Weekend event - Klik and Kam

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

I really wanted to post in this weekend event, but I couldn't dig up much for these two fine Maple Leaf canned lunch meats, Klik and Kam. Klik is "premium pork luncheon meat" and Kam contains chicken and pork. I don't believe I have had either in my lifetime! We were always a Hereford Corned Beef household (no bologna either!) and my brother and I used to fight over who got to open the can with the little key. I still enjoy a slice of fried corned beef now and then!

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[pronker]

Glad you found these 'cause I've not heard of them. And they're from Canada, per the label, or at least Canada packers. Neato! I'm sure your brother and you had such darn fun opening the can carefully so as not to derail the little curl of metal because once that happens, it's back to using pliers to finish the job.

We had Mary Kitchen "Roast Beef" Hash with eggs on top on Wednesday night, the only brand I'm recalling that says roast beef and not corned. Tasted the same.

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Huh, canned roast beef sounds intriguing. I am going grocery shopping tomorrow and will have to inspect the meat aisle a little more thoroughly now :-)

Canada Packers has been gone for many years now. I grew up in an area now quaintly known as the "packing district" in Edmonton, Alberta. The pork processing plants were all close to the rail line and it was not unusual to see trucks of pigs going off to their fate on any given day. There was Gainers, Canada Packers, Burns, a feed mill and Capital Packers all within a stone's throw of each other. For the longest time all you could see on Google Maps was the smokestack of Capital Packers after it was torn down - but it looks like something is being developed there now.

[pronker]

Bless google maps, I say! We get to see homes long ago lived in and such other nostalgic things ...

[danthered.livejournal.com]

Nonlexical, more-or-less-single-syllable names on canned, dubitably-alleged meat products seem to be a longrunning thing: Spam, Kam, Klik, okeh; also Prem (http://www.mapleleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/swift-premium-pork-luncheon-meat_225.jpg), Treet (https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3791/10721187344_323fa9e132.jpg), Zwan (http://www.portercart.com/images/products/1000_800/0rm7hgoe_1.png), and—best of all, Skunch (https://youtu.be/8t7tgG1i3f8?t=10m48s)!

[progbear.livejournal.com]

“Are you sure this is dog food?”
“Well, it’s got a picture of a dog on it.”

For whatever reason, Diet Chicken Bars always makes me giggle.

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

LOL! Oh Mission Hill! I haven't watched that in years! I never saw the whole run because it was on too late or something.

The names don't really (in my mind) sell the product at all :S Skunch is good as anything else haha.