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Thick.

Corned beef or spam?

Quote from: Luxor on 2014-06-03, 19:49:03

Thick.

Corned beef or spam?

So… I don't think I can answer that. I guess the question is heavily processed and salted beef or heavily processed and salted pork. My answer's neither.

So… I don't think I can answer that. I guess the question is heavily processed and salted beef or heavily processed and salted pork. My answer's neither.

I choose corned beef. ..just because I haven't eaten any in years

Just wait until you ever find yourself shipwrecked and the only provisions you have left are a tin of each. Then you'll change your tune.

If I prepared the ship before it wrecked

I ate some spam once. It wasn't as bad as I had been led to believe.
I never did it again.

I have never tried it. It never looked appetizing to me.

Re-reading the posts about corned beef and spam makes me wonder what Northern Hemisphere corned beef actually is.

Quote from: Mandi on 2014-06-05, 01:24:29

I have never tried it. It never looked appetizing to me.

Wise decision, you'd probably get more enjoyment from eating a lump of lard. 

I hate fat!

I never tried spam because my kid's father loved it. There wasn't much I liked about him.

There's two kinds of corned beef available here. One that a butcher will make himself, a nice bit of brisket cured in brine  with additional flavour added by the butcher in his own "secret" recipe. It's good, slices well and still looks like beef, it's ideal for a sandwich.

Then you have the off the shelf stuff in a tin. Which is a sort of compressed mash full of salt and fat and I doubt that there's very much actual beef content. It's cheap and OK in an emergency I suppose, but that's about it.

Meat needs fat for the taste though and to keep it moist. A beefburger with no fat in it would be like eating a lump of cardboard.

Does something similar apply to spam?

Eh, it needs some fat. I've always cut off the fat from e.g. karbonade (cutlet),*

cheaper sausages as well as corned beef somehow seem to have way more fat than you would expect from even the worst cuts of meat.

Quote from: Mandi on 2014-06-05, 01:24:29

I have never tried it. It never looked appetizing to me.

Wise decision, you'd probably get more enjoyment from eating a lump of lard. 

Quote from: tt92 on 2014-06-05, 02:05:16

Re-reading the posts about corned beef and spam makes me wonder what Northern Hemisphere corned beef actually is.

There's two kinds of corned beef available here. One that a butcher will make himself, a nice bit of brisket cured in brine  with additional flavour added by the butcher in his own "secret" recipe. It's good, slices well and still looks like beef, it's ideal for a sandwich.

Then you have the off the shelf stuff in a tin. Which is a sort of compressed mash full of salt and fat and I doubt that there's very much actual beef content. It's cheap and OK in an emergency I suppose, but that's about it.

There will be some meat in them, but probably best if you didn't ask what part of the animal the meat the meat came from.

Quote from: Frenzie on 2014-06-05, 18:26:53

Does something similar apply to spam?

Don't think so, in all my years as a butcher I never came across it if it does exist. 

Quote from: Luxor on 2014-06-05, 17:42:31

There will be some meat in them, but probably best if you didn't ask what part of the animal the meat the meat came from.

That part I probably wouldn't mind. Well, unless you mean it includes something like ground up bones.

Hehehe...ok, tell yourself that's the worst that could end up in them. There's a reason for that old adage "don't ask how the sausage is made". The reason is that someone may answer...

the latter sounds like the bovine analogue of Spam.
I have never seen it but I will look today and see if it exists.

I do recall my grandfather telling me about the days when the mid-western plains here in the US used to be covered with the wild spamelopes. Their herds would cover the plains as far as the eye could see.
But course, once they were nearly canned out of existence, the EPA stepped in and now there's only the farm-raised variety left. Sad, sad tale...

I can always count on the ER for some late night entertainment.

I was sent to the ER to help out for a bit. Just in time to see the aftermath of a stupid idea.

Sometimes I wish I could climb into other's brains and see what they see.

Will I still want to smh?

I can always count on the ER for some late night entertainment. I was sent to the ER to help out for a bit. Just in time to see the aftermath of a stupid idea. Sometimes I wish I could climb into other's brains and see what they see. Will I still want to smh?

I bet you could tell us a few tales.  But that would be unethical so you can't.

That's not fair, you lure us in but don't supply the juicy bits.

[SMH?

Well, if you're in their head, don't smh, sth (smack their head)...hehehe...

A man presented himself in the ER with a laceration on top of his head, two swollen eyes and blood everywhere. Come to find out, this man was standing on top of a barn with a, cooler size, container of water. When he went to pour it on his wife's head, who was down on the ground, he fell off the roof landing on the container and hit his head on the ground. Pretty much head first all the way. The container broke his fall to where he didn't land directly on his head.

What made him believe this would be a good idea?