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North Carolina’s Rare Burger Ban Makes Red Meat Illegal

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rare-burgerThere may be no food more American than the burger. And according to meat lovers, there may be no health code regulation less American than North Carolina’s rare and medium rare burger ban. From Winston-Salem to Nags Head, meat eaters are unable to order their burgers rare or even medium rare thanks to a state restriction that requires restaurants to cook ground beef to an internal temperature of 155 degrees Fahrenheit.

That’s enough heat to sufficiently kill dangerous bacteria like E. coli, according to state health officials. But it’s also enough heat to kill all of the flavor, according to Raleigh resident and rare burger aficionado Steven Elliot.

“I don’t believe in a nanny state when it comes to food,” said Elliot, who told AOL Weird News he would order his burgers “bloody” or “ready to moo” if he could.

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  • Nancy

    Don't put all red meat in one pile. Organic grass-fed is a completely different species. It's the only kind I will eat. I've read if there are only two things you are going to eat organic – it's got to be dairy and beef (growth hormones and antibiotics).

    And they are now demanding that your kids eat meals made at school (no more homemade meals). Yet they buy from Conagra and Cargill and stuff them full of fake food with things in it you wouldn't eat if you knew it was in the food. How's that for taking care of us!

  • Sonny

    Hamburger is full of ecoli even after treating it with amonia. Yes… amonia. Would you like some more Windex with that burger? Commercial bovine production is rife with problems. Watch "Food INC" on Youtube for free.

  • Barb

    Before too long PORK will be banned. Don’t say I didn’t warn ya. In Calif. they are taking soda machines out of schools and replacing with diet soda. That’s worse than the real thing. But Michelle had to have her way. I’ll bet they eat what they want. Let’s ask the chef.

    • JUSTICECOMINGSOON

      That is on the agenda I am very sure, since our president is a muslim .

    • Boltman

      How about no soda at all. Michelle practices do as I say not as I do when it comes to her food!! Remember her Super Bowl party menu!!!

  • http://MSN Judy

    Well I love my hamburgers and I love meat. I don't feel it's the governments job to tell me what to eat and how it's to be cooked. I haven't been poisoned yet and I like my meat rare or medium rare. These Nazis are working overtime to find things to do to put us under their control.

    • http://www.reformdc.com nax777

      There is no denying it. Washington DC and State's need to be reformed.

      To the Libs that come here to be wise guys I have few questions for you.

      Why was breeding our population to 300 million by the year 2000 a deathly bad thing for the habitats?

      Why is importing our population to 442 million by 2040 a righteously good thing for the habitats?

      Why do you support over population of all cultures except the European cultures?

      Why is partisan self-righteous? Why are superior intellects not self-righteous?

      Those with a strong will to maintain protected numbers will prosper. The more people that engage in distraction first and the best of the bad second the easier it is for the focused. The two parties are not unbeatable and there are more x-libs than you think. Our parties have left us; it’s time we leave them before it’s too late.

      Goooh.com, NumbersUSA.com and SBA-list.org depend on active rolls from people as any movement needs in order to succeed. Reformdc.com links to these movements, you might be able to click on my name. I urge you to join Goooh.com today so that our children do not die from a third world nation in the name of saving third world nations.

    • JUSTICECOMINGSOON

      Remember, every time they create a new law , more Government agencies are created with more government employees , who then need more taxes so they can create more problems for you and I.

      And so, the government ranks grow daily, by the thousands.

  • http://yahoo sharon

    I will not be stopped from eating what I want by some dirty commies I don't care who they are.

  • Lenny

    I will continue eating raw hamburger til my dying day have done this for at least 60 years and haven't died or got sick from it so far and if I do get sick or die I will die of eating some thing that I like and not some thing that people try to force on me to eat

  • http://yahoo sharon

    I never thought I would see the south bow down to commies, but I was wrong, sad day for America.

  • Lenny

    when we have burgers at my house i take a handful of raw burger meat and put a little salt on it and love to eat it that way while the main burger is cooking to a medium rare

  • Miroco1

    I've made it three quarters of a century RARE, should the next flavorful prove my demise,

    So Be It!!! What is wrong with you people???

    • http://yahoo sharon

      Commies that is what is wrong, the Obama administration has been at work those commies are not going to stop until we are all like the muslims in the whitehouse. don't you see what is going on.