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My parents called this afternoon, and I told my mum which food and beverages to avoid because of the bouts of gout she has. She told me she didn't have red meat often.

I asked what will be for tea today, and she said they're going to have lobscouse. I wondered whether they cooked it themselves, and then my dad said he bought it in a tin.

I googled a bit, and here are the results I got:

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http://city-souvenir-shop.de/online/Shop/images/product_images/info_images/396_0.jpg

http://www.bremen.de/fastmedia/113/thumbnails/labskaus_logo_.jpg.273241.jpg

http://www.paul-schrader.de/WebRoot/pschraderdb/Shops/ps-shop/images/products/500x500/3018.178.jpg

http://images.manufactum.de/manufactum/grossbild/82104_1.jpg

http://www.supermarktcheck.de/img/product/picture/medium_575f434babeb96eed79b44217eec1ccf.jpg

http://imagesb.ciao.com/ide/images/products/normal/413/product-769413.jpg

This one came up, too. I can only guess that the man just enjoyed a lobscouse meal and now wants some decaff

http://espresso-international.de/modules/shop/images/custom/item.5ad292640a2703eecab311.jpg

My dad offered to bring a few tins, but I don't eat beef, so I declined.
I'm sure I could buy it somewhere and send to any interested parties in the UK, though.

Is this like SPAM or corned beef???

No, it's this: A47229230

I never knew xou can buy it in a tin.

Oh!!!

I don't know if I would like it..but I could see myself eating this as a form of economy meal in a pinch..

Something filling, at least,huh???

If this is anything like what I was served at school...

It's certainly filling, MS.

And I'm sure it is *exactly* what you were served at school, DQ.

Hilarious. I like the tin that says it's made from Highland Cattle.

We make our hashes a bit simpler...just corned beef, potatoes, onions.

At east they're honest in declaring where the beef comes from. I dound a site from 12 years ago. There was quite a scandal about tinned lobscouse, because it was made from illegally imported beef from Great Britain, butr didn't say so on the tin.

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(sorry, just tickled me that did)

That was the reaction I aimed for.

Glad it worked out.

Hullo!

Hello sf. How are you?

Fine, thanks.
And how are you, B'El?

I thought I'd posted this on another thread, and was about to post it here too... Never mind. Must be my alzheimer's or something...

Oh, I can currently hardly keep up with all the threads on here, so you may well have posted it elsewhere.

Do you think we could knit a jumper or something with all those threads?

Oh, we certainly could. A very colourful one it would be, too.

Indeed, indeed!!! With the loose ends, we could even stich some little pictures, like or

Lobscouse in a tin is genius! Mind you, I think that all tinned-foods are brilliant. I don't think that because tinned-food neccesarily tastes good but it makes me think of arctic explorers and adventurers. *And* tinned-food can remain edible for decades, as long as the tin remains intact (though it is possible that some tins aren't opened because no-one wants to eat what's inside ). I also find it amusing that tin-openers weren't invented until several decades after tinned-food was invented. Anyway, my life would definitely be poorer if it had never contained condensed soup in a tin.

I won't be any help with the knitting but I'm pretty nifty with cross-stitch if that's any use.

Hope you're well Bel

We don't often eat tinned food, but I usually have a couple of them - just in case I run out of things to cook or have no idea/not in the mood/no time to cook something from scratch.
I'm not too sure about tinned lobscouse, though.

I'm well, slowly settling back to normal.

Glad to hear you're recovering.

This lobscous really sounds awful! Well, to each their own,
I ran into a "mystery meat" on the menu of a rural diner the other day. To your salad, you could add "Medlin Meat"!
A ?? to the waitress revealed this is a salt pork. Not the same a Country Ham, but similar, I suppose.
None of us ordered this, by the way.