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I was raised eating alot of bologna, beans n ham hock, squirrel that we hunted, vienne sausages were a treat to us.
Squirrell is still my favorite meat.
Squirrell is still my favorite meat.
My great grand mother got that cheese and she would give some to us. The cheese in the early MREs somewhat reminded me of that. About 15 years ago I got down on my luck and got the "commodity" Salmon in a can at a food pantry. Just a hunk of Salmon gutted in a can. Was Great.
Mother said we're having a late supper ( usually eat at 5:00). So she made me one of my favorite paper plate snack trays. Those are Chicken in a Biscuit crackers.
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You make fun but that's how it was at our house. We had 7 freezers. Not refrigerator/freezers but deep freezers. R uprights and 3 chest. They stayed FULL of beef, hog and lamb that daddy took in lieu of cash for services rendered.
Sometimes he'd take a deer or a whole mess of fish if that client was a small farmer. Then there was the meat we raised and butchered ourselves -- rabbit, chicken, quail, pheasant, duck. We even ate peacock once. It was kinda chewy so the leftovers went to the dogs and cats and we didn't ever butcher another one of those guys again.
For a long time after I moved out I didn't eat anything but fish, crawfish, shrimp and lobster. I was SO tired of anything that went "Moooo" it was pitiful ...
My grandparents always had commodities (tribal benefits) and they were more than happy to swap us all the cheese we wanted (which, with 7 growing kids was a LOT) for all the steak they wanted.
It worked out well for all of us ...
I still have bologna in the fridge or freezer on a regular basis. Its one of my current stapples and its awesome smoked on the Pellet smoker.
I still hate oven roasted chicken, and pot roast. My mom made a lot of corn bread and beans. I’m about to make some of that, unlike my moms. Mine have flavor.You make fun but that's how it was at our house. We had 7 freezers. Not refrigerator/freezers but deep freezers. R uprights and 3 chest. They stayed FULL of beef, hog and lamb that daddy took in lieu of cash for services rendered.
Sometimes he'd take a deer or a whole mess of fish if that client was a small farmer. Then there was the meat we raised and butchered ourselves -- rabbit, chicken, quail, pheasant, duck. We even ate peacock once. It was kinda chewy so the leftovers went to the dogs and cats and we didn't ever butcher another one of those guys again.
For a long time after I moved out I didn't eat anything but fish, crawfish, shrimp and lobster. I was SO tired of anything that went "Moooo" it was pitiful ...
My grandparents always had commodities (tribal benefits) and they were more than happy to swap us all the cheese we wanted (which, with 7 growing kids was a LOT) for all the steak they wanted.
It worked out well for all of us ...
Yeah ... Not a fan of roast either. My mom thought if she hadn't burned it to a crisp it didn't have any flavor. At least with the beans we had I could throw some peppers into it.
Some years ago in a previous professional life, I was the director of strategic new product development for a top tier meat company. One day, an outside vendor brings me in some shelf stable prime rib to try.
It tasted nasty.
But … some day in the future, packaging will advance to where they can produce such cuts of meat and it will be shelf stable. Just like they do today with canned chicken or tuna … it will happen. May not be “poverty junk food”, but it will be shelf stable and less expensive than fresh.
Key will be getting consumers to try it.
It tasted nasty.
But … some day in the future, packaging will advance to where they can produce such cuts of meat and it will be shelf stable. Just like they do today with canned chicken or tuna … it will happen. May not be “poverty junk food”, but it will be shelf stable and less expensive than fresh.
Key will be getting consumers to try it.
