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I think traditional potted meat was a home preserving method, same as confit. Cook a duck cut up the meat, put in a crock pot and pour in the fat rendered from cooking while still hot. Cover and store somplace cool. If it doesn't get contaminated, it will keep a long time.

-Liz

Look in the supermarket aisle where the Spam, deviled ham, and other canned meats are kept. Potted meat lives there. Canned meat as food came about around WWII, I believe, when most everything that tasted good was reserved for the military, and ration tickets were required for all those items. A little potted meat flavored the beans if nothing else.

Canned meat came quite a while before WW2 - in 1867 the Royal Victoria Yard (England) began to issue tinned mutton to warships at Portsmouth, Hampshire UK on a trial basis. There were problems with botulism until they got the canning process properly sorted out.

Oh puke! Then of course many of the victims of Franklin's expedition to find to the northwest passage, died of lead poisoning from the seams in canned food.

Bruce, you are STILL cross posting, please stop.

I thought potted meat was a delicacy in the 1930s. I took many sandwiches of it to school when other children brought mashed potato sandwiches because they couldn't afford to buy potted meat or other things. IIRC, Spam began later, maybe in the 40s.. Emily

Nowadays I see they are still selling Shippams Fish Paste, I shudder to think what goes into that. Probably a bit like the burgers that are one hundred percent beef, i.e. they include the hooves, horns, eyes & tail etc. (Sorry for the earlier cross-postings, I must pay more attention!)

Oh, but of course! I can guarantee you, though, if you came this side of the pond and started offering "pot plants" to people, you'd be arrested shortly! :)

Joan

Port St Lucie, FL, where I'm now a permanent resident, has the distinction of having found over 60 pot grow houses in the past 6 months. Apparently some entrepreneur decided that would be a great business to be in and went to the trouble of putting in grow lights, and everything necessary to have a lucrative business.

Everyone they could find that had anything to do with this "business" has been arrested and the homes were confiscated by the city. Now we all want to know where and how are they going to dispose of the plants. If they decide to burn them I imagine I will be able to float over to visit with anyone that posts on this newsgroup.

A number of people in the UK are quite convinced that cannabis can help to alleviate the more distressing symptoms of multiple sclerosis.

In Canada people with cancer, AIDS and MS can have cannabis legally prescribed for them. It only works for some. A friend who is wheel chair bound with MS gains no benefit whatsoever.

I've undone the cross posting on this thread.

I think here in the US, small amounts are legal for glaucoma and cancer patients. Not sure about any other diseases, and you have to get it from a medical supply source with a prescription. Might not be all states, but, agaiin, I'm not sure.

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It's heavily regulated here. They have done trials to see if just the active ingredient would do as well in some other form, but it seems it doesn't. There has even been the suggestion that the old NORAD site could be used for growing it for medicinal purposes. One just knows if the government gets into growing it disaster times are ahead, plus it will cost fifty time more than on the street or home grown.

Probably 15 years ago, California voted to approve Medical Marijuana. In reality what that means is that the local cops (who now can't arrest you under Calif law) simply call the Feds (who then charge you with a Federal offense).

As Sheena says, it doesn't help all patients, but those who get relief from it are extremely grateful. As one patient during the campaign pointed out, yes, there are anti-nausea pills he could take, but they don't help because he can't keep them down; a few puffs and he can eat enough to stay out of the hospital.

"potted plant" in American = "pot plant" in British, that's all.

But, IME, Americans don't call it "potted" meat.

Yep. There was always potted meat in our pantry when I was a kid. Vile stuff..lol