This man reduce into an costly piece of meat he purchased at a Florida Publix and located—gum?

When Jordan Colleary (@jordancolleary) sliced into his $30 filet mignon from Publix, he didn’t look forward to finding a pink, gummy substance that resembled chewing gum. The Florida man posted a video of the steak on TikTok on July 11, 2025, the place it has racked up over 1.1 million views. The video impressed revulsion and accusations that the meat was lab-grown and offered illegally, whereas some commenters blamed the feel of Colleary’s steak on meat glue, or meat from a cow with a bacterial an infection or abscess.

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As Colleary pulled the gooey meat aside together with his fingers, he commented, “I don’t know what that is.” The TikTok person wrote, “Gum?” over a photograph of the meat, and included a photograph of a $50 receipt for 2 filet mignons and Brussels sprouts from Publix. A photograph of the meat’s packaging confirmed that one steak price $30.51. 

“I just became a vegetarian as of 10 seconds ago.”

@jordancolleary WHAT IS THIS!?? SOMETHING NEEDS TO CHANGE! @Official Publix Of Flordia @Publix #fyp #fypシ #discover #viral #blowthisup #tampa ♬ unique sound – Jordan Colleary

Commenters argued over the contents of Colleary’s mutant steak. TikTok customers advised the meat was lab-grown or stuffed with meat glue. Others mentioned not meat glue—possibily an an infection. One remark advised it might not even be meat. 

“If you take that steak to a lab to be examined for its contents and you find that there is in fact either gumming agents or artificially grown meat, you can sue them for refusing to list the honest ingredients of their sale. And a lot of people should because this is an FDA issue and it’s all over America.”

“There isn’t a grocery store in America that sells lab grown meat. Not one.”

“Meat glue. Low-quality steak bits glued together.”

“That’s not meat glue. You got meat that was abscessed in the cow, big infection. Turns into a nasty texture – most good butchers will keep an eye out for it and fairly rare to get in the US.”

“I don’t think we’re eating meat anymore. I try to give my dog some meat he wouldn’t even eat it.”

Testing labs don’t wish to contact it

Colleary adopted up in a July 16 video with 1.5 million views. He shared that he hasn’t been capable of persuade a testing facility to determine the contents of the meat. 

@jordancolleary ANY IDEAS?! #meat #tampa #fyp #supportlocal #blowthisup #filetmignon #discover ♬ unique sound – Jordan Colleary

“I’ve now called three testing facilities aside from the two I called yesterday,” he mentioned. “They listened to everything I have to say, and then the moment that I tell them what it is and where I got it, they say they want no part of it.”

Colleary mentioned the services he contacted had been reluctant to attach him with different assets. 

It’s unlikely, nevertheless, that the meat is lab-grown. U.S. Grocers have but to inventory their cabinets with lab-grown meat, and Florida banned lab-grown meat in 2024. Colleary’s gummy filet mignon may have been subpar or spoiled meat.

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