Well, the classic New York hotdog is boiled, so it's not unthinkable that they'll boil a burger patty somewhere too.
You'll never find that here - sausages and burgers are all fried on a hot plate. Much more delicious.
Wow, the coincidence. When I read about the boiled burgers it reminded me of an old Ashens video I had seen, something like "Burger in a can". So I did a google search for "ashens burger in a can" and the result showed this video, which he had uploaded merely 14 hours ago at the time I am typing this. Haven't watched it yet, I will now after posting.
Boiled burgers can be tasty if mixed with the right ingredients but when done incorrectly they will become basically rubber. And it's very easy to mess this up!
Steam boiled burgers on the other hand .... Mmmmmmm-MMMM!!! Put the patty on top of a stack of onions, and steam boil the meat that way, and the meat will get juicy and tasty!
Yeah Rustlers burgers to me actually taste like they most certainly are mechanically reclaimed meat scraps, mixed with some kind of cereal, or grain based filler, and then formed into something that resembles a burger.
Those boiled Westlers burgers you used to get from burger vans are more realistic burgers than the Rustlers ones, and the Westlers ones are actually made using pork, and chicken, they don't contain any beef at all :))
Wait - BOILED burgers? :))
Yeah not remember those crappy boiled hamburgers from burger vans. They were very much a thing in the 80’s and 90’s. You could only buy them at wholesale places, and they came in a can with 24 of them in it. It was frustrating as the only Westlers burgers you could buy in regular shops came in a can with gravy, and they were crap. Pretty sure the burger vans at the time just had a big heater full of boiling water, and they’d just sling the burgers, hot dogs, and onions all in the same thing. The buns were soggy from the water, the onions were obviously frozen ready chopped onions, and I reckon about 90% of the vans had vinegared the ketchup as well.
I remember my mum buying those 'ten for a quid' sausages from Kwik Save in the 80's and now wonder if i have CJD in my system!
We weren't rich so she was just working from a budget but i remember them being totally rank! :))
When I was at college, my housemates and I were actually pretty good with cooking proper meals for each other in a rota all together. So we would cook up a big pot of Bolognese, or have two veg with our sausages and mash etc. Proper cooked food.
But we were on a tight budget (and communal meals were better value) and we used to buy the cheapest possible ingredients. We would traipse around town trying to source the cheapest stuff - we would buy really cheap mince from a market stall at one end of town and walk miles to buy the cheapest sausages somewhere else!
Looking back now, I recall that the sausages were made of "beef and pork" (etc.) and the mince we used was very pale and fatty with numerous "crunchy bits". Of course a few years later when the BSE crisis hit the beef industry and it transpired that cheap beef products usually contained spinal tissue and bone plus other parts of the nervous system which could pass BSE (or "mad cow's disease") on to humans in the form of CJD, I got very worried! And it can take years, even decades before it shows up!
On a side note, I used to be a regular blood donor back in the 90s, but when I moved to Ireland I was barred from donating blood here (as all UK ex-pats were) because of the fact that CJD can lay dormant in your systems for so long. It was only last year that they finally lifted the restrictions after sufficient time has passed!
I read that a woman who was a veggie died from vCJD, she had been veggie since 1985 but died in the early 2000's. She suspected it came from a takeaway burger she ate back in the 80's, she says it was the last meat product she ate. That worried me. I'm pretty sure BSE is still in the food chain.
Well at least BSE is a known thing now and should get monitored in herds. And the beef industry is better regulated so that animal parts that can cause problems shouldn't get used.
But back in the 80s, it really was a free-for-all @-)
What is that? Looks like something that died a horrible death by drowning in pickled red cabbage! Mind you I’m outside and using my phone to look at it, and even zooming doesn’t seem to help. I’ll have to wait til’ I’m home from work where I can fully scrutinize it using my desktop :))
You either have really huge bread, and eggs, or the worlds smallest sausages. You sure they’re not those 10 for a quid ones you mentioned earlier on? ;)
You either have really huge bread, and eggs, or the worlds smallest sausages. You sure they’re not those 10 for a quid ones you mentioned earlier on? ;)
I can't remember the price but it was definitely more than a quid, they were infused with caramelised onions and spices, got them in Morrisons :D
Like I've said before ... If it is not broken, then there is no need to break it.
If I break one, accidentally or not, then I'll still have 7 more up on the shelves. Seeing as I still have a full set, aside from a small saucer that broke about 15 years ago, I'll probably still own my granny man plates for a while yet.
What's the deal anyways!?!?!?!
Is this like a thing nowadays, that I wasn't informed of, having to get new plates every other year? :))
BTW Scottie, I didn't quite get your "a souvenir plate from a Toto concert" remark ... I'm sure it's just some of that British humour I don't understand. Is it because the design of the plate is a bit camp, much like Toto's music?
Speaking of camp. This "Toto" plate (which I'll call it from now on, even in real life) actually wasn't even brought, but salvaged from a semi-abandoned site over 10 years ago ... some kind of encampment site with ramshackle wooden huts which clearly hadn't been used in months, and there were tons of plates lying around so I just swiped two or three that didn't look like a health hazard.
