Why isn't ground pork consumed in the western world?

[RichardE]

Originally posted by: Megatomic
We use ground pork in my home. Mix it 50/50 with ground turkey as a substitute for ground beef. Makes awesome meat loaf, "hamburgers", chili, and spaghetti sauce.

We buy it at the wal-mart superstore down the road.

I like the quotes on hamburgers when talking about using pork in them since Ham comes from pork

 

[jjones]

Hot dogs? Sausages? I'd say ground pork gets used quite a bit.

 

[KeithTalent]

I use ground pork sausage whenever I make turkey stuffing. Apple-sausage stuffing, mmmmm.

KT

 

[Mr Pickles]

brats?

 

[spidey07]

I don't know what you're talking about. Meatloaf, sausage, stews, pasta sauces, what have you. I eat plenty of ground pork in some shape or form many times a week.

 

[AmpedSilence]

I bet you it started as a religious thing, but then just became mainstream.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: SkipBaldwin
sausage?

Really....I think it's actually VERY popular in the US

 

[vi edit]

Beef is a very demanding product to raise and produce. It's expensive, takes a lot of time, and requires vast more resources than just about any other domesticated animals used for food.

For that reason alone you don't see it in a lot of countries. It's just not practical.

In the US...the land of excess, pork is considered a second rate animal by many people. Beef is the gold standard of quality meat.

As for me, I mainly use ground pork in my meatloafs. I do a half beef, half pork mix.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: Evadman
it belongs in a casing.

Sausages should never be stuff with ground meat.

 

[Srfrbum]

I think more people eat hamburgers ( beef ) in California, then pork.

 

[nanette1985]

I buy it all the time. Interestingly, here in expensive north nj suburbia, the places that don't sell ground pork are the expensive yuppie places, Kings, Market Basket, Whole Foods, etc.

Hmm, now I want to go out and make me some porkburger sandwiches for lunch.

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: spidey07
I don't know what you're talking about. Meatloaf, sausage, stews, pasta sauces, what have you. I eat plenty of ground pork in some shape or form many times a week.

and you live in podunk ass KY too!

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: foghorn67
"Pig's a filthy animal"

You know, I just figured out how to get all of the terrorists out of the US. a one year ban on all meat except Pork.

 

[bonkers325]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Originally posted by: foghorn67
"Pig's a filthy animal"

You know, I just figured out how to get all of the terrorists out of the US. a one year ban on all meat except Pork.

Jewish people cant touch pork. not even with a fork.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Joemonkey

Originally posted by: spidey07
I don't know what you're talking about. Meatloaf, sausage, stews, pasta sauces, what have you. I eat plenty of ground pork in some shape or form many times a week.

and you live in podunk ass KY too!

hey now, it's the 17th largest city in the US!

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: bonkers325

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Originally posted by: foghorn67
"Pig's a filthy animal"

You know, I just figured out how to get all of the terrorists out of the US. a one year ban on all meat except Pork.

Jewish people cant touch pork. not even with a fork.

I'm willing to risk it.

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: bonkers325

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Originally posted by: foghorn67
"Pig's a filthy animal"

You know, I just figured out how to get all of the terrorists out of the US. a one year ban on all meat except Pork.

Jewish people cant touch pork. not even with a fork.

Bonus!

 

[RKS]

Originally posted by: foghorn67
"Pig's a filthy animal"

Bacon tastes good, pork chops taste good. the pig just needs a personality.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: feralkid

Originally posted by: KLin
Because we like our pork pulled, not ground.

Nasty!

quite the contrary. Pulled pork > * pork.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: irishScott
Can't speak for the rest of the West, but the US invented the hot dog.

welllll. It's been known as the Hot Dog since the days of WW1, when anti-German propaganda was high, when this item was called frankfurter, owing to its German origins. The name "Hot dog" was adopted then, and far more successfully than the pitiful attempt to rename French Fries "Freedom Fries."

the name "hot dog" is an American construct, but the actual food item is indeed German. I still don't get "French Fries," which are Dutch.

 

[soonerproud]

Originally posted by: irishScott
Can't speak for the rest of the West, but the US invented the hot dog.

Actually, we only added the bun. The hot dog is a German invention.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: KLin
Because we like our pork pulled, not ground.

also, we call it "sausage"

i use ground pork when i make meatballs, usually 50/50 with beef

 

[soonerproud]

Originally posted by: foghorn67
"Pig's a filthy animal"

So are humans.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: RichardE
I like the quotes on hamburgers when talking about using pork in them since Ham comes from pork

So, I assume you also subscribe to Jessica Simpson's believes that Buffalo wings are in fact bison meat and not chicken. Since chicken isn't "Buffalo".

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: irishScott
Can't speak for the rest of the West, but the US invented the hot dog.

Not exactly, no:

Claims of invention of the hot dog are difficult to assess, because various stories assert the creation of the sausage, the placing of the sausage (or another kind of sausage) on bread or a bun as finger food, the popularization of the existing dish, or the application of the name "hot dog" to a sausage and bun combination.

The city of Vienna traces the lineage of the hot dog to the wienerwurst or Viennese sausage, the city of Frankfurt to the frankfurter wurst, which it claims was invented in the 1480s; the hot dog has also been attributed to Johann Georghehner, a 17th century butcher from the Bavarian city of Coburg who is said to have invented the "dachshund" or "little-dog" sausage and brought it to Frankfurt.[2]

Around 1870, on Coney Island, a German immigrant named Charles Feltman began selling sausages in rolls.[3][4][5]

Others also have been acknowledged for supposedly having invented the hot dog, including Anton Ludwig Feuchtwanger, a Bavarian sausage seller who is said to have started serving sausages in rolls at the World's Fair?either the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago or the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St Louis[6]?because the white gloves he gave to customers so that they could eat his hot sausages in comfort began to disappear as souvenirs.[7]

The association between hot dogs and baseball may have begun as early as 1893 with Chris von der Ahe, a German immigrant who owned not only the St. Louis Browns, but also an amusement park, beer garden and brewery near Sportsman's Park, where he sold his beer.[8]

In 1916, an employee of Feltman's named Nathan Handwerker was encouraged by celebrity clients Eddie Cantor and Jimmy Durante to go into business in competition with his former employer.[9] Handwerker undercut Feltman's by charging five cents for a hot dog when his former employer was charging ten.[9] At a time when food regulation was in its infancy, and the pedigree of the hot dog particularly suspect, Handwerker made sure that men wearing surgeon's smocks were seen eating at Nathan's Famous to reassure potential customers.[7]