It's A Spammy Weekend

Hooper · 03-29-2003

http://www.spamarama.com/

woohoo... gonna go see if they have any tshirts for sale

Peaches · 03-29-2003

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Originally posted by Hooper@Mar 29 2003, 12:31 PM
http://www.spamarama.com/

woohoo... gonna go see if they have any tshirts for sale

Has anyone actually EATEN Spam? I have to admit that even though I rarely turn down a meal, it's probably one of the few things I haven't tried in life

Vienna sausages either.....

We ate Underwood's Deviled Ham in college because we could put it on crackers and call it a meal, so it's not like I have discriminating tastes

Apparently Spam is very popular in Hawaii - it was odd going to stores there and seeing "Spam Sushi"

sarah_webinc · 03-29-2003

when I was very little my fave meal was kraft mac & cheese with spam. I rarely have it since I left home but every once in a while I have some. My nana does this thing with it where she coats it in crushed up Ritz crackers and strangely enough it is pretty good.

Rox · 03-29-2003

We were poor, so I was raised eating Spam on a fairly regular basis. It certainly ain't steak, but it's better than never having any meat at all; and I must admit that once in awhile the craving hits and I simply must make Spam 'n potatoes with lots of onions!

Luckily, the family likes it too!!!

Peaches · 03-29-2003

My g-father owned a cattle ranch, so we always had at least 2 full sized freezers of beef. I think we would have been disowned had my mother brought ANY kind of processed meat into the house, so I never had it has a kid. "The grass is always greener" when you can feel deprived that you had no Spam as a kid, eh?

But now my curiousity is up

I'm going to try it with mac-n-cheese and maybe the potatoes and onions things the next time I hit the grocery store. Any more recipes?

Hooper · 03-29-2003

I grew up eating spam... spam sandwiches, cold spam... we were poor too. i think that is really the only excuse there is to eat that shit

Peaches · 03-29-2003

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Originally posted by Hooper@Mar 29 2003, 01:24 PM
I grew up eating spam... spam sandwiches, cold spam... we were poor too. i think that is really the only excuse there is to eat that shit

I'll admit I haven't priced it, but is it really that cheap? When I was a single mother and had zero dollars, we ate a LOT of spaghetti, p,b & j and mac-n-cheese. I could make $5 worth of ground beef, tomato sauce and pasta last for days, and that has to be cheaper (and surely better healthwise)than Spam?

Rox · 03-29-2003

It's under $3 here in L.A. -- which IS a bit pricey if you ask me. I guess the wonder of Spam is that it can be added to just about anything else cheap, and "kick it up a notch" by adding "meat" to the dish (and you don't even have to add extra spices or whatever).

Spam & eggs is another option, Peaches.

I'll bet if you did a search for "Depression dishes," you'd find a whole bunch of Spam recipes. My mom was famous for two such dishes: "S.O.S. (Shit on a Shingle)," which is ground beef in white sauce on toast; and "Deviled Toast," which is nothing more than canned tomatoes over toast.

Peaches · 03-29-2003

Ah, Shit on a Shingle! I've made that before, but here we use chipped beef (the stuff in the packages - Carl Budding is the best, IMHO)

But $3 DOES seem awfully expensive when you get can get 1.5+ pounds of ground beef for the same price, which to ME would go a lot further than a can of Spam

Then again, remember, I do not yet know the joys of Spam, so I might find out it's worth the extra cost

Hooper · 03-29-2003

I thought SOS was made out of corned beef hash? I think it was mostly an armed services dish.

Rox · 03-29-2003

SOS is a sort of generic term for any type of creamed beef on toast, I think. Most people I've ever known think of the "chipped beef" version like yours Peaches.

I think my mom always made the hamburger type because the processed beef is too salty. She had Scarlet Fever as a kid, and instead of breaking out in a rash, they told her it "turned inward" and attacked her kidneys, and she blew up like a balloon. Ever since then any time she has too much salt (which in her case is, "as much as Rox would consider enough to make food tasty"), her hands swell up.

Hooper, I've never heard of a corned beef hash version. But there's another really tasty canned meat product! Love hash!

