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Guinness

05-12-2014 22:03

Steak Canadian

Whatever happened to them? The kebab of the 70's

Back home from the pub, open the freezer, peel a couple of square shaped processed gunk purporting to be meat from the layered paper and chuck them in the frying pan for a minute or so a side, slap them on a heavily buttered slice of bread, eat and fall asleep watching Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing attempting to kill each other with plastic fangs and balsa wood stakes.

P.S. next time Eric bangs on about how great Canada is..I'm gonna remind him of this particular brand of crud that Canada fair exported to us :D

JCB	06-12-2014 07:04

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Steak Canadiann is still around .

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...s-25309-7.html

steak canadiann

cashman

06-12-2014 08:03

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Odd cafes in town still sell em, have noticed on menus, n thought same as you,"you dont see em around much these days, cant tell yeh which uns as me local i use dont sell em,:confused:

DaveinGermany

06-12-2014 10:48

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Originally Posted by Guinness (Post 1125514)

next time Eric bangs on about how great Canada is..I'm gonna remind him of this particular brand of crud that Canada fair exported to us :D

Crud it maybe, but par for the course after a few bevvies & the inevitable case of Beer fuelled munchies!

Last experienced I might add, 3 years back during the annual crimbo inebriations. :D

DtheP47

06-12-2014 11:44

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Originally Posted by Guinness (Post 1125514)

Whatever happened to them? The kebab of the 70's

You need to get out more Mr G..
Rumbletums on Whalley Road in Clayton sell them, I think they give them qualification to advertise themselves as Sandwich bar and Delicatessan. ;)

Also,
Jack Fultons on Union Street sell freezer packs, a snip at £1:48 for 10.

AccyMad

06-12-2014 19:58

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Remember them well, my youngest when a little 'un misheard what was said & called them 'stinky aliens' . . . . . . maybe that wasn't so far from the truth:)

maxthecollie

06-12-2014 20:15

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Weren't Ingham's Butchers in willows lane the first butcher in Accy to sell them?

Eric	06-12-2014 21:05

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Originally Posted by Guinness (Post 1125514)

P.S. next time Eric bangs on about how great Canada is..I'm gonna remind him of this particular brand of crud that Canada fair exported to us :D

Never heard of "steak canadian":confused: From the images on Google, it looks like the junk that is sold at Arby's .... Maybe it's moose ... or horse, even;)

Barrie Yates

06-12-2014 21:24

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I knew it back in the '50s as "Steak Canadienne" which were very thinly sliced steak, could be flank or some other joint, not processed meat. Remember they were fried for about a minute on each side very tasty between two doorsteps accompanied by fried onions.
Will check with Bob Fletcher who was a butcher at Slingers in those days.

DtheP47

06-12-2014 21:31

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Originally Posted by Barrie Yates (Post 1125588)

I think they have always been reprocessed meat encompassing the worst of that process. Think kebab rottiserie machine sliced about 0.030" thick in old money.

Guinness

06-12-2014 22:09

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Originally Posted by DtheP47 (Post 1125535)

a snip at £1:48 for 10.

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Originally Posted by Eric (Post 1125587)

Never heard of "steak canadian":confused: From the images on Google, it looks like the junk that is sold at Arby's .... Maybe it's moose ... or horse, even;)

Nah..googled Arby's, at least it looks like meat...no matter how you fried these reconstituted perfect frozen squares, they shrank to half their size, bubbled and twisted constantly so that you had one hand snipping with scissors and the other forcing down into the pan with the spatula....it never remotely looked like a steak

Turtle

06-12-2014 22:12

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Ew - it sounds disgusting! Never even heard of it over here :sick:

Wynonie Harris

06-12-2014 23:12

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What's wrong with 'em? Mrs H always buys a few from one of the butchers in the market hall when we come up and very tasty they are too! Invented by our local butcher, Derek Ingham.

Steak Canadiann...Accrington's culinary gift to the world!

DtheP47

07-12-2014 01:02

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Think it's a myth about em being invented in Accy.
Google gave me this:

This quote from a thread on Sheffield Forum explains one of the manufacturing processes used to make them:

"The next year I got a job in an abbatoir / food production plant making doner kebab meat / steak canadians (same stuff). 200Kg blocks of frozen mutton hearts would come in from Australia. We'd then tip them into a large stainless steel hopper together with a bag of liquid animal fat, and a sack of breadcrumbs/spices/additives. Huge claws would rotate down into the hopper; slicing the frozen hearts and generating a liquid slurry. This was then pumped through a giant nozzle into different shaped plastic bags. One shape was for a doner (round-ish) and the other was rectangular to be made into steak canadians (they were then frozen)."

I'll still be having a couple for my lunch today though, Mrs P frying em in olive oil (The healthy option !!).

MargaretR

07-12-2014 01:17

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Since I am amongst the few here who actually ate one I assure you that they were real, not processed, meat - beef sliced very thinly.

The ones that now masquerade as steak canadians (as shown in the pic) are a rip off version of the original.- like most of the junk food served up nowadays.

Incidentally, 'chicken in a basket' was popular at that time and that too was probably not from some fowl battery prison.

