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here's my prejudice with SPAM.

Growing up in Galveston, TX, those that ate spam were considered....how do I say this....underprivileged.

and, since then, it has maintained it's rep. except for those weirdos in Hawaii.


I reckon I'm gonna skip out on this culinary escapade.

 

which means....reluctantly....I'm with @LarryDangerfield on this one.

 

The last time I had Spam it was pretty good.
Although it was with a view of the beach in Honolulu.
It certainly tastes better in Hawaii..

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It's salty meat goop. The reason why people like frying it on a hot skillet is to get a maillard reaction that provides a bit of texture, flavor and pleasant crispness. Otherwise it is just a gelatinous meat cube.

It's gotten a bit of a revival in recent times as far as popularity is concerned with young folks acting like it is some amazing thing but make no mistake, it's ground up left over cuts and salt mixed together. It has a long shelf life for a reason. There are better meats available for breakfast, see bacon, sausage, linguica, chorizo etc...

 

In colonial New England, lobster was considered peasant food. It was reserved for prisoners, poor, and unwanted guests.

Y'all with your unadventurous palates...

32 Slammin' Spam Recipes

 

maillard reaction...I have lived this long without knowing that.

my learning day is now complete




I will now use it in a sentence.....

maillard reaction is what I like to do to a big ham-steak on a cast iron skillet.

 

Yep, 6-7 is fair.

I'll never try it straight out of the can. My kids call it "cat foodie stuff"

 

I'm guessing most of you wont like potted meat or hogs head cheese

 

But I bet everyone here has eaten a tamale at least once.

 

whoa.

hold on there a cotton-pickin' minute.


whatever it is you are about to say....don't say it.

 

I suppose you'll find all sorts of modern recipes that are just ground pork or somesuch. But real tamales in a real Mexican restaurant aren't that.

 

I ate Vienna sausages when I was a kid and a young adult with little money..

I used to work in a small grocery store in the early 80s and one of the old guys would eat potted meat and crackers..
He would also eat sardines out of the can and that was disgusting..
The store had a deli and usually, it was the older people that bought head cheese..

The deli sold BBQ and hot link sandwiches for the lunch run, a $1 a piece.
The BBQ was made of scrap meat (beef and pork) and the ends of ALL the lunch meat loaves.
Although both the BBQ and hot link sandwiches were damn good with some hot sauce..

 

we are in east Houston___our ops manager occasionally will get various mexican delights for lunch.

he simply tells me to eat it...and not ask what it is.

and it is always outstandingly delicious.

 

Vienna sausages!!! Yup, most of the stuff we now think less of I grew up on as a kid because we had to.

 

Sounds kind of like haggis. Everyone has an idea of what was in it originally but nowadays it's pretty just much sausage and it's delicious.

 

I lived in a little Mexican neighborhood in Grand Prairie when I was in my early 20's, and one of the residents had a tricycle with a box built onto it and he went around the neighborhood on Wednesdays selling tamales - 6 for $2 or something like that. They were great.

 

For me, Spam stays in my Emergency food stash.
Good amount of protein, fat, calories and sodium when shtf.
"5 year" shelf life, probably would taste the same after 15.

I eat it a couple times a year when it sounds good for breakfast

 

You guys are acting like I’m Auguste Escoffier because I used the word Maillard

Thanks for the laugh and cheering me up. You guys never disappoint.

 

Honestly it's no worse than this stuff...




Sizzling hot pan, fry it up and...

 

Here...

This will put a smile on anyone's face... A Tundra Pro in its natrual habitat!!!!

Click the link in this post, scroll through a few photos and then enjoy the 20 sec video

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Spam is foul. I tried it once and it's one of those "foods" (is it actually a food?) that gives me instant gag reflex. Super unpopular opinion... bacon is worse than spam.

 

Which kind of makes it a giant 2 page ad for Spam, which makes it ironic. Ironic Spam is the name of my sister's garage band.

 

True and an interesting story...