to not want to eat parma ham filled pasta because I read the ingredients and it includes 'connective tissue'?

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I cooked it earlier so DS could have some for his dinner and I would have the rest of it for my dinner after he went to bed. I read the ingredients whilst cooking it and amongst the usual stuff it specifies 'connective tissue' and this has totally put me off eating it! Just those words make me feel sick at the thought of eating it, although I did give a big bowl to DS and he wolfed it down (obviously not at the stage of having the yuk factor for foods yet LOL).

There is a big bowl full in the kitchen covered in a lovely tomato and marscapone sauce but I feel bad for wasting food. I am now eating spinach soup and ice cream for dinner (not all at once).

AIBU to be put off by the whole 'connective tissue' thing? Even typing it gives me the heebies!

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I wouldn't. Vile.

Don't you eat sausages?

I feel sick now, I'll have to check ingredients from now on.

doesn't it just mean fat, rind etc?

That is an unusually honest ingredients list... most prepared food with connective tissue in just calls it 'meat'

I do like those mix n match tortellini and sauce things though, but next time you're safer with the spinach and ricotta!

Connective tissue nom nom

How is it any more gross than the dried and salted old muscle and fat that clearly makes up the rest of the ham?

Sausages and pies often contain it. Also known as gristle.
That's why I am veggie. I find the idea of eating muscle equally boak inducing.

Doesn't most meat contain connective tissue?

Bits of the animal that do the most work such as leg or shoulder usually contain more connective tissue, hence they're usually cheaper and need slower, longer cooking.

If you're a carnivoire, you're a carnivoire. Why would connective tissue put you off any more than flesh?

(I'm not a veggie BTW!)

Oh and yes, I do know what goes into dairy and I can live with that.

Ligaments? Tendons? Lips?? yikes

Yes I eat sausages (not that often though) and rarely check the ingredients TBH but reading it in black and white has just really put me off! I just googled and connective tissue incudes 'skin, sinew, rind and tendon'

BLEUUURGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

eewww, but you were happy to have your ds eat it?

It's weird isn't it that we choose to be blind to what we are really eating 'ooo pig for dinner? Or shall we have a slab of cow?' but the words connective tissue are just horrible and I just can't bring myself to eat the pasta. Silly I know but still bleurgh.

Isn't it the connective tissue in stewing steak for example that makes it so lovely in texture when it's been cooked slowly? And I love skin too. Crackling - yum!

Well, I guess Parma ham is sliced from a whole cured leg, so they don't separate out the various constituent parts. Personally, I reckon if you're going to eat meat, there isn't much point in being too precious about it - it's bits of animal, either way.

i'm the same with burgers, sausages and pate... if i want to eat it (which is rarely now) i have to block those type of thoughts from my mind

I let DS eat it cos I know that lots of other things we all eat will have 'CT' in it, I know IABU (probably) but I am put off by the words written on the package and DS doesn't really care what he eats! I know it's not harmful (or obviously wouldn't have fed him it) but it's just got a 100% yuk factor (for me).

I had this issue when shown a packet of Iceland cheapie sausages at our local soft play centre. I was checking the packet for dairy/egg when discovered that in ingredients. Boke!!

YAB a tad U. I don't have a problem with connective tissue myself. I have more of a problem with the chemicals and other shit that goes into our food really. I could have eaten it. Go on, you know you want to - yuuuummmmm, all that lovely gristle and tendons go an go an go an!

sad but true... have read that myself and never eat any meat filled pasta unless i make it.

Sadly most sausages, burgers- especially the good value ranges are full of them...

Is it worse than muscular tissue?
I don't get it.

I'll happily eat gristle and all manner of grossities in sausages - that's what sausages are for.

Not keen on long lists of chemicals, but at least gristle is out of a pig! have you never eaten black pudding? Pate? Kidneys? Faggots? Haggis? They are all ways of eating the gribbley bits.

What's the difference? If you are eating meat, you are scoffing the dead flesh of an animal, does it matter what part it is? I mean, unless it's the hairy bollocks of something...

(I'm not veggie btw.)

I think you are very niave if you don't think meat contains connective tiisue.

Where do you think it comes from?

It's a dead animal- it has bits of gristle and connective tissue and eyes and ears and intestines and these all go into things like sausages, pate, burgers, sweets, everything.

I think alot of people just blindly eat stuff out of packets and don't really realise that they are eating animals.
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