Has anyone tried Treet?
 

Found a bunch of cans of this nasty looking Spam like product while in a store called Big Lots. The ingredients intrigued me:

Mechanically Separated Chicken, Pork, Water, Salt, Sugar, Corn Syrup, Less than 2 percent: Food Starch-Modified, Brown Sugar, Soybean Oil, Hydrolyzed Corn, Soy and Wheat Proteins, Barley Malt Flour, Natural Flavorings, Sodium Nitrite, Sodium Tripolyphosphate, Sodium Erythorbate, Smoke Flavoring.

What does Mechanically Separated Chicken mean? A Cuisinart? :right: It also looked like a great daily source of sodium! I forget how much it had but it was something like 38% of your daily requirement.

Well I did find this! Isn't the Internet great for getting all the facts!

This is taken from the USDA Fact Sheet -here is the URL.

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Fact_Sheets...erms/index.asp


MECHANICALLY SEPARATED MEAT
is a paste-like and batter-like meat product produced by forcing bones with attached edible meat under high pressure through a sieve or similar device to separate the bone from the edible meat tissue. In 1982, a final rule published by FSIS on mechanically separated meat said it was safe and established a standard of identity for the food product. Some restrictions were made on how much can be used and the type of products in which it can be used. These restrictions were based on concerns for limited intake of certain components in MSM, like calcium. Due to FSIS regulations enacted in 2004 to protect consumers against Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, mechanically separated beef is considered inedible and is prohibited for use as human food. However, mechanically separated pork is permitted and must be labeled as "mechanically separated pork" in the ingredients statement.

MECHANICALLY SEPARATED POULTRY
is a paste-like and batter-like poultry product produced by forcing bones with attached edible tissue through a sieve or similar device under high pressure to separate bone from the edible tissue. Mechanically separated poultry has been used in poultry products since 1969. In 1995, a final rule on mechanically separated poultry said it would be used without restrictions. However, it must be labeled as "mechanically separated chicken or turkey" in the ingredients statement. The final rule became effective November 4, 1996.

thats the cheap Version of Spam

i'm going to vom.

no, I haven't. Have YOU? If so . . . you're a braver soul than me.

How much was it? 13c? I wouldn't feed that to my neighbor's dog and I'm not known for my dog-loving

I wouldn't eat that with your mouth. Bleh.

You just made pilau cry.

good :p (more fluid for tears means less fluid for slobbering)

That's not what the charge sheet indicates. ;)

mechanically separated chicken

http://cellar.org/2009/mschicken.jpg

Oh God that looks ....I think that's possibly the most revolting thing I have ever seen in my life.

@ Monnie: Pilau doesn't slobber! It's one of the things I took into account when I was choosing what breed to get. Along with how much they moult. He does occasionally drool just a little, whilst awaiting the ok to dive into his supper ... but hey, he's only canine.

Boxers slobber. Collies don't much at all.

all dogs slobber. And even if they don't, they might.... I think dog-slobber might be my equivalent of kryptomite....

and that looks like a skinned albino cobra, UT

All depends on how hungry you are. 99% of you would eat it if you were hungry.

you bitch!

or poor

99% of people who eat regular hotdogs have eaten it....

I would love to know what the shelf life of that stuff is.


Follow up: Best I can find is estimate of 4 yrs, 900 cal per can. Off a bunch of survival/gun forums.

I will eat hot dogs with impunity. \

I can even enjoy Underwood Devilled Ham. I am charmed that they continue to put it in the paper wrapper when it would probably be much cheaper to print the cans.

I don't think I could manage Treet. Even under duress.

I do not buy food in Big Lots, or in Dollar Stores. I am suspicious of it, even when it looks like real food.

When the Mrs and I were in Hawaii we saw Spam in lots of places, she even was offered it at the refinery she was working at in some kind of sushi item for a pot luck lunch.

Needless to say, Spam and things like this don't interest us now a days but in my child hood I did eat my share of "deviled meats" and Vienna sausages and I did survive.

So, what could you make on the upside with a few cans of this stuff? Some kind of meat souffle? How about a Treet Napoleon (see image) and substitute the Ahi tuna with some Treet slices. Treet Pate and substitut the foie gras with Treet and you have De Treet On Bruschetta or Treet and Peach flavored Ice Cream??? I may have to mess with this stuff after the holidays.

First I will need one of these!

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They don't mention the fact that there's more to a chicken than bone and meat. Oh wait, they got it covered with, "edible tissue". Of course if you were eating a chicken, you wouldn't eat the stuff that attached the muscle(meat) to the bone, or attached the bone to bone joints. But when they're done pre-masticating, it is edible tissue... and it won't hurt you. ;)

I had a friend who went to a processing plant where they mechanically separated chicken. His description of it was "whatever squeezes through the holes."

I'm pretty sure I had it at a very young age at my grandmother's house.

And I'm still here.

