CONTEST ENTRY: Regrettable Speef (not a typo)

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Burns Canned Spork, Sausage, and Speef, 1953

MMMM.

Comments

[flummoxicated]

Speef? Really? Speef loaf? WTH is it? Never mind, I doubt I want to know.

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Spamified Beef

[luke_russell]

Isn't Spork a Supreme Court judge? I am increasingly getting disoriented by these food ads.

[roeskva]

I checked the link. Some of them are real, some are fake, some are mistranslated, I think. 10. says "surströmming" on the side of the can, and that is fermented herring. 17. "Fish balls", is like small meat balls, just made with ground fish-meat instead. Both are eaten in Sweden.

[shortsweetcynic]

oh my god. my husband ordered a can of that fermented herring and it was...just...beyond foul. i told him he'd be served with divorce papers if he opened it anywhere near the house, and we ended up taking it over to a friend's house one night when went over for a bonfire.

the can was so pressurized (both ends were popping up!) by the time they opened it that it sprayed all over their faces, and neither of them actually could bear to eat it. i think they tried a little bit of the juice, but that was it.

[roeskva]

I have never tried eating it, but it is very popular - particularly in the Northern part of Sweden, and for traditional lunches/dinners. It's apparently very salty (and yes, it smells vile). The bulging cans are supposedly the best ;)

Your supposed to eat it between two slices of crisp bread, with either potato-slices or onion and sour cream.
Should be accompanied by schnaps or vodka - or sometimes milk!

[franklanguage]

What kind of fish is lütefisk made with? Isn't it cod? This sounds a lot like lütefisk. (Which is intentionally and traditionally foul.)

It sounds like you had a botulism-tainted can, actually.

[chrishansenhome]

I first encountered the pork brains in 1990, when I did a couple of days' consulting in Phoenix, where their HQ is. I was working with one of their product managers, and on top of his filing cabinet was a can of the aforementioned pork brains. I was a bit unnerved, and asked about it, since I'd never seen it before. He said that it was quite popular in the South.

Figures.

[greatbearmd]

Go completely meta and eat your Spork with... a spork!

[fallconsmate]

creamed armadillo and creamed possum are spoofs. i would suspect that the platypus is, also. (cute stuff for tourists, yanno, much like the canned unicorn meat you can find many places around the web)

i checked on amazon for the unicorn meat...three listings. one for 13.99. one for 43.99, one for 45.99!!

[luke_russell]

Yup, platypus is not only a protected species and unavailable, it's inedible. The first settlers to Australia discovered this.