The thing that sucks about ALL of these foods is that they play hell with my rather sensitive tummy because of all the preservatives & chemical flavorings. Not that that stops me from eating them when I've got the craving... I just suffer the consequences later!

Rox · 03-29-2003

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But $3 DOES seem awfully expensive when you get can get 1.5+ pounds of ground beef for the same price

Fuck, I really need to leave California. I bought the CHEAP (15%) hamburger last week, and it was $2.89/lb.

Peaches · 03-29-2003

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Originally posted by Rox@Mar 29 2003, 02:48 PM

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But $3 DOES seem awfully expensive when you get can get 1.5+ pounds of ground beef for the same price

Fuck, I really need to leave California. I bought the CHEAP (15%) hamburger last week, and it was $2.89/lb.

Whew! I'm making spaghetti sauce for dinner tonight, so I happened to have the empty box handy (I'm usually HORRIBLE about knowing what things cost) - Ground Chuck for $1.89 a pound. I normally like ground round but for some reason, chuck taste better in sauce

And speaking of burgers...I think it was Vick that mentioned Boca Burgers quite a while back, and those things really aren't that bad! I throw one in a pan for lunch and eat it w/o a bun and it's a quick "meaty" treat. For a girl who loves beef, it's a nice fake

sarah_webinc · 03-29-2003

my grandfather would never eat Spam because he said he had enough of it during the war to last him a lifetime. I suppose it was the nonperishable aspect of it that once made it popular.

PornoDoggy · 03-29-2003

My mother was a depression baby too, and things like spam, fried baloney, canned tamales, and shit on a shingle were staples for lunch our home - and we weren't poor. She considered them treats.

As a college student I ate enough macaroni and cheese to swear off of it forever; and when the revolution comes, anything served hot that involves canned tuna will cause the cook to be sent to a reeducation camp. My preference for SOS is the dried beef in the jars ... not sure if that's Buddig or not.

I spend 9 years, 5 months, and 22 days in the Navy, and ate in the chow halls for a good four years of it. A WMD I would recommend we use on alQaida prisoners is powered eggs and spam served cold. Hot (with an adequate dose of Heinz 57 and tobasco) it can almost be considered fit for human consumption; at room temperature you can almost get it down. But cold ...

03-29-2003

We were middle class growing up, but my mother was a convenience food freak and we ate Spam and eggs and Spam sandwiches on toast. After I took over the kitchen at 13, we never had it again. My father hated it because they ate so much of it during WWII.

Strangely enough, I like the little cans of deviled spam on crackers (way better than deviled ham), but they're so fatty I had to stop eating them. I've seen it recently in the stores down here in Mexico in FLAVORS...chile and other flavors I don't recall except that I thought that they looked really gross

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I normally like ground round but for some reason, chuck taste better in sauce

Peaches, pretty much every recipe for fine foods that use ground beef call for ground chuck because it is more flavorful. One that comes to mind is Marecella Hazen's recipe for Salsa Bolognese, in which she goes on for a whole paragraph about how you should only use ground chuck. I've seen the same thing in a lot of recipes in Gourmet, Fine Cooking and Bon Appetit, so your taste buds are right on, woman!!

EDIT: PD...did you guys ever have creamed tuna fish? We never ate SOS but instead had tuna. I used to love it. Made it again a few years ago and it tasted horrible. I guess my palate's gotten more refined. Also, you easteners ever have Taylor Ham? My mother used to bring it back from Jersey when she'd visit and make New England Boiled Dinner with it.

Oh, the bad old days. I'll take my Wild Mushroom Risotto any day

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ulfie · 03-29-2003

I went on a 2 week long canoe trip through northern Quebec one summer when I was in college. We never saw another person on the trip so it tells you how remote the area was. All we had was powdered food and spam. Let me tell you, spam on a cracker tastes pretty good after a week of eating powdered food.

LadyLaw · 03-29-2003

A WMD I would recommend we use on alQaida prisoners is powered eggs and spam served cold.
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PornoDoggy, you suggest TORTURE?? Powered eggs have to be THE foulest substance on earth....especially cold.

