Talk:Lunch meat

message: Denmark is the damn capital of this, how comes there's no honorable mention? I'd advise someone to check out Danish Smørrebrød.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.89.48.85 (talk) 15:59, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Denmark 

message: Cold cuts are not exclusively found on supermarket shelves, as the article implies. In fact, you can make your own (from animals) and skip the nitrates if you'd like.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.80.97.208 (talk) 18:05, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Retarded 

message: I think we can merge this page with deli meat.  A combined page for both could add information to each.  Anyone else agree?  Wyldphyre 04:55, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Can I argue that the title of this article should be "Deli Meats" and not "Cold cut"? Until I saw this article I had never heard the term "cold cut" and had someone said this term to me I would have to enquire as to what they where referring to. I don't really refer to them as "Deli meat" ether but if someone said that to me I would have at least got the idea of what they where talking about. I'm guessing that the term "cold cut" is perhaps an American term? Just a suggestion anyway. 86.111.162.127 (talk) 14:54, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, the term "cold cut" is something that i occasionally hear from imported amercian tv programmes, it's not something that had ever come up in normal english conversation, hence my need to come here and look it up.82.25.68.120 (talk) 13:03, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I am an American (fiftysomething, living in the Midwest) and have often heard the term; I came to this article hoping to learn the origin of the phrase.  Guess I'll look elsewhere.Beamjockey (talk) 12:55, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  I, the Mighty Obbop, star of neither stage nor screen, a Disgruntled Old Coot who has survived for over one-half century within the declining once-sovereign engaged-in-class-warfare USA, recalls hearing the term "cold cuts" now-and-then back in the 1960s but it seems that use of that term has faded and I seldom hear it used anymore. Perhaps, as with many terms, there are parts of the USA where the term is embedded and still used. Note the regional variances in sandwich naming; hero, sub, hoagy, poor boy and a horde of other names that often label sandwiches with little to no differences between them. Okay.... ignore generalities and bellow out a known exception you are aware of but that exception that is true for you may not exist with another person living a mere 30 miles away.68.91.133.40 (talk) 18:34, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

text:  I`ve never heard of Cold cut, I agree we should change it to "Deli Meats" or Cold meat.Marian Dan (talk) 15:03, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge? 

message: I believe that a citation is in order for the high fat and sodium content of cold cuts, since most deli-prepared, non-prepackaged cold cuts are just normal cuts of meat, and have no substantially different fat or sodium content than normal. A distinction should be made between freshly prepared deli cold cuts, and pre-packaged, typically preserved cold cuts. 70.35.160.201 09:46, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is true. Companies that make cold cuts now offer lower-sodium products. The difference is like 10 times less! Fluous (talk) 06:14, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citing high Fat and Sodium 

message: Cold cuts are cheeses or precooked meat [...] served cold on, this is not the case, SPAM being made from cuts of pork and ham and not mechanically reclaimed meats. I challenge anyone to find a citation to show that SPAM is made in the same way, with the same 'cuts' of meat, as (pork) luncheon meat. (SouthernElectric 15:03, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition 

message: i dont see how a 'narrow' victory can also be have a 'whopping' majority of the vote.
but more pressing, is that i cant find any reference to this Gallup poll anywhere but here on the Wiki page, and on a blog post; that's all Google turns up. i searched Gallup.com and nothing pops up using their search function. fishy, given the fact the paragraph is entirely promotional, and probably should be removed on that grounds anyway; they may or may not have have 'won' a poll, bu that doesnt make them notable.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Abcbe (talk • contribs) 09:02, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gallup Poll 

message: Cold cuts is not an north american term. 
1. Most of the stuff on the list have its orgin in europe(germany, italy etc)
2. Doesn't north america include mexico? Do they use "cold cuts", and what about english speaking countries not in america?
3. Some non-English speaking countries use the term in their own language. In sweden it's called kallskuret(cold-cutted) and in germany Aufschnitt(on-cut/cut-open?)83.185.134.96 (talk) 11:23, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: In English - cold cuts is an American English term; they are usually referred to as sliced meats or cold meats in British English for example.--62.249.233.80 (talk) 17:34, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: TERRIBLY PRETENTIOUS?!? Key-rist.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.32.39.11 (talk) 16:26, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  North American term? 

message: How long can they be kept? Imagine Reason (talk) 22:09, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Storage 

message: Would it be too much, to link this page to sodium nitrate? Perhaps p[eople would like to know what they are consuming  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.237.48.227 (talk) 00:30, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Method 

message: The photo accompanying this article is captioned "A tray of assorted lunch meats" It shows what appears to be a few slices of two different cold cuts along with some sliced tomatoes and a few pickles - hardly an assortment unless two is now an assortment and half of the items on the plate aren't even meats - other than that...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.158.48.90 (talk) 13:57, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Really?

message: Amongst the various types of lunch meats listed in this article is "meatloaf" which further has several types listed under it such as olive loaf and pimento loaf. Meatloaf is linked to the wiki article on meatloaf where it is quite correctly described as what most people would call meatloaf. From this it can be gathered, that meatloaf isn't really a type of cold cut and certainly not something like olive loaf or pimento loaf.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.158.48.162 (talk) 18:33, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Meatloaf (yes, the type described at the meatloaf article) sandwiches are fairly well known where I'm from (North Carolina). And if you read up on olive loaf and pimento loaf they are made in much the same way as meatloaf. --Khajidha (talk) 17:24, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Meatloaf?

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: no consensus. (closed by non-admin page mover) — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 18:27, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Lunch meat →  – Although it was me who moved it to "lunch meat" in 2015 after the #North American term? discussion above, I think "cold meats" is the most universal term. In some parts of Europe cold meats are often part of breakfast, so "lunch meat" is too restrictive. As for the formal phrase "luncheon meat", my experience agrees with the above note that this refers to canned processed meat like Spam (food) – and not to ham. 
I think the plural should be used rather than "cold meat" as the term is mainly used as a generic to cover a variety of products. – Fayenatic London 11:07, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

text: * That is a good point. Two sources referred to in the article have an appropriate term in their title, namely "deli meats" and "cold cuts". Marcocapelle (talk) 06:16, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Based on the Google Ngrams, it looks like "cold cuts" is the most common term. Rreagan007 (talk) 07:08, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

text: Perhaps it ultimately comes down to the terminology being an WP:ENGVAR issue. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 18:58, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the Google Ngrams, "cold cuts" is the most common term in American English, and the second most popular in British English, with "cold meats" being the most popular term in British English. Personally I'm not that much of a fan of either term, as they can be served hot, so both "cold cuts" and "cold meats" aren't descriptively accurate. Rreagan007 (talk) 21:45, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Neither is lunch meat, since they're not only served for lunch! -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:20, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't necessarily disagree. Rreagan007 (talk) 07:20, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

text: Although, as I've said, it would be regarded as somewhat old-fashioned in the UK, I would also support Cold cuts if that will contribute to consensus. Better than the current title. -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:26, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

text: Relisting comment: Cold cuts was also suggested several times. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 00:30, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 12 November 2022 

message: I think that we should move the "types" section to List of lunch meats. Any opposition? GrayStorm(Talk|Contributions) 15:32, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Types section