meat without feet n.— «Professor Omholt knows that persuading many people to overcome their knee-jerk distaste for lab meat—or “meat without feet,” as one animal organisation has referred to it—will be tricky.» —“Is in vitro...
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break beef v. phr.— «Every Friday, he picks up a carcass or two from Redwood Meat, then brings the meat back to the store and cuts it into rib-eyes, prime rib, filet mignon—just about every cut you can think of. What’s not used in the...
hardbone n.— «It didn’t take long to see that the rib tips of one carcass had turned from cartilage to bone—indicating the animal was at least 4 years old, a “hardbone” in meat-locker parlance.» —“What’s the Beef? Making...
backing heads n.— «Her most recent job was “backing heads,” scraping meat from between the vertebrae.» —“A Medical Mystery Unfolds in Minnesota” by Denise Grady in Austin, Minnesota New York Times Feb. 5...
head table n.— «A survey of the workers confirmed what the plant’s nurses had suspected: those who got sick were employed at or near the “head table,” where workers cut the meat off severed hog heads.» —“A Medical Mystery Unfolds in...