On 2009-02-26, Kathleen > wrote:

> Well, yeah, but you can come damned close.

Too close for me, also, Kathleen. I've tasted enough leached out meat to
know when I don't want to eat it. I don't even do stew anymore cuz the
meat, usually beef, is just a tastless rag, despite the fabulous gravy.

> It was edible, certainly. Nobody would have gotten sick from consuming
> it. But it had no place in the dish I was trying to create.

Precisely. It's just tasteless fiber. Probably be ok in a chili or curry
or some other spicy dish where the flavor of the meat is inconsequential.

> Yeah, I know... Starving children in Ethiopia...

Hey! They pay the postage, it's theirs.

nb