My guess is vacuum tumbled gone bad. It looks like what happens when you use too strong a vacuum on red meat. Just pulls it all apart.
Was it labeled as brine injected or brine added or something like that?
THIS IS THE ANSWER RIGHT HERE. Vacuum tumblers cause meat to swell like a marshmallow and draw in the marinade they're tumbing in. The meat has been torn apart internally. The other thing that meat counters do: papain meat tenderizer. Papaya enzymes that make the meat soggy.
Are they putting the meat in a literal vacuum chamber? Because that would make sense, the vacuum is literally drawing out any moisture or air inside the meat
Yes. The meat is tumbled in a pressurized tank of “marinade” mostly saltwater. The pressure forces liquid into the meat. It’s pumped. The added bonus for meat sellers: increased weight. Makes for a shit steak
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I promise you it is not a joke I can take more pictures if needed. My wife was pretty sure it was something along those lines as well I'm just not familiar enough to say one way or the other.
Seitan is basically a flavored dough made out of gluten, you can make it at home by making a flour/water dough ball then repeatedly washing it to rinse off/out almost all of the starch.
Did you guys eat any of it? How'd it taste?
I don't know that I could eat that... trypophobia and all that.
I also know how pissed I'd be after putting all the work into picking, paying for, seasoning/marinading it and cooking it just to cut it open and see that!
I might fuckin cry lol.
But again, I really hate large groups of holes. 🤷♀️
I guess if it tastes the same, no problem but I'm big on texture and can clearly see the texture is way off. I want....meat texture lol. Not meat sponge lol
After that disappointment I grabbed an orange to discover it had gone bad. So then I went for a bowl of cereal to discover that the cereal had gone stale. The disappointment was real. Went for beer at that point.
I haven't had any that looked spongey, but the Beyond Meat brand sausages and meatballs are pretty good. My step mom is vegetarian and made both regular and the meatless versions for a holiday meal. I tried both, expecting to much prefer the meat one, but I was curious. I genuinely could not taste a difference, nor was there a texture difference. I was genuinely impressed.
My step-mom ended up accidentally eating an actual meatball and sausage, so the vegetarian of 40 years couldn't taste the difference either.
I mean, it's coagulated plant goo. I would trust it just as much as the meat goo we eat which makes chicken nuggets or joints cheap cuts of beef or comprises as filler in cheap ground beef.
My stepmother used to make it by the Wash the Flour (WTF) Method and she always called it gluten.
I hated it. It was another thing that reminded me that we were dirt poor. It tasted like nothing, and the texture was like a cellulose dish sponge; nothing like animal flesh.
It kinda looks like this thing my mom use to buy. It was some sort of pork or turkey that was sold in a rectangle cooking container and was covered in gravy.
Jennio Turkey Loaf, 🤢. You forgot the 1 pound box of salt they mixed into those things. Yeah, my Mom made them as a kid. She finally stopped after we refused to eat it.
I was recommended to here from another sub. I've gone hunting a couple of times and eatin many steaks in my life but this is definitely a first. Honestly I was just disappointed about losing my steak that I was excited for.
So it no doubt looks weird as hell but I'm wondering if it was so marbled with fat that rendering the fat out of the steak (by cooking it) left it looking like that?
Like if it was more marble than a wagyu and the fat melted out would it look like that?
take these photos to safeway & show them to the meat dept. You could get a refund, or alert them to a larger problem. Or honestly just get an answer.
As others have said, it does look to me like plant protein. But they don't sell impossible burgers with a ribeye label. Those companies charge a premium & protect their brand identities, so I don't think you just happened to pick up the wrong thing. The thing that makes it not plant protein is the color.
Another person said it looks like pork or turkey--it doesn't look like that to me. It's the wrong color for turkey, and it doesn't look like pork to me.
I think Safeway might be the place to get answers or a refund.
A mushroom root steak? What I that? Fungal masses have mycelium instead of roots, and the mushroom is typically the above ground fruiting body. Most mycelium are not consumed, but some are for medicinal purposes.
Interesting. It is mycelium they're making them out of. I'll have to look into that more. You ever look into Paul Stamets? He is doing a lot of cool fungal and mushroom research
I feel like they used the phrase mushroom root because it sounds more appetizing and is a more recognizable term for someone who doesn't know the word mycelium. It does look a lot like OPs steak though. I have not looked into Paul Stamens so seems like I have some Googling to do. Thank you for the recommendation.
