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What to Do With Baja Mystery Meat

Gypsy Jan - 3-25-2010 at 03:12 PM

Anyone who shops in the Baja markets - super, mid-size or small sees the butcher/deli counter and they have these big oblong packages of bologna/mortadella. The pricing is cheap and cheerful, the product is suspiciously bland looking. What's in that smooth, lacking of texture, characterless, mostly tasteless, but, generally inoffensive lunch meat?

Some varieties are pavo, i.e., turkey, and the non-pavo contain...no one knows.

Anyway, here is a recipe for a Baja Mystery Meat Sandwich:

12 grain Orowheat Bread (owned by Bimbo)

Mystery Meat sliced 1/4" thick (we like the pavo or maybe it just sounds a little bit safer)

Skippy Extra Chunky Peanut Butter

Strawberry jam

Mayo

Powdered Garlic

Freshly Ground Pepper

Spread the peanut butter on one slice of bread, top it with the strawberry jam

Spread a thin layer of mayo on the other slice of bread, grind pepper to taste.

Place slice(e) of Mystery Meat on top of the mayo/pepper and sprinkle the powdered on the MM.

Combine the two slices and...bon appetit!

DENNIS - 3-25-2010 at 03:21 PM

NOOOO....Tell me you don't really do this. PB and turkey lips? BLECHHHH

Bajahowodd - 3-25-2010 at 03:29 PM

I think she left out the last part of the recipe. Throw it away! Methinks she is joking. Or else....? :wow:

I Didn't Say

Gypsy Jan - 3-25-2010 at 03:29 PM

That I ate it.

DianaT - 3-25-2010 at 03:34 PM

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Originally posted by Bajahowodd
I think she left out the last part of the recipe. Throw it away! Methinks she is joking. Or else....? :wow:

Just hope her dogs can't read this---it may cause them to consider running away. :yes:

BTW, How is that sick GD doing??

noproblemo2 - 3-25-2010 at 03:36 PM

I hate to say it, but it sounds disgusting!!! But to each their own tastes... :barf:

Timo1 - 3-25-2010 at 03:50 PM

YARG !!!!!

noproblemo2 - 3-25-2010 at 03:56 PM

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Originally posted by Timo1
YARG !!!!!

Or if you reverse it is the color one would be after eating it "GRAY"............

Skipjack Joe - 3-25-2010 at 04:28 PM

I wonder if mortadella comes from the spanish word for dead. :barf:

mtgoat666 - 3-25-2010 at 05:36 PM

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Originally posted by Gypsy Jan
What to Do With Baja Mystery Meat

Mortadella is an italian sausage -- bologna is a variant of mortadella.

You see it all over in spain and latin america. The quality depends on manufactrer and ingredients. Some is very good, some is less good.

My preferance is for it fried.

bajabass - 3-25-2010 at 06:12 PM

:!:

People eat that stuff? I draw the line at salami and beef hot dogs! We were kinda poor when the six of us were little, we just did not know it yet. To this day, Spam and Mac & Cheese will make me :barf:

!! My sisters use to come up to me with fried bologna on Wonder bread w/mayo just to p me off. That stuff in Mexico is scary

bajabass - 3-25-2010 at 06:14 PM

Oh, what to do with it? There is no SPCA in Baja, spendy dog treats!! :light:

DianaT - 3-25-2010 at 06:25 PM

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Originally posted by bajabass
Oh, what to do with it? There is no SPCA in Baja, spendy dog treats!! :light:

Run dogs run. :wow:

Does bring back memories of those fried bologna sandwiches of long ago---had to slit the edges of the bologna to keep it flat.

noproblemo2 - 3-25-2010 at 06:30 PM

I guess fried spam wouldn't be so bad if you were hungry enough........... :no:

DENNIS - 3-25-2010 at 06:38 PM

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Originally posted by noproblemo2
I guess fried spam wouldn't be so bad if you were hungry enough........... :no:

Bite your tongue. Spam is pork shoulder. All that other stuff is pork noses and worse.
Spam is a delicacy. I love it.
God bless Spam.

noproblemo2 - 3-25-2010 at 06:43 PM

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Originally posted by DENNIS

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Originally posted by noproblemo2
I guess fried spam wouldn't be so bad if you were hungry enough........... :no:

Bite your tongue. Spam is pork shoulder. All that other stuff is pork noses and worse.
Spam is a delicacy. I love it.
God bless Spam.

