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Eggs are gross.. Spam is gross.. The thought of the two...

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I would rather have... Well i'll leave that unplesnet thought be
 
Don't care for SPAM myself, but one of my best friends used to eat so much of it that I started calling him SPAMman. He grew up poor in eastern KY and WV and was happy to have any kind of meat on his plate then. He still eats it fairly often.
 
My Grandma Wilde would grind a can of SPAM, and a pound of Velveeta together, and then mix in enough Miracle Whip to make it spreadable. She would then spread it on hanmburger buns split in half, and broil them until the meat mixture was lightly browned on top. I loved it as a kid, but tried it a few years ago, and wasn't so fond of it anymore. I guess my palate has changed.
 
sweet, delicious SPAM

Personally I eat SPAM a few times a year, generally when on a camping/fishing trip. It is such a versatile food, and doesn't taste bad either.

When I've taken it fishing it always brightens the day & lightens the mood with its unusual brand of humor.

I have even thrown a SPAM-themed 30th Birthday Party for one of my friends several years ago with various SPAM party hats, trays, cups, etc... However I did not serve SPAM, just beer & liquor. It was a fun time & I still have my SPAM hat, similar to the one Gilligan wore while on the Island.

Getting back to camping/fishing trips, if the SPAM's sense of humor gets too offensive, you can either carve into it & eat it, or use it for fish bait. Either way, it's a win-win!

Just a few SPAMalicious thoughts,

Penguinsoup

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Proving once again that many Americans PREFER processed meat

~My Grandma Wilde would grind a can...

The recipe includes ingredients that are so absolutely processed, fake and preserved, that I MUST try it! And I WILL too!
 
Toggles:

You think that's fake and processed? Here's a recipe that I ate frequently on camping trips in the '60s; we always went to the same campground each year, meeting a family who were friends of my parents. They had a budget-stretcher called "Macaroni Jones," after their family name:

- 1 pound of macaroni, cooked and drained
- 1 large jar of Cheez Whiz
- 1 can of SPAM, diced

Stir everything together and serve hot. That's it.

Salty as hell, and nutritonally one of the most dubious things I've ever heard of. But it was good on chilly days around an open fire. And cheap, always important when you're feeding six teenagers.
 
well if we want to talk classical cooking

Spam is a country Pate and Treat is a smooth Pate. Its all at how you look at life ... People pay a lot of money for country pate and its really no more than Spam

I love it also in the winter and with eggs .. also cold in sandwich. Grinding it in a meat grinder with onion, these are great for the beach

So when you go in a fancy french restaurant and they have Pate on the menu it might be Spam LOL
 
Spam Breakfast

When we camping, my mother would make spam hash. She would fry up hashbrowns, and Spam, then saute some chopped up onions, and heat the whole thing up together. Actually it was quite good. I don't make it a regular meal item, but do enjoy it once in a while fried. Maybe I'm crazy! My hubby thinks so!
 
Toggles:

"What other essentials of "real Americana" have I missed out on?"

Lemme see here:

- Kraft macaroni & cheese
- Chef Boy-Ar-Dee everything, particularly their canned ravioli and their packaged spaghetti dinner kit
- Mrs. Paul's fish sticks
- Swanson's TV dinners
- La Choy canned chow mein
- Hormel chilli (with Fritos)
- Underwood devilled ham spread
- Swanson's canned chicken à la king
- Pillsbury refrigerated crescent rolls
- Moon Pies
- Nabisco Favorite Assortment Cookies
- Libby's corned beef hash
- Green Giant Mexicorn
- Imperial Margarine
- Duncan Hines cake mixes
- Sealtest dairy products
- Toast'em Pop-Ups
- Royal Pudding
- Heinz vegetarian beans
- Jello
- Mrs. Kinser's sandwich spreads
- Good Seasons salad dressing mixes
- Jeno's frozen pizza
- Libby's canned corned beef
- Read canned three-bean salad
- Sunbeam white bread
- Campbell's cream of tomato soup
- Lipton's chicken noodle soup mix
- California Dip - made with Lipton's onion soup mix and sour cream, served with Lay's Ruffles potato chips
- Beenie Weenie
- Beefaroni
- Banquet frozen pot pies
- Oscar Mayer olive loaf
- French's mustard
- Hamburger Helper - do try the Stroganoff, won't you?
- Log Cabin pancake syrup over Aunt Jemima pancake-mix pancakes

These are things that almost every American has eaten at one time or another - and most of them are things that many Americans won't admit to liking, even though they do.
 
Toggles,

Two words to add to your list: "Pork Rinds".

I ~only~ eat them if I'm on a long road trip which fortunately (for my health) isn't very often! Preferably the spicy/BBQ kind, btw.
 
I Must Admit:

Every time I read the words "Hamburger Helper," I'm reminded of Fran Lebowitz's immortal wisecrack:

"Hamburger gets a helper, and I have to do my own laundry. Somebody's priorities are screwed."
 
Hey, Leave off Pork Rinds!

*LOL*

Aunt Jemima and to an extent Bisquick were the only way some households would have ever had pancakes, waffles, biscuts and the like. Some housewives/mothers just couldn't get it together to master those weekend morning breakfast staples.

IIRC Hamburger Helper was big during the 1970's or so when inflation,unemployment and the recession had many households strapped for cash. Both HH and Tuna Helper allowed housewives to stretch a grocery budget to put a hot meal with some meat on the table each night. Of course some just resorted to the time honoured method for stretching ground beef, mixing eggs and bread crumbs into one pound of meat to STRETCH it out.

TV Dinners and the like came about mainly as a result of more and more women entering the workforce. Again it allowed a hot meal to be served each night, no matter how pressed for time someone was. It also allowed those who either could not or would not cook to have a "hot" and decent meal. The 1960's and so had a real explosion of young persons simply moving out and living on their own for long periods of time. This applied to both young men and women. Not everyone knew how to cook, and eating out everynight can be expensive. If mother is too far away for one to go home a few nights a week for dinner....
 
Launderess:

"You forgot the biggest one of them all, Wonder Bread!"

I grew up in the South, where Wonder Bread is all but unavailable in many places. The Southern equivalent - and biggest seller in that region - is Sunbeam, which I did mention.

Noo Yawk ain't the world, y'know.
 
Spam, Wham

As a teen i hauled baled hay in the summers to save for a car. When you are truly off in the boonies, a can or two of spam and 1 loaf of bread you could feed a whole crew, and be thankful to get it. In the movie "Mr. Blanding's build's his dream house" while he was going through the trials of building a house he was an ad man trying to name a canned meat product for his firm. something like "if it ain't WHAM, it ain't ham. It was the perfect product placement opportunity that would not be missed today. alr2903
 

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