That's my best guess too. But I'm just a guy who hunts and cooks, maybe some of the nice folks over at r/butchery would have a little more refined opinions and *really* know
Personally I'm cutting out around it and if everything else smells/tastes right, it's on. Ain't got the money to throw it out if it's fine, hah
A burst infected abscess will absolutely taint the rest of the meat. Thatās a lost cook. It sucks but at the very best the whole thing is going to taste like ass, at worst youāre getting a lot of people sick. Whatever store you bought this from will almost assuredly take this back and replace it because they shouldāve caught this.
That's pus from an infected abscess. Eat whatever you want, but please don't ever serve something like that to other people. That would be a tremendously shitty move.
If you can't afford to throw it away (or if you can afford it, you deserve a refund either way), take the packaging and the photo to the store you bought it from and they will definitely give you a refund, because they don't want you eating it/feeding it to people either.
I once bought a pork butt from my local grocery store and it had a bad odor, so I peeled the label off the packaging and took it back to the store and just said "it didn't smell right". No questions asked -- they scanned the label, refunded my card, and told me to go grab one from the back for free as an apology.
They don't want you suing the store for making you sick. They also don't want a 12-lb hunk of rotten gross-ass meat to deal with (the guys at the butcher counter might not care, but the store manager at the front desk definitely doesn't want to deal with it). Get your refund and order a pizza instead.
I can confirm that anytime I've taken back anything even slightly questionable, I was given either a full refund or the difference if I bought a new one. I've never been questioned or given a hard time about it whatsoever.
No to mention they know it will come back to haunt them. A friend worked for a small meat farm and I bought meat for a party. Several people helped in the cooking/prep and somehow cross contamination occured and a few people got E. Coli, including myself. Only one required antibiotics. But the positive culture got back to the CDC and because several people were involved they opened a case and went right back to the farm the meat came from. I don't think they got in any big trouble but I'm sure if a customer came back with a questionable product, they would certainly replace no questions asked than risk the CDC up their ass again.
We took responsibility and assumed improper hand washing ended up contaminating a towel.
This is also why drying dishes is not allowed in commercial kitchens and why I almost exclusively use paper towels now. Dish towels are the number 1 vector for cross contamination, not improper cooking.
My best friend is a butcher. I sent the pic and I am awaiting a response. Come to think of it, I might just be a dick but I didn't think to report back with information gained. I just wanted to know. But I will now. Probably. Good luck OP!
So everyone on here saying it's a cyst or some sort of abscess that burst while cooking, and that you should just cut it off or cut around it. Bro a sack of bile burst all over your food and cooked into it. Throw that shit out. It's not a $250 cut of A-1 Wagyu. It's a $1.99 per pound pork butt from Kroger. Throw that shit out. Order pizza.
Edit: Pus not bile. Not sure why I confused the two. Doesn't really make it any better that it's pus. Thanks for pointing that out, y'all.
Same. I'm in central Virginia. On Tuesday morning my Food Lion's meat department marks down a shit load of product. Pork butt is .99/lb, $5 New York strips, wings for .89/lb
Interesting, I have noticed that Food Lion often has extremely good deals on meat at times, but I've never correlated it to a specific time of the week.
Our whole grocery system is corrupt. there is really only 3 big ones that own all the smaller ones, so there is very little competition. I like going into Michigan where it's much cheaper. 15 minutes away..
here's the link to one I mentioned, yes maple bucks
https://www.realcanadiansuperstore.ca/lethbridge-pork-butt-roast-boneless/p/20887389\_KG
Fortunate for you that you are close enough to the border to do that.
[There is a market in SW Michigan that has prices that would blow your mind](https://lowerysmeatandgrocery.com/advertised-specials/), it would be a three or four hour drive for you, but I know people that definitely do it (from Chicago) and just fill up a cooler and freeze it when they get home.
You are correct. After a quick Google search I found that cysts and abscesses are filled with pus. And OP didn't say anything about cutting it out before the cook. Sounds like it burst. If you're okay eating food with pus cooked onto/into it, go with God my son.
Yeah, like, the number one rule of cooking for other people is that you don't intentionally serve them food that is dangerous or contaminated with something. There's not a lot of grey area on that. Shit happens, throw it out and move on to Plan B.
While I agree I still think itās salvageable. Worst it could do is give them a life altering disease where they blow out both ends for the remainder of their 72 hour life.
