"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

[Jack Black]

Never heard of 'Treat' I don't think, but I've often enjoyed food and food combinations while camping which I'd turn my nose up at home :thumbup:

 

[Grump01]

Never heard of 'Treat' I don't think, but I've often enjoyed food and food combinations while camping which I'd turn my nose up at home :thumbup:

Since I don't use it myself, (wife has a problem with anything associated with an ex-wife) I'll check at the store to see if I said the correct name for the product and also if I'm correct that it's made by the same company.

 

[pertinux]

Never heard of 'Treat' I don't think, but I've often enjoyed food and food combinations while camping which I'd turn my nose up at home :thumbup:

Since I don't use it myself, (wife has a problem with anything associated with an ex-wife) I'll check at the store to see if I said the correct name for the product and also if I'm correct that it's made by the same company.

I've never had it, but here it is!

I think.

~ P.

 

[1066vik]

yup - Treet is Armour's competition for SPAM - SPAM is all pork product made by Hormel and TREET is pork & chicken and tastes more like a vienna sausage.

 

[JustinR]

yup - Treet is Armour's competition for SPAM - SPAM is all pork product made by Hormel and TREET is pork & chicken and tastes more like a vienna sausage.

Never was one for spam but I do enjoy a can of Vienna sausages every now and then (plain of course, none of that BBQ flavored nonsense!)

 

[george c]

Hi Folks.

Just spent 45 minutes or so looking here for the first time. Would a story without a knife be OK?

Regards,

George

PS. It's a story about a kid who is 14/15.......

 

[philllll]

Spam is okay, I'd rather eat it than starve.

A guilty pleasure of mine along the same lines is pork rinds. The puffier the better, preferably BBQ flavor.

 

[Grump01]

Never was one for spam but I do enjoy a can of Vienna sausages every now and then (plain of course, none of that BBQ flavored nonsense!)

This answers it. Competing products from two different companies. Not sure I'd like Treet
any more than Spam by itself without being mixed with the mac & cheese. Guys I have worked with in the past would pack Vienna Sausages in lunches and they never appealed to me either. I guess in a survival situation eating these three would be better than starving.
Don

 

[Grump01]

Spam is okay, I'd rather eat it than starve.

A guilty pleasure of mine along the same lines is pork rinds. The puffier the better, preferably BBQ flavor.

I agree those are gooooooood! ! Eating some while writing this. Ate the plain ones for years before switching to the BBQ. Started with little bags of Pepi's brand that came with a little pouch of hot sauce in a tavern where kids were allowed while on vacation at a lake in Michigan and along with family into town.

Don

 

[Grump01]

Hi Folks.

Just spent 45 minutes or so looking here for the first time. Would a story without a knife be OK?

Regards,

George

PS. It's a story about a kid who is 14/15.......

I'm not a Moderator, but since I started reading this thread and then posting, it does seem meant for "off topic" conversation that doesn't fall in any other threads.

Don

 

[Jack Black]

Thanks for the info folks, interesting to read about it :thumbup:

 

[leghog]

A guilty pleasure of mine along the same lines is pork rinds. The puffier the better, preferably BBQ flavor.

The best are actually hard and crunchy. Real pork rinds. They're more expensive though.

 

[jackknife]

yup - Treet is Armour's competition for SPAM - SPAM is all pork product made by Hormel and TREET is pork & chicken and tastes more like a vienna sausage.

I had a Vienna sausage. Once.

Treet sounds like the one word in the English language that our corgi gives full attention to!

 

[leghog]

I've never had it, but here it is!

I think.

~ P.

But is there a BACON Treet? If no,t it's just a poor imitation.

There's almost always a tin of Spam in my cupboard sitting beside the tins of octopus and sardines. Each go well on saltines and, injmy book, qualify as among those simple pleasures that so easily enrich one's life.

 

[Grump01]

The best are actually hard and crunchy. Real pork rinds. They're more expensive though.

Sounds like you're talking Cracklins there. Yes they are good, but something a toothless old fart like me can't eat anymore.

Don

 

[Jack Black]

I've just had a couple of buttered pikelets and a cup of tea for my mid afternoon snack

 

[MTURBO]

Might just try the spam on the grill thing this morning.

 

[Jack Black]

Might just try the spam on the grill thing this morning.

:thumbup:

 

[jackknife]

I've just had a couple of buttered pikelets and a cup of tea for my mid afternoon snack

Gosh Jack, that looks a great deal like what we yanks call an Englsih Muffin.

 

[Jack Black]

Gosh Jack, that looks a great deal like what we yanks call an Englsih Muffin.

I suspect it will be the same thing Carl, they are mainly called 'crumpets' here now. Up until the mid 1970's or thereabouts, 50% of the country here called them pikelets and 50% crumpets, primarily (but not entirely) a north-south divide. When the big corporate bakeries began, they would put 'crumpet' on one side of the box, and 'pikelet' on the other. Gradually 'pikelet' was marginalised, to the point that today, most younger folk wouldn't know what a pikelet is, and correct their elders when they use the word, which in Sheffield (and maybe elsewhere) was also a term of mild rebuke, much like calling someone a 'doughnut'.

It's similar with the pronunciation of the word 'scone', which (as in the US) has always been pronounced to rhyme with 'bone' in Yorkshire. However, over the past few decades, the (primarily) southern pronunciation "scon" has crept in. I was in Sheffield a couple of years ago, on Yorkshire Day no less, and some arrogant young twerp had the cheek to correct me when I asked for a scone in a cafe. He got the tongue-lashing of his life!