# Deviled Ham? It's CAT FOOD! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 4, 2004, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deviled-ham-its-cat-food/248723 "2004-06-04T22:58:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deviled-ham-its-cat-food/248723/41 "2004-06-05T16:52:21Z")
> [@Dr. Rieux](#): > > Deviled ham ain’t too bad, but potted meat–that’s just false advertising. False advertising? > [@](#): > > Sandwich? Ham and his descendants musterred and bred there. Potted meats. What is home without Plumtree’s potted meat? Incomplete. What a stupid ad! Under the obituary notices they stuck it. All up a plumtree. Dignam’s potted meat. Cannibals would with lemon and rice. White missionary too salty. Like pickled pork. Expect the chief consumes the parts of honour. Ought to be tough from exercise. His wives in a row to watch the effect. --James Joyce, _Ulysses_ With it, an abode of bliss. 😃 > [@Eve](#): > > And so, Sarah fashioned the Deviled Meats into a crude bridge out the window to the next tenement building, where the young Marx Brothers adopted her and worked her into their act as Lotta Miles. George and his guests went hungry, and somewhere Satan laughed. Yeah, a corset tease always puts me in the mind of a meat-bridge, too. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deviled-ham-its-cat-food/248723/42 "2004-06-05T17:21:58Z")
It ain’t cat food. My cats won’t touch the stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Phedre\_no\_Delaunay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/839c29/32.png) [@Phedre\_no\_Delaunay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phedre_no_Delaunay)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deviled-ham-its-cat-food/248723/43 "2004-06-05T17:23:36Z")
> [@Early Out](#): > > While I’ll happily consume Deviled Ham or Chicken Spread, I’m with you on the generic “potted meat.” I don’t think I want to know what’s in it. You don’t? Well, since I happen to have a can in my pantry, I’ll tell you anyway. Mechanically separated chicken, partially defatted cooked pork fatty tissue, beef tripe, partially defatted cooked beef fatty tissue, vinegar, salt, spices, sugar, natural flavors, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite. Doesn’t that sound tasty? :eek: As for deviled things, I prefer the Deviled Roast Beef spread. ---
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deviled-ham-its-cat-food/248723/44 "2004-06-05T18:42:39Z")
> [@Phèdre nó Delaunay](#): > > Mechanically separated chicken, partially defatted cooked pork fatty tissue, beef tripe, partially defatted cooked beef fatty tissue, vinegar, salt, spices, sugar, natural flavors, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite. > > Doesn’t that sound tasty? :eek: Mmmmm, beef tripe… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deviled-ham-its-cat-food/248723/45 "2004-06-05T21:21:09Z")
**Soylent Ham is _people!_** (Actually, I like UDH on occasion.) ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deviled-ham-its-cat-food/248723/46 "2004-06-06T03:05:26Z")
> [@syncrolecyne](#): > > Has anyone had the courage to eat “Potted Meat Product”? It usually comes in tiny blue cans and is sold by the Vienna Sausages, Spam, and Underwood Ham. That stuff was so scary looking and smelling. Nothing I have ever fed to a dog or a cat could possibly taste as bad. Yeah, I think dog food is better quality than “Libby’s Potted Meat Food Product.” Thank you for reminding me of a painful experience. I was visiting my family, and we went to the beach one lovely summer day. Before we left, my mom was sitting at the table, counting out cans of “Libby’s Potted Meat Food Product.” I jokingingly said, “What’s that, lunch?” I was so not expecting her to say “Yes.” It took me a few seconds to realize that yes, she was serious, and we were having this–“meat”–for lunch. So we went to the beach, had a very nice time, and then we sat down at a picnic table for lunch. A loaf of bread, a box of Triscuits, about 6 cans of “Potted Meat Food Product,” and a can of pork and beans. I think we also had a couple of cans of Vienna Sausages. As we all know, “Potted Meat Food Product” just looks digusting. I really couldn’t eat it after I read the label. That “partially defatted beef fatty tissue” and “partially defatted pork fatty tissue” just put me off. Ewwwwwwww!!! Fatty tissue??!! What the heck is that? It just doesn’t sound like something anyone should eat, ever, under any circumstances. So I had a very sparse lunch. We went to the mall after that, and I made a beeline for the food court, got some relatively healthy french fries. My mom never was very good at meal planning. ME ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deviled-ham-its-cat-food/248723/47 "2004-06-06T03:09:48Z")
I tried Potted Meat Product once. Once. I’m under the impression that it’s like pureed Vienna sausages. Now, I can stomach tinned Vienna sausages; but one taste of the Potted meat Product, and it was into the bin with _that!_ ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deviled-ham-its-cat-food/248723/48 "2004-06-06T03:27:40Z")
That “Underwood history” link is great. I especially like this part: > [@](#): > > But best of all, the taste was unique. If you ever eat dinner at my house and the best thing you can say about my cooking is that it was “unique”, you’re washing all the dishes. ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deviled-ham-its-cat-food/248723/49 "2004-06-06T17:20:23Z")
> [@Phèdre nó Delaunay](#): > > Mechanically separated chicken, partially defatted cooked pork fatty tissue, beef tripe, partially defatted cooked beef fatty tissue, vinegar, salt, spices, sugar, natural flavors, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite. [Mechanically separated chicken](http://www.reuven.com/meats/msm.html) is made by forcing chicken bones with bits of meat attached through a sieve at very high pressures. The bones go through the sieve and the “meat” stays behind. There’s a picture of the resulting slurry in the above link. Partially defatted cooked [beef,pork] fatty tissue: fatty tissue that’s been rendered slightly, like pork cracklins. Given these two ingredients, I’m suspicious of what they include under “spices” and “natural flavors”. Since they feel safe revealing the others, what’s in “spices”? :dubious: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deviled-ham-its-cat-food/248723.md?page=2)