Does Arby's use real meat?

Answer 1

It is real roast beef, comes in a roll and they slice it to their need. I worked at Arbys.

Answer 2

As expensive as Arby's is I would hope they used real meat! As for the chicken, they've had a big campaign about how they "now" use real cuts of chicken--not processed. I don't even want to think about what I've eaten in the past.

Answer 3

Claim: The meat Arby's uses is made from a paste, gel, liquid, or powder.

Status: False.

Examples:

[Collected via e-mail, 2004]

I heard from a friend, who I consider a reliable source, that Arby's Roast Beef arrives at the restaurant in liquid form, then is heated to a solid, sliced, and sold as roast beef. Is this true, or an urban legend?


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[Collected via e-mail, 2005]

This sounds silly, but my boyfriend swears a former Arby's employee told him that Arby's roast beef is shipped to them in some kind of liquid or gel form. My boyfriend honestly believes this.


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[Collected via e-mail, 2003]

Speaking of gross.. i just found out that ARBY'S ROAST BEEF is not even real meat. they make it from a POWDER MIXTURE, then cook it and slice it into pieces. It must be like a gelatenous blob, which they cook, then slice into meat-like pieces. Isnt that disgusting??

Origins: A number of readers have written to us in the past few years to inquire regarding a rumor they've heard about Arby's, a popular roast beef sandwich franchise. According to scuttlebutt, the meat used by that chain in its sandwiches isn't actually beef but is instead an imitation foodstuff arrived at by reconstituting a powder, gel, paste, or liquid, then shaping the resultant mass into something approaching the appearance of a cut of meat before roasting, cooling, and slicing it. How long this rumor has been out there is hard to say, but it first came to us in 1997.

Answer 4

It was real meat when it began its journey through the processing center. It was then sliced micro thin and marinated in corn oil and other things. It then had become a "processed meat", whatever that means. Hot dogs are processed meats, so there you have it.

Answer 5

It's highly processed.
Some other terrible offenders: Rally's (how can a .99 1/2 lb burger be real meat...that just defies logic!); Taco Bell.

Answer 6

Yes, it is real beef. Bottom round to be specific.
Some of these answers are hilarious.

Answer 7

It's real meat, just don't ask what animal it came from

Answer 8

Yes.

Answer 9

Yes they do

Answer 10

yes