If you are a lucky economically disadvantaged person, you get Treet and worse all the time in your commodities box. I tried some of it and its as vile as you might expect. I have two more cans pushed to the back of the cupboard to use in case of global warming, an attack on the people by Congress, or an encounter with a Nigerian child witch. :rolleyes:

You'l be throwing the unopened cans at them, then?

I still need someone to explain "Technically Rendered Animal Fat Not For Human Food Use," which is on the back of MOPAR trucks.

Human grade garbage.

If that's the good grade I wonder they putting in pet food.

Well, that explains overweight poor people: that shit can't be good for you. If I were a homeless hobo, I'd be a thin one because no way would I eat that crap. ;) I hope I never have to eat my words, so to speak.

I've eaten some pretty ropey food in my time, particularly when J and I were living somewhat below the breadline. It's amazing what you can stomach if you're hungry enough.

Most memorably, Kwik Save's 'No Frills' beefburgers. Ugh, they were fucking grim. But if you plastered them with tomato ketchup and tried not to think about the contents they went down easily.

I, too, have a can of this mysterious meat substance, and have been afraid to open it. While I've got a bit of a liking for fried Spam sammiches, something about the name Treet sets me off.

But look!

Less greasy, but otherwise it's the same thing as Spam. Hmmm. :rolleyes:

http://www.adclassix.com/images/56armourcannedmeat.jpg

1956 Armour Treet Sandwich Meat original vintage advertisement, with endorsement by songwriter Hoagy Carmichael. The Hoagy Carmichael composition features Treet Sandwich meat on pumpernickel with Spanish onion, hot mustard and horseradish.

I lurvs me some tendons and ligaments! Don't forget the blood vessels and fascia. Yum.:vomitblu:

In the U.S. there are specific labelling differences between burgers and patties. Patties can contain the less popular parts of the moo cow, but it's still technically all beef. Burgers are the higher quality (non organ) meats.

momwolf lived in Hawaii for three years in the 50s, while my father was in the Air Force (he had something to do with cloud sampling to figure out if the Russkies were doing atomic testing). She said Spam was a delicacy there, mainly because it was easier to ship cans of Spam than cows. She used to make a mean can of Spam, did momwolf.

Crud. Now I'll have to get some for the nostalgia.

Most of the chippies around here sell spam fritters. It's still pretty popular.

[amazing prophesy] ... someone, probably Bruce, is going to post a Monty Python clip real soon [/prophecy].

Ages ago when I taught a largish number of Korean students, they would occasionally invite me to make-it-yourself sushi parties. My favourite part was when they would pull out the can of Spam and say "this is traditional Korean food" as they added it to the ingredients. This still cracks me up.

All this reminds me that we are having some scrapple with our Christmas breakfast this year.

We'll have scrambled eggs, and scrapple, and cut up grapefruit and oranges fruit salad, and moravian sugar cake. But the scrapple is a special treat this year. We don't usually do that.

i just threw up in my mouth a little

Scrapple is yummy goodness.

It's awesome if you slice it thin and get it crispy on the sides. I don't care for the soggy thick stuff.

Tasted like scrapple - didn't it? Or is it Treet?

Ohhh scrapple. I can't find that stuff down here anywhere - and I get a craving for it every now and again. Not many PA dutch folks in Central NC :)

Well just look for Souse in store.

I've heard it's pretty much the same as liver mush. (I've also heard that's complete bullshit. Whatever--as far as I'm concerned they can have each other.)

These look like a better bet.;)

I entered the photo contest. I want to win a case of canned meat.

I get the first barn picture up and it says 1 of 5, but I don't see any way to see the rest?:(

Same here but I entered anyway. Also made it an art assignment for the kids. Winning I mean, any fool can enter...

I somehow suspect that the Treet of Hoagy Carmichael's endorsement is not the same product as one might buy today. I don't think they were able to turn chicken remnants into something resembling bubble gum back in the 50's.

Cool. The Hoagy Carmichael Treet ad in post no. 29 has a contemporary-model Cutco Trimmer (#21, I think) (current is #1721C) in the picture.

We have a few chain-restaurant Hawaiian BBQ places around... and one of their heartier side dishes (it would make a meal in itself) is Spam musubi -- rice ball, griddled Spam, the whole united with a nori belt around its middle. A serving is two of these four-inch slabs-o-pinkmeat.

Cool. I'm putting Hawaii on the 'must visit for the cuisine' list.

I see 'liver pudding' at the market a fair bit - but I guess I'm just too skeered to try it :)

And Bubba, thanks for the heads up, I'll look for it at the Farmer's market the next time I go!

Hey, check it out! If Spam and Treet are too upscale for you... apparently there are knockoffs available at the Dollar Store:

http://kbarger314.smugmug.com/photos...30_T8RWW-L.jpg

American, is Pathmark's store brand.

Jelly jump-ups!