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Old 01-23-2024, 09:26 PM   #37003
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
Hardly an unknown reason. Looking up definitions for mince, you find: "cut up or grind (food, especially meat) into very small pieces, typically in a machine with revolving blades."
But it still sounds funny. Ground beef sounds a lot better.

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I thought that was a Scottish thing. The singular is tatty, the plural is tatties. Probably from Scots Gaelic buntąta.
It might be a Scottish thing. I can ask if you want to know.

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Do you mean ground sirloin, ground chuck, ground round, ground prime rib, etc.?
Yes. That's ground beef. Any kind of meat that's ground is called ground <add name of the meat>.
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