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That’s like saying burnt steak is better than overdone meat loaf.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

Packages of Tyson food beef meat loaf are reflected in a mirror as they sit on a refrigerator for sale at a grocery store in Encinitas, California May 29, 2014.

From Reuters • Feb. 7, 2022

Use turkey, beans or lentils in meat loaf, rather than beef, and bind it with sweet potato or oats, Brewer says.

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2022

For his birthdays, she’d make bacon-wrapped meat loaf or “lasagna with all the types of meat possible.”

From Washington Times • May 27, 2019

Fried chicken and meat loaf were more up her alley.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown