[mindwaves]

Can food is not something you think of on a daily basis. It is stored below your kitchen sink or in a cupboard that you open a few times a year, and almost never rotated when you buy new can food.

May it be Spaghetti O's, can sardines, beans, corn, soup, or even pet food, can food is usually not appealing to most people. However, on occasion, I do like eating can food. My favorite is fried dace (fish) with black beans. Extremely delicious with hot white rice. Don't need to add anything else, except maybe a cup of tea. Sodium content is out the roof, but that is like most can food products. And of course, as with everything, eat it in moderation. To top it off, some brands have a tab to easily open the can!

What are your favorite can food products?

Pics of the food (yes, you eat the fish, bones and all).

[subego]

You sound like a huitlacoche or natto kinda guy.

I like Campbell's nuka-soup, but that's because I'm impatient.

I'd actually prefer a ramen cup-o-soup, but that needs about a tablespoon of sesame oil. I try not to buy sesame oil though, because then I binge on cup-o-soups.

[osiris]

Progresso Minestrone is my favorite canned food - it's one of the few canned foods that require no touching up to eat.

[Paco500]

When you are camping- best food ever.

At home, loses it charm.



But man, in the Woods- like manna from heaven.

[BadKosh]

Manning Brand Hominy. I like it fried in some bacon grease til the outside is slightly crunchy and served with butter, salt n Pepper. Its a southern thing.

[osiris]

Hominy is awesome, haven't had it in years though. Very unique texture when fried, mmm.

[subego]

The fried Spam part of fried Spam musubi comes from a can.

Loves me some fried Spam musubi.

[Cap'n Tightpants]

Originally Posted by BadKosh 

Manning Brand Hominy. I like it fried in some bacon grease til the outside is slightly crunchy and served with butter, salt n Pepper. Its a southern thing.

My paternal grandmother made that all the time, along with milk gravy and biscuits (along with white corn syrup and butter)... for supper. They worked hard back in the day, though. Food like that would kill most people today.

I ate some canned duck not too long ago while camping, with instant wild rice and canned peas, I guess it wasn't too bad.

[Cap'n Tightpants]

Here are some odd ones: 14 Strangest Canned Foods (canned whole chicken, hamburguer can) - ODDEE

Canned cheeseburgers?

[Madison]

Brown bread in a can, yummy!!

[Thorzdad]

Originally Posted by Madison 

Brown bread in a can, yummy!!

That's a great childhood memory. Hard to find in my neck of the woods these days. My cousin, bless her, found a recipe for the stuff and baked me a...loaf?...for Christmas one year. She baked it in a can, so it was the proper shape. It was really good.

[osiris]

Originally Posted by Paco500 

When you are camping- best food ever.

At home, loses it charm.

But man, in the Woods- like manna from heaven.

I'm pretty sure it's international law to eat this ONLY outside in the open air, because the side effects are brutal.

[mindwaves]

I'm also partial to this

[sek929]

Since we're talking camp food...



Oh man I love Bush's baked beans.

[osiris]

on that note, I love these with added brown sugar and baked for about an hour until crusty on top:

[subego]

Vegetarian?

God created the animals so we could kill them and take their fat for cooking tubers and legumes.

[Thorzdad]

And the sooner we kill them all off, the sooner we'll find their money!

[osiris]

go ahead. enjoy your slaughtered flesh. But when the great sky deer comes back to take us on the greatest journey ever, I'll be riding shotgun.

[subego]

Until you end up in a can of beans.

[subego]

Originally Posted by Thorzdad 

And the sooner we kill them all off, the sooner we'll find their money!

You get more experience points if you steal their money, then kill them.

[osiris]

Originally Posted by subego 

Until you end up in a can of beans.

yeah, probably.

[subego]

Don't fret. I'm sure you'll be delicious.

If a little stringy because of all the grass you eat.

[OAW]

If you have a taste for southern style collard greens and you don't want to make it from scratch just heat up a can of these.



OAW

[BadKosh]

Is it spicy, or have onions? I might just give it a try. Generally I HATED IT as a kid, along with turnip greens, and brussel sprouts. Found a different way to prepare them and now I'll eat them.

[osiris]

along those lines, canned spinach is gross and should be banned from the planet.

fresh spinach, OTOH, is amazing. so are many varieties of kale. (kale cooke with with garlic, Sriracha, olive and sesame oil... mm)

[mindwaves]

Originally Posted by osiris 

along those lines, canned spinach is gross and should be banned from the planet.

fresh spinach, OTOH, is amazing. so are many varieties of kale. (kale cooke with with garlic, Sriracha, olive and sesame oil... mm)

I think can corn is the best tasting vegetable that you can buy in a can.

[BadKosh]

So can you watch Diners, Drive-in's and Dives without being hungry all the time?

[OAW]

Originally Posted by BadKosh 

Is it spicy, or have onions? I might just give it a try. Generally I HATED IT as a kid, along with turnip greens, and brussel sprouts. Found a different way to prepare them and now I'll eat them.

Spicy? Yes. Flavorful but not "hot". Onions? No.

OAW

[subego]

I think I mentioned it in the other thread, but I'm a lost cause when it comes to the entire list of cruciferous vegetables.

The main exception is horseradish. I'm sorta warming up to cabbage. Everything else I find horrid.