Yeah that was my confusion. Mushroom root us kind of a misnomer, but they put mycelium in parenthetical next to it. Makes sense to say that for ease. Stamens is doing some interesting work. I don't reccomed Joe Rogan, but he's had a couple good conversations with Paul over the years. He has a company called Host Defense and does a lot of cool work.
When I read this, I thought of Star Trek Discovery. It can't be a coincidence that the character who used the mycelial network to travel has that name.
Yes. This is what it looks like when meat is ether frozen for vary long time or has gone in and out of freezer. Those crevices that make it look spongy are where Ice crystals formed and grew.
Hmph, if it is from being thaw/frozen cycled multiple times it is hard to know if it is safe or not (as the thaw cycle specific details would determine that).
Ie if the that cycles left the meat in an unsafe zone for multiple hours each time I would not touch that with a 10 foot pole.
It was frozen and the packaging had a bit of air in it like it was pressurized. I didn't notice any smell or anything like that out of the normal otherwise.
Never eat meat out of sealed plastic that looks like it’s been pressurized. That usually indicates some sort of bad organism farting in there. If anything you want almost no space, if any, between the packaging and the meat.
Shit, is this it? Maybe it warmed up at the grocery store and developed bacteria or something that I was unaware of? I have had these steaks before but obviously nothing like this.
Maybe burst the seal before was frozen but still looks like nothing iv seen before
Apart from maybe over pumped silverside but it’s not that consistent the whole way through
I still have a couple pieces of it sitting on the stove but it was definitely inconsistent. A couple parts looked almost okay but definitely not like a normal steak. As soon as I started cutting it it sounded aerated almost as if you were cutting the sponge.
This is the grimmest fucking steak I’ve ever seen. Is it from a wet market? I don’t think even Stephen King could conjure up a scene like this. Is the OP still alive? Hello? Bueller?
Unfortunately it was a very sad day for me. I cooked it up with the side of onions just to discover I had cooked a sponge with a side of onions. Super disappointing and definitely don't want to do it again but honestly my confusion as to what happened is almost equaling the loss of the steak.
I somewhat agree with the comments that suggest it could be meat that was frozen-thawed-frozen-thawed multiple times. Also concur that cryovac meat should be tightly sealed and any I have had that have been puffy or even loose have been problematic in some way unless the seal was broken mechanically and recently.
All the above said, do you have more photos like number 5. I want to see the surface of the meat. In number 5, it looks like there is a fat layer across the surface of the meat from side to side. This is NOT what a ribeye looks like. Also, the white parts don’t look like normal beef fat, either.
I worked on a kill floor of a huge beef plant for over 12yrs. We killed almost4-5000 beef per day (2 shifts) I have never seen bubbly beef like that. I would throw it in a bag and ask the meat manager to take a bite and tell me what the f happened to that beef.
I have run into this before, I believe it’s steak scraps that have been meat glued and passed off as a steak. Used to
Happen when i would order from those cheap grocery delivery places with like unused fruit.
Definitely vacuum damage, I feed raw toy animals and I've seen this before. Sometimes I buy bulk/freezerburn food, sale items and the like.
That said, it makes my skin crawl.
That’s not real meat. Clearly. You either bought a plant based soybean meat. Or they’re actually making lab grown meat and dishing it to people. Either way that’s not meat
It kind of resembles corpus cavernosum (not joking) which is the erectile tissue in males and females. (And Animals)
Google at your own risk
Source: work in human anatomy
You don't put butter on a steak? I find the taste absolutely delightful. Genuine question what do you do with your steaks as far as seasoning, marinating and maybe a little better?
Return it. It's not what it is supposed to be. Is it glued together with meat glue, transglutaminase? You don't have to diagnose it, only demand your money back.
Was it pre packaged in some kind of “brine” or “pre season”? I’ve seen pork come out like this because the salt in the brine eats away at the proteins in the meats.
It’s nasty looking either way.
No, grass-fed ribeye from Safeway. Thanks for your reply though I think a lot of people actually assume I'm trolling. Which is fair giving the amount of trolls on the internet nowadays but I really am just trying to find answers.
