mystery meat

Definitions

1. 1

   Any processed meat product whose animal source is not readily identifiable.

   • It was strange how this kind of shaved, basically overcooked mystery meat, which he guessed really was, probably, beef, could be tastier, under the right circumstances, than a really good steak.
   • A few minutes later, Ruth handed me my breakfast: burnt toast, runny scrambled eggs, and a mystery meat.
   • Justina Machado and Aaron Mark went uptown to sample the savory pastries that play a central role in their new horror-comedy — minus the mystery meat.
2. 2

   Any unidentified or mysterious biological material of animal origin.

   • It’s not worth it, trying to figure Cam out—part of Cam’s special brand of charm is the screwed-up mystery meat that masquerades as his brain.
3. 3

   An asset of unknown origin.

   • Here’s the Walkman killer. There’s no mystery meat. The reason you bought a music company is so that you could be the one to make a device like this.
   • Howard Gleckman of the Tax Policy Center calls these unspecified sources of revenue “mystery meat,” and strongly suggests that nothing like this would actually happen.
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   1. 4

      A person of unknown or undetermined racial or ethnic origin.

      • In Old America most families had some form of racial “mystery meat” lurking in their genealogical pantries, but few would admit it openly.
      • More than 90% of the revelers are non-White: Negroes, Orientals, Mystery Meat.

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