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On Jun 19, 3:55 am, Bruce wrote:
Vintage Purls wrote:
On Jun 19, 7:43 am, Lizzy Taylor wrote:
Where I grew up in SE England and where I now live in NW England the
term would also be "pot plant".

Yup, that's the term in NZ too, so I suspect it's very common in the
UK and therefore NZ and Australia too. Nobody calls anything a "potted
plant" around here.

And just to confuse the issue - does the USA have an equivalent to
British "delicacy" potted meat? Cue disgusting retching sounds blech,
ptui, ptah, ptah etc...

In Canada we have potted meat, and we also have something called
(in Quebec) "cretons", which is head cheese in the rest of the
country,
and is absolutely delicious.

Higs,
Katherine

I thought potted meat was a delicacy in the 1930s. I took many sandwiches
of it to school when other children brought mashed potato sandwiches because
they couldn't afford to buy potted meat or other things.
IIRC, Spam began later, maybe in the 40s..
Emily

Bruce wrote:

But there have been several cases, including one not too
far from here, where people have grown illegal plants - purely for
medicinal purposes of course.

Oh, but of course! snicker I can guarantee you, though, if you came
this side of the pond and started offering "pot plants" to people,
you'd be arrested shortly!

Joan

"Joan E." wrote in message
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Bruce wrote:

But there have been several cases, including one not too
far from here, where people have grown illegal plants - purely for
medicinal purposes of course.

Oh, but of course! snicker I can guarantee you, though, if you came
this side of the pond and started offering "pot plants" to people,
you'd be arrested shortly!

Joan



Port St Lucie, FL, where I'm now a permanent resident, has the distinction
of having found over 60 pot grow houses in the past 6 months. Apparently
some entrepreneur decided that would be a great business to be in and went
to the trouble of putting in grow lights, and everything necessary to have a
lucrative business.

Everyone they could find that had anything to do with this "business" has
been arrested and the homes were confiscated by the city. Now we all want
to know where and how are they going to dispose of the plants. If they
decide to burn them I imagine I will be able to float over to visit with
anyone that posts on this newsgroup.

L

Lucille wrote:


Port St Lucie, FL, where I'm now a permanent resident, has the distinction
of having found over 60 pot grow houses in the past 6 months. Apparently
some entrepreneur decided that would be a great business to be in and went
to the trouble of putting in grow lights, and everything necessary to have a
lucrative business.

Everyone they could find that had anything to do with this "business" has
been arrested and the homes were confiscated by the city. Now we all want
to know where and how are they going to dispose of the plants. If they
decide to burn them I imagine I will be able to float over to visit with
anyone that posts on this newsgroup.

L


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On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:14:34 -0700, Vintage Purls
wrote:

On Jun 19, 7:43 am, Lizzy Taylor wrote:
Where I grew up in SE England and where I now live in NW England the
term would also be "pot plant".

Yup, that's the term in NZ too, so I suspect it's very common in the
UK and therefore NZ and Australia too. Nobody calls anything a "potted
plant" around here.

VP

In the part of the US where I was born 'potted' has a negative
connotation as well. AKA stinking drunk.

Bob

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:09:48 -0700, Pogonip
wrote:

Lucille wrote:

I suspect the two things are products of the same process; "machine
recovered meat", a process whereby the bones of butchered creatures are
blasted with high pressure water to remove any remaining traces of meat.
The resulting watery slurry is then scraped from the floor and compressed
to remove most of the water.
--
Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney
www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont
(Remove teeth to reply)



I was born and raised in the US and I'm happy to report that I've never seen
or heard of what you call potted meat and you know what, I don't think I'm
missing anything. It sounds ich, ach, ptui and if indeed it's worse than
SPAM, it must be truly horrific.

Lucille

Look in the supermarket aisle where the Spam, deviled ham, and other
canned meats are kept. Potted meat lives there. Canned meat as food
came about around WWII, I believe, when most everything that tasted good
was reserved for the military, and ration tickets were required for all
those items. A little potted meat flavored the beans if nothing else.

SPAM was actually developed for US military use during WW II. It was
the staple diet item for US Marines in the Pacific. Up until they
developed the freeze-dried MRE (Meal Ready to Eat), it was the major
meat source in C and K ration sets that were still in stock well into
the 70's. (I went to Basic Training in 77, and we had C rats a couple
of times, both had spam in them.)

For those of you that think Spam is horrid, jes' you watch yo'self.
That is a mainstay diet item for a lot of us Redneck types, and we can
get pretty riled about some of the strangest things.

Bob

Joan E. wrote:
Bruce wrote:

But there have been several cases, including one not too
far from here, where people have grown illegal plants - purely for
medicinal purposes of course.

Oh, but of course! snicker I can guarantee you, though, if you came
this side of the pond and started offering "pot plants" to people,
you'd be arrested shortly!

A number of people in the UK are quite convinced that cannabis can help
to alleviate the more distressing symptoms of multiple sclerosis.
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=640992005
http://chocolate.org/misc/cannabis.html
--
Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney
www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont
(Remove teeth to reply)

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:24:33 -0500, rdmorg wrote:

snip

For those of you that think Spam is horrid, jes' you watch yo'self.
That is a mainstay diet item for a lot of us Redneck types, and we can
get pretty riled about some of the strangest things.

Bob

(LOL) Perhaps it's something in the Spam that causes that reaction! ;-D

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On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:09:48 -0700, Pogonip
wrote:

Lucille wrote:

I suspect the two things are products of the same process; "machine
recovered meat", a process whereby the bones of butchered creatures are
blasted with high pressure water to remove any remaining traces of meat.
The resulting watery slurry is then scraped from the floor and
compressed
to remove most of the water.
--
Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney
www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont
(Remove teeth to reply)



I was born and raised in the US and I'm happy to report that I've never
seen
or heard of what you call potted meat and you know what, I don't think
I'm
missing anything. It sounds ich, ach, ptui and if indeed it's worse
than
SPAM, it must be truly horrific.

Lucille

Look in the supermarket aisle where the Spam, deviled ham, and other
canned meats are kept. Potted meat lives there. Canned meat as food
came about around WWII, I believe, when most everything that tasted good
was reserved for the military, and ration tickets were required for all
those items. A little potted meat flavored the beans if nothing else.

SPAM was actually developed for US military use during WW II. It was
the staple diet item for US Marines in the Pacific. Up until they
developed the freeze-dried MRE (Meal Ready to Eat), it was the major
meat source in C and K ration sets that were still in stock well into
the 70's. (I went to Basic Training in 77, and we had C rats a couple
of times, both had spam in them.)

For those of you that think Spam is horrid, jes' you watch yo'self.
That is a mainstay diet item for a lot of us Redneck types, and we can
get pretty riled about some of the strangest things.

Bob

I remember Spam sandwiches drowned in ketchup. All the kids had Span
sandwiches for lunch.

Murielle