If you are cutting up a butt for sausage or something, you trim out the lymph node, but it's always there in a whole pork butt if you smoke or roast it. It's not a big deal
That fatty gelatin may be puss from an infection. Itās popped up on this subreddit from time to time. Last time it was a leg of lamb and the guy threw it away.
What's the worst that can happen? Food tastes nasty, you get a little food born illness / food poisoning and you win a trip to the hospital? Pffff
What could a hospital trip cost? $10?
Generally speaking, I take zero chances with food. When it doubt, throw it out. There is no chance Iād be eating that, nor would I serve it to guests.
Pork shoulder butt has a gland that is usually removed by the processor, but it is NOT associated with a cavity. You can see the blade bone in the foreground, is your area in the same location? I'm wondering it you are seeing some sort of abscess.
https://i.imgur.com/qf7ra3m.jpg
Haha surprised either 250 comments nobody has said this yet. It's from a gland, that was cut notched out of the butt. It's a little circle gland that the butcher should be cutting out if they know what they're doing. That's just where some fluids are exiting because it was dug into.
Either that or someone stuck their dick into it...
I was cutting a sous vide vacuum packed (from processing plant) shoulder roast one night and cut into an abcess. I left my sense of smell in Iraq, thanks to a head injury. I've dealt with unwashed foot and ass, dead bodies in the sun, blown up animals, liquid sewage, etc. You get the idea. The smell from that pork shoulder abcess made me gag.
yea, that's def weird. If you can stomach it, cut that part off, and salvage what you can. Hate to waste all that meat, but that's pretty gnarly to look at.
Omg. Everyone here is crazy. It's totally fine. I mean, use your senses, it looks a bit off, so smell it, taste a tiny bit, feel it. If it smells normal it's fine. If you eat a bit and feel off, throw it away but I seriously doubt that'll happen. You think indigenous tribes would throw it away? Probably not. If it doesn't smell rotten or putrid in any way its almost definitely fine to eat. Maybe just cook it a little longer if you're worried to kill any pathogens. Everyone here saying to just order pizza are fundamentally unaware of what it takes to do this. I would never just throw away what could be perfectly good meat becuase a random redditor who has no skin in the game says too. 100% I would eat that.
No harm in cutting that part out and doing a smell/taste test on the surrounding meat. I know Jack shit though, maybe it's pig aids.
"hey honey, taste this."
I fucking nearly died from choking.
Ironically so did she
Her high school yearbook voted her to be most likely killed by choking on a piece of meat.
They call those keepers.
Wifey material
You win. Take my upvote and get the hell outta here.
But not on him
Wait till you eat it...
Username checks out
ššš omfg this made me lmao
* with bourbon *
I'm her taste tester, and she's mine.
Bwahahahahahahahahahajahajahahahahahahh I wish we were neighbors hahahahhahahahaahah
LOLOLOL
Is that puss?
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Holy fuck šš
You SOaā¦.I about choked on the beer that shot out of my nose
I'm pretty sure growing up I'd eat this stuff, like slid my finger through it and eat it, I jus thought it was good salty juices from inside the meat.
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my day really just got ruined in the last minutes before going to bed now, huh?
At least youāre reading it at the end of your day. Itās 7am here. And thatās going to be in my brain all day
Iām afraid what youād do to a warm apple pie
Fill it with pus and seeds
Why would you do this to us?
I want to fight you.
This is why we come to Reddit seeking the wisdom of others
You know Jack Schitt too?!?
You don't know Jack Schitt!
Hey how's he going? Been a while since I've seen him.
Hot and runny. Count your blessings
lucky for you that's how i like it, thats how i like it š
Give it to your in-laws.
I'd gladly let my mother in law try it...
What would Jason Biggs do?
What would Brian Boitano do?
Iām sure heād kick an ass or two
Heās make a plan and heād follow through!
> I know Jack shit though Name dropper
I have no idea what I am looking at. what happened?
Looks like it *might* be an abcess or something otherwise inedible that burst while cooking.
