Spam...the Eating Kind

[Art]

Since WWII and the Korean War the jokes about Spam are never ending. However..,.Koreans look on Spam as one of the best donations of American culture. Heck, they give it to each other at Christmas like we give candy, cheese and little rolls of summer sausage from those outfits that live for Christmas time to sell it.

We like to cook. One of my favorite cooking shows is Aaron & Claire, A Korean couple who do their show from Seoul. They make everything from pretty exotic Korean cooking to grilled cheese sandwiches. I learned to make fried rice from their show. Interestingly Claire must have a hard time in Korea because she really doesn't care for fish...or Spam.

Surprisingly, in a culture where men don't cook outside of restaurants, Aaron does the cooking.

Spam Korean style:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60dvg9Hr_HM

[Allen]

At least the Spam brand has ham or ham like meat in it. Perhaps that why so many (over there) like it. They trust it to be ham (plus or minus), not dog or armadillo that's been heavily salted to hide the taste.

An Asian brand of canned meat would be taking your life in your own hands.

[Art]

Spam = pork with ham, salt, water, modified potato starch, sugar, sodium nitrate. The third and last ingredients are salt, yeah its salty .

[Johnny P]

Spam is also very popular in Hawaii.

[jmm03]

on Easter my mother would make an appetizer out of spam mixed with bread chunks and cream of asparagus soup with an egg on the top baked in the oven in a small pyrex bowl. as i remember "some parts are meat" tasted pretty good cooked that way... Jim

[Allen]

I haven't had this stuff in probably 30 years. Now it's on my grocery list to buy. It's amazing how the mind controls things. Think I'll pan fry it with some pineapple rings. That may neutralize some of the salty taste.

jmm03's recipe sounds good too but way too complicated/timely for old farts to tackle.

[tmark]

I googled spam (the kind you eat) and I was surprised at the large variety of flavors the spam comes in!

[lyman]

Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Eggs and Spam for me please

[Johnny P]

Spam, potatoes, and onions fried together. A camping trip delicacy.

[Art]

An interesting video on the history of SPAM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP7e0tV1sYE

[Allen]

Spam, potatoes, and onions fried together. A camping trip delicacy.

When I was a kid I camped some with my brother and friends. We didn't cook much other than baking potatoes wrapped in foil stuffed with dried onions. We would bury these directly into the hot coals. We took along a loaf of bread and a couple of cans of Armour Potted Meat (I think that is still made). For drinks we sometimes boiled water for instant coffee, mostly we took Metrecals to drink. They came in a large variety of flavors, no longer made, they've been replaced by other liquid protein drinks.

Good times, however I don't know if I would want to re-live them.

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An interesting video on the history of SPAM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP7e0tV1sYE

On sections of the pig they aren't showing the ears, feet, tongue, tallywacker, eyeballs and such. No part of a pig goes to waste.

No worse than hamburger meat though and the above mentioned Potted Meat.

[Art]

On sections of the pig they aren't showing the ears, feet, tongue, tallywacker, eyeballs and such. No part of a pig goes to waste.

No worse than hamburger meat though and the above mentioned Potted Meat.

Those parts of the pig are destined for the above mentioned potted meat, Vienna sausage, cheap hot dogs and cheaper sausage, and pet food. Those are the big products from what's swept up off the slaughterhouse floor. I remember when I was a kid the actual ingredients were on the label and included stuff like pig snouts and ears. They don't do that anymore. Now its "meat by products." The meat in SPAM I understand is pretty much as advertised s meat by products aren't included in the ingredients. Remember, it was invented as a way to use pork shoulder which was also undesirable.

You are correct, as anyone who has been to a slaughterhouse can testify, nothing edible is wasted. However about half of a carcas, excluding the hide, is "dead stock" which is recycled into a variety of non food products. Dead stock can include euthanized pets and livestock that has died on its own.

One of my favorite swept up off the slaughterhouse floor meats is Mexican chorizo from a Mexican butcher shop or market. Ingredients that are always in this yummy sausage, if its the real stuff include among other stuff are pig thyroids, pancreas and other scrap gland meat as well as any other meat "trimmings" from the pig. One of my favorite breakfasts is chorizo scrambled with eggs, yummy chow.

[Allen]

What could have been said on a Hee Haw TV program:

"Hey Grandpa, what's for supper?"

Grandpa: "Meat and meat byproducts including floor sweepings, pig thyroids, pancreas, tallywackers, pig snouts and unidentifiable "stuff"."

"Yum Yum"

[togor]

We bought two cans of it in a pre-Covid grocery buy.

Date on these was getting a bit long and so we opened one....grey and pink, reminded me of that Icelandic delicacy rotted shark. Next one was all pink and that one we ate.

It's okay. I suppose to those on staple pork diet it's a nice Tuesday.

[lyman]

Those parts of the pig are destined for the above mentioned potted meat, Vienna sausage, cheap hot dogs and cheaper sausage, and pet food. Those are the big products from what's swept up off the slaughterhouse floor. I remember when I was a kid the actual ingredients were on the label and included stuff like pig snouts and ears. They don't do that anymore. Now its "meat by products." The meat in SPAM I understand is pretty much as advertised s meat by products aren't included in the ingredients. Remember, it was invented as a way to use pork shoulder which was also undesirable.

You are correct, as anyone who has been to a slaughterhouse can testify, nothing edible is wasted. However about half of a carcas, excluding the hide, is "dead stock" which is recycled into a variety of non food products. Dead stock can include euthanized pets and livestock that has died on its own.

One of my favorite swept up off the slaughterhouse floor meats is Mexican chorizo from a Mexican butcher shop or market. Ingredients that are always in this yummy sausage, if its the real stuff include among other stuff are pig thyroids, pancreas and other scrap gland meat as well as any other meat "trimmings" from the pig. One of my favorite breakfasts is chorizo scrambled with eggs, yummy chow.

jamie oliver does a good breakfast dish, he calls it an omelet,,

it's fantastic, we make it often

https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/eggs-recipes/potato-and-chorizo-omelette-with-a-kinda-parsley-salad/?cuid=b28845b20c7d60bb873a7a0070b69fd2