When did you last eat spam? [... if ever]

[MrGongGong]

I suspect I shan't be trying it. The whole horsemeat thing is one aspect of French (now Italian) cuisine I've never been able to assimilate.

Which is a bit odd
as in the UK we did used to eat horsemeat on a regular basis
this is in Dudley

http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/cs/Satellite?c=Page&childpagename=Lib-Central-Archives-and-Heritage%2FPageLayout&cid=1223092751722&pagename=BCC%2FCommon%2FWrapper%2FWrapper

[Nick Armstrong]

Which is a bit odd
as in the UK we did used to eat horsemeat on a regular basis
this is in Dudley

http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/cs/Sate...pper%2FWrapper

In the UK "we" ("they" seems more appropriate) used to do a lot of things I wouldn't necessarily want to try....

[Ferretfancy]

Which is a bit odd
as in the UK we did used to eat horsemeat on a regular basis
this is in Dudley

http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/cs/Sate...pper%2FWrapper

As a kid, shortly after WWII, we used to go to a small market just off Rye Lane Peckham, to buy horsemeat for a our Airedale terrier. It wasn't supposed to be for human consumption, but most of customers were not buying for their dogs. I remember cooking it in a pot with some pearl barley, and the horrible yellow fat which congealed to a soft paste when it cooled down.
Wags enjoyed it, but I thought it was revolting.

[MrGongGong]

My experience of eating horse is that it's utterly delicious !

[Serial_Apologist]

My experience of eating horse is that it's utterly delicious !

Wrong kind of horse - I wouldn't even sniff at it...

[Nick Armstrong]

Haslet: there's a throwback to growing up in the Midlands

Anyone been watching Clarissa Dickson-Wright's history of Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner? Very interesting to see (on the "Dinner" programme) the rhyming recipe in the medieval cook-book from the northwest, the "Liber Cure Cocorum", for

HASTELETES ON FYSSHE DAY*

In place of entrails wound around the spit to form the sausage (the usual hastelet - as depicted in the Bayeux 'tapestry'), figs, dates, almonds and raisins are threaded on a string and wound around the skewer, then coated and roasted, to form a tubular cake which can then be sliced like sausage.

Fascinating programmes, imo I'm delighted to have learned the origin of the word haslet.


*For those requiring the original recipe:

Take fyggus quartle, and raysyns, ϸo
Hole dates, almondes, rine hom also
On broche of irne, and rost hom sone;
Endore hom with ȝolkes of egges anone.

[mangerton]

Take fyggus quartle, and raysyns, ϸo
Hole dates, almondes, rine hom also
On broche of irne, and rost hom sone;
Endore hom with ȝolkes of egges anone.

Excellent! That's breakfast sorted for tomorrow. That, and small beer to drink.

[salymap]

Up to the age of seven we lived in London for my dad's job and the cat's meatman would come round with slices of meat on a stick which we knew was horse meat. We didn't have a dog and our cat wouldn't touch the meat so bought smelly coley for the cat.

We did eat Spam during the war and I remember it as slimy and tasteless. Our local 'handy shop'now sells something nearly as bad, reconstituted ham with added water,it says. Yuk

[teamsaint]

Excellent! That's breakfast sorted for tomorrow. That, and small beer to drink.

Muesli kebabs, pretty much.
Who wants a nice recipe for a tasty breakfast pancake?

[umslopogaas]

I ate horsemeat when I was a poor student, because it was a whole big lump of steak, but I couldnt afford real steak, so this would do. I shared a house with some veterinary students, they provided the dinner. It was delicious. Lean, a bit tough, but plenty of it. And after all, when its time for the horse to go to the knackers yard, you might at least consign it to something more noble than dogfood.

These days I can afford real slices of cow, but I wouldnt turn down a piece of horse if it was on offer.

[MrGongGong]

Good horsemeat is delicious
and used to be sold in the UK

Kezie foods (again)

http://www.keziefoods.co.uk/

[clive heath]

OK. so I read up to the 3rd page and then skipped to here which seems to be off-topic (horse-feathers or some such) and feel compelled to admit that I once served up spam fritters ( i.e. battered and deep fried) with mashed potatos and peas at lunchtime to 80-odd London schoolboys (one year group) camping near Leith Hill, probably no more than once in their week away from the smoke. All cooked on a wood fire, hot breakfasts and an evening meal and the spam was on the days when they were all in camp. It was cheap and to my mind very tasty but then I made sure that we had a supply of Sharwoods Mango Chutney which is the perfect compliment to the dish as it also is to Mature Gouda and Old Amsterdam. A near relation of Spam is Pork Luncheon Meat which is my bachelor indulgence when the other half is away: onions, garlic, mushrooms and tomatoes fried and scooped over lightly crisped Luncheon Meat,... to die for (or, you might think, from).
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[gurnemanz]

Muesli kebabs, pretty much.
Who wants a nice recipe for a tasty breakfast pancake?

Lawrence Olivier, a Brighton resident, used to commute to London on the Brighton Belle, taking his breakfast on the train. When kippers were axed from the menu he fought a campaign via letters to the Times to get them reinstated. British Railways eventually succumbed to pressure on the kipper but soon afterwards axed the Brighton Belle. Apparently Sir Larry did not actually want to eat kippers for breakfast - he just thought they should be available.