The strange mind-bending powers of Stephen Dawson and Old Goat

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  1. StatisTYKE

    StatisTYKE Well-Known Member

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    Today I went down the shops. When I got back, I found I’d bought a tin of Pek.

    What’s first? Pek with brown sauce sandwich or Pek fry up?

    Tell me great leaders. Show me the way to ultimate pekness.
     
  2. Red

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    Fried pek sarnie with brown sauce. Covers both bases.
     
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    On yer tyke Well-Known Member

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    What I usually do.

    Grab a good tin of pek, open it up, look at the contents and scrape every last bit out into the bin.

    Crap.
     
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    Pek , egg, chips n red sauce.its a winner !
     
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    It’s no wonder Barnsley General is over stretched.. :)
     
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    Each of us must find our own pathway to enlightenment, but you may find culinary inspiration arrives more readily if you wait until you're feeling a bit pekish. :)
     
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    Pek and sliced tomato it's the future:D
     
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    Is Pek different to Spam?

    Spam seems to be twice the price.

    Is it twice as nice?
     
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    Fried Pek with brown sauce on lightly toasted bread.
     
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    Beware of expensive imitations.
     
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    Clint Eastwood.
     
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    You're making me hungry now lol
     
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    I'm still chewing upon the difference between spam and trash.
     
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    I buy tins of spam to fry up, might try pek now.
     
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    Heron sell the larger tins for about £1.70.
    I will try the fried variety, never done that before.
     
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    After extensive research (2 minutes on google it would appear that PEK is far superior (and cheaper* than SPAM)

    PEK 90% pork meat (none of it mechanically reclaimed) although it does list added water (shock horror!) but far fewer 'ingredients!' than SPAM (must be kept in fridge once opened and used within 2 days)

    SPAM is now trendy and even expensive restaurants are (amazingly) using it in upmarket! ways.
    Due to high demand and multiple processing machines and handling required to manufacture the stuff it is expensive.
    It uses pork from America's biggest Pig farms (I think I know what that means re animal welfare)
    It has lots of dubious ingredients including dyes to make the meat look more appetising and , I suspect, includes mechanically reclaimed meat.
    Most worrying thing IMO it has a seriously long shelf life evidenced but the fact it keeps for years in the tin (due to lots of preservative) and for days once opened . This was undoubtedly a good thing during WW2 when it was a vital part of a G.I.'s ration kit in the field but not really nowadays.

    Conclusion 1: If forced to choose IMO it's a 'no brainer'... PEK cheaper and far fewer additives (90% pork- albeit which bit of the pig we do not know). Then again, anyone who has ever eaten (including myself) a commercially produced butcher's Pork Pie has no idea what is in them either. I would not choose either personally.

    Conclusion 2: The last time I ate Spam(in the form of (Spam 'fritters') would have been my foray into school dinners at Holgate in the mid 1960s which I only 'endured' for one term after which I took packed lunches. All processed food is relatively expensive compared to natural fresh produce I suppose for people with limited time/ little skill in food preparation and cooking, convenience foods are a necessary evil.
    Nevertheless it is a myth that the sole reason people on a tight budget buy processed food is that it is cheaper and quicker. Even 'time' factors are a lame excuse, with a little practice you can rattle off a meal for a family in less time than it takes to order a takeaweay or reheat convenience commercial frozen meals. Bulk cooking and freezing also saves time.
    Before retiring we used to both work and when we had our daughter I was also gigging as well as having a full time day job and we still found time to cook meals from scratch. It is even easier nowadays with the Internet for inspiration.
    Education cuts decades ago with schools scrapping domestic science on the curriculum and getting rid of expensive classroom kitchen facilities started the rot. Many people have never had the opportunity to learn to cook on a budget and , unlike me, who learned from my mother, a great cook, who coming from the War generation could rattle off amazing meals on a budget. As a result I love to cook (as a release from work pressures). Happily it is something I passed on to my daughter who also loves to prepare meals from scratch for her family in spite of the fact they have good, well paid (but high pressure) jobs which would enable them to go down the taekaway/ready meals route.
     
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    You can cook and prepare a fresh meal in 5 mins the time it takes to order a takeaway or heat a ready meal in the microwave? Can I have those recipes please!?
     
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    Take the pek out of the tin, cut it i to small cubes, pop it in a pan of water. Go out into the garden and get a pebble or stone, chuck that in too.

    Boil until the pebble goes soft, chuck the Pek away and eat the pebble, it's much nicer tasting.
     
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    Firstly...5 minutes? depends on whether you order the same meals from the same takeaway, all agree on what you want (in my experience with 3 or 4 there is usually a 10 minute debate on what to order), get through on the phone straight away, etc so "5 minutes" is pushing it. You still have to unpack it and dish it up. Anyone putting aside that aside and considering that most ready meals come frozen you may well be able to heat one portion up in 5 minutes (assuming you leave it out all day to defrost) but a meal for a family of 4 will take longer than 5 minutes and you need a bloody big miucrowave to fit it all in,not to mention the fact that microwaveable ready meals are mostly 'crap'.

    Anyway, whilst you are correct that a single meal whether it be for 1, 2 or 4 plus people takes more than 5 minutes it is perfectly possible to prepare lots of meals in batches, say at the weekend, in anything from 30-40 minutes. If you have decent size freezer then you can freeze them in portions. If a single batch makes half a dozen meals (do the math) then every evening after work you just reheat them. Even pasta...heat a pan of salted water whilst you get changed etc. and the pasta takes between 8-12 minutes depending on type. Basmati rice takes 10 minutes.. get your (defrosted during the day) meal and reheat it (air fryers great for pies pastry etc.) and or microwaves, stews sauces etc and put them together.
    Sorry but with a bit of planning it is perfectly possible for a busy working family to do that. If you cant afford to spend more than 5 minutes a day preparing a meal for yourself, partner or family then you are either finacially soun enoung to be able to afford it, doing something wrong or you have, frankly, got your priorities mixed up. As I said, it is not a cheap option for individuals or families under financial pressure.
    As we speak I have some stewing steak, onions, stock an a bay leaf simmering on the cooker to make a meat and potato pie to go with some mushy peas I prepared in bulk and froze a few weeks ago - something that can be easily managed at weekends. That in spite of being financially able to spend a lot on convenience foods, and or eating out if I we so choose.
    Takeaways and convenience foods do have their place, but what I am saying is they should not become an everyday occurrence. Trust me, home cooked food from fresh produce, even if frozen, tastes far better and is healthier. There are loads of recipes on the internet.
     
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    Right. Just had a Pek toasted sandwich using Hovis white sliced. Bit of butter and a lot of brown sauce. Yum.

    Mrs Statis not impressed. “I saw that lurking in the fridge but didn’t like to disturb it in case it bit me.”
     

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