ITT try to convince me to try SPAM for the first time in my life. - Page 2 - Other Topics Forum - Discuss Pop Culture, Arts and Entertainment

My dad mostly eats it cold straight out of the can sliced up with salad and sometimes mash potatoes. I have also known him to chop it up and add it to his baked beans and one time remember he had ran out of bacon and so fried some spam then had it on a sandwich.

I've never tried it either. Not because I think it's food for poor people and I am above eating it, I am just a fussy eater and get put off foods quite easily, I think it was the smell that did it for me with spam though it was a very long time ago I can't remember what it smells like.

Funnily enough, I don't recall ever having eaten SPAM, but I have it in my head that the smell is pungent and gross. Do not want.

Quote

04-20-2015 , 03:58 AM

#27

Bighurt52235

I was born to eat hamburgers

Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 24,218

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tortuous

Uncooked spam is not very nice, cooked spam is surprisingly good.

Cut it into thin slices and cook until it looks like this:

Enjoy.

Exactly. There was a stretch of time when I was 12 that I was doing this. Don't think I've had any since. But will buy some soon, as I want to relive the memory of that dry browned spam.

Quote

04-20-2015 , 03:59 AM

#28

JohnyCrash

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 3,537

So to you eating poor people food is beneath your station in life?

Quote

04-20-2015 , 04:03 AM

#29

JayTeeMe

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 29,409

Quote:

Originally Posted by JohnyCrash

So to you eating poor people food is beneath your station in life?

yes?

Is this a trick question?

Quote

04-20-2015 , 05:15 AM

#30

AllBlackDan

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 6,328

A meat product named after unsolicited, junk email surely cant taste very good

Quote

04-20-2015 , 05:56 AM

#31

ESKiMO-SiCKNE5S

What SN is this?

Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 29,325

Quote:

Originally Posted by Swwiinn

I thought SPAM was only there as a cheap alternative for the poors. I don't see any real reason to choose it over normal ham.

Who is frying up ham?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tortuous

Uncooked spam is not very nice, cooked spam is surprisingly good.

Cut it into thin slices and cook until it looks like this:

Enjoy.

+1

It's awesome. I actually prefer this stuff though, which is similar

Funnily enough it's cheaper than spam too, because it goes off like a month after its used by date, so it goes on special really early in to it's cycle. Don't quote me on that though, don't want anyone to die haha.

Quote

04-20-2015 , 07:09 AM

#32

Mr.mmmKay

Drugs are bad...

Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 20,176

Quote:

Originally Posted by steamraise

Fried Spam is awesome.

Quote

04-20-2015 , 07:37 AM

#33

King_of_NYC

betting he never calls me again

Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 4,348

The "meat" in it cannot be worse than hotdogs. Do it and TR w pics & threadsavers ffs

Quote

04-20-2015 , 07:42 AM

#34

Fleebrog

Master Sheepulator

Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 13,182

It cures impotence.

Quote

04-20-2015 , 07:52 AM

#35

scroosko

adept

Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,176

$10 a tin in vietnam and sold from locked cabinets lol

Quote

04-20-2015 , 08:08 AM

#36

anonla

Cause and effect

Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 5,487

grunching:
no one should ever eat that stuff. Really.

Quote

04-20-2015 , 08:17 AM

#37

rugby

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Sep 2013 Posts: 4,672

Quote:

Originally Posted by AllBlackDan

A meat product named after unsolicited, junk email surely cant taste very good

Notsureifseriousjoker.jpeg

Quote

04-20-2015 , 08:18 AM

#38

0fisticuffs0

enthusiast

Join Date: Aug 2014 Posts: 83

Don't eat it, should only be used as fishing bait

Quote

04-20-2015 , 08:20 AM

#39

rugby

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Sep 2013 Posts: 4,672

Used to eat a lot of this growing up. When my mum was away and left Dad in charge he would cook some variation of spam plus eggs... Which is the only thing he knew how to make.

Spam battered in duck eggs and deep fried was the highlight... There were many more low lights...

Quote

04-20-2015 , 08:24 AM

#40

Land O Lakes

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 7,959

Quote:

Originally Posted by AllBlackDan

A meat product named after unsolicited, junk email surely cant taste very good

SPAM came before spam, but spam being named after SPAM certainly is valid.

Quote:

Originally Posted by King_of_NYC

The "meat" in it cannot be worse than hotdogs. Do it and TR w pics & threadsavers ffs

True. Lot-o-SPAM haters itt probably stuff $1 packs of franks into their pieholes without realizing it's the same garbage, if not worse.

Quote

04-20-2015 , 08:24 AM

#41

leo doc

Most interesting man on 2p2

Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 12,132

Don't do it, HB. It'll lead to a foie gras addiction.

Quote

04-20-2015 , 09:08 AM

#42

Didace

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 19,866

The Spam Museum in Austin, Minnesota, headquarters of Hormel, is surprisingly engaging.

Quote

04-20-2015 , 09:09 AM

#43

zikzak

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 22,199

Not sure how Spam got a reputation as poor people food. It's ~$4/pound. An actual ham is <$2.

Quote

04-20-2015 , 09:34 AM

#44

metaname2

self-banned

Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 3,996

Quote:

Originally Posted by zikzak

Not sure how Spam got a reputation as poor people food. It's ~$4/pound. An actual ham is <$2.

I think it was originally made from pigs that dies of smallpox. Maybe there was something about that in the museum, idk.

Quote

04-20-2015 , 10:26 AM

#45

freshstartpoker

banned

Join Date: Feb 2015 Posts: 49

Small. Pox. hAM.

Makes sense. Sounds yum.

Quote

04-20-2015 , 10:33 AM

#46

Howard Treesong

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 14,681

We here at Family Treesong are Spam cognoscenti. Seriously. Mrs. T routinely makes a delicious Spam fried rice. And having grown up in Hawai'i, she also makes wonderful Spam musubi, which is basically Spam sushi -- i.e. fried spam on a block of rice wrapped with a seaweed band to keep it all together. I fry Spam and eggs on weekend mornings, or sometimes grill it on the gas grill. And after I get through my annual physical with an adequate blood numbers, I'll usually fire up some bacon-wrapped spam for a seriously cholesterolic yearly treat.

Go for it, Howard.

Quote

04-20-2015 , 10:49 AM

#47

27offsuit

actions have consequences!

Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 38,532

Quote:

Originally Posted by zikzak

Not sure how Spam got a reputation as poor people food. It's ~$4/pound. An actual ham is <$2.

One out of touch geezer does not a reputation make.

Quote

04-20-2015 , 11:48 AM

#48

mr. degen

grinder

Join Date: Jun 2013 Posts: 600

Weird, early this morning I decided to cook some eggs and was going to go with some corn beef and hash as a pairing. I was out and only found a can of spam, it had to be at least 5 years old. Tasted pretty good fried to a golden brown. Pretty salty tho

Quote

04-20-2015 , 12:18 PM

#49

steamraise

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 9,874

Quote:

Originally Posted by ESKiMO-SiCKNE5S

Who is frying up ham?

Quote

04-20-2015 , 01:00 PM

#50

Ollieeeee

adept

Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 971

I'm pretty sure that eating processed meat like this has been proven to increase your chance of getting certain cancers. But yeah by all means, dig in!

Quote

Page 2 of 6

First

1 2 3 4 5 6

Last

Post Reply Subscribe

...

Page 2 of 6

First

1 2 3 4 5 6

Last