(my apologies to the rest of you) Tim: you sent me the text for your superb and rare CC find, but not the pictures. And you keep writing me, asking if I ever got it and am interested. And you asked if your e-mail is getting hung up in my spam filter, because you never hear from me. Tim, it’s the other way around: I’ve written you several times; I’m extremely eager to post your CC. So send me the pictures already, and check your Spam/Junk mail folder once in a while. Ah, the joys of e-mail.
So as not to waste this post totally for the rest of you, did you eat Spam back in the day? Still eat it? I did, a few times, out of necessity, including a couple of Boy Scout camping trips. Fried in lots of butter was the only way to make it palatable.
Have I eaten Spam back in the day? I still eat Spam every now and then, it’s an essential part of the Korean diet. It’s great julienned and fried to a crisp, served with spicy kimchi. It’s also great in ramen. Every year when I do a camping trip with my college buddies, Spam is always part of the menu.
Never once have I knowingly eaten Spam.
Yes, a scout trip was also the only time I ate Spam.
Buy it in 4 packs at Sam’s Club. Sliced and fried in a skillet, it goes great with the cheap Kraft Mac&Cheese in the blue box with the cheese power. Everyone gets nostalgic for food like their mother used to make. Well, my mom was not such a great cook. 🙂
It was a little embarrassing when my oldest son was in 4th grade and a book the class was reading mentioned SPAM. The teacher asked if anyone ever heard of it, and my son ratted me out that we had a few cans sitting in the pantry. She asked him to bring one in so the class could try it. Science experiment?
Being a vegetarian I’ve not had it for a long time.I was never a fan of the stuff when I did eat meat.The last time I bought some was in 1990 in a huge catering tin and had it with pasta,on sandwiches,in stews and curries and with fried egg and beans etc,until I was thoroughly sick of it.Never again did I buy food because it was cheap
My father, being of the Greatest Generation, loved Spam from his WWII days. He always seemed to have a can of it in the cupboard when we were kids, during the Fifties. Nothing made it palatable to me, including smothering it in ketchup. Not to mention it’s got more nitrites than a chemical factory. I hated it then, and I’ve never touched the stuff since.
The one “Hawaiian” food I avoid is Spam. Havent had any in decades. When I did, it was only tolerable fried to a burnt crispness.
Yeah, I didn’t find that out until I went to Hawaii, Spam is still huge there, and it even comes in different flavors!
I can recall eating it a couple of times in the early 70’s, but I’ve never touched it since. My kids didn’t even know what it was when I pointed it out to them in the store.
Although I do get a hankering once in a while for canned corned beef..
My Filipino friends got me into spam. They commonly slice it thinly, fry it in a pan and serve it with fried eggs and rice. It’s quiet nice like that! I buy Spam Lite which significantly cuts the fat but oddly doesn’t cut the flavor.
Now a lot of Filipinos also eat Corned Beef from a tin. That stuff is vile. To quote Futurama’s Fry, “It was the saltiest thing I ever tasted… And I once ate a heaping bowl of salt!”
Corned beef sandwiches with brown pickles used to be a favourite of mine when I was a carnivore.
Meat should not come from a can.
Spam sandwiches are yummy.
+1.
Anyone who anything bad to say about Spam has never had it sliced thin, pan fried and served as a sandwich, with yellow mustard. Mmm mm… I could never subject my body to it regularly, but it’s delicious every once in a while.
Spam fried rice and Spam musubi are some good eats.
I do enjoy an occasional Spamwich. Comfort food that reminds me of childhood and Hawaiian vacations both.
I remember growing up as a kid my dad fixing it a few times-usually fried-and I found the stuff terrible and haven’t touched it since. A friend I used to work with had a wife who was born in the Philippines; every time she returned to visit relatives she would take lots of it with her-apparently it’s very popular there. Maybe they have a secret way of preparing it.
As with Paul, in Boy Scouts, tbough it was my mom who made it. It was the day of the Klondike Derby, where you make a dog sled – and then you’re the dogs. Mom made a great big breakfast of fried spam and eggs. First event was a mile race pulling the sled. I was just 12 and I pushed hard to keep up with the bigger Scouts. A few minutes after the race I suddenly heaved the whole breakfast into the bushes from running so hard. Freaked me out, but 10 minutes later I was really hungry and broke out my lunch – fried Spam sandwiches with mayo. I felt great the rest of the day!
Spam is a fantastic substitute for bacon when you’re camping out of backpacks instead of a car. Like the others have said, slice it thin and fry it up. But then backpacking food is a little different, and being outside makes everything taste better. My dad taught me that when camping you should put butter in your hot chocolate…
Sure did, when I was a kid, back in the ’40s and ’50s. Not too bad when it was still hot from the skillet. . .
I love it! I’m ordering spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam, and spam.
Are you sure that you would not rather have the spam spam spam spam eggs and spam spam spam instead?
You wouldn’t be so keen on Spam if you knew what it was made of,ear holes,eye holes and a**holes!
Never had SPAM but I hear it’s prevalent in Hawaii, and cheap too.
My friends wife,is one of five kids. Her Dad was on the picket line at GM, during the big strike in 1970. Money was tight. Spam was on the menu everyday,except meatless Friday? Friday was K.D day.
Today she is a 57 year old grandmother. She will NOT eat any Kraft Dinner,or any canned meat,regardless of what day of the week it is.
You remind me that the boxed mac&cheese was always called “Kraft Dinner” at our house back in the day, too. 🙂 I haven’t heard that term in years.
Still heard regularly in Canada, we are apparently the kings of KD
Who can resist the alchemy of sugar, fat and salt? At least it isn’t Soylent Green. That stuff is nasty.
Grandpa liked it fried for breakfast with his eggs, so we were inducted into the Spam club at an early age. That stuff doesn’t have a shelf life, it has a half-life! On a more useful note, if you are ever trekking across southern Minnesota, do stop in at the Spam Museum in Austin. The story of the Hormel Corporation (pictures of old trucks, too), done in that wonderful self-deprecating Minnesota humor, and…they have free samples. Wonderful Spam! Wonderful Spam!
For any of you currently en route to Texas, apparently Minnesota does have an Austin as well. And a Spam museum, who would’ve guessed?
Bloody Vikings…..