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Bailey Guns
10-07-2009, 11:20
...is Dinty Moore stew quite possibly the best food on the planet?

I love those little squares of meat-like substance that are usually stuck togother in the shape of a Rubic's cube. You always have to chop them up before you microwave it or they explode.

Mmmmmmmm.....hungry!

Whenever I open a can my dogs look at me like, "Aw, sweet! He's opening a can. Looks like our food, smells like our food. But it's not dinner-time."

Serious man-food.

GreenScoutII
10-07-2009, 11:40
Explosive meat? Carefull, Homeland Security might come pay you a visit.... You're a gun owner, so you're already on the terrorist watch list..[ROFL1]

StagLefty
10-07-2009, 12:01
I just recently opened a can I found in the food cache of corned beef hash. Heated it up and added a few fried eggs and thought I'd died and gone to food heaven.I hadn't had that in years. Something so simple was that good !! [Beer]

BadShot
10-07-2009, 12:40
As with damn near everything... needs more bacon if it is to be classified as:

A. The best food on the planet
B. Man food

motorep
10-07-2009, 15:22
It's even better with a little wine mixed in while it's cooking.

Great-Kazoo
10-07-2009, 15:32
I just recently opened a can I found in the food cache of corned beef hash. Heated it up and added a few fried eggs and thought I'd died and gone to food heaven.I hadn't had that in years. Something so simple was that good !! [Beer]

dice up a few green chili's, brown them up then toss some hash over it. mmmmmmmmmmm
Don't forget the GARRRRRRLIC

GreenScoutII
10-07-2009, 15:34
I have to confess. I like Spam. Yeah, I know! Must be Redneck DNA influencing my tastebuds.

Elhuero
10-07-2009, 15:50
spam is good, the official food of hawaii

Dr_Fwd
10-07-2009, 15:52
I have to confess. I like Spam. Yeah, I know! Must be Redneck DNA influencing my tastebuds.

LOL

Dr_Fwd
10-07-2009, 15:52
As with damn near everything... needs more bacon if it is to be classified as:

A. The best food on the planet
B. Man food

+10 [Beer]

Marlin
10-07-2009, 16:13
Yeah, Badshot got you on the bacon clause.. That, and the garlic...

StagLefty
10-07-2009, 16:26
Best thing about all of these meals-CHEAP !!! [Beer]

Bailey Guns
10-07-2009, 16:55
From my perspective, the bacon thing poses a problem. I can heat a can of stew. And I can cook. But I hate to cook. I'll do it in a real survival situation but that's about where I draw the line on cooking. Bacon requires cooking.

Bacon bits in a jar is obviously the solution.

GreenScoutII
10-07-2009, 17:23
Bacon bits in a jar is obviously the solution.

Heresy!!! Repent now and your soul can still be saved!

theGinsue
10-07-2009, 17:31
Oh Bailey.

Bacon bits in a jar? Really?

Oh Bailey!

Sorry man, but you just need to turn in your man card now. The solution to not liking to cook but still getting bacon in your diet is to go to a place like village Inn or Denny's and get some or (for emergency home use) buy the pre-cookded bacon strips (usually found close to or right next to the uncooked bacon).

StagLefty
10-07-2009, 17:43
I tried that pre-cooked bacon a few weeks ago,tasted like cardboard. Bailey- real cooked bacon is like Mom and apple pie it's a given food item in the good old US of A. [Beer]

Irving
10-07-2009, 17:43
I'm with Bailey. There is a jar of bacon bits at work that I've been eating out of for the last week. Plus, you're all going to look like fools come the rapture when Bailey and I have jars of bacon bits in our bug out bags and you only have crappy MREs.

Bailey Guns
10-07-2009, 19:49
Look...just back the freakin' hog truck up for a second.

