Mystery meat is a disparaging term for meat products, typically ground or otherwise processed, such as Spam, Salisbury steaks, gyros, or kebabs, that have an unidentifiable source. Most often the term is used in reference to food served in institutional cafeterias, such as prison food or an American public school lunch.^[1][2] It may also be used to refer to any meat of an unknown type sold by an ethnic restaurant or as street food.^[3][4][5][6]

The term is also sometimes applied to meat products where the species from which the meat has come is known (e.g., cow or pig), but the cuts of meat (i.e., the parts of the animal) used are unknown. This is often the case where the cuts of meat used include offal and mechanically recovered meat, where explicitly stating the meat used might diminish the palatability of the product to some consumers. Examples include Spam, hot dogs, bologna sausage, and chorizo.

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• SPAM
• School dinner
• Deli meat

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