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I didn't mean "someone hand". It should have read "some on hand". I didn't proofread my post.. Emily

Not doubting buying the canned meat stuff all over, just the term "potted meat". I've heard it called just canned meat, processed meat, tinned meat, canned meat products, and certainly remember ads for Deviled Ham in cans when I was very little, as well as for SPAM. Just never heard it called "potted meat" - not in an ad, on the radio or tv, or in a magazine, or in conversation - in the US.

Maybe in the deeper south - such as Mississippi or Louisiana - or Texas, a place unto itself the term is not uncommon.

As a little kid I remember my dad joking with my mom about SPAM - which I think was more as an aftereffect of his time in the service. We never had canned meat products in our house - might be a religious/cultural thing. I still don't/won't use them. But, then again, the only processed meats I'll do are of the kosher type. We do have plenty of canned tuna on hand, and salmon, and soups, etc for use and/or emergenices. I grew up in hurricane zones as well, and understand the value of having a hand can-opener (once remending my grandmother that with all the stuff she had stockpiled, there was only an electric can-opener - next day - there were hand ones in each closet), and food that is non-perishable for a long time, and can be eaten without cooking.

ellice

As a public service, I submit to you:

a lovely picture of the various potted meat products offered to the American consumer.

How/why did you find that! more importantly - why did someone think this was worthy of that much research.

C

HOW long have you been reading this NG? ;)

I can relate to your comments.. However, I admit that I do keep a couple of cans of SPAM in the pantry.. I only use them as an emergency replacement for bacon.. (Sliced VERY thin, dusted with unbleached flour, and grilled quickly over high heat until crispy..) Served this way, a great deal of the excess fat is removed. I usually serve turkey bacon (when I serve bacon at all).. I cannot remember the last time I bought regular bacon. The only time I eat sausages is when I can get them from Ireland (bangers), which is rare indeed.

I do keep potted meat in the pantry, and will have it well chilled and spread on water crackers occasionally as a treat (It actually tastes great, but it is full of salt). {something left over from my childhood}

The vast majority of the food I serve is fresh or fresh-frozen & homemade. (I have to be pretty careful, with the sundry health problems I have: inflammatory colitis, diabetes, heart condition, asthma, allergies, and a host of seemingly related symptoms that the doctors suspect are actually one health problem, but they are not sure what problem {auto-immune}, YET - testing in progress. )

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No, but they'd cause new health issues. At nearly 300 lb, he didn't need more fat, and was probably on the verge of diabetes.

Obviously, the best solution would have been for him to eat my healthy made-from-scratch cooking, but he didn't want that. (Given his druthers, the man would eat a steady diet of deep-fried food.)

Yeah, but we're talking about a man whose two favorite veggies are fried zucchini and French fries. :)

He didn't particularly like salads, and contended that other veggies only tasted good in cream sauce or cheese sauce.

"Lucille" ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

They are what I feel is a 'user upper' - I can never bring myself to throw anything out, old war time training, nothing must be wasted.

Google is my friend. It was very difficult *wiping sweat from brow* -- I had to type in "potted meat" and press the little button. There were other pages I could have told you about, like the "potted meat tribute page." But I exercised restraint.

Google can be your friend, too. In the upper right corner of the Firefox browser is a search box - where you can search terms on a list of different sites.

Absolutely. But you can't regulate what goes into the husband when he's not home.

When we first got married, I was puzzled how he could be gaining weight on what I was feeding him. Then I found out. On his way to work, he supplemented my healthy breakfast with a 600-calorie muffin slathered with butter. He topped off the low-cal lunch I packed with a bucket of the Colonel's finest. After a low-fat dinner, he'd run an errand by way of either Dunkin Donuts or the ice cream shop.

It's not that I'm a bad cook, it's that I don't cook the way his mother did (with lots of salt, lots of fried food, gravy on everything) and my healthy meals made him feel "deprived".

I think that's why my mother made them. I know she learned from her mother and my grandmother never threw out anything that could conceivably be called food. She always found something to use it in, even if it was only a pot of soup.

Yep. Every couple weeks, I used to clean out my fridge into the crockpot. If it was green and supposed to be green, into the soup; if it wasn't supposed to be green, into the trash. And if there was a fair amount of leftover meat, I put in less water and called the resultant concoction "stew" instead of soup.

It just seems like forever ;)

Blowing raspberries your way!

I know a few people like that!

C

Mmmmmmmmm, yum! Love dem raspberries.

I am a people like that !! If I had my druthers, and a stronger digestive system, I would eat like that too. ;*))

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