"Everybody's got a grany plate,
from tea tiime at your grans when you were eight,
In the cupboard at the back,
At the bottom of the stack,
Everybody's got a grany plate,"
Well that's the chorus, now all we need are some verses.
My jaw still aches from grandmas steak!
30 years later I'm still chewing that! My teeth get no rest they may still break...
I'm still picking beef shards from my swollen face!
My gums are inflamed it's a f*cking disgrace!
It's not too late!
Maybe I should go vegan for the sake of the entire human race?
My jaw still aches from grandmas steak!
30 years later I'm still chewing that! My teeth get no rest they may still break...
I'm still picking beef shards from my swollen face!
My gums are inflamed it's a f*cking disgrace!
It's not too late!
Maybe I should go vegan for the sake of the entire human race?
Brilliant!
Grandma was my mother though. I didn't eat steak for years as I thought it was supposed to be served like beef jerky. Mum was a great cook but she had no idea with steak.
Nowadays it's a case of "wipe its arse and remove the horns". A bit rare in other words :-)
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You'll never find that here - sausages and burgers are all fried on a hot plate. Much more delicious.
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Steam boiled burgers on the other hand .... Mmmmmmm-MMMM!!! Put the patty on top of a stack of onions, and steam boil the meat that way, and the meat will get juicy and tasty!
Yeah not remember those crappy boiled hamburgers from burger vans. They were very much a thing in the 80’s and 90’s. You could only buy them at wholesale places, and they came in a can with 24 of them in it. It was frustrating as the only Westlers burgers you could buy in regular shops came in a can with gravy, and they were crap. Pretty sure the burger vans at the time just had a big heater full of boiling water, and they’d just sling the burgers, hot dogs, and onions all in the same thing. The buns were soggy from the water, the onions were obviously frozen ready chopped onions, and I reckon about 90% of the vans had vinegared the ketchup as well.
Yet those things were strangely addictive :))
We weren't rich so she was just working from a budget but i remember them being totally rank! :))
When I was at college, my housemates and I were actually pretty good with cooking proper meals for each other in a rota all together. So we would cook up a big pot of Bolognese, or have two veg with our sausages and mash etc. Proper cooked food.
But we were on a tight budget (and communal meals were better value) and we used to buy the cheapest possible ingredients. We would traipse around town trying to source the cheapest stuff - we would buy really cheap mince from a market stall at one end of town and walk miles to buy the cheapest sausages somewhere else!
Looking back now, I recall that the sausages were made of "beef and pork" (etc.) and the mince we used was very pale and fatty with numerous "crunchy bits". Of course a few years later when the BSE crisis hit the beef industry and it transpired that cheap beef products usually contained spinal tissue and bone plus other parts of the nervous system which could pass BSE (or "mad cow's disease") on to humans in the form of CJD, I got very worried! And it can take years, even decades before it shows up!
On a side note, I used to be a regular blood donor back in the 90s, but when I moved to Ireland I was barred from donating blood here (as all UK ex-pats were) because of the fact that CJD can lay dormant in your systems for so long. It was only last year that they finally lifted the restrictions after sufficient time has passed!
So I guess that means I escaped CJD after all!
But back in the 80s, it really was a free-for-all @-)
More to the point - where did you get that plate?
I swear that's exactly the same design as ones my mum had 50 years ago!!!
I can't remember the price but it was definitely more than a quid, they were infused with caramelised onions and spices, got them in Morrisons :D
If I break one, accidentally or not, then I'll still have 7 more up on the shelves. Seeing as I still have a full set, aside from a small saucer that broke about 15 years ago, I'll probably still own my granny man plates for a while yet.
What's the deal anyways!?!?!?!
Is this like a thing nowadays, that I wasn't informed of, having to get new plates every other year? :))
They continue to serve their purpose admirably.
Speaking of camp. This "Toto" plate (which I'll call it from now on, even in real life) actually wasn't even brought, but salvaged from a semi-abandoned site over 10 years ago ... some kind of encampment site with ramshackle wooden huts which clearly hadn't been used in months, and there were tons of plates lying around so I just swiped two or three that didn't look like a health hazard.
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from tea tiime at your grans when you were eight,
In the cupboard at the back,
At the bottom of the stack,
Everybody's got a grany plate,"
Well that's the chorus, now all we need are some verses.
30 years later I'm still chewing that! My teeth get no rest they may still break...
I'm still picking beef shards from my swollen face!
My gums are inflamed it's a f*cking disgrace!
It's not too late!
Maybe I should go vegan for the sake of the entire human race?
Very good.
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https://www.luny.co.uk
Cooking it flat-roasted is the way to go, yo!
Brilliant!
Grandma was my mother though. I didn't eat steak for years as I thought it was supposed to be served like beef jerky. Mum was a great cook but she had no idea with steak.
Nowadays it's a case of "wipe its arse and remove the horns". A bit rare in other words :-)