I ain't saying I don't like bacon. As a matter of fact, when it does get cooked here, I usually cook it. And I don't have a problem eating an entire 1 lb package myself...I've got the physique and blood pressure meds to proove it. Now, my wife is not only the smartest woman I've ever known but she's the best cook, too. Except she's a damn Yankee and thinks bacon should not have any scientifically detectable moisture left in it after cooking. We all know bacon should be moist and chewy...don't we all know that? Not only is she a Yankee, she's an ICU RN and works nights. So I'm usually on my own for dinner which, if you'll recall poses a problem because I don't cook. Opening a can is only slightly better than going hungry. I really don't like to cook. BTW...cooking implies preparing regular food indoors, in a kitchen, with pots and pans and stuff.

Grilling is different. I grill meat. Including parts of the pig that are left over after taking all the bacon off.

Anyway, what was the point of all this. Oh, yeah...the point of all this is, my hate for cooking generally overriddes my love of bacon. If I can get by with heating a can of His Dintyness, I'm good, bacon or no bacon. And if I have the choice of eating a can of Stewy Goodness sans bacon or garlic, or cooking, I'll take the Plain Can o' Dinty every time.


Plus, you're all going to look like fools come the rapture when Bailey and I have jars of bacon bits in our bug out bags and you only have crappy MREs.

EXACTLY! Who's gonna have man card issues then? Huh? Huh?

Thanks for watching my six on this, Sturtle.

Marlin
10-07-2009, 19:51
6.5/10
















[Tooth]

GreenScoutII
10-07-2009, 20:07
[ROFL3][ROFL3][ROFL3][ROFL3][ROFL3][ROFL3]OK. You win. You can eat bacon bits and still be cool.

SA Friday
10-07-2009, 20:16
MREs come with tobasco sauce in them. It ain't bacon, but almost anything tastes better with tobasco on it.

pickenup
10-07-2009, 20:22
...is Dinty Moore stew quite possibly the best food on the planet?
The best? Well, lets just say that the wife knows NOT to let me run out. When it gets down to just a few cans left, it is time to RESTOCK the shelf.

My only question is, on the exploding meat like substance, how many times do you cut yours up, before you heat it up? I "try" to get around 6 chunks out of it, but most of the time my IMPATIENCE to get to diggin in, only lets me get it down to 3-4. Sometimes only get to cut them in half.....just can't wait. But then I better not forget the paper plate to cover the bowl, to keep the exploding parts in, or I WILL hear about it.

Marlin
10-07-2009, 20:27
I'll just say;


Bacon ice cream..

Bailey Guns
10-07-2009, 20:44
Oh, man. My dogs LOVE bacon ice cream. I think it's called Frosty Paws. Yes...I tried it. Totally sucked. Like frozen, tasteless sawdust. A dog's tastebuds must be much more sensitive than mine.

Eewwww...imagine what other stuff they lick tastes like.

Bailey Guns
10-07-2009, 20:59
Two words...

www.baconnaise.com (http://www.baconnaise.com)

Bacon flavored - mayonaise stuff, lip balm, air freshener, salts...

If it can be flavored by bacon, these bacontrepreneurs flavor it with bacon.


My only question is, on the exploding meat like substance, how many times do you cut yours up, before you heat it up? I "try" to get around 6 chunks out of it, but most of the time my IMPATIENCE to get to diggin in, only lets me get it down to 3-4. Sometimes only get to cut them in half.....just can't wait. But then I better not forget the paper plate to cover the bowl, to keep the exploding parts in, or I WILL hear about it.

I think it's essential that each cube be cut in half. There are usually 4 or 5 cubes per can. I am meticulous about cutting the cubes. It can't be any other way.

Now...what about the usually large lump of white, coagulated lard that's at the bottom of the can. Does anyone NOT scrape that out and melt it into the stew?

GreenScoutII
10-07-2009, 21:03
Eewwww...imagine what other stuff they lick tastes like.

My dog Riggs once ate and regurgitated the same lizard THREE times before I took it away from him.. Also, he ate one of these desert toads we have out here in the summer time. I don't know if they are hallucinogenic or not, but the poor bastard wasn't right for a week. Reptiles and amphibians must taste like bacon...

Bailey Guns
10-07-2009, 21:08
Riggs be trippin'. [Eek3]

newracer
10-07-2009, 21:33
Dinty Moore stew used to be good when it had actual meat in it. I am not sure what the brown chunks in it now are. [Puke]

Irving
10-07-2009, 22:16
I've had chocolate covered bacon before. A friend had a bacon party where everyone had to bring a different bacon based food item.

