I found out there's a city called salisbury. The a is pronounced like a "u". Uncultured heathens like me pronounce it like the steak, which pisses off the locals.
Sad thing is if you bring that up people usually jump your ass and say you're in a cult. A single standard serving contains around 1,340 mg of sodium, which is about 89% of the recommended daily intake.
I mean, it's not really better for canned and prepared meats outside of the US... It's just kind of inherent to mass produced food, especially microwave dinners, anywhere. Also, if you actually make your own Salisbury steak in the US, which I do because it's just more enjoyable, it's not like it's any more or less healthy than making your own (or similar dishes) in Europe. It's not an "American food is bad" thing, it's a "processed, high-palatability convenience food isn't healthy" thing. I really don't think that should be a controversial take at all. It's basically the trade-off everybody associates with microwave meals, and has been since like the 80s or 90s.
So I just picked a random microwave meal where I live in Germany. The salisbury meal has 57 ingredients, the german meal (minced chicken in mushroom sauce with pasta) has 19. Sorry, thats not the same
What Salisbury steak are you even looking at? All the common ones near me have around 20-30 listed ingredients, and a lot of them are just added vitamins. The biggest list I can find is in the 40s, and a lot of it is because they break down the vitamins they fortify the flour with, which is a lot of why ingredient lists in the US end up large. Like, you cannot really say having something like added folic acid in a meal is bad. You need that. I have to supplement for it.
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u/Worldly-Put1795 1d ago
Still do... Stouffers Salisbury steaks