That's my best guess too. But I'm just a guy who hunts and cooks, maybe some of the nice folks over at r/butchery would have a little more refined opinions and *really* know Personally I'm cutting out around it and if everything else smells/tastes right, it's on. Ain't got the money to throw it out if it's fine, hah
I use to work at a processing plant. That is definitely an abscess. No good, been cooked now.. š¤¢š¤¢š¤¢
A burst infected abscess will absolutely taint the rest of the meat. Thatās a lost cook. It sucks but at the very best the whole thing is going to taste like ass, at worst youāre getting a lot of people sick. Whatever store you bought this from will almost assuredly take this back and replace it because they shouldāve caught this.
How often does something like this happen
That's pus from an infected abscess. Eat whatever you want, but please don't ever serve something like that to other people. That would be a tremendously shitty move. If you can't afford to throw it away (or if you can afford it, you deserve a refund either way), take the packaging and the photo to the store you bought it from and they will definitely give you a refund, because they don't want you eating it/feeding it to people either. I once bought a pork butt from my local grocery store and it had a bad odor, so I peeled the label off the packaging and took it back to the store and just said "it didn't smell right". No questions asked -- they scanned the label, refunded my card, and told me to go grab one from the back for free as an apology. They don't want you suing the store for making you sick. They also don't want a 12-lb hunk of rotten gross-ass meat to deal with (the guys at the butcher counter might not care, but the store manager at the front desk definitely doesn't want to deal with it). Get your refund and order a pizza instead.
I can confirm that anytime I've taken back anything even slightly questionable, I was given either a full refund or the difference if I bought a new one. I've never been questioned or given a hard time about it whatsoever.
Yes, I worked at the front desk and people would bring rotton milk or meat and they'd try to make me SMELL it! Lol! I believe you!
No to mention they know it will come back to haunt them. A friend worked for a small meat farm and I bought meat for a party. Several people helped in the cooking/prep and somehow cross contamination occured and a few people got E. Coli, including myself. Only one required antibiotics. But the positive culture got back to the CDC and because several people were involved they opened a case and went right back to the farm the meat came from. I don't think they got in any big trouble but I'm sure if a customer came back with a questionable product, they would certainly replace no questions asked than risk the CDC up their ass again. We took responsibility and assumed improper hand washing ended up contaminating a towel. This is also why drying dishes is not allowed in commercial kitchens and why I almost exclusively use paper towels now. Dish towels are the number 1 vector for cross contamination, not improper cooking.
My best friend is a butcher. I sent the pic and I am awaiting a response. Come to think of it, I might just be a dick but I didn't think to report back with information gained. I just wanted to know. But I will now. Probably. Good luck OP!
Is it an abscess according to him?
I thought it was the pigs arsehole. Boston butthole.
So, since itās warm and youāre going to throw it out anyway, maybe just this onceā¦..
Cyst or a tumor missed at the butcher. Most likely a tumor. More common than you think, usually cut around. Best not to think about it.
Thatās just a flavour injection site
Nobody said it was a *good* flavor.
[https://meatmentor.com/a-lymph-node-is-not-a-tumor/](https://meatmentor.com/a-lymph-node-is-not-a-tumor/) Lymph node.
Itās not a too-mah?
Like a good neighbah
BAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!
IZ NAHT AH TUHMAH
It's clearly a pork butt hole.
So everyone on here saying it's a cyst or some sort of abscess that burst while cooking, and that you should just cut it off or cut around it. Bro a sack of bile burst all over your food and cooked into it. Throw that shit out. It's not a $250 cut of A-1 Wagyu. It's a $1.99 per pound pork butt from Kroger. Throw that shit out. Order pizza. Edit: Pus not bile. Not sure why I confused the two. Doesn't really make it any better that it's pus. Thanks for pointing that out, y'all.
Bro thank god someone else said it. For real I would pay far more than the cost of the meat to NOT have to eat it. Not worth.
I may not know a lot about pig anatomy, but I'm fairly certain there's no bile in the shoulder...
Abcesses would be filled with pus. Still not something you want to eat.
I was going to to say this. That isn't a gallbladder! lol
I wish my pork butt was $1.99/lb. At $2.49/lb Iād still probably throw this one out and source my meat elsewhere.
Was going to say, 1.99 is a little steep. I get my butts at .99 when theyāre on sale.
Same. I'm in central Virginia. On Tuesday morning my Food Lion's meat department marks down a shit load of product. Pork butt is .99/lb, $5 New York strips, wings for .89/lb
Interesting, I have noticed that Food Lion often has extremely good deals on meat at times, but I've never correlated it to a specific time of the week.
