surprise meats

whenever I see a pig snout at the grocery store I'm surprised, too

I like when I'm out to dinner with a vegan and they discover with their fine-tuned sensibilities that the fried tofu has been dipped in egg whites and they shrug and eat it anyway. It's the "don't ask, don't tell" version of veganism.

The name Spam(tm) is a riff on the words 'surprise meat'.

Or maybe it was coined from 'spoiled ham'. I dunno.

I've been a vegetarian for 22 years now, and occasionally I'll discover that there's something meaty in my meal. My reaction really depends on how bad it is. Like, once I got a beef taco in an ostensibly vegetarian plate, so I just ate around it. If I get refried beans w/lard w/o knowing, I'll eat it and just avoid ordering it again. Lots of times I'm sure that east asian food has sneaky fish sauce or beef broth, but I'll just pretend I have no idea and eat it anyways.

My worst princess time was when my GF dragged me to a cajun place and we got there right as they were closing but the drunk annoying owner insisted we stay. I asked for "something vegetarian", knowing full well that this wasn't the place to get that kinda thing. When I was served a jambalaya with huge steaming chunks of sausage, I walked out.

I thought spam was spiced ham.

pigs in a blanket is surprise meat to the second power

you're tearing into a seemingly innocuous biscuit when, "ALAS!" you come across a mini weiner. then your mind reels at the thought of what said meat fingerling is composed of.

Who on earth would order "pigs in a blanket" and not wonder what the "pigs" were? I mean, come on now. Do you think that "blood pudding" is probably just like butterscotch pudding?

Wait. There's not really blood in blood pudding, right?

Aside from the fact that there's blood in any meat, yes, there's a lot of blood in blood pudding.

Black pudding or less often blood pudding is a British English term for sausage made by cooking blood with a filler until it is thick enough to congeal when cooled. It is also called blood sausage ( first attested in 1868, perhaps influenced by German Blutwurst). Although "blood sausage" is often labeled as a North American term, it is also found in British English (e.g., in the story "The Name-Day" by Saki). "Blood sausage" is also a useful term for similar blood-based solid foods around the world.

The moral of this tale is that UK food is really gross.

I thought spam was spiced ham.

-- libcrypt, Monday, June 23, 2008 12:04 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

me too

Boudin Noir can be really good! But yes, it's like one-third blood.

oh god. why dont i know to stay away from food thread yet?

At least it hasn't turned into vampire lifestyle thread yet.

yeah, sorry...I didn't mean to start a food thread but I had leftover baked beans and I had to say something about that pitiful little piece of pork.

blood pudding tastes like a tampon

It might have been 'specious ham', now that I think on it. Or 'spat-out ham'.

special ham

spirochete-infested ham

I was served reindeer on an Icelandair flight. Everyone in my row just sat staring at it until I tried it. I couldn't place it and had to ask the flight attendant. Not bad!

in soviet russia, reindeer serves you

i enjoyed a very nice yak burger the other night

Boudin noir with some sauteed apples can be quite tasty.

at st. john bread and wine i had the "duck egg and blood cake". it was sublime.

what does a tampon taste like?

it depends

Who stole the kishkasurprise meats?

i would just like to interject that i only eat veggie baked beans. the bacon blob is completely revolting and should be banned.

that little white blob of bacon fat in your can of baked beans, when you discover it do you devour, or avoid?

My cousin's grandfather (not the shared one, obviously) used to tell us about his depression-era childhood where every time the family opened a can of beans, he and his three brothers would take off their shirts and fistfight each other to see who got to eat the piece of pork.

ew

My cousin's grandfather (not the shared one, obviously) used to tell us about his depression-era childhood where every time the family opened a can of beans, he and his three brothers would take off their shirts and fistfight each other to see who got to eat the piece of pork.

-- joygoat, Monday, June 23, 2008 8:22 PM (12 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

so unreasonable. burning all the precious calories.

I was vegetarian the first time I ate at popeye's.
I ordered the beans and rice.

you know there's lard or some BS in those beans

that was the surprise

at st. john bread and wine i had the "duck egg and blood cake". it was sublime.

-- G00blar, Monday, 23 June 2008 20:18 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

So very OTM it hurts.