A tale of canned haggis

[THE PILGRIM]

Save your money-
Cash in your bonds-
Book that flight.
Go on that dream vacation to Hawaii!
There you can eat Spam 24-7 in Restaurants!

Restaurants

 

[500SNW]

In going from haggis to Spam, we seem to have achieved the usual thread drift.

I'll drift it again. Anybody here ever eat that Underwood brand deviled ham that comes in a small metal can??? My Mom always used to pack my school lunches with a deviled ham sandwich. The other kids used to hassle me about it. They called it a "dog poo sandwich"

 

[jtcarm]

The thing bothering me about Spam is that in WW II, our troops in the Pacific gave some to natives in places like New Guinea, where there were cannibals. They called human meat "long pig."

They said that Spam reminded them of long pig. Ugh!

I always suspected “Soylent Green” was real.

 

[WR Moore]

I've never eaten haggis, but after reading the recipe I added it to the list of reasons the family left Scotland long ago.

A partial list of the things Scotland has given the world speaks to the effects of boredom and the availability of strong drink: curling, golf, haggis, the caber toss and the other weird things Scots throw about and call part of the Highland Games.

 

[kwselke]

I'll drift it again. Anybody here ever eat that Underwood brand deviled ham that comes in a small metal can??? My Mom always used to pack my school lunches with a deviled ham sandwich. The other kids used to hassle me about it. They called it a "dog poo sandwich"

My dad introduced me to Underwood deviled ham when I was a kid. It's not bad spread thin on white bread. I bought some a few years back to relive my youth and found it way too high in sodium for my liking these days. I'd eat it again if need be. I'd definitely be losing weight if canned haggis was all there was to eat.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Deviled Ham?
Thats what you uppity folks ate!
Us regular folk had potted meat!

 

[500SNW]

My dad introduced me to Underwood deviled ham when I was a kid. It's not bad spread thin on white bread. I bought some a few years back to relive my youth and found it way too high in sodium for my liking these days.

I know what you mean. I also like meat spreads on toast - things like anchovy paste, or the Underwood spreads - but I always get turned off when I look at the sodium count on the label. Everything these days is pumped full of salt.

 

[Mike McLellan]

The paper label and tin can may be of some value to a collector or recycler, but the contents should be thrown to the neighbor's dog.

 

[BearBio]

Ever notice golf was invented in Holland but we let the Scots take it?

 

[Irn-Bru]

You forgot the Irn-Bru to wash it down with. I'm originally from Edinburgh and could murder a good chippie drowning in brown sauce.

 

[Texas Star]

Where's monty python when you need them!?

Probably in Florida, with some other pythons. Plenty of the Burmese sort there. No known account of them eating haggis, but they eat most other things they can catch.

 

[Kurusu]

Where's monty python when you need them!?

And now for something completely different.

 

[dben002]

Haggis is best served with Vietnamese Fish Head Soup...

 

[venomballistics]

I think I recall reading about some obscure food safety law banning this stuff

 

[Kurusu]

I think I recall reading about some obscure food safety law banning this stuff

Obscure safety laws are one of my favourite things.

Some enlightened people spend their time thinking they know what's best for us(in their view) the unwashed masses.

One of their favourite thoughts is that guns are evil and dangerous in our hands.

They don't really care about "safety". They care about control.

Yes, I am sore about this. I have seen things gone from bad to worse, and I see no ending to this trend.


Edit. If any of the moderators of this forum thinks this post is out of line. Please delete it.

 

[OFT II]

I think that I would prefer a can of the ringo kid's canned tamales over the canned haggis.

 

[Drm50]

The only good thing that comes from sheep are Woolrich shirts.