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Salisbury
steak, mashed potatoes, a biscuit and canned collard greens. The yellow stuff around the edges of the meat turns out to be "gravy," even though it looks a bit more like axle grease. Meat like this is usually made with government commodity products--often with soy filler--and cooked in a factory where the "steak" is printed with phony grill marks. Have you ever heard of Salisbury steak being cooked on a grill?
But you need to try looking at this meal through the eyes of a child.
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For instance, the biscuit becomes a perfect platform for the mashed potatoes. Piling the potatoes on top of the biscuit for a double dose of starch is fun.
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Turns out you can smear the potatoes on the steak as well. And come to think of it, eating this Salisbury steak with the standard-issue plastic "
spork" is darn near impossible. So more inventive ways to get it from the Styrofoam tray to the mouth need to be explored.
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Here's one: turn the "steak" into a burger using that biscuit again.
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This is the way we eat
our Salisbury steak here in the District of Columbia.
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And you know what? The collards weren't all that bad. Usually the kids don't touch the vegetables. But I saw quite a few digging
into the collards.
And, imagine if the collards had not come from a can!!
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