SPAM

[76Highboy]

Who here eats SPAM? I like SPAM. I hardly ever eat it but sometimes get the taste for it. I like it cold, and I like it cooked. I like it with eggs over easy, but it's not one of those foods that you put on your item list of must have's. It's great to have in the truck when your night fishing or out shooting and your hungry and it's handy to have around. It obviously has a long shelf life probably due to the high salt content. It's also cheap.

Why do you think that people don't like it? We all know it's not healthy, but neither is pizza and people eat that. Is it because people instantly think of it as being a poor person's food? I think it was a food that was ate during the depression. Is it because people just think it's gross? If so, why do they eat hot dogs? Also, I don't think it is a man vs. woman thing because my wife likes it as much as me. Both sides of my grand parents ate it and my parents used to make it for us kids with pancakes and eggs.

I know why I like it. Because I am mentally deranged. What do you think?

[jedwil]

Originally Posted by 76Highboy

Who here eats SPAM? I like SPAM. I hardly ever eat it but sometimes get the taste for it. I like it cold, and I like it cooked. I like it with eggs over easy, but it's not one of those foods that you put on your item list of must have's. It's great to have in the truck when your night fishing or out shooting and your hungry and it's handy to have around. It obviously has a long shelf life probably due to the high salt content. It's also cheap.

Why do you think that people don't like it? We all know it's not healthy, but neither is pizza and people eat that. Is it because people instantly think of it as being a poor person's food? I think it was a food that was ate during the depression. Is it because people just think it's gross? If so, why do they eat hot dogs? Also, I don't think it is a man vs. woman thing because my wife likes it as much as me. Both sides of my grand parents ate it and my parents used to make it for us kids with pancakes and eggs.

I know why I like it. Because I am mentally deranged. What do you think?

I am very,very normal and I like it. But, I do like it fried. Fry it and it goes with anything worth human consumption.

[cycloneman]

I never add it to the grocery list but it will be in any shtf box i have.

76 are you any relation to 358 winchester btw?

Just kidding 358 was a good friend, he liked spam.

[76Highboy]

Originally Posted by cycloneman

I never add it to the grocery list but it will be in any shtf box i have.

76 are you any relation to 358 winchester btw?

Just kidding 358 was a good friend, he liked spam.

Well 358 winchester must be one hell of a good guy. Also guys, I am mentally deranged according to some folks, and fun to laugh at as well.

[BlackEagle]

Originally Posted by 76Highboy

Well 358 winchester must be one hell of a good guy. Also guys, I am mentally deranged according to some folks, and fun to laugh at as well.

I wouldn't worry about it. We're all mentally deranged to some extent. Nobody is perfectly normal.

[cycloneman]

Originally Posted by 76Highboy

Well 358 winchester must be one hell of a good guy.

Great guy. RIP fella, you are surly missed my friend.


On a side note he had a great affinity for a special donkey. Thats another story.

[dons2346]

Oh yeah, love the stuff.

If you like BLT sammiches, there is a bacon flavored that is great

[Poppypaul]

When I was working several of our plants made the cans for Spam both 7 and 12 ounce. We made many MILLIONS of them for Hormel. I rather liked the product. But the Koreans loved it. If you gave a case of Spam to a Korean businessman he would be in your debt forever.

[raven818]

Spam, contrary to popular belief, is good for you, it's pure Pork Shoulder.:

Spam (its name derived from "Spiced Ham") is a canned precooked meat product made by the Hormel Foods Corporation, first introduced in 1937. The labeled ingredients in the classic variety of Spam are chopped pork shoulder meat, with ham meat added, salt, water, modified potato starch as a binder, and sodium nitrite as a preservative. Spam's gelatinous glaze, or aspic, forms from the cooling of meat stock.[1] The product has become part of many jokes and urban legends about mystery meat, which has made it part of pop culture and folklore.[2] Through a Monty Python sketch, in which Spam is portrayed as ubiquitous and inescapable, its name has come to be given to electronic spam, including spam email.

In 2007, the seven billionth can of Spam was sold.[3] On average, 3.8 cans are consumed every second in the United States.[4]

25% fat of which 30% are saturated) no trans fats...16g
Calories 180
Cholesterol 40 mg
Sodium 33%...800mg
Carbohydrate 1%...2 g
Iron 2%

This is about the same as deli meats.

Yes, it has salt, but..you can buy low sodium if you don't like salted Pork Shoulder. Or, Turkey Spam.

I love it fried til brown on both sides, with eggs ( spam and eggs sandwiches too ).

[76Highboy]

Originally Posted by raven818

Spam, contrary to popular belief, is good for you, it's pure Pork Shoulder.:




Yes, it has salt, but..you can buy low sodium if you don't like salted Pork Shoulder. Or, Turkey Spam.

I love it fried til brown on both sides, with eggs ( spam and eggs sandwiches too ).

The worst thing in SPAM is the salt but I like it and don't intake a lot of salt anyway. A McDonalds burger is worse than SPAM. Like I say, I eat it and had some tonight. I love the eggs with it.

