MEAT in the Golden Era

[jamespowers]

Don't lie, you want to try skunk.

Yeah right. About as much as I want to try monkey. :eusa_doh:

 

[Lincsong]

You have odd tastes.:deadhorse and you probably want to eat one of those too.

 

[jamespowers]

You have odd tastes.:deadhorse and you probably want to eat one of those too.

 

[Lincsong]

You want to eat horse???? You sicko!!!

 

[jamespowers]

You want to ear horse???? You sicko!!!

:fing28: http://www.elite.net/~gurpal/tv/looneyto.mid

 

[Fletch]

Heard on the radio today that French butchers leave the heads on rabbits so the customers won't think they're being sold cat at rabbit prices. Of course this is a nation that eats horse and likes it.

I have some game recipes from the 1937 Searchlight Cookbook that I will relay to you all a bit later. The Searchlight was a home ec institute run by the Capper publishing interests in Kansas.

 

[Sweet Leilani]

Hanging in our kitchen:

When you're married to a butcher, you eat meat. No butts about it.

 

[jamespowers]

When you're married to a butcher, you eat meat. No butts about it.

How about pork butt?

 

[Sweet Leilani]

Especially pork butt!

 

[Big Man]

How about pork butt?

Speaking about pork butts ...

Our Fire Department Christmas party is Saturday. several of us will start cooking about 100 lbs of pork butts (plus a couple deer shoulders) late Friday night. It's a process that takes a lot of fire wood and a lot of alcohol ...

 

[jamespowers]

Speaking about pork butts ...

Our Fire Department Christmas party is Saturday. several of us will start cooking about 100 lbs of pork butts (plus a couple deer shoulders) late Friday night. It's a process that takes a lot of fire wood and a lot of alcohol ...

Geez, too bad you are far away from where I live. Sounds right up my alley.

 

[Viola]

I would expect skunk to taste like rabbit.

I'm a vegetarian now, well, a fake vegetarian, I eat fish. Swordfish is my steak substitute.

Oooh, swordfish. That's really tasty. I was so sad when I found out swordfish isn't kosher. (like shrimp and crabmeat and a lot of the best tasting seafood, dang)

So, uh, steak is my swordfish substitute? lol

 

[jamespowers]

So, uh, steak is my swordfish substitute? lol

Steak, the other white meat.

 

[Viola]

Steak, the other white meat.

Well, its meat. You can always slice eggplant or something on top of it if you want it white. lol

 

[Big Man]

Someone mentioned pork butts earlier. Here are a bunch of guys from the Fire department (that's me in the hat) getting ready to chop about 180 lbs of pork butts for out Department's Christmas party this past Saturday.

Goooood eating ...

 

[Lincsong]

That's it, I'm going to buy a pork butt this weekend and try out my companies new Barbeque Rub Special. lol

 

[Story]

Spam Resurgent

Through war and recession, Americans have turned to the glistening canned product from Hormel as a way to save money while still putting something that resembles meat on the table. Now, in a sign of the times, it is happening again, and Hormel is cranking out as much Spam as its workers can produce.

In a factory that abuts Interstate 90, two shifts of workers have been making Spam seven days a week since July, and they have been told that the relentless work schedule will continue indefinitely.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/business/15spam.html

 

[Fletch]

I recall Russell Baker's essay "Red Meat Decadence," wherein he decried the love affair with the cooked cattlebeast. The 30s, he declared, were largely a beef-free zone, except for "a pan-fried steak sometime in 1934 or '35." Probably served to Babe Ruth, or a guy with pince-nez and a haughty glare who looked like Edward Arnold.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"I think many of us are overweight from eating pasta and rice, my parents and grandparents, only ever ate "Meat and 3 Veg" and all the "Reducing diets" prohibited "Starch = Carbs"

http://www.citypaper.com/special/story.asp?id=6018

 

[Puzzicato]

But surely potatos were one of the 3 veg in meat & 3 veg? They may have avoided rice and pasta - or didn't know what they were - but I am sure there was a lot more bread and potato on the table. We are overweight from eating too much EVERYTHING.