I screw up cooking bacon in a frying pan too easily, so I just do it the lazy way and deep fry the bacon.

GreenScoutII
10-07-2009, 22:27
Deep fried bacon you say? That might be the best idea in the history of mankind! I'm gonna do it right now!

Bailey Guns
10-08-2009, 03:08
All of my relatives are from Alabama. Nothing gets cooked unless it's somehow cooked in bacon grease. Nothin'.

Now if you saved all your bacon grease and then deep fried your bacon in that... Yep...that could quite possibly be the best thing ever.

Marlin
10-08-2009, 05:54
I screw up cooking bacon in a frying pan too easily.




IF you ain't doing it in cast iron,, You are an automatic fail...





[ROFL1]

BigMat
10-08-2009, 07:15
I feel like a communist! I don’t even remember the last time I had a can of Dinty Moore! Bacon on the other hand, oh man, I have had plenty of bacon. The wife and I have been finding new ways to put bacon into food for years.





I have to get some stew.

theGinsue
10-09-2009, 01:05
I screw up cooking bacon in a frying pan too easily, so I just do it the lazy way and deep fry the bacon.

Yeah, I'm definitely going to have to try that.

Now, as far as the Dinty Moore... I can't recall the last time I are some of that. With that said, I went through my food stores in my camper today to see what I have and what I need to get for hunting season. All of the food is no older than from June of this year. I found 2 7.5oz cans of Dinty Moore Beef Stew and 1 - 7.5oz can of Dinty Moore Chicken & Dumplings. While these cans are about the size of a tennis ball, they would make for a good snack so I guess I'll be trying 'em in about a week.

ETA: I forgot to mention the bacon. I've never tried the thick sliced bacon before so I'll have to get a few pounds of that to try (cooked in a cast iron griddle).

samurai_sam
10-24-2009, 19:33
Cant go camping without it.

SA Friday
10-24-2009, 19:54
My dog Riggs once ate and regurgitated the same lizard THREE times before I took it away from him.. Also, he ate one of these desert toads we have out here in the summer time. I don't know if they are hallucinogenic or not, but the poor bastard wasn't right for a week. Reptiles and amphibians must taste like bacon...
Now that shit's funny right there..[ROFL1]

robsterclaw
10-26-2009, 22:43
Dinty Moore stew used to be good when it had actual meat in it. I am not sure what the brown chunks in it now are. [Puke]

Amen to that! I wrote them an email last year asking what the hell did they do to the meat? It used to be a realish hunk of meat, and now it's pressed and formed beef-like substance.

They wrote back we changed the formula some time ago. Well I didn't know because we had a stock pile of the good stuff.

colomtn
10-26-2009, 22:58
Tactical Bacon in an aluminum can for a shelf life of 10+ years
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Stuff it in a grenade launcher, you’ve got an anti-anti-American-Islamist-extremist tactical-edible-painful projectile.

Batteriesnare
10-26-2009, 23:04
Tactical Bacon in an aluminum can for a shelf life of 10+ years
http://co-ar15.com/forums/[IMG]http://i946.photobucket.com/albums/ad301/colomtn/tactical_canned_bacon.jpghttp://i946.photobucket.com/albums/ad301/colomtn/tactical_canned_bacon.jpg


Stuff it in a grenade launcher, you’ve got an anti-anti-American-Islamist-extremist tactical-edible-painful projectile.






Hah! That is brilliant!

theGinsue
10-26-2009, 23:10
Amen to that! I wrote them an email last year asking what the hell did they do to the meat? It used to be a realish hunk of meat, and now it's pressed and formed beef-like substance.

They wrote back we changed the formula some time ago. Well I didn't know because we had a stock pile of the good stuff.

The small can I took with me hunting must have been from their old formula because it actually had chunks of real meat.

I must say that, for a canned stew, it was actually tastey. Because the can was so small, all it actually did was wet my appetite so I had to heat up and eat the similarly small Dinty Moore Chicken & Dumplings... which were okay, but I can't see making it a regular staple of my diet.