Spam...the Eating Kind

[Art]

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

it's fantastic, we make it often



https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/...3a7a0070b69fd2

Dang that looks good. He uses Spanish chorizo but the Mexican kind should work just as well. Its more frattata than an American omelette but Ima gonna have to try that, sooner rather than later.

[Merc]

Since we are talking about exotic meats, do not forget about bologna. I used to occasionally work at the Jones and Laughlin steel mill in Pittsburgh in the 1970s. The company would not allow the steel workers to go off site for lunch because many would come back to work drunk. So, they operated several canteens that served food throughout the mill. One particular canteen in the blast furnace area was privately operated by a guy simply known as the Greek. He had a small shanty. Inside was a refrigerator, one huge hot plate, an enormous cast iron frying pan and a cooler for drinks, mostly quarts of iced tea, orange juice and milk. He cooked one thing: jumbo bologna. Jumbo is a bit larger than regular bologna. He cooked a slice of 1 inch thick jumbo and served between two huge pieces of Italian bread. A quart of iced tea and the sandwich was somewhere around $3 if I remember correctly. I always bought a sandwich but could never finish it. I am not sure why it tasted so good. Maybe it is because the cast iron frying pan had not been washed in 30 - 40 years. The Greek made a very good living selling jumbo bologna sandwiches.

[Allen]

Jumbo is a bit larger than regular bologna. He cooked a slice of 1 inch thick jumbo and served between two huge pieces of Italian bread. I am not sure why it tasted so good.

Bologna DOES taste different and better when cut thick and fried. Long ago I would fry hand cut thick bologna, put it on toasted buttered rye bread along with hand cut thick slices of cedar cheese. A touch of garlic would have made it "mo better" but I wasn't into that then.

Just like thin cut sandwich ham taste different from thick slices cut off the bone, bolgna likewise taste different when thick cut and not thin and prepackaged.

[RED]

The mystery meat to me is the pork in Van Camps Pork & Beans. I always thought it should be called Beans and Pork. When I was a kid I would look for and eat the little 1/2 inch square of pork in each can. Nowadays there is no visible pork in it to be found.

[lyman]

Bologna back then was pork, unless advertised as Beef


now,, you got some pork, chicken, turkey etc all mixed up


when I started in the meat biz when I turned 18, fatback was fat, usually 2" or more thick,
same with the streak o lean,


now,, good luck finding fatback, and what you find ain't fat,, as in thick,

[Hal O'Peridol]

Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Eggs and Spam for me please

Hold the eggs.

[dogtag]

Sodium Nitrate is delicious.

[Art]

Sodium Nitrate is delicious.

You betcha, Makes Cured ham and Bacon taste yummie.

[dryheat]

OMG, the stuff people will eat. I've been disrespectful of hotdogs (and marshmellows) since I was a kid. I knew wieners(hotdogs) were made out of scrap stuff long ago. But the things described above are shocking even to me. But the ultimate; is that weird bologna with the clear jello with the olive pieces and that red stuff floating in it. I have a long list of things that I'd still starve on a desert island before I'd eat. Monty Python, we knew that was coming.

Pink salmon/Red salmon. When I was a kid in Alaska they fed pink salmon to the huskies. Demmings Red Salmon is over $8 a can. You can get brand X for less but it's a blend. "If it tastes like cologne, leave it alone. If it tastes like fish, eat all you wish". I like fish. But it's getting a little expensive too. But I'd starve before I'd eat olives in jello or whatever that stuff is.

Forgot to mention Chosizo. So, I heard of it and bought some. What is that all about? It starts out a little like sausage and then melts down to goop. I put some on the eggs. OK, a little taste of something.
My breakfast usually consists of one egg and coffee. A little salt and a lot of pepper. No bread, no milk, no meat.

[Allen]

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

Just came back from the store. Bought a can of "bacon" flavored Spam and a can of 25% less sodium Spam.