Thanks Raven

[mjp28]

Originally Posted by 76Highboy

The worst thing in SPAM is the salt but I like it and don't intake a lot of salt anyway. A McDonalds burger is worse than SPAM. Like I say, I eat it and had some tonight. I love the eggs with it.

Thanks Raven

Hmmm, greasy McWhatever or SPAM, I'll take SPAM, always loved it!

Fried, plain, oh yeah with fried eggs!

In Hawai'i SPAM is a really big thing, bigger than on the mainland.

(oh, I thought this was going to be a thread on how to get SPAM out of your computer, lol)

[ryan42]

and i thought this thread was gonna be about junk mail

[BradleyCole09]

Fried spam, eggs( fried), fried potatoes, fruit punch. Now that's a good camp breakfast. I honestly never thought I would eat the stuff till I too my wife back when we were dating camping and I let he choose the meal. But damn that stuff just grows on ya

[raven818]

If you're not into Pork Shoulder:

There are several different flavors of Spam products, including:

Spam Classic – original flavor[7]
Spam Hot & Spicy – with Tabasco flavor[7]
Spam Less Sodium – "25% less sodium"[7]
Spam Lite – "33% less calories and 50% less fat" – made from pork shoulder meat, ham, and mechanically separated chicken[7]
Spam Oven Roasted Turkey[7]
Spam Hickory Smoke flavor[7]
Spam Spread – "if you're a spreader, not a slicer ... just like Spam Classic, but in a spreadable form"[7]
Spam with Bacon[7]
Spam with Cheese[7]
Spam Garlic (see photos below)
Spam Golden Honey Grail – a limited-release special flavor made in honor of Monty Python's Spamalot Broadway musical[citation needed]
Spam Mild[citation needed]
Spam Hot Dogs[citation needed]

I would rather die like Dale did in The Walking Dead than eat spam.

slimy nasty semi meat product. Gross cold even more gross fried.

[76Highboy]

Originally Posted by cpttango30

I would rather die like Dale did in The Walking Dead than eat spam.

slimy nasty semi meat product. Gross cold even more gross fried.

Hey tango, wanna come over for dinner? Mmm, I'll cook ya sumptin reeeel good.

[armedandsafe]

I like SPAM, but I like canned corned beef better. I keep both in my camp gear.

Pops

[raven818]

Originally Posted by cpttango30

I would rather die like Dale did in The Walking Dead than eat spam.

slimy nasty semi meat product. Gross cold even more gross fried.

The only possible reason for that is, you were locked in a closet with a can of Spam when you were small.

[mogunner]

Well, I guess being in and out of the military multiple times and eating all their variations of field chow must have killed most of my taste buds, from C-rations cooked over a mo-gas stove or eaten cold all the way through to the MRE's, I have to say there's a few there that I would have to be purt near starving to eat.

But Spam... fry up a slice and toss it on a couple pieces of buttered toast. Out in the woods, crack a can open and cut it up, chomp on that with some Ritz crackers. That's my two best ways to eat it.

My daughter detests the stuff. She was at this youth challenge thing where she could win $20 if she ate a whole can, made it most of the way before upchucking... I told her don't feel bad, you aint supposed to eat a whole can at one sitting, the salt would probably do the same thing to me, and I like the stuff!

[76Highboy]

Originally Posted by mogunner

Well, I guess being in and out of the military multiple times and eating all their variations of field chow must have killed most of my taste buds, from C-rations cooked over a mo-gas stove or eaten cold all the way through to the MRE's, I have to say there's a few there that I would have to be purt near starving to eat.

But Spam... fry up a slice and toss it on a couple pieces of buttered toast. Out in the woods, crack a can open and cut it up, chomp on that with some Ritz crackers. That's my two best ways to eat it.

My daughter detests the stuff. She was at this youth challenge thing where she could win $20 if she ate a whole can, made it most of the way before upchucking... I told her don't feel bad, you aint supposed to eat a whole can at one sitting, the salt would probably do the same thing to me, and I like the stuff!

Not me. I can polish a whole can off in one sitting. But I eat like a bear anyway.

[76Highboy]

The only thing you guys,,, is, well, it gives me gas. I'm not trying to be gross here I'm just saying,,, whew!!! My poor wife. I hope I don't cut loose in church in the morning because we are new to this church and if I crack one I'll just have to give my wife the ""Did you do that look". I hope I don't fart during prayer time. I'm just saying.

[gun runner]

SPAM is good after drinking alot of beer and getting hungry. Email spam is not good though

[Jerryboy]

here a little gold(or spam) nugget for you guys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

[Woodnut]

Man cannot live on bread alone, he must have Spam.

Gosh, I love it and always have, even though it is not really good for you. I even have to sneak it from my wife every now and then, cause she don't approve of me eating so much of it. But you know what (bless her heart) if I run low on Spam the next time I look in the pantry there is another can or two. So I know she takes care of me. Or is wanting to put me 6 ft. under, one or the other. LOL.

[Jerryboy]

BTW, does fried spam taste anything like fried bologna? The past couple of weeks when my sis and I went grocery shopping at Costco they were sampling fried bologna with grey poupon mustard on it, and it was DELICIOUS!!!