[Sca-cooks] Weird American food?

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Jul 21, 2008, at 2:07 PM, I wrote:

> I wonder if there's been some [recent] change to the formula.  
> Hormel's product is the only one I've seen in an individual slice,  
> and it's pretty clearly from a formed meat product, if the photo I  
> saw is remotely representative. Perfectly round, shiny-smooth around  
> the edges, flecked evenly with tiny bits of either fat or gristle,  
> which is what made me think of Lebanon Bologna. One web site refers  
> to each slice as a little round patty, which made me think it had  
> evolved into some form of sliced, lean sausage.
>
> Early descriptions of it that I've seen compare it to bresaeola,  
> bundnerfleisch, etc., but the photo didn't look much like those.


Just a little footnote: Hormel dried Beef looks processed (i.e. flaked  
and formed, beef McNuggets, dried and sliced), but Armour's packaging  
clearly states that it is "ground and formed". This is probably a  
recent thing, though.

So nobody has had something that was referred to as Creamed Chipped  
Beef, made from Corned Beef?

Adamantius




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