And then you go even further.....Spam is mainly composed of PORK shoulders (totally against the religion of the Muslims)....so you have a double triple whammy there....immoral, foul tasting AND cold. You are so mean.

03-29-2003

Sue, how'd you guess that I was sending you powdered eggs and spam as a hostess gift? :P

PD, missed that before. We ought to report you to Amnesty Int'l. Now THAT'S cruel and unusual lol

Peaches · 03-29-2003

Geeze - powered eggs - another thing I've lived 41 years without eating?

I'm feeling food deprived

Though I LOVE eggs and I'm not even fond of the Egg Beater type things - I think I'll die happy not trying the powdered eggs.

Speaking of ham.....down here we have country ham which is shelf stable and can stay in your basement for about 35 years, has your yearly USDA requirement of sodium in a single bite, and is the only thing that should go in the middle of a big fluffy buttermilk biscuit except butter (and margarine isn't allowed in my home, BTW).

Damn - it's just a wonderment I have a big ass, isn't it?

Vick · 03-29-2003

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Originally posted by Peaches@Mar 29 2003, 04:47 PM
(and margarine isn't allowed in my home, BTW).

First an article with proposed Barbecue laws and now another home where margarine is not allowed
I knew I loved you for good reasons Peaches

Any one up for Green Eggs and Spam

VooMan · 03-29-2003

I cannot believe that nobody has yet mentioned my favorite Monty Python skit!

Spam spam spam eggs and spam...

Hell, here's the link: Monty Python - Spam

03-29-2003

Peaches, can you recommend a brand of country ham? Last year for Easter I bought a Smithfield and it was WAAAAY too salty and had a strange flavor. I would like to try a country ham this time.

Also, there is no margarine ever in my house either.

slavdogg · 03-29-2003

i think spam is the the most famous food most people have never tried.

*KK* · 03-29-2003

Hmmm Heather, did you soak the ham? Where I grew up Virginia ham is for holidays and country ham is for either breakfast with eggs, biscuits and red eye gravy, or its a lazy supper with the same thing, minus the eggs...

The ham that I did for Thanksgiving the year you were out here was not a country ham, it was Virginia style... maybe you just got a bad ham?

My mother grew up dirt poor and even though she didn't have to serve it we had it when I was a kid, until we all, including my dad, said no more of that spam crap. Sad to say my mom wasn't the best of cooks so she was rather cyclical thru the things she made... but her fried okra is second to none, I will give her that!

I don't use beef in my red sauces, for spaghetti or lasagne etc, I use Italian sausage and then either ground veal or ground lamb, split about evenly between the two...

Peaches · 03-29-2003

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Originally posted by *KK*@Mar 29 2003, 09:17 PM
but her fried okra is second to none, I will give her that!

OK, then I'll accept 2nd place in the fried okra category

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I don't use beef in my red sauces, for spaghetti or lasagne etc, I use Italian sausage and then either ground veal or ground lamb, split about evenly between the two...

Hehehe, that's because they sell those things where you shop - here in Ellijay, I'm thrilled if I can find ground chuck.

Heather, I honestly don't buy a brand - I get whatever is in the store. Country ham is almost by definition way too salty and has a strange flavor

If you're looking for a good, smoked soft ham, you can't go wrong with a Honey Baked Ham. I went to school with the founder's grandkids and we always found an excuse to hang out at their house. I still buy at least 3-4 a year.

Menace · 03-30-2003

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Originally posted by Hooper@Mar 29 2003, 12:24 PM
I grew up eating spam... spam sandwiches, cold spam... we were poor too. i think that is really the only excuse there is to eat that shit

Same here. My Mom's method was sliced, fried and slapped on hamburger buns..

I think the ultimate weird poverty food in our house was ketchup and mayo sandwiches...

Spam actually isn't that frightening - the one thing that I never tried (due to fear probably) is Potted meat food product.

1) What the HELL is potted meat?

2) If you've actually got to put "food product" on the label, it's horror in a can, no?

