I am home alone, abandoned by my wife, who has gone out for a meal with a group of people she used to work with. It is cold and there is little in the house to eat. So far I have kept body and soul together with a few crumpets I found hanging around and I am going to fry a few onions in a minute as we have a couple of finger rolls and some hot dog sausages left over from yesterday. It is, as repasts go, adequate.
Tomorrow we will have mushroom pilaff as a neighbour brought us a dish round, having made more than she needed. We will eat it with the last of the hot dog sausages. There are eight in a jar and only two of us. They are the big ones, about a foot long and doubtless crammed with more animal detritus than I would wish to know about. However, they are cheap and I like them. Eight for £2 and they last for 3 meals. At that price you don’t expect actual meat. I once spoke to a man who owned a food processing factory and he said the best ingredient for hot dog sausages was chicken skin. Well, it’s often the best bit of the roast chicken so why not use it?
He used to have a great line of pork pies too. They used chicken and pink food dye to produce the meat filling, but he had to stop using the recipe when picky politicians passed a law about having pork in pork pies.
And I can’t tell you about the cow head machine, or you’ll never eat a processed meat product again.
Header picture is a proper pork pie. Footer is a group of cute piglets, as they pause to smell the flowers on their journey towards a sausage skin.
Politics you say? Yes, there has been some politics, but I’m placing it exactly in the hierarchy where it deserves to be. First I will discuss poultry byproducts, then I will go and fry some onions. Maybe after that I will return and discuss politics. I may even discuss biproducts – they are not the same as byproducts but they don’t set off the spellchecker so care is needed. Fortunately I checked, as I was hazy on the spelling. A biproduct is a term used In category theory and its applications and as a result of my diversion I know that it is both a product and a coproduct and of no possible use to anyone but a mathematician.
I am not a mathematician and prefer my pies with an “e”. See what I did there? Mathematical pun. I’m on a roll tonight.
Piglets – like a pork pie but not as crusty
I am fortunate I do not like sausages, hotdogs or processed meat, though I do admit to liking liverwurst sandwiches when I was very young. 🙂
All well and good, but my love of junk food is saving the world from being buried under tons of offal. 🙂 I am like one of those insignificant but essential microbes you see on nature programmes.
I would be hard pressed to call anything in a food web insignificant. 🙂
Yes, there is nothing you can remove without making things worse, it is true.
You poor, little Oliver Twist baby, you. Cold and hungry and alone . . . LOL Love the mathematical word play. And those piggies are precious!
After 30 years I am unable to function without guidance from Julia. Well, she calls it “guidance” . . .
A fascinating post. Perhaps Julia should leave you to starve more often. I used to like doner kebabs until Becky told me what went into them
I think you have to ignore the ingredients and concentrate on the flavour. 🙂
Was the roll that you were on crusty or a soft bap?
Soft, I’m not allowed crusty rolls due to the radius of crumbs I produce.
A delightful wander of the mind.pi , pie and piety – you missed the last one.
Yes, I was caught up with the rediscovered piglet picture and didn’t think of piety, which fits so well.