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Where they Love Spam

zogger
Mon Jun 11 19:06:14 -0700 2007
Chemistry.
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Not what you might think! Hardly anyone loves junk email, but the pork like experience meat in a can is a hit in Hawaii, so much so that now fastfood rivals are incorporating it into the normal menu.

..."Despite being one of the least-populated states, Hawaii leads the nation in consumption of the Hormel Foods Corp. product. It has been a hit ever since World War II. Isle residents consume more than 5 million pounds (2.3 million kilos) of Spam a year, an average of about six cans for every man, woman and child."..more there

ed: I admit it! The yard jackals and I share one can a year of spam. I usually keep a few cans on the shelves and rotate out the older can. Zingy enough flavor, but kinda extra salty though....but... from a *technological* point of view, it's some amazing stuff, probably last longer than the pyramids...

OK, so what's your favorite strange food you might be reluctant to admit you have a taste for? Fess up!

Where they Love Spam
monopole
Mon Jun 11 20:21:12 -0700 2007
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Don't forget Spam musubi i.e. spam sushi style! Very much an acquired taste. Me, I love Czernina and Chige although not at the same time.

had to look them up...

zogger
Tue Jun 12 16:03:16 -0700 2007
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...now I bet I ate some when I was a little boy. Used to go visit relatives in a neighborhood that was mostly all first generation central europe immigrants, mostly german, polish and hungarian from what I recall, and ate all over the block at different kids folk's houses. It was cool, no matter where you went to play, some lady would come out in the yard and drag you in to eat. Wayyyy cool! It didn't matter who you were or if they knew you or not, just some hardcoded DNA thing -> "see kid-stuff food in kid". I ate a lot of food I don't remember the names of but most of it was outstanding.. I do remember kielbasa and kapusta, still eat that. I don't remember trying any of the chige soup though, I looked that up too, some korean soup. The description sounds good though..
Where they Love Spam
mcrbids
Tue Jun 12 00:24:42 -0700 2007
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Just in case anybody thinks this is bunk, I had a friend a few years ago who grew up in Hawaii.

He speaks lovingly of the fronds of Marijuana that he played in as a youth - and showed my children how to cook numerous dishes based on SPAM.

Oh, and my favorite strange food? Canned smoked mussels in Canola oil. I love 'em. It's a treat I endow myself to about once a week, when I want to congratulate myself or when I just feel like it. Boohya!
Where they Love Spam
Richard.Neal
Wed Jun 13 03:57:01 -0700 2007
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Cant be as bad as me importing small jars of Cockles (small shell fish that live in sand) soaked in vinegar from England. I picked up the habit when I lived in England as a student.. my wifes nose cringes at the smell but then again she eats mashed sour green mangoes mixed with garlic and chili.
Where they Love Spam
President4242
Wed Jun 13 10:21:49 -0700 2007
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For me, it's marmite.  My wife's family thinks I'm nuts to eat it on toast for breakfast- but I have to hide the jar from Christopher, who at age 2 got a spoon and ate a whole jar in one sitting.
Where they Love Spam
Richard.Neal
Tue Jun 12 04:10:48 -0700 2007
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I actually looked up the Nutritional Data for Spam, fats and salt and calorie intake are not too bad,  the only down side I can see is Spam contains little in the way of fibre and vitamins.
Where they Love Spam
Carl
Tue Jun 12 04:48:37 -0700 2007
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Not to mention taste. It may be the worst thing man has ever created and dared to label "food". That includes dog-food, yes.
Where they Love Spam
computersareevil
Tue Jun 12 09:55:17 -0700 2007
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Carl,
What does dog food taste like?
Where they Love Spam
Carl
Tue Jun 12 13:40:24 -0700 2007
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Pate. Bad pate.
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computersareevil
Tue Jun 12 15:16:24 -0700 2007
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  :-D

Where they Love Spam - the Bahamas

zotz
Tue Jun 12 04:46:57 -0700 2007
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I grew up eating Spam myself.

We sliced it fairly thin and fried it.

After that some key ways to fix it...

With syrup alongside pancakes and the like.

With oatmeal and sweet milk.

With old sour - basically lime or sour orange put up with hot pepers (bird, lady finger, goat) and perhaps some salt - I am not an expert on making the stuff.

With catsup.

With the last two or a combo of them it makes a good sandwich, is good with grits and cheese, and various other ways.

It is tasty fried out and fixed. I am not for eating it unfried though. Don't eat it much these days though.

all the best,

drew
Where they Love Spam
ssclift
Tue Jun 12 07:48:31 -0700 2007
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Seems like the corned beef thing in much of the Pacific Islands. Every time I threw something in a garbage can in Fiji it seemed there was an empty corned beef tin sitting at the top of the pile. :)

not surprising

rubycodez
Tue Jun 12 09:35:44 -0700 2007
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Spam is huge in pacific islands and much of asia.  here in the U.S. spam is in all the Asian grocery stores, small amounts used in dishes based on tofu, rice, noodles, stir-fried veggie, pickled veggies (e.g. soups with kimchi).  So not surprising Hawaii is plugged into the Spam!

my guilty junk food, which I used to do a lot of in college years but not even once a year now, was cheddar spray cheese on Fritos  Yuck, chemical crap,  I know.  hmm, haven't done that this year or last, time to hit the supermarket, just do a few...it's Father's Day this weekend, after all

Strange Food

computersareevil
Tue Jun 12 10:04:14 -0700 2007
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Ding Dongs. (Formerly King Dons in some Eastern states).

The epitome of hollow calories  I'll get a box once or twice a year and pig-out.

I don't really find Hormel Spam offensive. My Dad refers to it as "Snouts and assholes", which is crude but somewhat accurate.

Electronic spam, meanwhile, could incite me to violence...
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rubycodez
Wed Jun 13 08:19:17 -0700 2007
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my dad said the stuff was "lips and lungs"
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WeblionX
Tue Jun 12 11:29:45 -0700 2007
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Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam...

What a coincidence-not!

zogger
Tue Jun 12 15:19:50 -0700 2007
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HAHAAHAHA! Just got served a dinner of spam fried with apple slices and potato salad and tiny corn bread muffins. I was talking out loud yesterday about this story, so today I get the "surprise" dinner. too funny!

It's good actually....yum yum

Where they Love Spam
hal9000_sn3
Wed Jun 13 00:54:16 -0700 2007
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Fried tomato worms. Tastes just like fried green tomatoes, except crunchy.
 

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