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Either you like it...or you don't.
06/26/2024 | Me

Posted on 06/26/2024 11:37:03 PM PDT by Kevin in California

I'm referring to SPAM!

Me, when I'm in the local Grocery Outlet, I'll pick up a couple cans of it every now and then. No, I don't eat it regularly (who does?) but being it has a 2-3 years shelf life, why not?

Every now and then, I get an urge for a SPAM sandwich and/or some SPAM and eggs for breakfast. Yes, it's a bit on the salty side but boiling it takes a lot of the salt/sodium out of it.

Thoughts?????


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food
KEYWORDS: coupleofcans; missingof; notspamemail; spam; spamthefood; vanity
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1 posted on 06/26/2024 11:37:03 PM PDT by Kevin in California
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To: Kevin in California

Had it growing up, not frequently, plus along for camping trips. Last had some a couple years ago, didn’t seem the same as I remembered. Have some in my pantry among a year’s supply of food.


2 posted on 06/26/2024 11:39:11 PM PDT by Reno89519 (I'll go out on a limb: Trump & Gabbard 2024 or Trump & Sanders 2024)
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To: Kevin in California

I have a friend who owns a chain of small restaurants in Hawaii. His most popular dish by far has spam in it. He buys it by the pallet and says he just cant get enough to keep his restaurants fully stocked.So, it is very popular.


3 posted on 06/26/2024 11:46:13 PM PDT by calljack (Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
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is it kosher?


4 posted on 06/26/2024 11:48:43 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: Kevin in California
I'm sorry, pal, but I disagree.

SPAM sickens me.

Why eat that crap when you can have bone in spiral ham?

5 posted on 06/26/2024 11:49:39 PM PDT by UnBubba
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To: UnBubba

Your opinion....I respect it.


6 posted on 06/26/2024 11:51:10 PM PDT by Kevin in California (EP)
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To: calljack

Cool story.

IMO, SPAM has endless potentials. I even think SPAM is used in the Sushi business.


7 posted on 06/26/2024 11:51:33 PM PDT by Kevin in California (EP)
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To: Kevin in California

Take a block of spam and blend it up...Yummy chip dip!


8 posted on 06/26/2024 11:56:02 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Kevin in California

Austin, TX had (may still have) a festival for SPAM called SPAM-O-RAMA. Folks create a variety of dishes featuring SPAM and compete to be the best. Folks have a lot of fun but take making great dishes seriously.


9 posted on 06/27/2024 12:00:19 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Kevin in California

In Hawaii it’s a go to food.

https://playswellwithbutter.com/spam-musubi-recipe/

Spam...brings back memories of Scout’s and camping trips. Beef stew in the can as well. Oh and corn beef hash in the can.


10 posted on 06/27/2024 12:00:26 AM PDT by GenXPolymath
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To: SteveH

[is it kosher?]


Once upon a time, Loof was available. And before that, Breef:

https://jweekly.com/2011/11/24/as-idf-bids-adieu-to-loof-a-history-of-kosher-spam/
[On Nov. 14, the Israeli media outlet Ynetnews sounded the death knell for a staple of the country’s military diet: Loof, Israel’s kosher alternative to Spam.

Thanks to a policy of mandatory conscription, the Jewish state, in effect, had been force-feeding Loof — a colloquially corrupt short form of “meatloaf” — to its citizens since the nation’s founding. The resulting trauma alluded to in Gil Marks’ “Encyclopedia of Jewish Food” is understandable: “Many Israeli soldiers insist that Loof uses all the parts of the cow that the hot dog manufacturers will not accept, but no one outside of the manufacturer and the kosher supervisors actually know what is inside.”

Loof anecdotes are ubiquitous and diverse: There’s the one about a current 20-year-old Israeli soldier who was handed a can of meat dated 1988. “It wasn’t bad,” the soldier said. “It just felt weird eating something that was older than me.”]


11 posted on 06/27/2024 12:05:39 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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hmmmm... good recon, thanks...

however, i think i would probably prefer canned salmon if i could get it...


12 posted on 06/27/2024 12:10:24 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: Kevin in California

Spushi


13 posted on 06/27/2024 12:12:30 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: SteveH

There is turkey Spam, but not certified kosher.


14 posted on 06/27/2024 12:17:34 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Kevin in California

I like mine boiled. Boiled until it evaporates. 🙂


16 posted on 06/27/2024 12:20:08 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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17 posted on 06/27/2024 12:25:00 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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To: Kevin in California

I like it, but when I first saw the thread, I thought it was referring to e mail spam.


18 posted on 06/27/2024 12:28:05 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of Air Force pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: SteveH

[hmmmm... good recon, thanks...

however, i think i would probably prefer canned salmon if i could get it...]


Loof may have died in Israel through guilt by association (i.e. to Spam). People not observant probably just buy the real - by definition not kosher - thing. The rest would quail at ersatz pork. Without the army contract, Loof would have expired earlier.

But for those not sticklers for kosher certification while being averse to pork, there is Turkey Spam. And Middle Eastern stores have halal beef luncheon loaf.


19 posted on 06/27/2024 12:44:12 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: Kevin in California

Only canned meat I will eat now is deviled ham. But I prefer to make my own.


20 posted on 06/27/2024 1:44:48 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
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