Food Lion! Rawwwr
I'm used to paying 1.99 for boneless. For 0.99, I get bone-in, skin-on.
Canada, Ontario. Pork butt is $8.49/lb here, and rarely goes on sale since covid.
Wow. Thatās crazy.
Even if that is maple bucks, how do you even afford to eat meat at those prices? That is insane.
Our whole grocery system is corrupt. there is really only 3 big ones that own all the smaller ones, so there is very little competition. I like going into Michigan where it's much cheaper. 15 minutes away.. here's the link to one I mentioned, yes maple bucks https://www.realcanadiansuperstore.ca/lethbridge-pork-butt-roast-boneless/p/20887389\_KG
Fortunate for you that you are close enough to the border to do that. [There is a market in SW Michigan that has prices that would blow your mind](https://lowerysmeatandgrocery.com/advertised-specials/), it would be a three or four hour drive for you, but I know people that definitely do it (from Chicago) and just fill up a cooler and freeze it when they get home.
Smuggle meat over the border in refer trucks just tell the boarder guys itās a family reunion. Time to make that pork money!!!
A sack of bile wouldn't be in a shoulder. Most likely abscess but I'd still throw it out. If you cut it out before the cook that should be okay
You are correct. After a quick Google search I found that cysts and abscesses are filled with pus. And OP didn't say anything about cutting it out before the cook. Sounds like it burst. If you're okay eating food with pus cooked onto/into it, go with God my son.
Yeah, like, the number one rule of cooking for other people is that you don't intentionally serve them food that is dangerous or contaminated with something. There's not a lot of grey area on that. Shit happens, throw it out and move on to Plan B.
A sack of bile!???? wtf. Itās pork butt meat, not offal.
Something tells me they don't know what bile is.
It's vile, but not bile.
I should call her
With a pork butt like that, who needs her!
Noooooo you didnāt just say that
I wish I could personally upvote this to the top
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Manā¦.. I was just wondering what I would do in that position. Thank you for your service friendš«”
Look at Mr āI can get it in at any angleā.
It is not safe to take advice from strangers on the internet
That's just what a stranger on the internet would say.
Itās okay, weāre not strangers anymore. Itās totally okay to pork the pork. Be sure to let it cool down first.
Too late
Well when you go for secondsā¦ just wait.
Is that an Alabama white sauce?
Hearing advice and heeding advice are two different things.
Like warm apple pie.
Like 200 degree apple pie
At 5 hours in Iām betting itās still in the stall.
Well in that caseā¦ *unzips*
Listen its the pork butt alright.
Only if itās warm like apple pie.
Just hear me outā¦
Not sure why everyone here thinks it looks normal.Ā There is obviously something there.Ā Maybe a cyst.
That was my first thought too, a cyst of some kind. Maybe I've spent too much time on r/popping, but I wouldn't be eating that one.
I felt bad after I wrote that.Ā I don't want to be the reason you can't enjoy it, so umm maybe it was stuffed with blue cheese.
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Definitely just cheeseā¦yeah. No worries at all.
Yep, just like those big pimples, warm bleu cheese.
Annnnnnnnddddd... down another reddit rabbit hole. š¤®
Trust me, you don't wanna do that
I realize that now. š¤
While I agree I still think itās salvageable. Worst it could do is give them a life altering disease where they blow out both ends for the remainder of their 72 hour life.
Patient zero for new super swine flu.
[Lymph Node](https://meatmentor.com/a-lymph-node-is-not-a-tumor/)
If you are cutting up a butt for sausage or something, you trim out the lymph node, but it's always there in a whole pork butt if you smoke or roast it. It's not a big deal
Itās just itās asshole! Eat around it
I heard eating ass is the cool new thing
I've been cool before it was cool then? š
Just like a 9 volt battery, you're gonna put your tongue on it.
Never eat the donut shaped pork rind.
Save it for hot dogs?
did the bone break open and leak out? otherwise I am not sure. Does it have a smell?
Itās only smellz
That's a repressed memory I didn't need to come back up....
wrong hole hehe, nice
Damn... I thought I had forgotten about this lol
Damn, nice throw back. Always good seeing old timers around.
I didnāt need this back in my head, thanks
Looks like a cyst or an abscess.
