pink slime

名词 n.
/ˌpɪŋk ˈslaɪm/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An undesirable pink-colored microbial mass occurring in the slurry used in making paper. uncountable
    — Pink slime is a real and continuing problem in many paper mills. Once established it may be difficult to ... Holmes (15, 16) and Sanborn (24) stated that yeasts or yeast-like fungi were often the cause of pink slime.
  2. A meat byproduct produced from scraps by heating and then treating with ammonia to produce a food additive. colloquial,derogatory,uncountable
    — Pink slime is allowed in any school in America by the USDA.
  3. Low-quality, mass-produced internet content, especially AI-generated. broadly,uncountable
    — I paid a website developer to create a fully automated, AI-generated ‘pink-slime’ news site, programmed to create false political stories.
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pink, slime. Slime which is pink. uncountable
    — Water flowed down the cliff, showering on their heads; the stone under their feet was slick with pink slime.

词源

Apparently first applied to food in 2002 by Food Safety and Inspection Service microbiologist Gerald Zirnstein.
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