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Spam (meat) alert!
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I tried their Jalapeno (aka) "Mexican Pickle" version of it once--once... It was lousy-I couldn't taste what little of the pepper it allegedly had in it, and even then--it HAD to be the mildest part of the pepper...
BigBill
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I had food poisoning from Taco Bell I know what it's like.
I like the orginal spam fried crispy.
I like the orginal spam fried crispy.
BigBill
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If it didn't, how would you know???
I'll tell you what in a natural disaster or shaft situation we will eat anything right? I have pancake mix, syrup plus canned meats and mres.
BigBill
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We been eating more pork chops lately over chicken. I perfer my pork chops cut thick. I eat just one.
Let's see, spam with eggs, eggs with spam, french toast with spam, spam with french toast, pancakes with spam, spam with pancakes your options. Lol
Let's see, spam with eggs, eggs with spam, french toast with spam, spam with french toast, pancakes with spam, spam with pancakes your options. Lol
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Just curious, how/why would you get sick thinking about a food you have never even tasted? Are you Sam I am who has never tried - but still doesn't like - green eggs and ham?
Spam really isn't bad. Not gourmet food, but not bad. If you've ever tried spiced ham lunchmeat it is about the same thing, just an unsliced loaf of it - packaged in a can.
EDIT: I went back a read a couple of posts that I missed the before and now I get where you're coming from...
I don't have a problem with the taste. I actually like spam. The problem I have with it is the added chemicals. My wife pointed it out to me and said it would eventually kill me. She should know, she has master degree in nursing. I stopped eating that stuff and never thought about it again. Cold turkey.
She also said cigars and whiskey would eventually kill me. I'm still processing that.
We used to eat pickled pigs feet at the local watering hole when I was in the Navy. I'm still here 50 years later.
Here's another fine product from Hormel.
Emmy Eats Pickled Pigs Feet | Emmy Cho - YouTube
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Well, you've got to die of something!
True. I liked what Hugh Hefner said about death following the brutal murder of model-actress Dorothy Stratten by her estranged husband:
"The only thing that makes death acceptable is that it's universal."
I will never get food poisoning from SPAM because I just won't eat it. The ingredients are ham, pork, salt, flavorings, and preservatives. When salt is the third largest ingredient and perservatives are fourth I would never eat it. Sounds just like C-Rations which were the most disgusting food I ever had to eat. They were some kind of food loaded with salt and preservatives. Too much salt, preservatives, and high fat content is really not good for people.
You will not know that until the pathology report. Actaully none of us will get to read a pathology report on the cause of our deaths.
However, can you point me to any authoritative source that claims mystery meat, salt, and preservatives are good to eat?
Mystery meat refers to the Pork and Ham on SPAM. Pigs are large animals. Pork can come from anywhere on/in the animal. Ham tends to be the the thigh. I can deal with ham, but pork can be any part of the animal.
I will stick to center cut pork chops. No mystery where thatcame from.
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Awwww maaaaan - you're no fun!
Next thing you know you'll be saying hamburger and sausage and hot dogs and bologna are all bad 'cause they aren't made from specific, readily-identifiable cuts of meat...
Indeed. Master Gunnery SergeNts are not supposed to fun. We are the angel of perfection in the Corps. We lean on people until they get it right (as we see the right).
Of course we make exceptions for ourselves. Celebrating Veterans Day with a few old and salty friends we drank enough beer to take a deep bath in, and we ate the fattiest grilled burgers with mushrooms, onions, and swiss cheese, but al least we knew what part of the animal the meat came from. Of. Purse after about six beers we would eat anything, even spam.
Semper Fi and good night.
Mrs. Native is building a hickory smoked Spam 'n Egg omelet as I type...
My grandfather had a philosophy about this subject. One which I have adopted as my own.:
"If any part of a cow or pig has any name other than meat I'm feedin' to the dogs"
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There is no food coloring in SPAM. It gets its pink color from the sodium nitrite that is added to prevent botulism and other micro-organisms. Anyone who's ever used a commercial jerky cure product to make homemade jerky has used it and seen the results. Personally, I'd be a bit concerned that pale looking SPAM somehow didn't have enough nitrite.
Botulism symptoms, which are NOT gastrointestinal, can appear in as little as 6 hours after ingestion but usually take 18-24 hours to manifest.
The more common "food poisoning" bacteria; E. Coli and Salmonella, are unaffected by sodium nitrite and it is the ONLY preservative in SPAM.
Botulism symptoms, which are NOT gastrointestinal, can appear in as little as 6 hours after ingestion but usually take 18-24 hours to manifest.
The more common "food poisoning" bacteria; E. Coli and Salmonella, are unaffected by sodium nitrite and it is the ONLY preservative in SPAM.
It obviously didn't hurt George. He lived to what 1000 (joke, not typo) years old or something like that.
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YUP, THE SCRAPS.
Yes, the cutting room floor. Butchers don't "generally" grind the finest cuts of prime beef into burgers. What part did the burger come from? Lot's of different parts, and don't forget the fat, the most important part. Burgers are delish, but a far cry from a filet/rib eye, porterhouse.
Yes, the cutting room floor.
Butchers don't "generally" grind the finest cuts of prime beef into burgers. What part did the burger come from? Lot's of different parts, and don't forget the fat, the most important part. Burgers are delish, but a far cry from a filet/rib eye, porterhouse.
Yes, the cutting room floor.
When I was a senior in high school I worked as clean-up boy in the meat market of a major grocery store. After school I'd go in and clean up the saws knives and cooler and that'd be about all but on Saturday I would be there all day wrapping chickens, keeping the meat case straight and full and making ground beef. At that time and place here is a list of the ingredients that went into the mix:
.Frozen bull meat
.De-boned roasts and steaks that didn't sell and had turned dark
.All the suet (fat) that surrounds kidneys
The different grades; chuck, ground round, ground sirloin, coarse ground chili meat, etc were determined by the amount of suet in the mix. Yep, it was just that simple.
One last Spam post.
I read the account of POW's being held in camps in Japan during WW2. Some of the last missions of B-29's was to drop containers of food to the POW's. They waited in fields for bombers to drop the food. That practice was stopped after some were almost killed by Spam when it hit the ground.
True or not, I don't know.
The last marine killed in WW2 was killed by a can of spam. He was on the ground as a POW in Japan when rescue flights dropping food and supplies came over, the package came apart in the air and a stray can of SPAM hit him and killed him.
So Spam can kill you before you even eat it.
I read the account of POW's being held in camps in Japan during WW2. Some of the last missions of B-29's was to drop containers of food to the POW's. They waited in fields for bombers to drop the food. That practice was stopped after some were almost killed by Spam when it hit the ground.
True or not, I don't know.
The last marine killed in WW2 was killed by a can of spam. He was on the ground as a POW in Japan when rescue flights dropping food and supplies came over, the package came apart in the air and a stray can of SPAM hit him and killed him.
So Spam can kill you before you even eat it.