03-30-2003

Of course I soaked the ham. Cooked it exactly as the smokehouse recommended, but it tasted nothing like the one we had.

Peaches, I've had many, many honeybakeds over the years. The last one was for Xmas this year and it was awful! I guess I got a bad one, my luck, lol

Our economy sandwiches are lettuce and tomato sandwiches with mayo. I think my mom was just too lazy to fry bacon lol.

I've seen that potted meat product and it scares me, too. Probably something like deviled ham, but gawd, who would buy anything with that name??

DrGuile · 03-30-2003

not poor-related, but here is something you might want to try.

When I make burgers, I put merguez sausages in the ground beef before cooking it.
Gives it a great spicy flavor.

If you want the "mexican" version, but salsa as a condiment in the burger

Im a decent chef, im just lazy ;p

sarah_webinc · 03-31-2003

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Originally posted by originalheather@Mar 30 2003, 06:35 PM

Our economy sandwiches are lettuce and tomato sandwiches with mayo. I think my mom was just too lazy to fry bacon lol.

my mom left out the lettuce as well...so we had tomato and mayo sandwiches on toasted bread. She told us is was a summer treat and to be fair it tastes good but I am sure it was translation for her being a teacher and not getting paid in the summer.

Anthony · 03-31-2003

Spam... MMMMMMmmm MMMMMmmmm Good! With Onions!

I haven't had spam since my early teens, but I remember the smell. I attest my size to the Australian Canned beef we used to eat regularly, with onions. I remember Channel 6 ABC news in Philly talking about Steriods in Aussie meat.

It would explain quite a bit.

sarah_webinc · 03-31-2003

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Originally posted by Anthony@Mar 31 2003, 02:52 AM
Channel 6 ABC news in Philly

for some reason just thinking about action news makes me homesick

03-31-2003

I can't eat bread anymore, but while I still could, Sarah, I loved lettuce and tomato sandwiches. They weren't too bad health-wise as long as I used fat-free mayo..but that would kinda ruin the whole point of it, wouldn't it? :P

03-31-2003

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I attest my size to the Australian Canned beef

And there goes my theory that you're actually part bear, Ant :P

03-31-2003

Spam eggs and rice. Yummmmmm!

kath · 03-31-2003

We couldn't afford Spam when I was growing up. It was a lot of Spaghetti, Mac N Cheese and oh yes - those fried bologna sandwiches. Every time I think of childhood I crave one of those babies on toast with a little mayo. Hub about gacks but then again this is a guy who LIKES those Vienna Sausages. I won't let him eat them if I'm in the same room - they STINK like I don't know what. lol

Weird....the different foods we grew up on. Wonder what our kids will say about what we fed them?

Peaches · 03-31-2003

I moved in 600 miles away and in with my bachelor father when I was 16. He knew (and still only knows) how to cook three things:

1) Lettuce Sandwiches. Lots of lettuce, lots of mayo, lots of salt
2) Cheese Toast. And ONLY using Cracker Barrel sharp cheddar

3) The day he figured out he could put Minute Rice into a pot of canned soup and water, he felt he had graduated culinary school

We ate out A LOT!

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sarah_webinc Members Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: American In London Posts: 966	when I was very little my fave meal was kraft mac & cheese with spam. I rarely have it since I left home but every once in a while I have some. My nana does this thing with it where she coats it in crushed up Ritz crackers and strangely enough it is pretty good. __________________ Special Boards Design Deal: 100 Banners = $799 ! Make 50% commissions promoting our pills! - sarah@webinc.com for details.

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Rox Members Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 323	We were poor, so I was raised eating Spam on a fairly regular basis. It certainly ain't steak, but it's better than never having any meat at all; and I must admit that once in awhile the craving hits and I simply must make Spam 'n potatoes with lots of onions! Luckily, the family likes it too!!! __________________ Visit my blog: ObnoxiousBitch - Trash Talk Today

