Do You Eat (Hormel) Spam?

[Lt JL]

I was in American Samoa once when I worked part-time for the feds. The roadside litter wasn't your typical fast fod containers; it was Spam cans. I think that's why Samoans are so big, they were raised on fat and salt.

 

[Big Stick]

SPAM is an abbreviation of SPiced hAM, and was created in Austin MN by the Hormel company.

My personal preferences for it are diced and fried crisp with brussels sprouts, and rubbed with BBQ seasonings, basted with pineapple juice, and double smoked......

 

[kthom]

I like it! Always found it best in the cool mountain air in early morning when sliced and fried in one skillet followed by a bunch of hen fruit, to be eaten with a skillet full of cubed up Irish potatoes with lots of diced onions cooked on the other burner. My wife was pretty skilled at dishing this up to me and my two son's when we came in from early morning fishing. Never seemed to be any of it left either!!

I don't eat it too often but if I walk by it on the store shelf, a can or two usually finds it's way into the basket. Huge amounts of spam are sold from the shelves of grocery stores within shopping range of the Navaho Indian reservation. They seem to like it very much!

 

[carpriver]

haven't had Spam since 1968.

 

[klondike]

My college daughter had a roommate from Hawaii who ate rice and spam by the case.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Spam and guns.

Added bonus.

 

[Hillbilly77]

Stuff Posing As Meat.

Delicious, but after a recent health thing, I'm trying to eat better.

 

[GatorFarmer]

It came out in 1935. For the 60th anniversary (1995) someone ate a 1935 can. They lived and said it tasted the same. The USDA now makes Hormel put on expiration dates, but circa 2000 they still said that the shelf life for all Hormel canned meats was "indefinite".

Though there was brief controversy way back when over Eisenhower having said not to send any more Spam to Europe, that they had too much Spam now.

I have had Guamanian/Chamorro Spam based cuisine. It is delicious.

Old Man Hormel was an America Firster and Isolatinist who came and around and did his duty when his country needed him.

 

[finesse_r]

It came out in 1935. For the 60th anniversary (1995) someone ate a 1935 can. They lived and said it tasted the same. The USDA now makes Hormel put on expiration dates, but circa 2000 they still said that the shelf life for all Hormel canned meats was "indefinite".

Though there was brief controversy way back when over Eisenhower having said not to send any more Spam to Europe, that they had too much Spam now.

I have had Guamanian/Chamorro Spam based cuisine. It is delicious.

Old Man Hormel was an America Firster and Isolatinist who came and around and did his duty when his country needed him.

Put enough salt and sawdust in there and it will never spoil. You would have to have some meat in there for it to spoil.

 

[GatorFarmer]

Put enough salt and sawdust in there and it will never spoil. You would have to have some meat in there for it to spoil.

Chuckle. It owes the long shelf life, if memory serves from reading a book on Spam...yes really...to being cooked in the can. I believe they used to use "cooked in the can" as an advertising slogan...until they realized that did not sound particularly appealing to most customers.

I used to eat it at night in my girlfriend's dorm room. She claimed it made a disturbing squishing sound that haunted her dreams.

 

[Rule3]

I do not eat it but have as a kid and while camping. It is not as bad as most people think, The question is what Wine goes best with it?

Probably better than Hot Dogs or Franks.

SPAM® Classic | Delicious Varieties of SPAM® Meat | SPAM

Ingredients

Pork with Ham, Salt, Water, Modified Potato Starch, Sugar, Sodium Nitrite.

 

[williamlayton]

An old WWII vet friend of mine said he could not look at a can of span without bad memories,
I luv the stuff---whatever the hell it really is.
Blessings

 

[wrhk33]

I buy the reduced salt type I think. For some reason it seems expensive to me. I like it with rice and easy over eggs on top. Some times with ramin or as we called it saimin. Mac and cheese also. I grew up in Hawaii but my family never really ate it all that much. I think because my mother was a great cook, we never wanted much spam. We always had it just in case we wanted some. When fried we always wanted the pan on the hot side to give the outside a crispy feel. Works great in fried rice also.

 

[SouthernGirl]

No, nope, huh-uh, not happening

 

[Maddog 521]

Scrambled eggs with chunks of spam fried up for breakfast.
Fried sliced spam on sourdough bread, smothered with Duke's mayonnaise. Works for me.

 

[pawngal]

No, nope, huh-uh, not happening

Same here, and add hot dogs & other processed lunch meat to the list.
I want my meat to look like meat.

 

[kenv1950]

I'm getting a lump in my throat just reading this thread

 

[SouthernGirl]

Same here, and add hot dogs & other processed lunch meat to the list.
I want my meat to look like meat.

Agreed!!
Glad I'm not the only one!!


the only time I've ever purchased Spam is when I was on another forum and we did a 'Spam Hunt'
(you took spam into the wilds, posed it and shot it and then posted pics of your 'kill'. Bonus points given for creativity and trick shots LOL)

 

[BearBio]

About 30 years ago, I decided that I wasn't open-mined enough and chose to try several foods I had traditionally STRONGLY disliked. Tried (and liked) Tuna salad, fresh green beans and broccoli and Brussels sprouts. Tried asparagus a few years back. Liked potato salad. Tried Spam again and swore NEVER again. Held true to that rule for the last 30 years. Expect to for the next 30.

Canned corned beef=like that on sandwiches or hash==even a bite or two out of the can!

 

[EQGuy]

I bought a case of Spam for the pantry to be used only if in dire straits such as after a devastating earthquake or other natural disaster. My wife is not happy to have it in the house so I guess that when the time comes there will just be more Spam for the cats and me.