[river rat]

I can’t possible be the only old man who can remember when a can of Spam represented the best meal we’d had in weeks.

[vietvet67]

And I remember SOS. As a kid I liked it.

[Peter Horry]

“I can’t possible be the only old man who can remember when a can of Spam represented the best meal we’d had in weeks.”

No, you are not, there are at least two of us. I can also remember when cracklins (grattons for you Cajuns) and a baked sweet potato were a treat.

[DejaJude]

I can’t possible be the only old man who can remember when a can of Spam represented the best meal we’d had in weeks.

That's why I loved it as a kid. Sometimes all we had was bread, butter and sugar. After a week of butter and sugar sandwiches, Spam was a treat.

[chesty_puller]

Everyone in my immediate family either was a Marine or married one. Spam is a treat. A slice of Spam fried to a crisp makes a great sandwich. If you never lived on C-rations for months on end, you will never understand Spam lovers.

[org.whodat]

Some people were born with a silver spoon in their mouth.

[Brit]

I was a starving 11 year old Brit in 1940 and our family was ready to kill for food..any kind of food...it is amazing what you will eat when you are starving!

We ate horsemeat, whalemeat, some stuff laughingly called dried egg, and a repulsive looking fish called Snook, along with another gross fish refered to as Rock Salmon.

But the meal we loved the most was when a ship got through the blockade from the good old USA containing Spam. My god we loved that stuff!!

I still eat it now and then for old times sake..although I would hazard a guess there is much better meat in it now as there was during the war!

My sister and I used to sit on the sidewalk outside a US army base near where we lived and beg for candy and food..most of the troops were black servicemen and they were very kind to us...one guy even went back into the camp and bought us some tinned food in a box.

I guess seeing two skinny kids with ragged clothing covered in dirt sitting on the curb chanting “got any food chum” really got to them. Anyway I still think of them kindly and thank them profusely for the tins of Spam and candy they gave us.

[vetvetdoug]

My Father was a military man of lower than E-5 rank during the 1950’s. Spam was a treat for us. To this day I won't eat mac and cheese or spaghetti because when we ate it, there was little cheese or meat because we could not afford it. While stationed in Japan during the late 1950’s, the Japanese children would make fun of my clothes because how tattered they were. If it weren't for cheap meat overseas from Australia, we would not have been able to afford any meat.