[BadKosh]

I have a lentil soup recipe that has cabbage and its THE BOMB!!! It a little sweet and an 8 serving recipe ended up being 6 servings as My dad and I ate about 2 oversized servings and mom got 1.


OAW - Thanks for the recommendation. I will surely try it. it seems I have a southern palate.

[subego]

Basically, the more you thrash the cabbage, the happier I am with it.

Cole slaw is fine. Kimchi is workable, though I usually find the bits are too big. I haven't had sauerkraut in years, but I'd be willing to try a bite.

I'd probably dig the lentil soup.

[osiris]

Originally Posted by BadKosh 

So can you watch Diners, Drive-in's and Dives without being hungry all the time?

Pretty much. Except for french fry territory - I love my fries. Thin, thick, crispy, crinkle, waffle, shoestring, whatever you got I'll take 'em.

[subego]

I may have said this before, but I'm finding I like the idea of fries more than the real thing.

I'd say 1 in 10 places actually has good fries.

[BadKosh]

I hate the current Mcdonalds junk. Gimme some Roy Rogers fries, two Roast beefs sammies and a large coke. When I go to the Leesburg Airshow I stop by on the way home.

[subego]

I find the quality of McDonald's fries to directly correlate with how recently the oil has been changed.

Either way, McDonald's big mistake was losing the hot mustard sauce.

[osiris]

I once liked McD's fries, until I learned they spray them with beef flavoring. So that ended that...

But to me the best fries are the freshly made ones at Nathan's in Coney Island, doused in Heinz Ketchup and salt. That's over 1600 calories in the large, and man is it worth it. Then a ride on the Cyclone.

[subego]

Is it real beef flavoring?

If it is, they should just go back to frying them in lard.

[osiris]

real beef flavoring. it was a scandal about 20 years ago IIRC

[subego]

Originally Posted by osiris 

real beef flavoring. it was a scandal about 20 years ago IIRC

As well it should be. I thought the whole reason they dropped the lard was to make it veggie friendly.

Most claim McDonald's fries were never the same.



I had a friend who was a vegetarian who I accidentally gave a Grandma Utz's kettle cooked chip.

They're awesome. We were getting high and musing why they were so good, and I noticed "lard" was the second ingredient.

After punching me, I got the story of what made her a vegetarian.

When she was a little girl, she wanted a bull, so she could raise it on grass and eat some healthy meat.

It was an unhappy bull. It clearly wanted a bigger range.

It gored her once. Cue showing of the giant scar on her leg.

Even with this, unsurprisingly she got attached to it.

For her birthday, her parents took the bull in for slaughter without asking her. If that wasn't devastating enough, the abattoir they brought it to didn't give you the meat from that animal. They traded you for the equivalent amount of meat.

So it wasn't even her healthy meat.


I told her she could punch me again.

[osiris]

I grew up eating eggs fried in bacon grease or lard, depending on what we had, there is no finer taste than animal fat. it is a sacrifice, no doubt.

Interesting about Utz's lard use - must be a regional thing, I don't recall seeing lard in the ones here (nyc).

BTW Utz chips also serve well in emergencies. I was in the Adirondacks with friends in late October, got hit with a really bad storm - everything was soaked including our food and tinder. Tents destroyed, etc, really bad after 3 days of this... anyhoo, Utz's chips allowed us to get a fire going - a couple of handfuls crumbled up was like frickin naplam. So I always buy them for hiking/camping...

that story about the bull is pretty messed up.... really...
next time suggest bringing the animal to a butcher you know and trust. So you may have to kill the animal yourself, as you should - perhaps using a blunt object or a shotgun. If you are a real man, you can wrestle it to death or kill it some other creative way.

[BadKosh]

Hominy and bacon grease is the bomb! can probably eat a whole cam that way. BLT's with home grown tomatos is great summer comfort food.

[subego]

Originally Posted by osiris 

I grew up eating eggs fried in bacon grease or lard, depending on what we had, there is no finer taste than animal fat. it is a sacrifice, no doubt.

Interesting about Utz's lard use - must be a regional thing, I don't recall seeing lard in the ones here (nyc).

BTW Utz chips also serve well in emergencies. I was in the Adirondacks with friends in late October, got hit with a really bad storm - everything was soaked including our food and tinder. Tents destroyed, etc, really bad after 3 days of this... anyhoo, Utz's chips allowed us to get a fire going - a couple of handfuls crumbled up was like frickin naplam. So I always buy them for hiking/camping...

It was only the Grandma Utz's. Regular Utz uses vegetable oil.

The story took place in Virginia in the late 90's. Around 2006 I found a bag in Vegas and it was still larded.

I find Utz to be far superior to the Midwest local brand chip, which is Vitner's.

[subego]

Also, is it "yutes" or "utts"?

The former seems right. The latter is more fun to say.

[osiris]

Originally Posted by subego 

Also, is it "yutes" or "utts"?

The former seems right. The latter is more fun to say.

Did you say yutes?

[subego]

So, you're a deer...

[Laminar]

Did someone say Ute?

[Chongo]

I saw a coworker eating this at lunch. She was spreading it on saltines.


I put it in the category of post Apocalypse food.

[osiris]

That must be like Underwood meat spreads. I once ate this everyday, I think I'd hurl if I even smelled it today.

[Cap'n Tightpants]

The ingredients in potted meat are terrifying. "Partially-defatted beef fatty tissue"?

[andi*pandi]

baked beans and brown bread in a can