You young uns don't know what real food tasted like.:rolleyes:

DtheP47

07-12-2014 04:25

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Seems they are available in the US...love the name. And purport to be 100% beef..

Steak-umm® Sliced Steaks - www.steakumm.com

DtheP47

07-12-2014 04:30

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Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 1125600)

Incidentally, 'chicken in a basket' was popular at that time and that too was probably not from some fowl battery prison.

You young uns don't know what real food tasted like.:rolleyes:

Even back in the day Margaret I always wondered with Chicken in a Basket about the high percentage of broken leg bones. I don't think they were treated too well back in those days.
3 Fishes at Mitton and the Aspinall a Friday night jaunt to have them for supper in a mates A35 !!

DtheP47

07-12-2014 04:46

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I am done here. :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6LgkjsZkcg

Barrie Yates

07-12-2014 09:56

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Originally Posted by DtheP47 (Post 1125589)

I think they have always been reprocessed meat encompassing the worst of that process. Think kebab rottiserie machine sliced about 0.030" thick in old money.

Google Steak Canadienne

Eric	07-12-2014 18:43

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Originally Posted by Guinness (Post 1125593)

Hehe..think they were a £1 for 10 way back then..which kinda shows that they were made from sweepings up that once saw a cow in a field...but..after a night on the beer...boy did they taste good...and just like the kebab..better cold for breakfast

Nah..googled Arby's, at least it looks like meat...no matter how you fried these reconstituted perfect frozen squares, they shrank to half their size, bubbled and twisted constantly so that you had one hand snipping with scissors and the other forcing down into the pan with the spatula....it never remotely looked like a steak

Maybe "Steak Canadian" denotes country of origin in the same way "English Fish and Chips" does ... that is: "not at all." Those boxes so labelled that one pulls out of the freezer at any Canadian supermarket are certainly not "English", and they only remotely resemble fish and chips. Oh, and in some cases it's "Fish 'n Chips"; I guess that looks more "English.";)

Eric	07-12-2014 18:48

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Originally Posted by Barrie Yates (Post 1125620)

Google Steak Canadienne

Food always seems to sound better in French.;) If your Hamburger Helper cheeseburger macaroni sucks, just call it macaroni boef et fromage. Ah, the benefits of bilingualism.:D

ossy kid

08-12-2014 00:49

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It's crap in either language Eric.

smobile

08-12-2014 06:53

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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris (Post 1125597)

Yeah, Derek was a mate of my dad's back in the late 70's and he spelt his version that way as Ann was his wifes name.

IRENE BAINBRIDGE

08-12-2014 12:13

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You're right,it was Derek Ingham that introduced them,they were finely sliced pieces of steak.

maxthecollie

08-12-2014 15:01

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I mentioned that earlier in this thread

Eric	08-12-2014 18:21

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Originally Posted by ossy kid (Post 1125674)

It's crap in either language Eric.

True indeed ... but if one ate some by mistake and then felt an uncontrollable urge to toss one's cookies, then one might as well do it with panache, and with all the accents in the right place.;)

Wynonie Harris

09-12-2014 03:22

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Crap? I'll have you know they're very tasty indeed slapped on a barm with fried onions and mustard!

By the way, you might not have heard this before, but they were invented by Derek Ingham at his dad's butchers shop in Willows Lane. ;)

smobile

09-12-2014 06:36

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maxthecollie mentioned that earlier in the thread Wyn :D

Derek is alive and well and living on the estate behind Stanleys Ground.

IRENE BAINBRIDGE

10-12-2014 21:05

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You're right,I went to school with Derek,he asked if he could walk me home from our last school dance,we both waited at different school gates!!

smobile

11-12-2014 06:51

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Originally Posted by IRENE BAINBRIDGE (Post 1125988)

You're right,I went to school with Derek,he asked if he could walk me home from our last school dance,we both waited at different school gates!!

If things had worked out differently we could have all been eating Steak Canadirenes in the 70's then :D

MargaretR

11-12-2014 13:12

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Ann must have been his 2nd wife.
I worked with his 1st wife Hazel in the early&mid 60s - they had a son named Ivan (named after her brother who died in a tragic accident in a windmill during a school trip to Holland)

smobile

11-12-2014 14:31

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Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 1126008)

The Derek Ingham of Steak Canadian Fame was married to Ann and had 2 daughters. Tracy & Debbie whilst I knew him

Lived down Clayton (The Close) from about 1969 when Tracy was born until about early 2000's - Would have been about 25 when he moved to Clayton so could be same one.

IRENE BAINBRIDGE

30-03-2016 20:12

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Derek Ingham was the first in Accy to do them & they were real steak & were lovely

IRENE BAINBRIDGE

30-03-2016 20:14

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Not if you bought the original

jack preston

10-04-2016 08:04

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The original Steak Canadienne was thin slices of steak,not the ground reconstituted muck that was made later,haven,t had one in years,we were only talking about them last week.

IRENE BAINBRIDGE

03-08-2019 10:24

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Originally Posted by Guinness (Post 1125514)

The proper steak canadians were made by Derek Ingham & it was very thinly sliced steak much better than the other stuff.

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