Do you like Spam?

[Archae]

I don't mean the e-mail stuff, I mean the food.

I'm eating some right now, I do like it. :9

Yes, I know I'm weird.

[krispos42]

1. I've actually been to the Spam Museum.

They have this on endless loop. I can't imagine working there... and I LIKE Monty Python!

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

2. Hearing Spam makes me think about Monty Python

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE


The vikings singing "Spam spam spam..."

[trueblue2007]

3. love it

[Skittles]

4. my mum loved that stuff

got it during the war :o

[sarge43]

5. Spambled eggs

scrambled eggs, diced Spam and diced green onions - mmmm.

[ellisonz]

6. I like it. Spam practically won the Second World War.

http://www.americainwwii.com/stories/spamagain.html

A lot was shipped to foreign allies including the Soviet Union providing easily to prepare protein. Compared to German and Japanese rations; spam was a solid choice.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

7. I've lost my ability to eat it.

My mom used to make it once a week...Spam, pan-fried potatoes, canned corn. It was a regular weekly meal.

As an adult, I'll pick up a can every now and then. out of nostalgia. I never make it past a couple of slices.

[Graybeard]

8. Breakfast Spam: thick or thin?

I know some people who slice their Spam very thin and

pan-fry it to resemble crisp bacon. I prefer thick

juicy slices with my eggs in the morning.:9

[OriginalGeek]

10. That sounds like a good scrapple substitute

for folks who aren't sure what scrapple is and are afraid to find out.

I love me some scrapple but that may be because I have some Mennonite roots...

[OriginalGeek]

9. SHUT UP! Bloody Vikings...

I only remember having it once and that was at a pot luck supper where a lady brought a spam dip that included orange marmalade and was served on regular saltine crackers.

I liked it though.

[GoCubsGo]

11. Yes.

That's odd, because I don't like ham, which is basically what this stuff is. So, if liking Spam means you are weird, then I am extra weird.

[Kali]

12. I can eat it,

but corned beef hash is better.

[Luciferous]

13. I've never tried it.

[backwoodsbob]

14. love it

nothing quite as good aS grilled spam...browned and cut thin.

[trof]

15. I do, especially fried.

Spam Samwich!
yeah

[WinkyDink]

16. Yes.

http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1827,148174-255198,00.html

[femmocrat]

17. We keep a couple of cans on hand in case of a power outage.

The turkey spam isn't bad. I put barbecue sauce on it, though and then use it in a sandwich.

[jmowreader]

18. Not after Spam Month at Field Station Berlin

I shudder still at the thought...

In 1988, toward the end of America's long nightmare, the US Army Europe central food warehouse found a skid of Spam that had been packed six months after the Berlin Airlift ended. They sent some to the veterinarian, who pronounced it fit to eat. The rest of it was offered to the troop units. No one would take it.

After a very long and circuitous route the spam wound up on the Field Station Berlin property book office's loading dock with instructions that the troops had to eat it and the mess hall had a month to make it happen.

It wound up on mids the same month I did.

For the rest of that month, we endured spam omelets--EVERY omelet served that month had spam in it, whether you asked for it or not...come to think of it, every soldier was served a spam omelet whether he ordered one or not--spam and potatoes, fried spam, baked spam, cold sliced spam, grilled spam-and-cheese sandwiches, chopped-up spam on the salad bar,,,

One of our operators said she was giving up spam for Lent, which would have worked if it wasn't September. She then claimed to be in a new religion that celebrated the second coming of its deity in September, which didn't work either.

Archae, if you like spam you can have all of mine.

[Archae]

19. Just too much in your case.

My Dad couldn't stand Spam either, since he had so much of it in the Army in Korea.

I have it once in a while, if I had to eat it every day like you did I'd get sick of it soon too.

[freshwest]

21. I always associated it with WW2. Was it more recent? And is it really safe to eat?

I mean, what's really in it?

I seem to recall having it once or twice in my life and thought it tasted like ham... and something else...

The packaging was weird, though, and was sealed with lead. I think corned beef used to be in the same kind of cans at one time.

[ellisonz]

25. Pork.

"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>"

Although in WWII non-Hormel brands put all kinds of stuff in it.

[BiggJawn]

20. Long Pig.

The Delicacy of the Pacific...

Me, I'm fond of Cajun Blackened Spam.

[trackfan]

22. I don't have it often; but it's not bad.

I don't think I ever tried it until I was in my 30s. Growing up, my parents would have considered it too much of an expensive indulgence; a waste of money. I have it about once every other year, or so, now.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

23. I haven't had spam in ages. I like to fry it thick and serve with eggs and tomatoes

for breakfast. Also, thinly sliced vidalia onions and bagels with cream cheese. Hot coffe. yum.

Have to buy a can, next trip.

[RZM]

24. Spam actually comes up in my area of study

Which is the USSR in WWII. We gave them a whole hell of a lot of spam through the lend-lease program. So much so that the word 'spam' permanently entered the Russian lexicon. Given the food situation there during the war, for some people spam meant the difference between life and death. You can find stories of people who were on the verge of dying and were saved by a can of spam.

Despite all of that, I've never actually tried it ;)

[Iggo]

26. Loved it when I was a kid. Can't stand it now. (n/t)

[Old Troop]

27. Haven't had it in a very long time. We ate it a lot as kids though; I

guess it was cheap. We had it sliced and fried, baked, baked with cloves (that was the worst)and chopped with eggs.