Thinking of starting delivery for my signature recipes

[jberryhill]

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[MLAA]

1. If you swap in Tofu for the spam, I'm in!

[jberryhill]

4. I sometimes do that!

[Skittles]

2. heh

my mum LOVED SPAM, ever since she had some as a child during WWII

[procon]

3. Full disclosure: I like spam.

I use it in place of ham for breakfast and in casseroles. Not big on spam sammies though. Mr procon likes his smackers with thinly sliced spam stacked on crackers with assorted cheese, then popped under the broiler for a minute. He tops them with olives, pickles, onions and washes the lot down with a beer.

Haven't tried it with curry, but it sounds doable.

[jberryhill]

7. So...

I did up some onions, garlic and peppers (some dried chilies and the rest of a Serrano that was in the fridge) in some oil along with a little red wine vinegar and a dash of lemon juice (that’s the secret ingredient). Dice the spam and heat that up with some cumin (or not, and just throw it in with the garlic and onions). Let that go until the vinegar and lemon juice are reduced a bit and, oh yeah, I threw in some of the Malbec I was drinking at the time. Once that gets boring, throw in the rotel and a couple of spoonfuls of the vindaloo paste. Bring that to a boil and add water to whatever consistency of vindaloo you like, and let that boil some more.

Serve over rice or throw in some kidney beans.

[procon]

10. I can do that, but with a milder pepper.

Maybe some pineapple bits... Coconut milk? Whatever I add is gonna have to wait until I can find some spam. People must be getting desperate if there's a shortage on spam.

[jberryhill]

13. The first batch of spam was made in 1937...

...but due to recent demand, they’re thinking of making a second batch.

[ret5hd]

5. Dayum...looks good to me!

[jberryhill]

6. Muslims and Hindus agree...

“I’m not eating that.”

[LeftInTX]

9. That's one way of bringing about peace!!!

[jberryhill]

14. I can solve world hunger or world peace...

...but not both at the same time. Pick one.

[LeftInTX]

8. Spam Vindaloo!!!

[jberryhill]

11. Hey, it rhymes with "lamb"

[LeftInTX]

12. Oh Gawd!!!!!!!

ROFL!!

Remember the Spam Lamb from MASH?

[jmowreader]

15. I remember the Spam omelets on mids breakfast at Field Station Berlin

You may not know this, but Spam has an expiration date.

US Command Berlin maintained a warehouse that sold food to all the mess halls in the community. They were doing an inventory of their stocks, and found half a ton of soon-to-expire Spam in their larder. The Army does not believe in wasting a thousand pounds of taxpayer-owned Spam, so they decided the only equitable thing to do with it was to divide the stockpile evenly among the five units that owned mess halls (three infantry battalions, a Combat Support Battalion and Field Station Berlin) and ordered the mess sergeants to serve all of it to the troops before it expired.

The three infantry battalions were no problem. Infantry guys don't give a fuck what you feed them. They will eat anything.

Combat Support Battalion had it similarly easy: Company F, 40th Armor, was part of CSB...tankers will eat anything so long as you have enough Tabasco. (Yes, Aristus, I'm looking at you.)

And then came us. We had two mess halls, one at Andrews Barracks and the other at Teufelsberg. They sent the entire load to T-berg and decided to serve it as the only breakfast meat until we had either eaten all of it or jumped en masse off the ninth-floor balcony. They served cold spam, steamed spam, fried spam, spam omelets, cold cubed spam on the salad bar, and I believe they actually attempted to make a Spam-based dessert. (This is the same mess sergeant who made potato soup by mixing mashed potato flakes and cooking oil, and who attempted to add fruit to our diets by putting two pounds of raw cranberries on the salad bar. Ron Turner was absolutely convinced he served us hooded crow on occasion...the courtyard between the operations building and the chow hall was usually populated by hooded crows...except for once every two weeks, and on the days when the crows were gone they always served what was advertised as chicken in the mess hall.)

Picture of a hooded crow:

[jberryhill]

16. As my dad would have said...

Them’s good eatin’.

[lillypaddle]

17. uh ... yum??