buzzsawmonkey 5/30/2021 8:17:01 AM

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Kosh's Shadow 5/30/2021 8:36:54 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 1:

There's a kosher restaurant in Jerusalem that was selling "lamb bacon" but was told their kashrut certificate would be revoked unless they stopped calling it "bacon". Now it is "lamb facon"

buzzsawmonkey 5/30/2021 8:41:07 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 2:

I've heard of "lamb bacon"---there was a restaurant in the Village that featured it---but I never got around to trying it.  I'm sure that the place is closed now, thanks to our pandemic measures.

Kosh's Shadow 5/30/2021 9:39:22 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 3:

When I was growing up, we had "Beef Rye", from Morrison and Schiff (kosher)

Kosh's Shadow 5/30/2021 12:35:16 PM

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BTW, I will occasionally use Morningstar Farms vegetarian "meat", including their strips that are sort of like bacon, and I dubbed them "facon" a long time ago.

Those and their Griller Prime "burgers" and I can have kosher facon cheeseburgers.

lucius septimius 5/30/2021 3:27:12 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 3:

Growing up our "bacon" was fried chipped beef.

Kosh's Shadow 5/30/2021 3:57:24 PM

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In #6 lucius septimius said: Growing up our "bacon" was fried chipped beef.

Was it served on toast, aka Shit on a Shingle?

Alice in Dairyland 5/30/2021 4:09:18 PM

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In #7 Kosh's Shadow said: Was it served on toast, aka Shit on a Shingle?

That brings back memories.  For those of us that don't cook - heat together a can of cream of celery or mushroom soup, frozen peas and chipped beef served on extremely crisp toast.  Made that a lot in our early (poorer) days for supper.  May have to keep that recipe handy for when inflation really hits the food budget.

Kosh's Shadow 5/30/2021 4:17:07 PM

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Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 8:

Beef will be banned (except for the elite). You will have creamed chipped tofu. (/I wish)

Kosh's Shadow 5/30/2021 4:33:55 PM

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In #9 Kosh's Shadow said: (/I wish)

That is, I wish I were being sarcastic.

In 1984, they ate Victory Stew.

In 2024, we eat Surrender Gruel

Alice in Dairyland 5/30/2021 4:34:38 PM

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In #9 Kosh's Shadow said: Beef will be banned

You mean to tell me that's really beef in chipped beef.  I thought it was some kind of processed meat and nobody really ever knew what it actually was.

Alice in Dairyland 5/30/2021 4:39:36 PM

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In #11 Kosh's Shadow said: In 1984, they ate Victory Stew.

I had to google Victory Stew and now I'm more confused than ever.  What is Victory Stew?

Kosh's Shadow 5/30/2021 4:46:01 PM

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In #13 Alice in Dairyland said: I had to google Victory Stew and now I'm more confused than ever.  What is Victory Stew?

Some kind of barely-edible stew eaten in the novel 1984, served in the Ministry of Truth cafeteria (to the lower workers)

Everything there is labeled "Victory", like "Victory Gin"

Alice in Dairyland 5/30/2021 5:06:17 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 14:

Urban Dictionary said fraternity prank where "everyone defecates in a pot"...and that's where I quit reading it.  Other references were like "Victory Garden" type soups.  We had friends that made "Garbage Soup".  It was every edible in the frig dumped in a stock pot the night before garbage pickup.
  

Kosh's Shadow 5/30/2021 5:07:52 PM

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Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 15:

That's why I specifically included 1984 in my post.

Alice in Dairyland 5/30/2021 5:31:32 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 16:

Not to change the subject, but do you have the holiday off or have to go into work tomorrow?  Being "retired" myself, everyday is a holiday for me!

Kosh's Shadow 5/30/2021 5:38:46 PM

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Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 17:

I even get paid for tomorrow (but not all the holidays the place I work has - my contract agency only pays for some of them)