Gee I know what to make you when you come for dinner!!!! :lol:

DENNIS - 3-25-2010 at 06:46 PM

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Originally posted by noproblemo2

Gee I know what to make you when you come for dinner!!!! :lol:

I'd be honored.
Do you remember the last time we had a Spam thread here? It turns into a really emotional subject. :lol:

noproblemo2 - 3-25-2010 at 06:53 PM

Spam it is!!!! Fried or baked?

bajabass - 3-25-2010 at 06:58 PM

Have you seen the new rockin' commercials for Spam? Amusing at best. It's all ground up left-over what ever, with preservatives. I'd rather run the full gauntlet of Mom's hamburger recipes any day! Ground up, left-over "partes de baca" vs. "parters de cochino". :?:

desertcpl - 3-25-2010 at 07:06 PM

spam is great , I did live in Hawaii it was a fun dish,, as for this sandwich, yuck,, but I never tried it,,

tiotomasbcs - 3-26-2010 at 06:14 AM

Elvis Presley Special! Can you imagine the conditions in a Mexican meat processing plants?! My Lab would eat it tho & want more.

capt. mike - 3-26-2010 at 07:53 AM

that has to be the worst sandwich i have EVER heard of.
:barf:

i do admit an affinity for "beggin strips"
and another favorite i put on Obama Pizza..."Pup"eroni.

Lobsterman - 3-27-2010 at 05:37 AM

History of Spam

Hawaiians have a love affair with Spam - they eat it as a delicacy, adding it to soups and stews, treating it as a side dish for breakfast, and enjoying it as the main event for lunch and dinner. Residents of Hawaii consume more Spam than populations anywhere else in the world: More than four million cans every year, or an average twelve cans of Spam per person per year. In fact,
Hawaii is so well associated with Spam that Hormel even introduced a limited edition "Hawaii" can in 2003.
The Hormel Company, in Austin, Minnesota, developed America's first canned ham in 1926. After the ham's were cut, the company was left with thousands of pounds of nearly worthless pork shoulder. Jay C. Hormel, son of Hormel founder George A. Hormel, developed the ideas of using the pork shoulder in a new product called "Hormel Spiced Ham."
Since the name was rather uninspiring, a contest was held at a new year's Eve party for a new name with a $100 prize to the winner. The winning name was the name it goes by today - Spam. Kenneth Daigneau, an actor and the brother of a Hormel vice president Ralph Daigeau, won the contest.
During World War II, sales of Spam soared. In part because it requires no refrigeration, Spam was perfect for the military and became a standard K-ration for U.S. soldiers. Military personnel introduced it in Hawaii and elsewhere.

capt. mike - 3-27-2010 at 06:20 AM

the heir of Spam lives in Phx area and is a total eccentric. G. Hormel.

he has been in the news a lot past years for his outrageous behavior.

he reminds me of a modern day Howard Hughes during his last years.

Pompano - 3-27-2010 at 09:17 AM

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Originally posted by Gypsy Jan
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Anyway, here is a recipe for a Baja Mystery Meat Sandwich:

12 grain Orowheat Bread (owned by Bimbo)

Mystery Meat sliced 1/4" thick (we like the pavo or maybe it just sounds a little bit safer)

Skippy Extra Chunky Peanut Butter

Strawberry jam

Mayo

Powdered Garlic

Freshly Ground Pepper

Spread the peanut butter on one slice of bread, top it with the strawberry jam

Spread a thin layer of mayo on the other slice of bread, grind pepper to taste.

Place slice(e) of Mystery Meat on top of the mayo/pepper and sprinkle the powdered on the MM.

Combine the two slices and...bon appetit!

I just tried it..was simply delicious.

BUT..I improved it. I added some day-old lutefisk.

desertcpl - 3-27-2010 at 09:43 AM

:barf:

Woooosh - 3-27-2010 at 02:12 PM

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Originally posted by desertcpl
:barf:

no kidding. You think this Italian mystery meat is going too far? If it's for kids, how do they see what fun they are eating between two slices of bread...
:?:

DENNIS - 3-27-2010 at 03:22 PM

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Originally posted by Woooosh

If it's for kids, how do they see what fun they are eating between two slices of bread...
:?:

WOW....This is just like seeing Jesus in a Tortilla.
Hey, Woooosh....Call the Enquirer. This is big stuff.

Woooosh - 3-27-2010 at 07:08 PM

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Originally posted by DENNIS

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Originally posted by Woooosh

If it's for kids, how do they see what fun they are eating between two slices of bread...
:?:

WOW....This is just like seeing Jesus in a Tortilla.
Hey, Woooosh....Call the Enquirer. This is big stuff.

Huge. I was gonna have them slice me a half-kilo because it was half price- but I was afraid in might be pork.