STRANGE QUESTION? CANNED SPAM

[TheKid]

Favorite way is BBQed and served on a bun like a burger with all the fixins. One of these days we want to go to the annual <font color="blue"> Spamarama party. </font> We even have the Spamarama <font color="blue"> cookbook. </font>

 

[dooleysm]

The only way I've ever had Spam is in a breakfast casserole that my mom makes from time to time. I was going to buy a can of spam on a whim one time, but the cost per pound was high enough to convince me to buy pork chops instead. If I recall, Spam was on the order of $4/pound. There's alot better meat out there for that kind of money.

 

[JDgreen227]

Hey Frank....

You say SPAM isn't any worse for you than a BIG MAC...well because you are getting OLD and your hearing is going away, you just don't realize that strange sound you can't identify is YOUR ARTERIES CLOGGING UP.... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I have not had Spam for at least twenty years, does it still come in the metal can with the funny key you use to open it? Oh heck I just revealed I'm over the hill myself, if I can remember that. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[riptides]

Fried between toast, OR
as a side meat with green beans and noodles.

Last I checked, an internet e-Mail expert had about 7 DIFFERENT canned varients of Spam on his desk.

I had no idea, it came in those different flavors. I have been missing out on fine eating. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

-Mike Z.

 

[frank_f15]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( There's alot better meat out there for that kind of money. )</font>

That is probably true, but sometimes you buy what you like. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[LGinIA]

If you are ever traveling through south central Minnesota, stop and visit the Spam Museum in Austin.

 

[sendero]

re web site - they mentioned everything except that Monty Python Spam skit /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[ByronBob]

I'm a fan and thanks to everyone who's offering up different ways to cook it.

 

[AndyM]

<font color="blue"> they mentioned everything except that Monty Python Spam skit </font>

Nope, but you can listen to it here...
SPAM skit text

By the way, I like SPAM too!

 

[HomeBrew2]

Slow smoked over oak, YUM!

 

[frank_f15]

Think i have started a SPAM CLUB /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I also think SPAM got more free advertising from this thread than they spend in a year(actually i don;t think they advertise) dang it I THINK I SHOULD GET A FREE CAN /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[PineRidge]

Spam?

My daughter, Rhonda worked for several years with Hormel Foods, She was a supervisor in quality control. She said that the plant wasted no part of the pig. They rendered even the waste down to a useable sellable product. She said that in certain parts of the plant it was hard to breath because of the odors. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif Even she wouldn't eat Spam, but she used to get mad at me whenever I told her that email spam or (junk mail) was named after the food variety. I really don't know if it was or not but it sounded good for a dig. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Bird]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Even she wouldn't eat Spam )</font>

It's not at all uncommon for someone who works in most any food processing or preparation business to not want to eat that product. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif One of my grandmothers worked briefly in a sardine cannery when she was a young woman, and of course, would not eat a sardine. I once worked with a guy who worked in canning maraschino cherries and he said there's no way he'd eat one of them. And some officers found a door unlocked one night on one of the most popular seafood restaurants in Dallas. They searched the building to see if it was being burglarized, and said, after seeing the kitchen, that they'd never eat in that place. So I'm not at all surprised that anyone who worked in the place that cans Spam wouldn't eat it. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[JDgreen227]

Back about 1975, I was having a burger and draft at a popular downtown Lansing, Michigan, hotel bar and grill. I was a state employee and met another fellow who also worked for the state, a Dept. of Agriculture inspector. After a half hour of talking and a few more draft beers, he wanted to show me his notebook with pictures about certain things.

"Things" were very graphic photos about the parts of the animals that were permitted to be included in the manufacture of hot dogs, lunch meats, etc. Although he told me the burger I had just consumed "probably didn't contain any of the animal parts" shown in the pictures, I was glad I had not consumed two of them, and even gladder that I had a strong stomach, especially considering all the beer I had drunk.

Needless to say, I didn't buy any hotdogs or lunchmeat for a long time after that incident, and even today the scent of a grilled tube steak brings back memories... /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[riptides]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( but she used to get mad at me whenever I told her that email spam or (junk mail) was named after the food variety )</font>

Actually not really related at all. Just an unfortuante chain of name events for the Hormel product. But they don't mind, anymore.

-Mike Z.

 

[PineRidge]

Nope not me either. Something about meat in a can doesn't excite me, but each to his own.

 

[rozett]

Just watching Food Network..... Hawaii has the highest per capita consumption of Spam.