FOOD Vienna Sausages - Yea or Nay?
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CaryC
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Vi-anna's are one of those nitchy foods. Much like Mustard Sardines.
They ain't for everyone.
Peanut Butter use to be a staple food, now days, to many people (mostly children) are allergic to peanuts. So much so, that Walmarts has quit carrying peanut butter cookies (which I miss) and lots of products state that are not made with peanut oil, or have no peanut products in them.
I buy it by the large jar. Larger the better.
Foods are a hit and miss on what people like. I'm a simple meat and potatoes and Ramon Noodles guy, and all of my son's in laws wouldn't touch that with a 10 foot pole. No harm, no foul, just different.
@mecoastie probably has the best advise.
They ain't for everyone.
Peanut Butter use to be a staple food, now days, to many people (mostly children) are allergic to peanuts. So much so, that Walmarts has quit carrying peanut butter cookies (which I miss) and lots of products state that are not made with peanut oil, or have no peanut products in them.
I buy it by the large jar. Larger the better.
Foods are a hit and miss on what people like. I'm a simple meat and potatoes and Ramon Noodles guy, and all of my son's in laws wouldn't touch that with a 10 foot pole. No harm, no foul, just different.
@mecoastie probably has the best advise.
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Dobbin
Faithful Steed
As a little boy and not really understanding how poor we were, we used to get something my grandma called "commodities". it was simply surplus food which, looking back, probably was an extension of government subsidies for farmers and food producers as well as keeping the food chain well-fed after the slump following war production. I still don't know the exact details but I do remember mostly two things I really loved - big #10 cans of government peanut butter and 5-lb blocks of government cheese (usually a medium cheddar like Longhorn cheddar was). I imagine there were lots of other things in the commodities program like beans, rice and so on, but I just don't know what the whole program consisted of.
I do remember my grandma's house (who our mom and us two brothers lived with) was in town and it had running water and an indoor bathroom. We got our drinking water from a cistern just outside the back door, though; I don't recall why but there was always a bucket of cold water on the kitchen counter with a big ladle to get a drink from. Visiting relatives out in the country, though, they had cisterns too, but no indoor plumbing. They all had outhouses.
I've eaten a ton of Vienna sausages. Pretty bland fare but I don't ever remember turning them down. And mustard sardines? Yum. But then again I really like sardines and crackers almost as much as a tall glass of cornbread & sweet milk.
Profit of Doom
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That peanut butter could patch battleships, as I recall
Border Collie Dad
Flat Earther
The canned pork was to die for!
Milkweed Host
Veteran Member
If you want to do meat, I'd go with Hormel's Spam.
I've tried Vienna Sausages and would describe them as salted cardboard logs.
I've tried Vienna Sausages and would describe them as salted cardboard logs.
CaryC
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Have eaten a lot of commodities in my day. So know from experience what that is all about.
Still keeping a bucket of water on a sill, with a ladle while at the same time running (city) water was due to taste. While my grandparents didn't have a cistern, they had a dug by hand well. The water out of that thing was the best.
And look .....(pauses as he looks both ways....) SB's cornbread is the main course. All that other stuff she fixes like pork chops, purple hull peas, potatoes are all side dishes. You don't even need sweet or butter milk with it. Just a heaping tablespoon of butter on each piece to help it go down better, is all.
And remember, Vienna sausages are great to help you diagnose and find out if you have gall bladder problems.
Those were cheap when I was growing up.
We called em Tube Steak in a can.
Bologna was Round Steak
Spam was a treat back then as was canned Tuna.
I prefer not to have to eat any of that again.
To many dry beans and foods like that drove me to hardcore hunting, fishing, trapping and large gardens so that my family has fresh food.
We called em Tube Steak in a can.
Bologna was Round Steak
Spam was a treat back then as was canned Tuna.
I prefer not to have to eat any of that again.
