the fat was liquid. So much liquid. I dumped the liquid into a 32 oz cup to show my husband. Inside a 5-lb package of meat was 32 oz of liquid that was drained off.

We eat a lot of hamburger because we make walking tacos. I have NEVER, EVER experienced this with hamburger. Usually all of the grease just thickens and I throw it out.

I don't know if this was a fluke, or if this is practice now. But--in a 5 lb package of hamburger--32 ounces of it--is some kind of liquid solution! It looked like water.

I wonder if they aren't injecting beef with a salt solution--the way they do with chicken?

This would allow producers to make so much more money if they were puffing up the weight of the meat with some kind of watery solution.

Anyone else experience this?