# Ever Fire a Meat Cannon? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 24, 2006, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-fire-a-meat-cannon/365886 "2006-07-24T22:42:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-fire-a-meat-cannon/365886/21 "2006-07-26T17:49:59Z")
I think this is the meat canon. And how one fires it. It can also be fired with liquid oxygen. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-fire-a-meat-cannon/365886/22 "2006-07-26T17:54:33Z")
[QUOTE=js\_africanus] I think this is the meat canon. And how one fires it. It can also be fired with liquid oxygen. [/QUOTE] I think I asked for _medium rare_, not _vaporized_. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-fire-a-meat-cannon/365886/23 "2006-07-26T19:23:32Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] Hey, “meat cannon” sounds like a euphemism for “penis”. Isn’t that funny? [/QUOTE] I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-fire-a-meat-cannon/365886/24 "2006-07-26T20:30:34Z")
It’s about penises, you see. Penis. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-fire-a-meat-cannon/365886/25 "2006-07-26T20:33:53Z")
And then meat cannon ensued… ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-fire-a-meat-cannon/365886/26 "2006-07-26T20:58:19Z")
[QUOTE=JSexton] And then meat cannon ensued… [/QUOTE] Hey, you say “penis”, I say “meat cannon”. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-fire-a-meat-cannon/365886/27 "2006-07-26T21:22:02Z")
No, no, no. It’s actually about pork. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-fire-a-meat-cannon/365886/28 "2006-07-26T21:43:48Z")
I had pulled pork for lunch. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-fire-a-meat-cannon/365886/29 "2006-07-26T21:58:33Z")
[QUOTE=Winston Smith] No, no, no. It’s actually about pork. [/QUOTE] Ah ha! So this is the meat canon! ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-fire-a-meat-cannon/365886/30 "2006-07-26T21:59:41Z")
A bit if meat cannon plus a side of albino love chutney, and you’ve got a feast! ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-fire-a-meat-cannon/365886/31 "2006-07-26T22:03:13Z")
[QUOTE=js\_africanus] Ah ha! So this is the meat canon! [/QUOTE] “Sub-Primal Cut of Pork” would be a spectacularly good band name. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-fire-a-meat-cannon/365886/32 "2006-07-27T06:19:39Z")
> [@Tapioca Dextrin](#): > > I had pulled pork for lunch. :eek: You did that in a _restaurant_? You’re sick! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-fire-a-meat-cannon/365886/33 "2006-07-27T06:26:18Z")
I stopped calling it a cannon when it could only chip girly teeth. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-fire-a-meat-cannon/365886/34 "2006-07-27T09:48:22Z")
Mine just bashes em clear out…if’n she’s not careful, that is. You may resume calling it a “cannon”. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-fire-a-meat-cannon/365886/35 "2006-07-27T10:13:34Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] Mine just bashes em clear out…if’n she’s not careful, that is. You may resume calling it a “cannon”. [/QUOTE] Mine takes hers out and puts 'em in a glass of water 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-fire-a-meat-cannon/365886/36 "2006-07-27T16:48:57Z")
[QUOTE=Loopydude] “Sub-Primal Cut of Pork” would be a spectacularly good band name. [/QUOTE] Well, Primus cut an album called Pork Soda. So I guess it’s kinda already been done. meat cannon… ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-fire-a-meat-cannon/365886/37 "2006-07-27T18:02:12Z")
[QUOTE=Inigo Montoya] Well, Primus cut an album called Pork Soda. So I guess it’s kinda already been done. meat cannon… [/QUOTE] :: looking at watch and tapping foot :: Glad you decided to join us, Mr. Montoya. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-fire-a-meat-cannon/365886/38 "2006-07-27T18:39:44Z")
😃 Oh…the OP. No, can’t say with any degree of certainty that I have fired a meat _cannon_. But when I was self employed I did fire a meat _sock_. Man! Hiring her in the first place was a mistake! ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-fire-a-meat-cannon/365886/39 "2006-07-27T18:46:35Z")
Meat cannon might be best for the 4th of July. For Presidents’ Day, might I suggest Lincoln’s sumptuous [Birthday Meat Log](http://fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/recipe.cgi?r=151355)? ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-fire-a-meat-cannon/365886/40 "2006-07-27T19:29:51Z")
[QUOTE=Loopydude] Meat cannon might be best for the 4th of July. For Presidents’ Day, might I suggest Lincoln’s sumptuous [Birthday Meat Log](http://fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/recipe.cgi?r=151355)? [/QUOTE] I made meat logs on the grill a few weeks ago. I finished them under the broiler with a thick slice of munster, and a thich slice of swiss. Mmmm… meat log… :: drool… :: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-fire-a-meat-cannon/365886.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-fire-a-meat-cannon/365886.md?page=3)