Alpo Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 How do they put it in the can? Somebody on here (I think it was Marshall Mo Hare) has told about working on the ration line for C rats. Meatballs and Beans. The can would stop under a spout, and get filled half full of beans. Then the conveyor belt would move it in front of a worker who would put exactly 7 meatballs in the can of beans. It would then move to another spout where it would be filled up with beans. This guarantee that there were always 7 meatballs in the can. It seems like they would be conglomerated it in the middle, though. So I don't think that's how they do it with canned spaghetti and meatballs, as the meatballs are scattered throughout the can of spaghetti. So how did they make sure you get enough meatballs. With your normal 15 oz can (there is no such thing as a 1 lb can anymore, but that is a rant for another day), the specification calls for (making this up as I go along) 5 oz of meatballs, and 10 oz of spaghetti and sauce. How did they make sure they have the ratio correct? Why don't I open one can to find so many meatballs there's hardly room for spaghetti, and open another can that only has one meatball in it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. James H. Callahan Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 Keep pondering and don't eat it. JHC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 Re: meatballs and beans. The can got half filled with beans and sauce, then a station where it got three meatballs, then a station where it got five more, then a lid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twelve mile REB Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 There is no such thing as canned spaghetti, its canned but it isn't spaghetti. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 The canned spaghetti was one of my favorite C-ration meals. But, I don't remember any meatballs in it. Some kind of meat sauce as I recall. Heated my C-rats spaghetti by cutting slits in the C-rat box and setting the can in the box. Light the box on fire and by the time the box has burned down, I had hot spaghetti. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 The Man, the legend, the Chef!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef_Boyardee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 I can usually come up with an answer as off-the-wall as the question, but right now I’m speechless. Let’s go to the Laugh In joke wall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 Canned Spaghetti...I believe it’s made of barf...or it is shortly after being consumed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted June 12, 2020 Author Share Posted June 12, 2020 1 hour ago, Rye Miles #13621 said: The Man, the legend, the Chef!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef_Boyardee That's interesting. It said he got his start with customers asking him for the recipe for his spaghetti sauce so he sold the sauce. His spaghetti and meatballs has one flavor sauce. The spaghetti with jumbo meatballs has a spicier sauce. The mini spaghetti with mini meatballs has a thinner sauce. And the spaghetti rings, and dinosaurs, and abc123 have a sweeter sauce. I can understand a different sauce for his lasagna or for his ravioli. But why does each version of spaghetti come with a different flavor sauce? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizPete Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 Don't eat any of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twelve mile REB Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 6 minutes ago, MizPete said: Don't eat any of them. You MEAN we're suppose to eat them???? Oh Poo, we can say Poo can't we, or is that too much like the other word? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddog McCoy SASS #5672 Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 If I remember correctly, you create a slurry with the sauce and use several fillers to meter set amounts of each ingredient in each can and and then use a can seamier to put the lid on. I went to can seamier school in LA, CA for putting lids on Coke cans. There is also a process called retort that I think is the name for the cooking process. Basically, you fill the can and then cook the can and check it for leaks. I have toured a cat food plant and where they made cans of cat food and I have also been in a canning plant that made chili if I remember correctly. The process is basically the same for any canned goods. The third video is the one that shows the best process, it is the same process for pet food as human food. I have worked in food plants for about 30 years, it a wonder I can eat anything and there are things I will not eat. This video shows part of the process: Retort Process Pet food processing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 the noodles were not stiff when they went into the can. After it got a lid, it was pressure cooked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 9 hours ago, Alpo said: That's interesting. It said he got his start with customers asking him for the recipe for his spaghetti sauce so he sold the sauce. His spaghetti and meatballs has one flavor sauce. The spaghetti with jumbo meatballs has a spicier sauce. The mini spaghetti with mini meatballs has a thinner sauce. And the spaghetti rings, and dinosaurs, and abc123 have a sweeter sauce. I can understand a different sauce for his lasagna or for his ravioli. But why does each version of spaghetti come with a different flavor sauce? Good question about different sauces, the only thing I can guess is that is a little difference in taste from spaghetti, to rigatoni, to shells etc. even though it's all macaroni. I haven't had Chef Boy Ardee in ages, some of it actually not bad. It's not any worse than Ragu or Prego or worse yet Paul Newman's sauce! I used to like the Spaghetti O's! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Steak Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 This thread has caused me to contemplate Beefaroni - a bowl of classic comfort - much better than the militarized incarnation of a canned spaghetti-like pasta-sauce-meat dish.... We're having Beefaroni Beef and macaroni Beefaroni's full of meat Beefaroni's really neat Beefaroni's fun to eat Hooray for Chef Boyardee! ...or as kids in my day might sing: We're having Beefaroni Beef and macaroni Beefaroni's full of meat Beefaroni smell my feet... Hooray - for Beefaroni Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South-Eye Ned Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 Don’t ask how sausage is made, please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imis Twohofon,SASS # 46646 Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 There's a flashback I did not want Imis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colorado Coffinmaker Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 There was a time I was rather fond of Spaghetti MREs. Long time ago and a Galaxy Far Far Away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South-Eye Ned Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 1 hour ago, Colorado Coffinmaker said: There was a time I was rather fond of Spaghetti MREs. Long time ago and a Galaxy Far Far Away. I’m thinking MREs were the basis for Lean Cuisine spaghetti. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chato Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 I remember C rats like it was yesterday. Especially liked the ham and mother f*&%*ers which I doctored up with cheese and the hottest little local peppers I ever et in Nam. Anyway a cold can of Beefarones eaten cold at the wheel in the middle of an F8/9 storm for 4 days tasted pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 On 6/11/2020 at 9:04 PM, Alpo said: That's interesting. It said he got his start with customers asking him for the recipe for his spaghetti sauce so he sold the sauce. His spaghetti and meatballs has one flavor sauce. The spaghetti with jumbo meatballs has a spicier sauce. The mini spaghetti with mini meatballs has a thinner sauce. And the spaghetti rings, and dinosaurs, and abc123 have a sweeter sauce. I can understand a different sauce for his lasagna or for his ravioli. But why does each version of spaghetti come with a different flavor sauce? Those are sweeter because they are targeted towards kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted June 13, 2020 Author Share Posted June 13, 2020 Yeah I figgered that. Don't understand why those are thinner, though. His regular spaghetti sauce is about the consistency of melted ice cream. That kiddy spaghetti sauce is about the consistency of a melted popsicle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St. Louis Suomi SASS #31905 Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 Best C-rats I ever ate were Ham & Lima Beans - I used to trade the disgusting turkey loaf and scrambled egg things for them. Sometimes you would get Ham and Butter Beans - that was outstanding. Darn mess Sargent was collecting them and he made chili out of them. That was pretty good also, but it cut down on my supply. STL Suomi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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