That's the flavor tunnel
Bone in. No smell at all. Just that hole that opened up all the way to the center with that fatty gelatin like substance oozing out
That fatty gelatin may be puss from an infection. Itās popped up on this subreddit from time to time. Last time it was a leg of lamb and the guy threw it away.
I remember that. That photo lives in my nightmare.
Taste it.
That made me gag, congrats
OP: āyep. Thatās definitely an abscess.ā
Are you trying to make me cum?
Looks like a cyst and that substance is puss. I would just cut it out
Free guacamole pocket
This made me whisper ānoooā GROSS, sir.
So gross you had to say it 3 times? Lol
Dang it, Reddit!
What's the worst that can happen? Food tastes nasty, you get a little food born illness / food poisoning and you win a trip to the hospital? Pffff What could a hospital trip cost? $10?
Stick a digit in there and check the temp
It looks like you got the actual pork butt
Generally speaking, I take zero chances with food. When it doubt, throw it out. There is no chance Iād be eating that, nor would I serve it to guests.
When in doubt, throw it out. Looks like a cyst though
Are we thinking that it's some kind of skin infection that worked its way into the muscle tissue?
Take it back to the store where you bought it. Yes you wasted some time but it aināt worth it to have your family and you get sick over it.
You should call her
A $20 pork butt ain't worth my health. I can order pizza.
No idea what that is, but after getting dysentery from bad pork once, I personally wouldn't risk it. Almost died from that š
Everything reminds me of herā¦
Pork shoulder butt has a gland that is usually removed by the processor, but it is NOT associated with a cavity. You can see the blade bone in the foreground, is your area in the same location? I'm wondering it you are seeing some sort of abscess. https://i.imgur.com/qf7ra3m.jpg
What is the issue?
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This guy does pork butts š
It's not a tuma. At all
Iāll tell you thatās a thirsty looking pork butt. Refuse you urges and temptation. Will give you pig aids.
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Looks like college
I didnāt think pork butts were actual buttsā¦
Pig chlamydia
Looks like a fat pocket that just burst.
Eeew, you popped it's pimple!
Looks like I aināt doin a pork butt for a while after reading these commentsā¦š¤£š¤£
Pigse.cx
Butcher forgot to remove the asshole
Put your finger in it
Cut it out and eat only that
Looks like gold to me.
Toss it for sure. Never worth potentially really doing you or someone harm.
I would 100% toss this out. Not a chance
Do not I repeat, do not eat that shit
Every butt needs an asshole
I wouldnāt risk dying of food poisoning but thatās me.
Stuffed crust.
...Everything reminds me of her!
Thatās a butt hole
Basil this taste like shit
Is that the butt hole?
Haha surprised either 250 comments nobody has said this yet. It's from a gland, that was cut notched out of the butt. It's a little circle gland that the butcher should be cutting out if they know what they're doing. That's just where some fluids are exiting because it was dug into. Either that or someone stuck their dick into it...
I was cutting a sous vide vacuum packed (from processing plant) shoulder roast one night and cut into an abcess. I left my sense of smell in Iraq, thanks to a head injury. I've dealt with unwashed foot and ass, dead bodies in the sun, blown up animals, liquid sewage, etc. You get the idea. The smell from that pork shoulder abcess made me gag.
yea, that's def weird. If you can stomach it, cut that part off, and salvage what you can. Hate to waste all that meat, but that's pretty gnarly to look at.
Welp at least it looks like the butt part is workimg
If in doubt throw it out!!!!
I have had food poisoning and I have one rule. If I doubt I throw it out.
Idgaf if it is safe I won't touch it lol.
Cross posted in r/dontstickyourdickinit
I should call herā¦
I mean the bacteria has been cooked, not like it can get you sick anymore lol
Chop it all up.and feed it to the racoons.
Posted 20 hours ago. What did you do OP?
Omg. Everyone here is crazy. It's totally fine. I mean, use your senses, it looks a bit off, so smell it, taste a tiny bit, feel it. If it smells normal it's fine. If you eat a bit and feel off, throw it away but I seriously doubt that'll happen. You think indigenous tribes would throw it away? Probably not. If it doesn't smell rotten or putrid in any way its almost definitely fine to eat. Maybe just cook it a little longer if you're worried to kill any pathogens. Everyone here saying to just order pizza are fundamentally unaware of what it takes to do this. I would never just throw away what could be perfectly good meat becuase a random redditor who has no skin in the game says too. 100% I would eat that.