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Peaches Members Want to see your own Advertising Here! Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Hills of N. GA Posts: 10,823	My g-father owned a cattle ranch, so we always had at least 2 full sized freezers of beef. I think we would have been disowned had my mother brought ANY kind of processed meat into the house, so I never had it has a kid. "The grass is always greener" when you can feel deprived that you had no Spam as a kid, eh? But now my curiousity is up I'm going to try it with mac-n-cheese and maybe the potatoes and onions things the next time I hit the grocery store. Any more recipes? __________________ Peaches@onlinebeach.com ICQ# 36734533

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ulfie Members Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 1,143	I went on a 2 week long canoe trip through northern Quebec one summer when I was in college. We never saw another person on the trip so it tells you how remote the area was. All we had was powdered food and spam. Let me tell you, spam on a cracker tastes pretty good after a week of eating powdered food. __________________

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LadyLaw Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 366	A WMD I would recommend we use on alQaida prisoners is powered eggs and spam served cold. ************************************************** PornoDoggy, you suggest TORTURE?? Powered eggs have to be THE foulest substance on earth....especially cold. And then you go even further.....Spam is mainly composed of PORK shoulders (totally against the religion of the Muslims)....so you have a double triple whammy there....immoral, foul tasting AND cold. You are so mean.

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originalheather Guest Posts: n/a	Sue, how'd you guess that I was sending you powdered eggs and spam as a hostess gift? :P PD, missed that before. We ought to report you to Amnesty Int'l. Now THAT'S cruel and unusual lol

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VooMan Members Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 931	I cannot believe that nobody has yet mentioned my favorite Monty Python skit! Spam spam spam eggs and spam... Hell, here's the link: Monty Python - Spam __________________

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KK Members Respin bullshit press Your Comments Are Welcomed Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 2,581	Hmmm Heather, did you soak the ham? Where I grew up Virginia ham is for holidays and country ham is for either breakfast with eggs, biscuits and red eye gravy, or its a lazy supper with the same thing, minus the eggs... The ham that I did for Thanksgiving the year you were out here was not a country ham, it was Virginia style... maybe you just got a bad ham? My mother grew up dirt poor and even though she didn't have to serve it we had it when I was a kid, until we all, including my dad, said no more of that spam crap. Sad to say my mom wasn't the best of cooks so she was rather cyclical thru the things she made... but her fried okra is second to none, I will give her that! I don't use beef in my red sauces, for spaghetti or lasagne etc, I use Italian sausage and then either ground veal or ground lamb, split about evenly between the two...

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originalheather Guest Posts: n/a	Of course I soaked the ham. Cooked it exactly as the smokehouse recommended, but it tasted nothing like the one we had. Peaches, I've had many, many honeybakeds over the years. The last one was for Xmas this year and it was awful! I guess I got a bad one, my luck, lol Our economy sandwiches are lettuce and tomato sandwiches with mayo. I think my mom was just too lazy to fry bacon lol. I've seen that potted meat product and it scares me, too. Probably something like deviled ham, but gawd, who would buy anything with that name??

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DrGuile french with welsh tendancies Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 2,007	not poor-related, but here is something you might want to try. When I make burgers, I put merguez sausages in the ground beef before cooking it. Gives it a great spicy flavor. If you want the "mexican" version, but salsa as a condiment in the burger Im a decent chef, im just lazy ;p __________________ LiveBucks / Privatefeeds - Giving you money since 1999 Up to 40% Commission! 25% Webmaster Referal

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Anthony Banned The global leader in pay-per-view AEBN Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 3,246	Spam... MMMMMMmmm MMMMMmmmm Good! With Onions! I haven't had spam since my early teens, but I remember the smell. I attest my size to the Australian Canned beef we used to eat regularly, with onions. I remember Channel 6 ABC news in Philly talking about Steriods in Aussie meat. It would explain quite a bit.

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kath Members Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: California, USA Posts: 1,340	We couldn't afford Spam when I was growing up. It was a lot of Spaghetti, Mac N Cheese and oh yes - those fried bologna sandwiches. Every time I think of childhood I crave one of those babies on toast with a little mayo. Hub about gacks but then again this is a guy who LIKES those Vienna Sausages. I won't let him eat them if I'm in the same room - they STINK like I don't know what. lol Weird....the different foods we grew up on. Wonder what our kids will say about what we fed them?