Comments on: I Try It So You Don’t Have To: Potted Meat

By: Bunny

Bunny — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 01:39:20 +0000

I was eating a potted meat sandwich as I read this xD I grew up with it as many poor kids and families have. I sometimes crave it. I like mine on white bread with miracle whip =] I got my husband eating it, he loves it too, now. He likes it plain on bread–tried it with miracle whip today and says he likes that even better…he also likes to toast a couple slices of bread and spread it on while the toast is still warm. I’m going to try and make a salad type with the remainder of this can, like tuna fish but with potted meat =D

By: Roseanna

Roseanna — Mon, 23 May 2011 05:46:18 +0000

hey when you grow up poor like i did potted meat was like our steak sometimes my moma was a single mom working to feed two kids and starving herself to feed us. even to this day i go back and fix it the way moma did and i still enjoy it but i also find ways to make it better because i know some kid or adults don’t have the pleasure of potted meat

By: By the case

By the case — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:16:56 +0000

Holy crap lol. Unapplealing even at first sight. Does Armour use mechanically separated ‘all kinds of meat’ in their products? Because I swear their vienna sausage was like that too.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:42:40 +0000

armour potted meat was once pretty good. Then they took out the partially de-fatted fatty tissue (pork) and replaced it with mechanically separated chicken. Now your right it sucks.

By: Lena

Lena — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:12:06 +0000

Oh and mircle whip….another modern marvel!

By: Lena

Lena — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:11:18 +0000

My mom made potted meat sandwiches all my life and we LOVED them. It was a combination of potted meat, egg, minced onion and sweet pickle relish. I just had one today and they are still just as scrump del-e-ishous!!

By: Brett

Brett — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:44:46 +0000

Potted meat is the EXACT same ingredients of hot dog franks. The difference is that the franks were formed and slightly cooked.

Potted meat is best enjoyed with saltine crackers and and ice cold coca-cola.

so you guys barfing at the potted meat. You’re still eating it in every hot dog you enjoy.

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By: KevinB

KevinB — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:19:46 +0000

I don’t hold any brief for the Armour product, which sounds horrible, but potted meat has been a staple in the UK and many parts of the Commonwealth for years. It was conceived as a way to both make use of the “ends” (leftover pieces of real beef and chicken, not just tripe), and to preserve it without refrigeration. Typically, the meats were ground into a puree, put into the pot, and then topped with aspic (a type of bland gelatin). The aspic would flow throughout the mixture, and then coat the surface, protecting it from bacteria.

I stayed at a B&B in Scotland in 2001, and as part of the afternoon snack, I was offered her homemade potted meat on toast points. It tasted quite like a pate, though not so rich and fatty (she didn’t use liver), and the aspic added an interesting texture. It was very good, and I had to stop myself from hogging most of it. Potted meat can be very tasty.

The Armour product described sounds typical of the worst practices of giant American food companies – take a good, simple food, and make it horrid. As examples, I offer: McD’s “shakes” (so-called I’ve been told because they don’t actually contain milk). I’m sure the original McD franchises actually made their shakes out of milk, ice cream, and syrup, until some corporate type realized most people equated thickness with goodness in milk shake (which of course meant it was made with a higher ice cream/milk ratio than a thinner shake). So out with the blenders, and in with the pre-mix which contains enough thickeners that it requires the sucking power of a $5 hooker to get it through the straw.

Next on my list: fish sticks. A nice piece of battered and deep fried fish has been enjoyed for centuries in the UK, and for many years on both US coasts, along the Great Lakes, the Mississippi, and more. I don’t care whether it’s cod, scrod, lake perch or catfish; done correctly, it’s fantastic. But the corporate fish stick? Batter without taste or texture, and fish without flavour. Feh.

Finally: apple pie. I remember my mom’s pie – tender, flaky crust on top, a slightly firmer one on the bottom to hold it all together, and in between, lots of apples with a just a bit of sugar, cinnamon, and clove. I’m sure everyone remembers their mother’s pie. But the corporate ones? Tough, gluey crusts on both ends, filled with tasteless, mushy apples and enough sugar to make your dentist happy.

Armour potted meat may well be as horrible as the writer posted, but don’t give up on the idea; just this particular execution.

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