Phoenix's Gammon Curse

The Gammon Curse puts a smile on my face.
A masterpiece and me to a T

I have two essentials for Christmas. One is a timetable for cooking the dinner which starts "The turkey should be going in the oven now -so start preparing it!" and the the other is phoenix 's Cursing The Gammon. Between them they sum up my Christmas meal

The world is a duller place without phoenix

Charleygirl "If I had been an ethical vegan I would have left it to those who wanted to read the hilarity in it. Have you had a sense of humour bypass? If so it has worked really well "

I really don't think it is me who is making these threads 'argumentative.' I used the term unpleasant.

eazybee

Unnecessarily unpleasant post Charleygirl.

Please don't let's make this thread argumentative too.
Charleygirl wasn't unpleasant.

Charleygirl it was me who said I wouldn't wish to exclude vegans from enjoying cursing the gammon.

Or cursing the vegan plant-based meat free gammon if they prefer.

StarDreamer—I understood that you were responding only to the question about why vegans would want to eat a meat substitute made to look/taste like meat. ?

I was thinking about Phoenix yesterday, knowing the anniversary of her death was sometime this month. She was brave and positive until the end— I believe she had a birthday celebration planned just before she died. RIP, Phoenix. We all remember you with a smile. ❤️

Unnecessarily unpleasant post Charleygirl.

Charleygirl5

StarDreamer you were aware when you read the thread title it was discussing gammon which happens to be meat. If I had been an ethical vegan I would have left it to those who wanted to read the hilarity in it. Have you had a sense of humour bypass? If so it has worked really well.

Yes I was aware when I read the thread title.

In another thread a lady had suggested that I look at this thread, so I did.

In fairness, I did not comment on the content, as, being a vegan, and, knowing the content would be non-vegan, I respected that I was only reading it because it had been suggested to me and I was on awareness and could have not looked, so not a surprise sprung on me within a thread.

My post was replying about why some vegan food is made to resemble "the original" and to mention that there are a variety of views by vegans about it all and whether they want to eat such faux versions themselves.

On the wider issue, I like to think that I have a sense of humour. I laughed out loud at the faux QR codes shown in a linked post in another thread a few days ago. I thought that that was hilarious.

StarDreamer you were aware when you read the thread title it was discussing gammon which happens to be meat. If I had been an ethical vegan I would have left it to those who wanted to read the hilarity in it. Have you had a sense of humour bypass? If so it has worked really well.

Phoenix certainly wrote some hilarious posts!

RIP Phoenix.

I hope someone will tell her family about the two lovely threads honouring her memory so they can pop on and have a read.

I remember this. Still hilarious.
Phoenix was wonderful.

Oh yes I remember the Gammon Curse Callistemon. I do think it's lovely that not only is Pheonix being remembered today, but in such a way that she still makes us laugh.

Bet Phoenix is loving this!!

M word….Seriously?? ???

FannyCornforth

Sausages and patties (burgers) are just the most convenient shape to form any food stuff into.
Or you can cover it in a pastry, or top it with mash.
I don’t fancy my food shaped in the form of a square based pyramid or a double helix.

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It's a bit difficult to brown the edges on a double helix!

I hope some of the individuals commenting on the other thread about Phoenix read this and ‘get it’. RIP

Sausages and patties (burgers) are just the most convenient shape to form any food stuff into.
Or you can cover it in a pastry, or top it with mash.
I don’t fancy my food shaped in the form of a square based pyramid or a double helix.

I've still got a Christmas pud

I have just come onto GN to see what’s happening while my piece of gammon comes up to the boil. Who would believe it? It’s only a little one, for the two of us for a couple of days - don’t worry that I have started Christmas already. ?

Callistemon21 wrote Although why anyone wants to name vegan products after meat has always puzzled me somewhat. Or even to make them resemble meat in any shape or form.

It puzzled me too. As an ethical vegan (that is, a vegan for belief reasons rather than a person who has a vegan diet for some other reason) I don't want anything to do with m-word stuff.

Apparently some vegans are in favour of it though as they say that it encourages people who presently eat m-word to try a vegan alternative, hoping that they may gradually become a vegan.

So, two different views from vegans on the same question.

I miss Phoenix's humour. If you saw her name on an OP you knew you were going to have a good laugh.

Oh no, hang on, it’s just some women remembering their much loved mate

Omg! Is this a… clique?!

Cheers ?