The thread about SPAM..the meat...

The bumper of our Chumpcar wears a souvenir from our trip to the Spam Museum in Minnesota.

Easy button meal. Dice Spam in 1/2" cubes, simmer down till brown in CI pan w/ olive oil, add favorite baked beans, simmer more and drink couple beers, done. Ain't bad w/ steamed rice either.

carguy123 wrote: WAIT! Spam is meat? What kind? Road kill?

Spam's basic ingredients are pork, with ham meat added, salt, water, modified potato starch as a binder, sugar, and sodium nitrite as a preservative. Natural gelatin is formed during cooking in its tins on the production line.

stuart in mn wrote:

carguy123 wrote: WAIT! Spam is meat? What kind? Road kill?

Spam's basic ingredients are pork, with ham meat added, salt, water, modified potato starch as a binder, sugar, and sodium nitrite as a preservative. Natural gelatin is formed during cooking in its tins on the production line.

Yeah, it still weirds me out ham makes it's own jello

I've tried it in recent years, skillet fried, can't say that I'm a fan.

However, when I was a kid, fried Spam, and Spam and beans, were a fairly regular dish. Even as a kid I preferred "beanie weenies" (sliced hotdogs and beans) to Spam and beans, but both were pretty decent processed meat and bean combos.

Cubed spam fried and dumped in Mac and Cheese

Fried Spam sandwiches mustard and mayo on lightly toasted sour dough.

Fried cubed spam scrambled eggs.

Beans are way better w/ weenies, that was Mom's wash day easy meal, every Monday. Damn, I miss that. Mom's in a nursing home after a stroke and can't even feed herself now.

Eggs are way better w/ fried bologna, my aunt was great at that.

Spam is a easy on the shelf stand in.

Dang... those memories.

Spam is the civilized brother of scrapple imho.

In reply to NEALSMO:

Wait, so did SPAM cause or cure a case of veganisim?

FWIW, I like spam, typically with breakfast.

I love spam or hot dogs in velvetta mac and cheese. I don't eat it anymore because I fear my wife would judge me to much.

well, seems like this tread went better then i thought it would. to answer someone asking about thinking about people coming into work that same day, no clue, dont even know what state you are in. I just figured something funny after the weekend and you all give some cool ideas to try soome for cooking with spam.

Every now and then I get the idea that I want to buy a tin of SPAM and do something with it. Slice it and make sandwiches or something, I dunno. I'm still trying to figure out how to do ramen.

Then I remember that SPAM is, like, 50% salt by volume. And the local deli sells $6 braunschweiger subs that are an inch thick with tasty, tasty meat and I can make like four actual sandwiches from one of them. And it isn't half salt.

Also, I completely grossed out the 22 year old kid at work when he heard me calling in my lunch order today. "You ordered GOOSE LIVER?"

failboat wrote: Now corned beef hash on the other hand. That is my jam. Extra crispy please.

When we was in our early 20s, at 1-2am Sunday morning we would always hit up this 24/7/365 diner that specialized in all things corned beef. They had about three different kinds of Reuben sandwich, along with corned beef omelettes and corned beef hash.

We'd eat there after a late movie, then go drink-gaming until dawn, then work on cars all bleary-eyed and tired all day Sunday. Good times.

(No idea if Rubin's sold any SPAM or SPAM accessories.)

I am a card carrying member of the Coalition of Alternative Breakfast Meats and SPAM has a special place in our pantheon.

We (3 Pedal Mafia) made our Civic Wagovan up to look like a can of spam one year including a pull tab and everything. It was glorious. We handed out cans of spam as bribes to the judges, all wore Spam T-shirts, and cooked spam on the griddle all day. Ever since then - and since tasting bacon flavored spam at the same race - I've had a softer heart towards it. Yes it's sodium inundated death but it's also declicious.

In reply to dculberson:

Dude (and I use the term in the most highly respectful form) you combined racing with a Wagovan, and SPAM. I am deeply in awe and respect, and also now a little hungry.

In reply to Knurled:

The party to thank for the Wagovan is our own Sonic here on GRM. I was just a helper. That car was awesome with the AWD and ~120hp.

dculberson wrote: I am a card carrying member of the Coalition of Alternative Breakfast Meats and SPAM has a special place in our pantheon. We (3 Pedal Mafia) made our Civic Wagovan up to look like a can of spam one year including a pull tab and everything. It was glorious. We handed out cans of spam as bribes to the judges, all wore Spam T-shirts, and cooked spam on the griddle all day. Ever since then - and since tasting bacon flavored spam at the same race - I've had a softer heart towards it. Yes it's sodium inundated death but it's also declicious.

I ate spam and egg sandwiches for dinner two nights ago because of this thread.

Knurled wrote: Every now and then I get the idea that I want to buy a tin of SPAM and do something with it. Slice it and make sandwiches or something, I dunno. I'm still trying to figure out how to do ramen. Then I remember that SPAM is, like, 50% salt by volume. And the local deli sells $6 braunschweiger subs that are an inch thick with tasty, tasty meat and I can make like four actual sandwiches from one of them. And it isn't half salt. Also, I completely grossed out the 22 year old kid at work when he heard me calling in my lunch order today. "You ordered GOOSE LIVER?"

Philistine, order Foie gras next time.

SWMBO gave me a Spam sampler last Christmas! I think it had a dozen different flavors and have been slacking as I have only consumed about 1/3 of the tins...must get to work on that since 2/3 of the year has passed.

Brian wrote: In reply to NEALSMO: Wait, so did SPAM cause or cure a case of veganisim? FWIW, I like spam, typically with breakfast.

Cured veganism in my daughter. It was only early stage 1 veganism, so fried meat was all it took to bring her back to the dark (yummy) side of eating.

You guys ever had Potted Meat?

Great stuff on white bread with a little mayo.

Scooter wrote: You guys ever had Potted Meat? Great stuff on white bread with a little mayo.

My then-girlfriend and I used to visit the little hazital convenience store where she was going to college in Oberlin. We would gawk at the little tins proudly labeled "Potted Meat Food Product". As she put it, it must be so un-foodlike that they had to label it as food. I guess so you didn't open it and grout your bathroom tile with it or something.

Later, I saw an open can of the stuff. Near as I can figure, it's spreadable baloney. Or as my stepfather and I used to call it, "loaf". As in, the stuff that isn't olives in "olive loaf".

Scooter wrote: You guys ever had Potted Meat? Great stuff on white bread with a little mayo.

Better with yellow mustard...

Chilled in the fridge then shave off very thin slices with a cheese slicer thing. Deep fry and you get spam chips or as my kids and I call it "spacon".