Burgers in a can
Back when I'd just moved to into the city at the age of 19, flat broke, the acquisition of food was a daily struggle. On a particularly flush day, with maybe £3 in my pocket, I stopped into a very unusual store that sold a wide range of foods that, to this day, I have never seen sold anywhere else. The prize I left with was a 1Kg tin of burgers.

I can't say that I know exactly what they had used to make these burgers, but I am a big fan of the lowest end of the meat spectrum (if it's mechanically reclaimed, then I'll devour it and ask for more), and even I struggled to consume but one of this heinous bastards. Pre-cooked, covered in jelly, with the texture of rubberised hamster food. There must have been about 20 of these things in the can. I attempted to eat about 3 and gave up. There was probably more nutrition in the label.
(mofoitk Vulcanising the whoopie stick in the ham wallet, Mon 30 May 2011, 16:26, 5 replies)

I've seen those, in fact I was fed them as a child.
There's no way of separating the burgers into 4 as they break up if you try. I seem to remember eating them with peas and mashed spuds, after my mother had prised them out of the can and arranged the mangled pieces into a rough approximation of a burger shape.

The 'burgers' tasted sweet and slimy. I always ate them anyway, being a constantly ravenous kid!
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Mon 30 May 2011, 17:28, closed)

I was just talking about these the other day
Where can I get some? I loved these as a kid. I'm not sure my adult taste buds would still agree that the mechanically reprocessed meat is the best bit, but I rarely turn down a hot dog (until I find a toenail, horse's hoof, or a blue vein).
( AWPS, Mon 30 May 2011, 18:23, closed)

westlers
Those bad boys were fucking amazing. Summer holidays ran on them. The were separated by little discs of grease proof paper. They looked like disks of textured pink play-do.

Don't think I would go near them now but many a happy memory only came about due to the calorie content of these offal discs.

Check them put here: www.westlerfoods.com/Canned-Burgers.html

I particularly liked the bit about the three year shelf life.
(OTT, Mon 30 May 2011, 21:09, closed)

*click*
for "rubberised hamster food".
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Mon 30 May 2011, 21:52, closed)

Goblin...
I used to love Goblin tinned burgers as a kid. Don't know if I could eat them now that I've seen how mechanically recovered meat is recovered mechanically. Yuck...
(trip2themoon, Tue 31 May 2011, 8:52, closed)