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Most cured meat products are ways to preserve cheaper cuts of meat for a long time. Salamis, mortadellas, head cheese. That doesn't mean they're not delicious

Most cured meat products are ways to preserve cheaper cuts of meat for a long time. Salamis, mortadellas, head cheese. That doesn't mean they're not delicious.

zdkl 4y ago
I'm afraid the downvoters don't want to know how the sausage is made. (Sorry)
coldtea 4y ago
>Most cured meat products are ways to preserve cheaper cuts of meat for a long time. Which is neither here, nor there. We're a long from that being the only case, in italy, france, spain, etc. there are cured meat products that cost more than your house (well, close enough), as well as tons of excellent, well prepared, well aged, high quality cured meat. "Pepperoni" is not that. It's the cured meat equivalent of spray cheese.
- brorfred 4y ago
  And there is absolute crap cured meat in those countries too. The most disgusting pizza I've ever had was a Dr Oetker's frozen pizza with gross salami as topping. Seems like the brand is sold in Italy: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2005856/Ristorante-Italys-popular-pizza-manufactured-Lancashire-Dr-Oetker.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2005856/Ristorante-...
  - coldtea 4y ago
    >Dr Oetker's frozen pizza I'll stop you right here... If you're Italian you don't buy "frozen pizza". You make your own, or you go to a good pizzeria...
    - ps901 4y ago
      Then why do frozen pizzas exist in Italian supermarkets?
      - coldtea 4y ago
        Well, there's an opera in Nebraska as well, but I wouldn't consider it as some indicator of the state's cultural preferences...
    - brorfred 4y ago
      Seem like at least some do: https://www.statista.com/statistics/912207/frozen-pizza-sales-volume-by-category-in-italy/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/912207/frozen-pizza-sale... https://ihsmarkit.com/research-analysis/booming-italian-frozen-food-sales.html https://ihsmarkit.com/research-analysis/booming-italian-froz... My point is that every country has good and bad food. You can find some of the worst “cheese” in the us, but also amazing artisan kinds that is is exuberantly priced. American country ham has won over Parma and iberico in blind tests by experts. There isn’t one Italy or one United States or one Sweden. It all depends on where you look…

Most cured meat products are ways to preserve cheaper cuts of meat for a long time. Salamis, mortadellas, head cheese. That doesn't mean they're not delicious.

zdkl 4y ago

I'm afraid the downvoters don't want to know how the sausage is made. (Sorry)

coldtea 4y ago

>Most cured meat products are ways to preserve cheaper cuts of meat for a long time. Which is neither here, nor there. We're a long from that being the only case, in italy, france, spain, etc. there are cured meat products that cost more than your house (well, close enough), as well as tons of excellent, well prepared, well aged, high quality cured meat. "Pepperoni" is not that. It's the cured meat equivalent of spray cheese.

brorfred 4y ago
And there is absolute crap cured meat in those countries too. The most disgusting pizza I've ever had was a Dr Oetker's frozen pizza with gross salami as topping. Seems like the brand is sold in Italy: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2005856/Ristorante-Italys-popular-pizza-manufactured-Lancashire-Dr-Oetker.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2005856/Ristorante-...
- coldtea 4y ago
  >Dr Oetker's frozen pizza I'll stop you right here... If you're Italian you don't buy "frozen pizza". You make your own, or you go to a good pizzeria...
  - ps901 4y ago
    Then why do frozen pizzas exist in Italian supermarkets?
    - coldtea 4y ago
      Well, there's an opera in Nebraska as well, but I wouldn't consider it as some indicator of the state's cultural preferences...
  - brorfred 4y ago
    Seem like at least some do: https://www.statista.com/statistics/912207/frozen-pizza-sales-volume-by-category-in-italy/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/912207/frozen-pizza-sale... https://ihsmarkit.com/research-analysis/booming-italian-frozen-food-sales.html https://ihsmarkit.com/research-analysis/booming-italian-froz... My point is that every country has good and bad food. You can find some of the worst “cheese” in the us, but also amazing artisan kinds that is is exuberantly priced. American country ham has won over Parma and iberico in blind tests by experts. There isn’t one Italy or one United States or one Sweden. It all depends on where you look…