Posted on 12/27/2020 6:10:54 AM PST by mylife
Hong Kong (CNN)In a brightly lit restaurant in downtown Hong Kong, the meaty smell of fried spam fills the air.
As other staff prepare for the lunchtime rush, a cook is putting the finishing touches to a bowl of instant noodles, egg and spam, a dish so popular and iconic of local cuisine that it has its own shorthand in Cantonese (chaan daan mihn). But this bowl is different: despite being topped with two pink slabs of luncheon meat, it doesn't actually contain any animal products. The "spam" is vegan, a meat-free alternative developed by OmniFoods, a Hong Kong-based food producer and social enterprise. Like its US-based competitors Beyond Meat and Impossible, OmniFoods targets both vegetarians and meat-eaters with its plant-based foods, seeking to provide an ethical alternative that is less-environmentally damaging than meat.
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Derided in the West? Says who?
Hawaiians cry 😢
Research shows plant based hamburgers are NO healthier than beef......if spamless spam is like that why bother?
Spam (Synthetic Processed Artificial Meat) has always been meat-free.
Fry me some up with some eggs Ma..
Never understood the affinity for spam in Hawaii. They DO love it. SMH.
And I share their tears...
I save it for special occasions. ;-)
Anybody with taste. Spam’s gross. Also overpriced.
Shelf-stable meat. What’s not to love?
This is nothing more than the communist news network pushing their antimeat agenda.
Spam musubi is actually tasty...and this is coming from someone who grew up in Japan.
If you ever get an email about pork, ham, salt, and preservatives - don’t open it!
It’s spam.
Spam is Spam. Forever.
In my experience, Asia cannot figure out how to make a truly tasty hot dog, sausage, or anything similar even using real meat (allegedly real).
So how could Asia ever create the savory wonderfulness of Spam using - what? - soybeans?
I don't think so.
I have 4 cans in my pantry right now.
There are so many varieties too. A great invention!
:)
Well it is overpriced...even for a delicacy.
From the Hormel foods website:
SPAM is not the preservative-packed mystery meat you might think it is. In fact, SPAM only contains six ingredients! And the brand’s website lists them all. They are: pork with ham meat added (that counts as one), salt, water, potato starch, sugar, and sodium nitrite.
My problem with it is the way its packaged in a brick. I think I’d rather have fried baloney.
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