Do You Eat (Hormel) Spam?

[the ringo kid]

Spam Classic for me, although I only eat it a few times a year. Fried until it's almost burnt and crunchy it makes a heck of a sandwich.

Some years back some artzy-fartzy friends of my wife had a pizza party. They made the home-made crusts and invited guests to bring toppings.
I cubed up two cans of SPAM and put it in a fancy covered dish and told them it was my special pork shoulder Pâté. Everybody loved it.

I like to make SPAM Quiche. Haven't done that in yearrrrrsssssss.

 

[epj]

I'll go ya one better. If I had to choose between Spam and starvation, it would take some serious thought. Had my fill of that dreck when I was in the Army. Swore when I got out I'd never eat Spam or Vienna sausages again as long as I lived.

I don't think Spam is in the same class as Vienna sausage or potted meat. When a substance is identified as a "meat product", it usually consists of stuff I'm not going to eat. Spam is ok. Haven't eaten any in years, but there is some in the pantry for emergencies. I think it needs to be fried a bit for best taste.
I've spent years in the rendering industry. Every pound of potted meat and Vienna sausage sold represents a pound of raw material the industry has been cheated out of.

 

[LostintheOzone]

I eat it for breakfast with hash browns and an egg most days. I'm not living on a budget, I could eat stake everyday if I wanted. My wife thinks spam is disgusting. I buy it at Costco. I cook it outside on the grill as my wife won't let me cook meat on the range top. Over the years I've become one hell-of-a griller/smoker to survive.

Don't ask about chitllins or tripe if you can't get past spam.

 

[vytoland]

you knew that THIS had to be coming............................

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[Engineer1911]

I spent a week inside a Hormel meat packing plant installing ventilation duct work. I left there with a list of foods never to eat:

1. hot dogs
2. baloney
3. Spam


I have went hungry instead of eating liver and onions. Baloney and Spam would be sure "No thank you, I'll go hungry." meat products.

 

[JayAychOh]

I do eat SPAM in a variety of ways.

In Hawaii a few years ago, I noticed that "SPAM, Eggs, and Rice" was one of the featured breakfast menu items at McDonalds.

Sadly, I don't keep any SPAM emergency food storage because my wife solemnly advised me she would starve first. I think she meant it.

 

[Old Corp]

There's a 'bacon-flavored' Spam. I keep a few cans in the camper, as it has no chance of going bad and is always there in case a quick breakfast meat is needed. Pretty good inside a big ol' NC cathead biscuit, fresh from the oven.

 

[Pondoro]

I love Spam but only eat two cans per year.

 

[LostintheOzone]

Either red or white Gallo in a box.

I can't drink that stuff with breakfast.

 

[straightshooter1]

I got overdosed with Spam at one time in SE Asia. Days of it for every meal.

Swore I'd never, ever eat that stuff again.

Then, maybe 20 years ago, I bought a can, Hmmm, not bad, a bit salty, but not bad.

Maybe I'd buy another one if I can remember to do so.

Bob

 

[RJJ 1971]

Fried spam (without the pertoleum jelly cake on it) with mustard is great.

 

[Texas Star]

Chilled Night Train.

Try Sauvignon blanc, Chenin blanc, or Spatlese -grade Riesling. Chardonnay probably works, too, and is popular in France with charcuterie, cold meats.

Kendall-Jackson has a good, modestly priced Sauvignon blanc. I think both it and Riesling aren't appreciated much by Americans, who are largely brainwashed in favor of Chardonnay.

These wines also go well with salmon and most white-fleshed fish, especially in cream-based sauces, or with poultry.

Ch. Ste. Michelle has good American Riesling made in Washington (state), but it lacks the flinty soil-imparted flavor of good German Riesling. Seen on its own, it's quite good.

 

[Harrison]

Yes I eat the low salt version. I love it broiled, baked or mixed with scrambled eggs. It is great stuff.

 

[chaparrito]

I can't drink that stuff with breakfast.

Guinness. Guinness for breakfast.

 

[Texas Star]

I do eat SPAM in a variety of ways.

In Hawaii a few years ago, I noticed that "SPAM, Eggs, and Rice" was one of the featured breakfast menu items at McDonalds.

Sadly, I don't keep any SPAM emergency food storage because my wife solemnly advised me she would starve first. I think she meant it.

Jay, you and some others posting here fail to see the merit in this. If you buy Spam or sardines, relatively few women will get into your personal food stash. It'll be there when you want it.

 

[Road Rat]

I haven't had any in at least 20 years. Can't get the wife to buy it. She's even more adverse to it than she is to Velveta and Miracle Whip.
Can't get her to make liver & onions, or fry me up a batch of chicken livers & gizzards either.
Otherwise she's a great cook...

DANG, ain't she picky???

I like Velveta and Miracle Whip. Occasionally have a plate of liver & onions (my doctor says that is a no-no) and really like a mess of livers and gizzards (umm umm good - again doctor says no).

 

[RobertJ.]

Pink fat in a can
Cholesterol for my heart
Have I a death wish?

The search engine seeking
The Spam haiku web archive
I asked for weird ****

Discarded pig pulp
Bathed in slick, transparent ooze
I choke back vomit

Sorry, but a Spam thread with 75 posts, without a single haiku?! I couldn't handle it!

I love the stuff! Original or Smoked, sliced thin, fried crisp, and eaten with toast and French's Mustard!

 

[CoronaDan]

I might have me some spam a couple of times a year. And only when the wife is gone for the weekend. I'll pay cash for it so I doesn't show up on any debit card receipt. I'll bury the empty can deep in the garbage in case she should be able to glimpse even the slighted evidence of it being in her house.

Might fry up a little for breakfast with eggs, might cube it and fry up some to add to a pizza. Hell, I might even eat some raw out of the can.

When she asks what I ate while she was gone, I'll likely say...."oh, just a salad or two."

 

[CoronaDan]

I might have me some spam a couple of times a year. And only when the wife is gone for the weekend. I'll pay cash for it so I doesn't show up on any debit card receipt. I'll bury the empty can deep in the garbage in case she should be able to glimpse even the slighted evidence of it being in her house.

Might fry up a little for breakfast with eggs, might cube it and fry up some to add to a pizza. Hell, I might even eat some raw out of the can.

When she asks what I ate while she was gone, I'll likely say...."oh, just a salad or two."

 

[S42N8]

After a few near-death experiences with Spam as a kid, I shunned it until I was stationed in Hawaii. Spam musubi is surprisingly good. I do, however, miss the lake fishhouse sammiches my father made. Homemade bread, spam slices, tuna salad with chunks of onion, heated on the fishhouse stove, and a frosty cold one (after a few hours on the ice, frosty cold one has a whole 'nother dimension.) Good times, despite the spam

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