To many dry beans and foods like that drove me to hardcore hunting, fishing, trapping and large gardens so that my family has fresh food.
nomifyle
TB Fanatic
We had vienna sausage when I was growing up. I know its not healthy, but I have some in my pantry and have a can from time to time, fills the belly. Sardines in mustard, I have that too, but I prefer it in olive oil and put my own mustard on it.
If you want to help a food bank cash is always king.
If you want to help a food bank cash is always king.
155 arty
Veteran Member
The old plain brown box velveta shape box ...was the shiznit .. that cheese was the best
If you are doing it in the South, or in areas where there are a lot of homeless that live out in the forest and such like ... yeah, Vienna Sausages are a food of choice. The "hobo" type homeless even turn the cans into mugs and cooking pots. I know most people now turn their nose up at them but they are easy to carry and last an eternity. They now make them in chicken as well as flavors like BBQ. I have a case that gets rotated every year. If we don't eat them as a family ... and my kids won't touch them anymore and I really shouldn't ... the contractors we hire or several of our tenants always ask if we have any extra to share.
CaryC
Has No Life - Lives on TB
LOL that's not really a thing in MY south......anymore. Back in "O Brother Where Art Thou" days yeah.
Today in MY south, the homeless live in town, so they have easy access to .....whatever. Or on the other side it makes it easy for "programs" to get to them. They live under the bridges in Tupelo.
Everybody knows who they are and what their names are. And they try on a regular basis to get them to move into some of the shelters and programs they have in town, but they won't. A couple of years ago one of guys got up and headed across the street early in the AM for breakfast at a Quickie Mart type establishment and got hit by a car and died. All news outlets put up warnings about the homeless in Tupelo, and to be watchful when nearing bridges in town.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
I like both!
My Grandpa got those commodities - back maybe late 50's early 60's? That was the BEST danged peanut butter and cheese. They didn't really eat much peanut butter, so they usually gave it to us. Also, really good canned corned beef. (When I was in grade school, a lot of that gov't stuff ended up in our little country school for hot lunches. Our cook was a flaming goddess of the kitchen, and she always made everything taste so good - no matter what it was).
Haha...the grandparents didn't have running water in the house, just the hand pump halfway out to the barn. I remember the taste of the water from that pail and dipper Grandma kept in the kitchen to this very day! No electricity until the late 50's, still, Grandpa bought a propane fridge from the local co-op store because he didn't trust the power, and rightly so as far back in the toolies as they lived. Yes, the outhouse was a given, as was the warmth from Grandma's wood-fired cookstove in the kitchen. I still have their fully functioning Aladdin kerosene lamp sitting on my dinner table as I write this. In fact, I lit it for my visiting brother the other evening when we were sitting around after supper swapping the B.S.
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Texican
Live Free & Die Free.... God Freedom Country....
Our furr buddies like Vienna Sausage, but will also eat veggies. Not a fan of Vienna Sausage, their taste and texture are not appealing.
Donate to a food bank as you do with older canned food.
Just after one new years, my wife was at Albertson's where they had put frozen turkeys on sale and the wife made a deal with the butcher for a better price for taking all of the turkeys, over two dozen. The food banks were grateful for the food.
We also gave food to a food bank that was helping those out of work and the pastor told us that it would be better to provide easy to fix food. My wife and I looked at him and informed him that we would no longer provide food to his cause for being ungrateful for our help, we had other groups to give to.
Texican....
Texican...
Donate to a food bank as you do with older canned food.
Just after one new years, my wife was at Albertson's where they had put frozen turkeys on sale and the wife made a deal with the butcher for a better price for taking all of the turkeys, over two dozen. The food banks were grateful for the food.
We also gave food to a food bank that was helping those out of work and the pastor told us that it would be better to provide easy to fix food. My wife and I looked at him and informed him that we would no longer provide food to his cause for being ungrateful for our help, we had other groups to give to.
Texican....
Texican...
CaryC
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Which reminds me:
We had a Mississippi Croc on the hunting club back in back near the river in some old gravel pits, Had Bream bigger than your hand in there great fishing. Anyway.
