Posted on 02/11/2008 6:54:44 PM PST by blam
Actually all this started during WWII with the Navy and Marines’ bases in the South Pacific. Pacific islanders became a Cargo Cult, paid off with canned rations and rice. Spam was a favorite.
Holy crap! 3 1/2 grams(!) of cholesterol. That’s insane.
A friend of mine who served in the Pacific during WWII always says that Spam won the war, not the Manhattan project:~))
Think about it. All those GIs wanted some meat --- any meat, and canned meat was the only way to do it.
My friend George is 84 years old now. He still eats Spam and likes it, (and still drinks Jim Beam ... and likes that even better, along with a good cigar).
But he says their ain't nearly as much lard in the Spam now as in the old days when he was flying off the deck of the USS Wasp to fight the Japs.
I love that guy. He's a national treasure.
We ate Spam regularly when I was a kid and the whole family was rail thin. This article is just more BS blaming everything and everything except the porkers that can’t push back from the table. It is simply hard to argue with calories in and calories burned.
The Soviet Army survived on Spam during WW2.
(Thin mints are better)
Spam fritters, yum !
I didn't know Spam could expire. We were eating leftovers from the Korean War in 66.
It does not matter it's still your fault. (Isn't that the tone of the article? They have no responsibility for themselves what-so-ever)
Pure Bull! When we first got to Nam, we had spam every other meal (alternating with canned Salmon). I lost weight!
Like this one:
"South Pacific villagers worship a mysterious American they call John Frum - believing he'll one day shower their remote island with riches"
"It was a theory of mine that former cannibals of Oceania now feasted on Spam because Spam came the nearest to approximating the porky taste of human flesh. "Long Pig" as they called a cooked human being in much of Melanesia. It was a fact that the people-eaters of the Pacific had all evolved, or perhaps degenerated, into Spam-eaters. And in the absence of Spam they settled for corned beef, which also had a corpsy flavor."
As quoted by Oliver Sacks in his book The Island of the Colorblind.
I should also note that Dr Sacks is a bit sceptical about this.
Mo’bettah ono brah !
Island-Style Loco Moco
Serves One
One grilled hamburger patty
Two scoops steamed rice
One scoop homemade macaroni salad
(mix some potato cubes to your usual mac salad recipe,
substituting low-fat mayo, if desired)
One fried egg
(save calories and fat by poaching egg)
½ cup prepared brown gravy
(fat-free gravy tastes rich and delicious!)
In a shallow soup bowl or deep dinner plate * (see note below), arrange two scoops of hot steamed rice. Over the steamed rice, place a hot grilled hamburger patty.
Center fried or poached egg on hamburger and ladle as much VERY hot brown gravy over portion as your taste dictates. Spoon macaroni salad to one side.
Break up egg and hamburger, mixing into rice while eating.
Serve with plenty of paper napkins.
I agree with you. Spam has been popular in the Pacific since WWII. It can’t suddenly be causing a health crisis.
Refugee detention centres and guano-mining - if you were a Nauruan and this was almost the entire source of your country’s wealth, wouldn’t YOU commit suicide-by-Spam?
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