There is no telling what is real and what is not with food these days. It might be better to whip up a quick home-cooked meal for yourself than eat out and be filled with uncertainties about what you are putting into your body. A man called out a Texas Roadhouse restaurant in New Jersey for serving him what he considered “fake steak.”
The man took to Instagram to criticize the restaurant. “If you wanna live longer, don’t come to Texas Roadhouse cause they’ll give you fake steak like this that is glued together. [expletive] is disgusting, bro,” he alleged, using a fork to pull the steak to prove his point. Someone in the background asked, “Where do you see the glue?” right before the video stopped.
Some users who had probably been victims of the crime came guns ablazing with accusations in the comments. “This is exactly why people are waking up. They’ve replaced real cattle with Transglutaminase (meat glue) and ammonia-treated scraps,” one alleged. “I make a lot of ribeyes, and they have never looked like that. That is bio-engineered meat, they just passed for sale,” another confirmed. “If you want to live longer, don’t eat food from the USA, period,” one user wrote, pointing out that it was a nationwide problem. “I no longer trust the United States’ food source,” another echoed.
“Welcome to 2026, where your dinner has more ‘chemistry’ than your last relationship,” one user joked. “Why are people still eating at chain restaurants? Of course, it is substandard. It’s a trap for busy people. It’s disgusting food almost anywhere you go,” another user wrote.
However, some netizens did not agree that it was “fake meat,” with each person writing their own possible explanations or opinions in the comments. “Hahaha. That’s not fake meat, it’s just a bad cut that they were hoping the customer wouldn’t mind (that’s why they used it with an order that has [expletive] covering the meat.) He’s right ot be upset, but he’s upset for the wrong reason,” one wrote. “Even the other person asked, ‘Where do you see the glue?’ Those are the fibers of the ribeye meat. Maybe go talk to a butcher. And they will educate you,” another noted.
“That ‘glue’ is the tail of a ribeye steak. It’s full of grizzle and is stretchy, but full of flavor. Jesus, people,” one other user explained. “That’s not fake, that is the fat maybe lining of the cow’s belly,” one netizen noted. “Calling BS on that. It’s called a really tender steak. Try using a knife instead of just pulling it apart,” another wrote.
“Looking for a reason to get a free meal,” a user accused. “It’s like people have eaten processed [expletive] so long they don’t know what real food looks like,” someone else said. “That’s muscle fiber, broski, eat a salad if you’re scared of meat,” another wrote.