He/she/it loved Vi-anna's. When you drove up it would come up and look at you, waiting. Pull out a can of Vi-anna's (they float) and watch him go after them. 'Course it loved raw roast, and chicken too. Didn't even matter if it was frozen. If you made a miswack, it would come up on the bank and get it.
It was great fun, just don't get close.
Illini Warrior
Illini Warrior
for your SHTF home pantry - canned meat - yes, even at the Bidenflation $$$ ....
for donating to a food pantry - better off getting a pound of pasta for the same $$$$
for donating to a food pantry - better off getting a pound of pasta for the same $$$$
You had to bring up braunschweiger....grew up on that, great on dark rye with mustard. Can't have it or vienna sausages (not bad with barbecue sauce; the kids liked them) anymore (salt content )
My Dad born in 1910..... Graduated from high school in 1929..... when I was a kid ...he still ate so many of the things you mention for lunch on Saturday and quite a few more.... Vienna sausages....make split down them and add mustard of your choice it really adds to the taste.....kipper snacks ...sardines in oil....no mustard...now in olive oil....canned mackrel....potted meat.... smoked oysters now in olive oil......deviled ham....even more flavors now chicken, roast beef, corned beef...... growing up we had canned corned beef from time to time...not bad on sandwich or with potatoes, onions and cabbage...I still have a taste for all of them....it was depression food....
I remember my Dad's sister making scrambled eggs with canned fish row.....
DH still has a taste for them also...his Dad was born later but grew up during the depression are them also....he took things like that hunting in the woods....so DH grew up eating them too..
We both remember melted peanut butter sandwiches...
We keep some of all of it around...lasts forever.. and now even some canned trout.....
it is canned protein that lastest nearly forever and some have the omega vitamins.....a lot better than bugs..
We have the normal canned tuna...and such but...glad to have the other also for variety....and greatful we learned to eat them young....we may need to eat them again before long...with way prices are...
I remember my Dad's sister making scrambled eggs with canned fish row.....
DH still has a taste for them also...his Dad was born later but grew up during the depression are them also....he took things like that hunting in the woods....so DH grew up eating them too..
We both remember melted peanut butter sandwiches...
We keep some of all of it around...lasts forever.. and now even some canned trout.....
it is canned protein that lastest nearly forever and some have the omega vitamins.....a lot better than bugs..
We have the normal canned tuna...and such but...glad to have the other also for variety....and greatful we learned to eat them young....we may need to eat them again before long...with way prices are...
Meemur
Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
Yes, call ahead! Canned meat (tuna, etc) and peanut butter tend to be in short supply.
That said, any meat -- even venison -- would be well received at our local food bank. The clients who use ours have homes and kitchens. They are generally the elderly on extremely tight incomes, not homeless druggies.
That said, any meat -- even venison -- would be well received at our local food bank. The clients who use ours have homes and kitchens. They are generally the elderly on extremely tight incomes, not homeless druggies.
Florida still has a lot of homeless occupying state parks and "sensitive land" as a way to avoid being picked up as vagrants. A lot of these homeless/hobo types are seasonal. Middle of summer a lot of homeless head north or head out to Cali. In part they do it to avoid becoming gang-chow. We have a large VA here in Tampa that draws some of them but not as many as people think. For "some reason" the homeless Vets and homeless-by-choice crowd no longer trust the government and their hand outs.
I worked with the local homeless coalition for a few years. Even helped publish a text called Old and Homeless that differentiated adult and/or teen homeless from the older homeless population. Pretty interesting though I'm sure that all of the populations within the homeless population have changed, just as they have geographically.
My wife likes 3 cans sliced (4 or 5 slices per sausage - it takes a while to prep), browned and scrambled with eggs. She does 4 eggs with 3 cans, I do 6 eggs with 3 cans. It's one of the few "prepper" foods that we can use on the carnivore diet. We sure can't use rice, beans, and honey...lol.