Quoting Michael Loo to Jim Weller <=-

When I was growing up, rou gan (not being southerners,
and considering them to be generally lower class, my
families never used the Cantonese term)

I've seen that name too in my reading.

jerky is made from thin strips of whole meat

Ah, you innocent northerners. A lot of our jerky now is
made out of chopped and formed meat.

I have come across that kind, mostly at C-stores, gas stations and
beside the cash registers in building supply and hardware stores,
and I have sampled it on occasion but some of us are willing to pay
a bit more and hold out for the real thing and/or make our own.

Speaking of pork candy, I just picked up another jar of Rousong
and am using it in [...] Western [...] split pea soup

I have had it stirred into fried rice, which is good though
sybaritic.

So was my last batch of pea soup!

Was it you who was sorely let down by some Utz product or other?

Others here. They aren't available in Canada. I did have a similar
letdown when Vickie Kerr, a potato farmer in rural central Ontario
sold out her Miss Vicky's thick cut kettle cooked chips to a bigger
company who in turn got bought out by Frito-Lay. She used her own
potatoes, peanut oil and sea salt and nothing else. Now they no
longer use peanut oil but generic vegetable oil and the brand is
little better than regular Frito-Lay chips (but still priced at
twice as much!)

The US hot dog industry would be nowhere without mechanical
separation.

The US hot dog industry would be $21.98/kg without mechanical
separation (and snouts and ears).

And who would buy? Cheap at half the price!

I don't buy at $22 per kg, preferring sirloin steak at that price
point but I will at $11 when the nasty dogs are $5.50 or more.



Cheers

Jim


... Whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
* Origin: Fido Since 1991 | QWK by Web | BBS.FIDOSYSOP.ORG (1:123/140)