American Ethnic Food?

What. The. ****? This can't be real. Canned hamburgers and hotdogs?
No Way.

Here's a pic from the Sainsbury's http://imgur.com/0qKWv.jpg. and
http://imgur.com/DpmdE.jpg

Good Lord, I've never seen bangers and mash in a can, this side of the
pound.

But to be fair, I have seen canned "Chinese" food in the States, hangs
head in shame and walks away mumbling....

 

Scary isn't it?

 

You do know it's just the meat, don't you? There isn't any bun, sauce, etc?
Just checking, like.

But you lot have spray cheese in a can. Yuk. I remember being asked by a
French friend for a can of that stuff. I read the ingredients and it looked
like that there was only about 10% cheese in that shite.

 

Have you had a particularly sheltered life?

 

I was wondering that myself. I can recall burgers in cans, hotdogs in
cans and jars, all day breakfast and so on from my very earliest days.

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Well, if you normally shop in those "everything under a pound" shops,
that's why your exposure to waht appears to be life in general is a bit
restricted.

I thought that. Canned burgers aren't /that/ common IME, but I'm sure
they're been around for ... oooh ... ever. Canned hotdogs OTOH -
they're as common as a common thing. Far more of them around than the
German style wursts in a big jar, for example. In fact: how else can
(hah!) one buy hotdogs in a supermarket?

 

Westlers hamburgers came in cans. When I was in primary school, so late
1960s, a flatbed truck carrying cases of catering cans crashed in Monmouth,
destroying a house. Nobody was injured but there were loads of impromptu
camp fires along the riverbank. Some of the improvised methods of opening
the gallon [1] sized cans was entertaining.

[1] that's an Imperial gallon with 8 pints

 

That's the Yorkshites and Dutch for you

 

Wrapped in plastic, or from the deli counter IME. But you're right they
are very common.

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Iv never seen then on the Isle of Man either!


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Goblin, too:
http://www.foodprocessing-technology.com/projects/simpsons/simpsons5.html

Used to love them, as a kid. They were in yellow cans, then.

I remember the odd tooth-cracking piece of bone.

 

Bruce, a question. Does the openoffice prog work on 64bit systems?

Having bought Microsoft Word for my last computer, I'm reluctant to shell
out 120 quid to get it again just because my computer is new.

 

Hahaha. Welcome to the land of shit food. The quaint notion of tinned
'burgers and hotdogs has been around for decades this side. It's utterly
amazing what shit people will shove down their gullet.
It's great from the makers' point of view - they get a way of using up
the ears, feet and rectums.

 

Hamburgers and Frankfurters are *American" ethnic food?

Mein Gott!

Next thing they'll have a president who claims to be a donut.

 

Of course.

 

Oooh, goodo.

Off to darnload it.

 

That's nothing you can get a WHOLE chicken in a can (boned) <shudder>
that's just not right. Now pickled pigs feet in a jar...that's good
eat. So are pickled eggs or pickled sausage...though I usually only
see those in the finer bars and snooker parlours I spent my spare time
in. On a side note I'd LOVE to have a snooker table but last I checked
a proper table was going to cost me $27,000usd and that was without
cues or balls and let's be honest is there anything more pointless
than a ballless snooker table?

Oh you are thinking of that horrible canned dish america inflicted on
this reality...SPAM. Sorry about that...it was a rush job and things
and times were tough.
<sob> oh the humanity!

 

A friend I cross cues with had a need for a snooker table, having a
triple-width garage while all the cars lived on the driveway. Scouring
eBay, he scored one (complete with proper tasselled light, walnut and
brass scoreboard, cue rack and accessories cupboard) for £300. A bit
more swift research and he found a lovely old boy who went and
collected the thing, transported it 200 miles and assembled it in the
garage complete with new cloth and cushions for another £300.

Six hundred quid and he was operating. The additions to the garage
cost a bit more - two beer fridges, widescreen TV and DVD player, that
sort of thing - but bearing in mind his best cue cost him over £300 it
isn't bad. And his 14-year-old boy has just qualified for the Junior
World Masters and will be playing for the England Youth Snooker Team
next season, thanks to the practice availability (and a pro coach who
goes round there every other week).

Nothing the matter with spam fritters, you know. In a butty with
plenty of HP Sauce.

 

Bastard.

Not had a spam fritter for a long while ... I wonder if the local [1]
chippy opens today, and if he does them!

[1] So local I've never used it.

 

Best investigate. Now ... just fried, or battered?

One so often ignores stuff that's on the doorstep, to one's eventual
disbenefit when it isn't there when one wants it.

I travel to the only chippy for miles that still uses fat rather than
oil. The smell, man, the smell - and the haze of fatsmoke in the
street, it fair makes your mouth water.