BMW's Perfect Potato Soup

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Pork is delicious. It is the King of Meats. The children have even asked for ham for Yule dinner. Oh shit, I had a new pork slogan last night and I've forgotten it! 

Oh, I remember it now.

[LMNO]

I make a pretty good posole.

The trick is to first spend 8 hours making a pork stock with the roasted bones.

[East Coast Hustle]

do yourself a favor. find a supermarket that carries Goya's line of seasonings that come in the little foil single-serve packets.

buy a box of "Jamon" seasoning and save yourself about 8 hours.

[LMNO]

Really?  What about the mouth feel, and the viscosity?

[East Coast Hustle]

those are best saved for when you're trying to impress people who don't know as much as you do about food but who desperately want you to think they're knowledgeable so they'll agree with you when you say some shit about "mouthfeel" or "viscosity".

I am not those people.

[LMNO]

Darn, I was hoping you'd say something about "FUCK YOU, MY MOM DIED OF MOUTHFEEL," or some such shit.



Oh, well.  I'll try the Jamon seasoning, and get back to you.

[Triple Zero]

do yourself a favor. find a supermarket that carries Goya's line of seasonings that come in the little foil single-serve packets.

buy a box of "Jamon" seasoning and save yourself about 8 hours.
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yeah, that Goya dude really did know his stuff about roasted bones..

http://www.abcgallery.com/G/goya/goya146.html (SFW, but not pretty.. i saw the entire gallery of these images on display.. unsettling.)

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

do yourself a favor. find a supermarket that carries Goya's line of seasonings that come in the little foil single-serve packets.

buy a box of "Jamon" seasoning and save yourself about 8 hours.

Noooooo wrong flavor! There is no ham in posole! Gross!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

However, the Goya Jamon is just the thing if you want to make ham ice cream.

[East Coast Hustle]

do yourself a favor. find a supermarket that carries Goya's line of seasonings that come in the little foil single-serve packets.

buy a box of "Jamon" seasoning and save yourself about 8 hours.

Noooooo wrong flavor! There is no ham in posole! Gross!

what the fuck did you just say to me?

ECH,
knows an island or two that would beg to differ

[LMNO]

I think she means while there is pork, the crap lunchmeat known as "sliced ham" isn't in there.


I make mine with ham hocks, pork shoulder () and spare ribs.

[Triple Zero]

sliced ham can be good too, but you need to get it from Austria or Czechia or some place like that.

(unless you're BMW and you overdosed on the stuff once)

[LMNO]

Iberian or Serrano ham is like unto a Gawd.


This, however, is atrocious:

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

That is not worthy of bearing the name "ham".

Listen up, guys. Ham, wondrous food that it is, was brought to the Americas by Spaniards, who consider it a vegetable. Posole has been eaten here (made with things other than pork) for a hell of a long time before those guys showed up. I will concede that pork is the superior meat for red posole, but putting CURED pork in it is abomination. It's up there with using canned hominy.

I don't know who these people are who put ham in posole, but I've never even heard of such a thing. HAM? In posole?

[LMNO]

Nigel:  Chill.  I think you're missing the point here.


I was talking about making my own pork stock.

ECH said that Goya makes a  broth seasoning that apparently matches what would take me many hours.

That seasoning is called "Jamon".


No one said anything about adding cured pork to posole.