Meaning of pink slime | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An undesirable pink-colored microbial mass occurring in the slurry used in making paper.
   uncountable
2. A meat byproduct produced from scraps by heating and then treating with ammonia to produce a food additive.
   colloquial, derogatory, uncountable
3. Low-quality, mass-produced internet content, especially AI-generated.
   broadly, uncountable
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pink, slime. Slime which is pink.
   uncountable

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Examples

“Pink slime is a real and continuing problem in many paper mills. Once established it may be difficult to ... Holmes (15, 16) and Sanborn (24) stated that yeasts or yeast-like fungi were often the cause of pink slime.”

“Pink slime is allowed in any school in America by the USDA.”

“You’ve heard about the “pink slime,” right? It’s that meat filler made from slaughterhouse scraps that is treated with ammonia.”

“You told me you were all-beef, not filled with some pink slime ammonia goop! That is the last thing I want mixed up in my mulched-up cow corpse!”

“I paid a website developer to create a fully automated, AI-generated ‘pink-slime’ news site, programmed to create false political stories.”

“Water flowed down the cliff, showering on their heads; the stone under their feet was slick with pink slime.”

“The pastry room was a further revelation. Six young girls in white coats and white hats were dusting white flour over small pre-formed pastry lids, which were then glued onto cups of uncooked short crust filled with pink slime.”

“As she buried her face deep in the cool pulp, even her cheeks became slicked with pink slime. She paid no attention to Gabe, chomping away on his melon next to her. Focus was the name of the game.”

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