Generals gather in their masses

[venta]

Two completely unrelated polls:

[Poll #1867260]

Please be honest. This is the difference between "oh, really?" and "ha, Jamie, see! I was right, I was right!"

[Poll #1867261]

Comments

[al-fruitbat.livejournal.com]

Y'see, when someone says "Pork" they will happily include skin, fat, connective tissue and the rest (e.g. crackling, pork belly, spare ribs, pork scratchings). Ham pretty much has to be actual meat - there may well be fat, but it's decorative and you're not necessarily supposed to eat it.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

War pigs! (I prefer the Faith No More version - I hope that isn't considered heretical...)

[lnr]

Bacon!

To be honest I'm a bit torn on your first question: ham comes in many forms nearly all of which are brilliant (except nasty cheap water-filled supermarket value range). But pork in the form of belly pork or pork pie is sometimes even better. Roast pork done really well can be an absolute joy, but often it's too dry.

Oh and I've tried to be as honest as possible on the second one - I'd definitely be dying of curiosity, but given I wouldn't get it til this evening anyway if it's in today's post I'd probably be willing to wait and open it in the morning. I am a bit of a sucker for following the rules.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Is one of them likely to be of better quality and/or better prepared and/or nicer? Do you like one and not the other?

All other things equal, I'd probably expect pork to be the better option on the grounds that AIUI, you buy ham ready to eat from the supermarket/butcher/similar, so is easy to have whenever at minimal effort, but pork bought from shop needs preparing first. So therefore go for that when eating out, as you can then have it without preparing it. But I have been vegetarian for a long time, so I may be incorrect in this understanding.

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Ham (assuming you're talking about actual gammon, rather than pasty-looking wet slices of reformed pig) is practically bacon, and bacon is best. Also, ham doesn't mind being over-cooked a bit, whereas pork does, so I go with ham.

Since when have the Royal Mail started dictating when you can open your mail? That's really weird. I'd be torn on opening it; on the one hand, I would suspect that the label may be a joke or something, ad not as official as it looks. On the other hand, what if it is? And it's only one day to wait...

[the-alchemist.livejournal.com]

I didn't suddenly become vegetarian between the first and second questions of your poll, but I remember liking ham much better than pork before the age of ten or so when I became much more strictly vegetarian (indeed ham and bacon were the two meaty things I occasionally ate between the ages of five and ten), whereas I have never to my knowledge chosen meat at a carvery, due to being vegetarian.

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

My question about the parcel would be - is Sept 21st your birthday? If so, I might guess that the Royal Mail had made the label available, but a friend had selected it and stuck it on. But from other comments here it doesn't sound like Sept 21st is your birthday. In which case, I say sod it and open the thing!

[rabbit1080.livejournal.com]

Ham vs pork - I tend to occasionally buy really good ham at the local deli, which is great for ham-and-cheese toast or croissants. I haven't learned to properly roast pork with crackling, so if I'm at a carvery I tend to get pork that someone else has roasted well instead.

Royal mail - I try hard to just handle paperwork once, or else it tends to get forgotten about & create more clutter. So I'd just open the letter at the time.

[uitlander]

Bacon is of course a vegetable, and a mighty fine one at that!

[ceb.livejournal.com]

Tell us what it is when you open it!

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I answered 'yes!' to the second mostly because today is the 21st. Not sure what I would have answered yesterday. I suspect what with it being official and all, I would have obeyed the label.

(Although if it had stipulated some much-further-away date, curiosity might have triumphed. A day's not so long to wait to find out.)

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

Now I'm really wanting to know what was in the parcel.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

The answer is "Yes", but then it is the 21st, me being a bit late to the party and everything.