Sweet tea is the Devil, Bobby Boucher!
Is there a really decent canned chili?
- Thread starter Jakedog
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And didn’t pasta come from China? What the heck did they eat?
playforfun
Tele-Afflicted
Lol message received
bgmacaw
Doctor of Teleocity
Looking at their website, no fillers in Stagg. I haven't seen it in stores around here but I'll have to remember that.
trapdoor2
Friend of Leo's
Ok, can of Wolf chili on tap. 2min in the microwave...
Not awful. It smells like chili, has a good consistency. Taste? Meh. It has a burnt component on the back of the tongue...bitter.
Sooooo...add cheese and sour cream. Much better!
At least it isn't greasy or sweet like Hormel. I would eat Wolf over Hormel.
FWIW, Stagg is owned by Hormel.
Some parts of the Deep South, they will put sugar in everything. For whatever reason, we ate at a fairly highly rated seafood restaurant in Bainbridge, GA, one time. I'm pretty sure this was just because we were passing through on our way up US 27 to get on I-185. Both their tartar and cocktail sauces were sweet! It was uneatable. Never, ever, have I been anywhere on the Gulf Coast where those sauces were sweet like that.
They do it with greens sometimes too. I get adding a touch of sugar to take the bitterness out of collards and other braised greens. Some folks take it overboard. I want a bumper sticker that says, "Save the sweet for the tea, don't put sugar in the greens!"
Sweet tea is bad enough. I can’t even imagine sweet greens. Say it ain’t so.
My grandmother would make greens with nothing more than a smoked ham hock, water, and salt, absolutely nothing else. Nowadays, I use bacon (sadly, ham hocks aren't easy to find these days), chicken stock, throw in a bay leaf or two, and a little Crystal hot sauce. Smoked sausage works well too. I want a little acidity, vinegar (hot sauce) or lemon juice, to brighten things up. The latter I almost always use on chard or spinach (sour cream works well too).
Bruxist
Friend of Leo's
Y'all quit preachin' and gone to meddlin'
11 Gauge
Doctor of Teleocity
As a complete meal in a single can? I say no.
If I can assemble it from multiple cans, jars, and maybe boxes and bags, I'll say potentially maybe.
I guess I need to add the proviso to this that I love sardines, and canned is like the only way I've ever had them, although I do know they are basically 'small halibut', and I love full-sized halibut prepared fresh. Anyway, I know that a lot of folks will turn their noses up at sardines, pickled herring, and all that kind of stuff, so 'decent' is highly subjective.
I've also had some of those complete meal dinner thingies that are usually refrigerated or frozen from Costco, and some of them are kind of decent. But that's not really canned, is it?
fjblair
Tele-Afflicted
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fjblair
Tele-Afflicted
I think that is likely, because I don't encounter it very often in the South.
Chili was never created to be in a can. Homebrew, or I go without. Life is too short for canned comfort food.
my grandma was from Tenn & Alabama, her cornbread was not sweet... it was amazing.. but not sweet.
I like it either way, it's been a long time since I had any sweet cornbread, but I'm going to have to rectify that pretty soon.
Charlie Bernstein
Doctor of Teleocity
No.
Charlie Bernstein
Doctor of Teleocity
Right. In the south, tea is sweet and cornbread isn't. In the north, cornbread is sweet and tea isn't.
That's how you can tell.
Charlie Bernstein
Doctor of Teleocity
Lots of exceptions, but in general, cornbread is sweet in the north and not in the south, and "sweet tea" is a southern thing, not a northern thing.
I like southern cornbread and northern tea.
Charlie Bernstein
Doctor of Teleocity
Not on a bet!
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