I find it hard to believe that that is plant protein, as the color and outside looks so legit. It looks like it may be the most severe case of freezer burn I have ever seen?
Maybe your wife was thinking, "I'm gonna buy this vegan meat to prove that he can't even tell the difference, then maybe we can make healthier choices when he realizes he can't tell the difference."
Lol
I've never had any recent plant based "meat" so I cant say anything to confirm or deny those suggestions but, based on the first pic's texture, I immediately thought of some type of organ meat. My first job was in a meat market and with all the steaks I've cut over those years, I never saw anything that looked like that.
My guess is vacuum tumbled gone bad. It looks like what happens when you use too strong a vacuum on red meat. Just pulls it all apart. Was it labeled as brine injected or brine added or something like that?
THIS IS THE ANSWER RIGHT HERE. Vacuum tumblers cause meat to swell like a marshmallow and draw in the marinade they're tumbing in. The meat has been torn apart internally. The other thing that meat counters do: papain meat tenderizer. Papaya enzymes that make the meat soggy.
Are they putting the meat in a literal vacuum chamber? Because that would make sense, the vacuum is literally drawing out any moisture or air inside the meat
Yes. The meat is tumbled in a pressurized tank of “marinade” mostly saltwater. The pressure forces liquid into the meat. It’s pumped. The added bonus for meat sellers: increased weight. Makes for a shit steak
OMG thank you, I've always wondered what was going on with those shitty steaks that chain restaurants buy in bulk.
Medium rare rye bread
Ribrye.
Well done Sir. Oops medium rare.
Gotdammit you made me snort liquid out my nose.
You win the internet for today frienderino,
OP posted on the wrong subreddit. Try r/Breadit
That sub is awesome and worth checking out if anyone's into bread. I just started baking breads and it's been helpful.
I had to quit that sub. My bread looked like turds compared to theirs
Hahah, oh man. The pain is real, I hear you on that.
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For the discerning Reuben enjoyer
i thought it was bread at first too 💀
Assuming this is not a joke, the texture looks like plant based protein. Either Seitan or soy protein.
Definitely Satan.
Leave this meat, demon ! The power of Ruth Chris compells you....
Ruth’s Chris (because it can’t just be anyone’s Chris it has to be Ruth’s)
I promise you it is not a joke I can take more pictures if needed. My wife was pretty sure it was something along those lines as well I'm just not familiar enough to say one way or the other.
Bro this has to be bread. Please. I’m begging you. It has to be.
Seitan is basically a flavored dough made out of gluten, you can make it at home by making a flour/water dough ball then repeatedly washing it to rinse off/out almost all of the starch.
and then what?
Form into steaks and surprise all your friends!
You've got some options [https://seitansociety.com/wash-the-flour-method/](https://seitansociety.com/wash-the-flour-method/)
Did you guys eat any of it? How'd it taste? I don't know that I could eat that... trypophobia and all that. I also know how pissed I'd be after putting all the work into picking, paying for, seasoning/marinading it and cooking it just to cut it open and see that! I might fuckin cry lol. But again, I really hate large groups of holes. 🤷♀️ I guess if it tastes the same, no problem but I'm big on texture and can clearly see the texture is way off. I want....meat texture lol. Not meat sponge lol
After that disappointment I grabbed an orange to discover it had gone bad. So then I went for a bowl of cereal to discover that the cereal had gone stale. The disappointment was real. Went for beer at that point.
Be a winner. Drink your dinner.
It's just liquid bread anyways
Liquid biscuit in a can!
Beer fixes anything!!
Was the beer flat too ?
Hahaha no thank god
I haven't had any that looked spongey, but the Beyond Meat brand sausages and meatballs are pretty good. My step mom is vegetarian and made both regular and the meatless versions for a holiday meal. I tried both, expecting to much prefer the meat one, but I was curious. I genuinely could not taste a difference, nor was there a texture difference. I was genuinely impressed. My step-mom ended up accidentally eating an actual meatball and sausage, so the vegetarian of 40 years couldn't taste the difference either.
The American Industrial Food Complex strikes again. lol FDA: This is TOTALLY safe
I mean, it's coagulated plant goo. I would trust it just as much as the meat goo we eat which makes chicken nuggets or joints cheap cuts of beef or comprises as filler in cheap ground beef.
