Lee, being newly single (widowed) I was looking for new eating opportunities and decided to try Spam ( wife would never have allowed this). Sorry old son, even sliced thin and fried all it tasted like was grease. But hey folk must like it somewheres.

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Originally posted by wrench13

Lee, being newly single (widowed) I was looking for new eating opportunities and decided to try Spam ( wife would never have allowed this). Sorry old son, even sliced thin and fried all it tasted like was grease. But hey folk must like it somewheres.

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Sorry to hear you are newly widowed... .

Grocery stores sell a LOT of Spam.. In a past life I owned a grocery store and I didn't dare run out of Spam.. .. different tastes for different people!!  

I like spam but it works best when I do to tell the others what it is. Spam has a bad rep but it tastes good when cooked right.

Edit: WHEN I do NOT tell others... Apologies for fat fingers.

Salty goodness

I like the Rhyme in the Post name, pretty catchy!

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I like the Rhyme in the Post name, pretty catchy!

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I try to be catchy!!

I brought two cans of spam but my wife was not interested in using it. Unopened. :-(. Maybe its time to stop coming,,,

I don’t think you can talk about Spam without this:

youtu.be/y9B75hH26yU?is=kuNxebWaMYLvvzvK

Reminds me of the time I played a show with Dick Kimmel at the Hormel HQ in Minnesota.

I'm told it's popular throughout the South Pacific. Loved the Monty Python bit.

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I'm told it's popular throughout the South Pacific. Loved the Monty Python bit.

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I found This:  The U.S. territory that eats the most Spam is Guam, where residents consume an average of more than 16 cans per person per year. (Note that while Hawaii is frequently cited as the top U.S. consumer, it is a state rather than a territory and averages about 5 cans per person annually. ) 

PS.. Tomorrow, Saturday, we are having Spam for breakfast in commemoration of the day that we would Normally be packing up and leaving Clifftop!!

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I brought two cans of spam but my wife was not interested in using it. Unopened. :-(. Maybe its time to stop coming,,,

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Duh, maybe it is time to get into the kitchen and COOK SPAM!!

You don't cook spam it is already cooked, just open the tin and eat it , But a tin of corned beef is better imo, if you have to do such a thing.

i think that is the point of them ... Emergency rations.

Spam is extremely popular in Hawaii too, and there are all kinds of recipes that use it there. It’s considered a part of the island culture, even.

It does, like hot dogs, come pre-cooked, but it’s similarly common to cook it to make it more interesting. You can certainly eat it out of the can, but I wouldn’t say that’s the way it has to be consumed.

I think the idea of canned meat was a lot more appealing to the generation that came after WWII and learned about canning from parents who did it to get by during harder times and then celebrated the wartime innovations that made it possible to preserve foods that had previously been considered only perishable. As concerns about the preservatives and the move away from processed food have taken place more recently, canned meat hasn’t elicited the same excitement from younger generations, except as a novelty of exotic cuisine. There was a Hawaiian place near my neighborhood when I moved in, and the use of Spam in many of its dishes was a selling point. Unfortunately it didn’t last very long, though, as the target demographic wasn’t that excited about Spam.