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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2009 20:35:51 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 22, 2009 20:54:04 GMT
Eeeek. It seems to me I remember Treet, but don't know if I ever had any to eat or not. Here's one for you. I remember buying this once when I was in college. The picture on the can is really nice and I guess I thought it would really be like that: foodnetworkhumor.com/2009/04/a-whole-chicken-in-a-can-yummo/
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2009 20:59:29 GMT
Nope, never seen that. And I hope to never see it again unless I am visiting starving villages in Africa and have a shitload of them to distribute.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 22, 2009 21:02:58 GMT
You should have seen my trusting little face when I got that can opened!
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Post by hwinpp on Jun 23, 2009 7:15:42 GMT
I like corned beef! And 'Tulip' breakfast ham. I don't think meat can be processed much more than that Sometimes I have a yearning for this kind of artificial stuff. ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2009 7:27:21 GMT
I confess that there is something about canned ham that appeals to me, too.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 23, 2009 19:06:45 GMT
I was completely flummoxed to find that an English friend of mine had never eaten corned beef that didn't come out of a can.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2009 19:08:49 GMT
I have eaten very little corned beef in my life, and I have never had any that didn't come out of a can either.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 23, 2009 19:21:52 GMT
Interesting. I guess everyone first learns to eat what the mother of the family cooks (and the father, nowadays). My dad's mother was from Boston and he loved corned beef, so my mother made it pretty frequently. It's one food I really miss here. If I had a whole corned beef brisket and a bunch of horseradish sauce, I could savage it pretty thoroughly.
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Post by Jazz on Jun 24, 2009 0:46:36 GMT
My upbringing was frugal and I ate canned meat...corned beef, spam and ham. Canned meat is not delicious. Since I left home I have rarely eaten it. The ham and corned beef are not bad, but I think you cannot compare them to freshly prepared meats. The tastes are totally different. Kerouac, fresh corned beef is delicious and every now and then I go to a Jewish deli for a fabulous sandwich. Yum! I think that you should go to the Marais and see if you can find it, only when you taste it will you understand.
However, if you are hungry, canned meat is good.
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Post by hwinpp on Jun 24, 2009 3:24:49 GMT
So corned beef not from a can is broiled brisket? Or what? I either slice the canned version and put it on bread or I mash it and mix in diced onions then smear it on bread.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 24, 2009 3:58:41 GMT
Yes, it's a brisket that's been pickled in a spiced brine. It's cooked by boiling. You can see here the difference in texture from canned corned beef: I think you would love it! Here's a little more info: www.kitchenproject.com/history/CornedBeef.htm
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Post by hwinpp on Jun 24, 2009 4:45:56 GMT
Lovely! With potatoes and fennel? Or are those onions?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 24, 2009 4:55:49 GMT
I'd say onions -- they're usually cooked along with the potatoes and cabbage.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2009 4:56:25 GMT
That is not what comes out of those cans!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 24, 2009 5:00:43 GMT
Nope.
Both of y'all need to make an effort to try some real corned beef -- it's a fabulous food.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Jun 24, 2009 9:16:15 GMT
Nope. Both of y'all need to make an effort to try some real corned beef -- it's a fabulous food. Yes. Oh, yes. OH YES!! I have cured my own corned beef more than a few times. It's not a trivial project, but it's worth it. It's not really difficult, but it takes up a significant amount of fridge space with a small vat of brine, in a produce drawer.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Jun 24, 2009 9:19:41 GMT
Chicken-in-a-can. Once. That is all.
Another time, we brought smaller cans of Sweet Sue Chicken and Dumplings on a cave exploring trip.
Uh-oh. Big mistake. It's like glutenous glop with fat and some chicken meat. We ate it cold. There are other palate cringing caving food tales I could tell.
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Post by mockchoc on Jun 24, 2009 10:02:44 GMT
Yes real corned beef is not processed mixed up mush in a can. It is wonderful.
I will always be honest and say my mother sometimes put spam from the can into potato salad or fried with eggs for breakfast. I didn't hate it but I rearly eat it now. It is handy to have in the pantry though.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 24, 2009 14:41:02 GMT
My favorite "fact" (or myth) about Spam: supposedly it's popular (or was) among peoples who had formerly practiced cannibalism. Its slightly grainy texture and taste is supposed to be the closest easily available substitute for human flesh.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2009 16:44:59 GMT
Well, it remains a delicacy in Asia.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 24, 2009 16:59:17 GMT
Spam in Asia sounds like the fondness for really vile, tasteless, mush wienies here. They put cut-up hot dogs on pizza and in paella, for goodness sakes! It's not as though we're talking about places that don't have exciting tastes in the real foods of the region, either.
There is always a throng around any hot dog wagon here. The clients are drawn by the smell, which is quite good due to the bacon wrapped around the cooking hot dogs. That doesn't negate the fact that the finished product tastes like bacon wrapped around tasteless mush.
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Post by cigalechanta on Jun 24, 2009 17:58:56 GMT
YUK! to all that
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Post by lagatta on Jun 24, 2009 20:18:09 GMT
I rarely have tinned meat in my pantry, but tinned fish, always. Tuna, salmon, sardines, kippers (though there again, non-tinned is much better if you can find them) and others.
For me too, tinned meat meant parents were low on cash. It does not evoke happy memories.
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Post by imec on Jun 24, 2009 20:40:50 GMT
Funny this came up. I had been looking for my collection of tinned luncheon meats to post some pictures. But it seems they've been lost somewhere in the basement - or my wife has found them and chucked them. I used to keep them at my office to get some cheap laughs. ;D
It really is sad that so many people think of corned beef as a tinned item. Good corned beef or pastrami is available at any deli counter here. A butcher shop I frequent has really good pickled briskets that they sell kryovaced - you can either take them out of the kryovac and bake/roast them slowly or simply drop the bag into simmering water for a while - sort of a sous vide approach.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 25, 2009 0:32:57 GMT
I was downtown today, so stopped in the supermarket on the way home. As I pushed my cart along, the Spam caught my eye as though it were neon. Do you know that it costs between three and four dollars a can here?!
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Post by imec on Jun 25, 2009 2:03:56 GMT
Speaking of corned beef... Montreal is famous for its Jewish delis which serve "smoked meat" - a VERY good (if not the very best) version of corned beef. I had the following for dinner tonight. It comes in pouches that you simply heat in the microwave or in simmering water. It was extremely good - I will buy it again.
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Post by hwinpp on Jun 25, 2009 4:34:55 GMT
My favorite "fact" (or myth) about Spam: supposedly it's popular (or was) among peoples who had formerly practiced cannibalism. Its slightly grainy texture and taste is supposed to be the closest easily available substitute for human flesh. South Pacific islands, specifically Samoa. I think they are the biggest per head spam consumers in the world. And re corned beef America definitely leads 1:0. I'll definitely look at corned beef differently now. But why 'corned' beef?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2009 4:41:55 GMT
We don't have Spam in France, but Zwan is available, usually in the immigrant shops.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 25, 2009 4:43:35 GMT
Canned wienies!
Wow. I bet they can't wait to be real French people so they can stop eating that stuff!
(uh, was that insensitive, non pc, stuff like that?)
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