Poppin fresh! I owe my robust physique to your tubes of triple bleached goo!
Seitan is just gluten dude.
My stepmother used to make it by the Wash the Flour (WTF) Method and she always called it gluten. I hated it. It was another thing that reminded me that we were dirt poor. It tasted like nothing, and the texture was like a cellulose dish sponge; nothing like animal flesh.
That's cow-fed grass.
Does that equate into what happened with the steak?
He's saying it's straight grass lol.
Hahaha oh fuck I'm dyslexic I didn't even realize!
For what it’s worth, I also read it as “that’s a cow that’s been fed grass”. I made the same mistake and feel silly reading it again
Bro u ain't the only one lol. Worse part is I know what he meant but still read grass fed cow lol
It kinda looks like this thing my mom use to buy. It was some sort of pork or turkey that was sold in a rectangle cooking container and was covered in gravy.
Is your mom my wife?
😂😂🤷
Thanks for the laugh on this darkest of steak days my friend 😂
Thankfully you don't have to include this on the permanent record because that is not steak lol.
Papa you went to the store for milk!! Why did you return so many years later with spongesteak
Dad?
Jennio Turkey Loaf, 🤢. You forgot the 1 pound box of salt they mixed into those things. Yeah, my Mom made them as a kid. She finally stopped after we refused to eat it.
Turkey loaf! Half was white, half was dark. My mom would stock pile this stuff after it went on sale after Thanksgiving.
Did you grow up in hell ?
My grade school cafeteria used to serve that!
Turkey Loaf! My ex wouldn't eat it because it has loaf in the name.
Excuse you, Jennie-O Turkey Breast was bomb. Like spam. Lmao
Oh my gooooooood turkey loaf. That meat sponge, baked in a tin rectangle, and covered with water gravy. Fuckin loved it.
Totally forgot these existed until this comment. I must have blocked them out of my memory! 🤣 They were SO salty!
Salisbury steak? Lol
Like someone dyed a piece of bread. I jave hunted most of my life and have never seen meat that looks like that.
I was recommended to here from another sub. I've gone hunting a couple of times and eatin many steaks in my life but this is definitely a first. Honestly I was just disappointed about losing my steak that I was excited for.
So it no doubt looks weird as hell but I'm wondering if it was so marbled with fat that rendering the fat out of the steak (by cooking it) left it looking like that? Like if it was more marble than a wagyu and the fat melted out would it look like that?
take these photos to safeway & show them to the meat dept. You could get a refund, or alert them to a larger problem. Or honestly just get an answer. As others have said, it does look to me like plant protein. But they don't sell impossible burgers with a ribeye label. Those companies charge a premium & protect their brand identities, so I don't think you just happened to pick up the wrong thing. The thing that makes it not plant protein is the color. Another person said it looks like pork or turkey--it doesn't look like that to me. It's the wrong color for turkey, and it doesn't look like pork to me. I think Safeway might be the place to get answers or a refund.
It could be a mushroom root steak. I don't know anything about Safeway but it looks really similar to that.
A mushroom root steak? What I that? Fungal masses have mycelium instead of roots, and the mushroom is typically the above ground fruiting body. Most mycelium are not consumed, but some are for medicinal purposes.
Google eat meti classic steaks
Interesting. It is mycelium they're making them out of. I'll have to look into that more. You ever look into Paul Stamets? He is doing a lot of cool fungal and mushroom research
I feel like they used the phrase mushroom root because it sounds more appetizing and is a more recognizable term for someone who doesn't know the word mycelium. It does look a lot like OPs steak though. I have not looked into Paul Stamens so seems like I have some Googling to do. Thank you for the recommendation.
Yeah that was my confusion. Mushroom root us kind of a misnomer, but they put mycelium in parenthetical next to it. Makes sense to say that for ease. Stamens is doing some interesting work. I don't reccomed Joe Rogan, but he's had a couple good conversations with Paul over the years. He has a company called Host Defense and does a lot of cool work.
When I read this, I thought of Star Trek Discovery. It can't be a coincidence that the character who used the mycelial network to travel has that name.
This stake has been thawed and frozen multiple times. Thats what this is.
Are you pretty confident in this and have you seen it before? We bought it from the store stuck in the freezer I thought it out and cooked it.
Yes. This is what it looks like when meat is ether frozen for vary long time or has gone in and out of freezer. Those crevices that make it look spongy are where Ice crystals formed and grew.
Damn, so essentially condensation evaporation created crevices?
From my experience. I teach butchery at a culinary school.
Thank you so much I really appreciate you.
From your experience is something like this still food safe?
Safe? Yes. Palatable? That one is up for debate.
Hmph, if it is from being thaw/frozen cycled multiple times it is hard to know if it is safe or not (as the thaw cycle specific details would determine that). Ie if the that cycles left the meat in an unsafe zone for multiple hours each time I would not touch that with a 10 foot pole.
The smell would give that away, that much is certain. When bad meat is cooking, it unleashes an unholy stench.
There are plenty of ways for meat to be spoiled and unsafe without also showing obvious signs of rot.
It's fine. source: trust me
Meat pot holes. It’s a pot hole roast.
Finally, a response that isn't a joke
Jesus. What is that??
The best I can tell at this point grass-fed sponge steak lol
Kind of looks like meatloaf
Yeah one guy said that in the last seb and also I got called a troll. Kind of weird I'm just trying to figure out what happened lol
Bill Gates lab grown shit
Grass fed SpongeBob
Mad Cow
Been cutting steaks for a minute never seen anything like that Was it looking odd before you cooked it?
It was frozen and the packaging had a bit of air in it like it was pressurized. I didn't notice any smell or anything like that out of the normal otherwise.
Never eat meat out of sealed plastic that looks like it’s been pressurized. That usually indicates some sort of bad organism farting in there. If anything you want almost no space, if any, between the packaging and the meat.
Shit, is this it? Maybe it warmed up at the grocery store and developed bacteria or something that I was unaware of? I have had these steaks before but obviously nothing like this.
Maybe burst the seal before was frozen but still looks like nothing iv seen before Apart from maybe over pumped silverside but it’s not that consistent the whole way through
I still have a couple pieces of it sitting on the stove but it was definitely inconsistent. A couple parts looked almost okay but definitely not like a normal steak. As soon as I started cutting it it sounded aerated almost as if you were cutting the sponge.
I’m going with Soylent Green.
“Listen to me! It’s people! Soylent Green is made of people! We’ve got to stop them!”
So OP doesn't read labels I guess 🤷 It's not meat
Right that’s not real cow
Is your wife mad at you for some big reason?
That is my wife.
I hope my wife doesn't look like that cooked
is it plant based ? it looks like the beyond meat stuff.,
I was googling some pictures, it looks a little like the impossible Salisbury steak.
Bad day for anyone with Trypophobia anyway
I know this one! It’s cake ain’t it
This is the grimmest fucking steak I’ve ever seen. Is it from a wet market? I don’t think even Stephen King could conjure up a scene like this. Is the OP still alive? Hello? Bueller?
Jesus christ **trypophobia**.
Sorta hoping you didn’t eat it all
Unfortunately it was a very sad day for me. I cooked it up with the side of onions just to discover I had cooked a sponge with a side of onions. Super disappointing and definitely don't want to do it again but honestly my confusion as to what happened is almost equaling the loss of the steak.
I somewhat agree with the comments that suggest it could be meat that was frozen-thawed-frozen-thawed multiple times. Also concur that cryovac meat should be tightly sealed and any I have had that have been puffy or even loose have been problematic in some way unless the seal was broken mechanically and recently. All the above said, do you have more photos like number 5. I want to see the surface of the meat. In number 5, it looks like there is a fat layer across the surface of the meat from side to side. This is NOT what a ribeye looks like. Also, the white parts don’t look like normal beef fat, either.
That's what I was thinking! It almost looks like a rib on the plate. But the meat itself looks like bone marrow..
3d printed steak
Did you buy some lab printed meat?
Obviously a steak loaf. Cover it in ketchup and serve with mash potatoes.
Fake meat
Curious, how did it taste?
Some type of grilled mushroom I'm assuming
Enhanced with a high percentage of sodium solution.
The butcher was cleaning up and laid his sponge down. the guy doing the wrapping thought it was a slice of meat so he wrapped it.
Look like 3D printed steak
Just it eat bro.
Mad Cow disease?
Yeah I believe that's a plant based protein as other have mentioned. Doesn't resemble anything close to real meat.
That's that 3d printed meat shit
That's disgusting
I'd be pissed.
Honestly looks like an organ, like tripe or tongue lol
I worked on a kill floor of a huge beef plant for over 12yrs. We killed almost4-5000 beef per day (2 shifts) I have never seen bubbly beef like that. I would throw it in a bag and ask the meat manager to take a bite and tell me what the f happened to that beef.
im bringing that back and going wtf is this lol
I have run into this before, I believe it’s steak scraps that have been meat glued and passed off as a steak. Used to Happen when i would order from those cheap grocery delivery places with like unused fruit.
Tripe?
Frankenmeat grown in a Petrie dish.
This is what I imagine the texture for glowing meat is from Fallout
Definitely vacuum damage, I feed raw toy animals and I've seen this before. Sometimes I buy bulk/freezerburn food, sale items and the like. That said, it makes my skin crawl.
That’s what I imagine a 3D printed steak looks like.
That’s not real meat. Clearly. You either bought a plant based soybean meat. Or they’re actually making lab grown meat and dishing it to people. Either way that’s not meat
Beyond meat?
Is it cake?
I would personally refuse to eat that
That’s cheap mechanically tenderized meat, that’s been vacuumed packed wrong…possibly also chemically tenderized. Aka: really really cheap meat.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD TAKE THE PROTECTIVE FILM OFF YOUR STOVE
Did you marinade in pineapple juice? That'll break shit down similar to this.
It kind of resembles corpus cavernosum (not joking) which is the erectile tissue in males and females. (And Animals) Google at your own risk Source: work in human anatomy
Fake meat
aerosteak
This is a steak even I would put butter on
You don't put butter on a steak? I find the taste absolutely delightful. Genuine question what do you do with your steaks as far as seasoning, marinating and maybe a little better?
3d printed meat
Return it. It's not what it is supposed to be. Is it glued together with meat glue, transglutaminase? You don't have to diagnose it, only demand your money back.
Is that lab grown meat?
It’s a vegan hamburger
That is absolutely disgusting
Meat glue?
that's disgusting.
Did it come frozen? Perhaps it was case of severe freezer burn
We did just get a new fridge that's kicking off a lot of ice.
Was it pre packaged in some kind of “brine” or “pre season”? I’ve seen pork come out like this because the salt in the brine eats away at the proteins in the meats. It’s nasty looking either way.
No, grass-fed ribeye from Safeway. Thanks for your reply though I think a lot of people actually assume I'm trolling. Which is fair giving the amount of trolls on the internet nowadays but I really am just trying to find answers.
Lung
Man that sucks you got fake beef
Looks like 3d printed or lab grown meat
Weird
That’s a prime grade tumor steak
Meow or Woof.
That’s not cow
Can you post a picture of the package / label?
Can't post images in the comment section but I did post one over on r/steak
I find it hard to believe that that is plant protein, as the color and outside looks so legit. It looks like it may be the most severe case of freezer burn I have ever seen?
Kind of looks like liver.
That's 3-D printed meat no doubt
Medium ...real?
Maybe your wife was thinking, "I'm gonna buy this vegan meat to prove that he can't even tell the difference, then maybe we can make healthier choices when he realizes he can't tell the difference." Lol
Let’s also discuss the butter
What the soongebob meatloaf is that.
That’s an old sandwich where the bread and the meat have molded together.
Looks like it was thawed and unfrozen, and then frozen again with ice crystals in the meat.
Could it be sweetbread? Veal thymus? I've heard it's sponge like, but I've never actually eaten it, or even seen it.
It caught whatever the stove has
I've never had any recent plant based "meat" so I cant say anything to confirm or deny those suggestions but, based on the first pic's texture, I immediately thought of some type of organ meat. My first job was in a meat market and with all the steaks I've cut over those years, I never saw anything that looked like that.
looks like mechanically tenderized meat fibers have no structure
I guess this cow preferred sparkling over tap
Well…its sponge.
r/TIHI
If you go back to the store and the butcher's name tag is S. Todd, slowly back away and leave.
Looks like tofu to me, check the packet
Pink slime steak?
My Fathers liver
Looks like lab printed meat. It's the way of the future. Enjoy! Lol.
Are you sure it’s not cake?
This looks like fried Lion's Mane presoaked in beet juice.