Twitter user Willy Staley noticed the tins of $3.99 processed meat sealed in a theft-proof plastic container at the Duane Reade inside the Port Authority bus depot in Midtown Manhattan - known as one of New York's grimiest areas.
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I've bought a couple cases of that shit for our preps a while back at Lisa's insistence because "It's better than no meat during an emergency."
Maybe to her it is. I can honestly say I've never had a craving for Spam.
What sucks is one of the cases is due to be rotated out, so I'll be eating Spam sandwiches about once a week until it's gone.
Then it'll get replaced with canned roast beef or chicken because that's even better than Spam during an emergency.
Fried spam sandwiches with tomatoes are pretty good...
ReplyDeleteYa got anything with less Spam in it?
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Delete@anonymous 3:32 - I'll take your spam if you're not going to eat it!
DeleteSpam Spam Spam Spam, wonderful Spam! :)
Fried spam sandwiches with tomatoes are pretty good...
ReplyDeleteSpam is great if you're a fan of salt, fat and mystery meat, not mention that it tastes like crap. I supposed in a pinch it would be OK if you have a couple gallons of water to drink with it. I have one can in my preps, down from two, after I bought them to try after not eating any since childhood. Mom used to make fried Spam for dinners occasionally. I didn't like it then and after sampling the one can more recently still don't care for the taste. I'm keeping the second can for a donation, if someone shows up needing food.
ReplyDeleteCanned chicken is only so so palatable. The thing that turns me off about canned chicken is the smell when you open the can. It's also high in salt. If you like fish, try tuna. Less salt per ounce and higher in protein than any other canned meat.
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When the looted stores are burned out and electricity is VERY hard to come by, those canned meats are going to become sought after. We call these cans 'wetback MREs', these sliced up and eaten on the trail, pretty convenient. The can, when contents are consumed, can be used for many things. Half filled with sand and fuel soaked, a nice little stove for warming up or heating fluids (not so much for cooking, not enough heat).
DeleteAt home we chop it up, mixed it with fried onion, potato cubes and add in some eggs and salsa. A bit of cheese wrapped up in a tortilla - really good.
Slice it 1/4" to 3/8" thick and fry it in a pan well. A little browning really improves it.
ReplyDeleteyep = and there is a video out there showing a method for removing most the salts and preservatives - sposed to be better, haven't tried it yet
DeleteMmmmm! The more lips, beaks and claws the better. Yum!
ReplyDeleteFried spam Pattie’s. Just like both grandmas made. Cheese and tomato are good adds. Good bread as well. Dark rye is my go to.
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Used to see Spam as a bit of a treat, as we were po' as hell growing up. 'Course potted meat and vienna sausages were considered a treat too. In the 70s inflation times, any meat was a treat in our neck of the woods. I still indulge Spam in moments of "nostalgia" from time to time, stock a few cans for the zombie apocalypse. Don't crave it, don't mind it. Should keep for many years as long as can is intact. ~~dirtroadlivin
ReplyDeletePrecisely the same for me growing up. I still like potted meat or vienna sausages and soda crackers now and then.
DeleteSoak the slices in water before consuming/cooking it. Play with soaking times to find your level of salt likeness.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid, my mom would stir cubes of Spam into macaroni and cheese.
ReplyDeleteI thought of it as "fancy" macaroni and cheese.
LOL.
I like spam, but I much prefer home-cured country ham.
ReplyDeleteFried up crisp it tastes a lot better or dice it up and mix it with your scrambled eggs or hash browned potatoes.
ReplyDeleteI’m also seeing different flavors and turkey Spam in our area.
ReplyDeleteI cook it in scalloped potatoes and it works really well. My wife and I both love it and she's from Mexico so she knows and cooks great Mexican food. I don't know about eating it solo though. It might be ok fried with fried eggs and hash browns.
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That might actually be an improvement!
DeleteCheap imitation bacon! Slice it thin, fry it crispy, then put it on toasted bread with cheese and lots of mayo! I bought several 8 packs from the big box store for preps, then the "kid" (26, living at home) decided that white trash sandwiches were great and has mostly eaten all of it. Need to go buy some more.
ReplyDeleteI don't care for regular Spam any more but I keep a few cans of the low sodium stuff for preps and to fry up for old time's sake.
ReplyDeleteThin sliced, tomato and lettuce.... Mayo if you will on toast a SLT if you will...
ReplyDeleteSpam and fried egg sandwiches when you're stoned/drunk are pretty good if I remember correctly.
ReplyDeleteTry sharing it with that asshole dog Jack.
Spam is still good for several years after the use by date. I'm working my way through a case of Aldi's beef that is twelve years past, left behind by my first wife. It was expired when she moved.
ReplyDeleteI prefer using Spam in the Poor Man's meal. Fry up cubed potatoes, sliced onion and chunks of Spam. It also works okay in fried rice.
ReplyDeleteSearch southern Spam recipes
ReplyDeleteI have around 10 flavours of Spam and I eat that stuff all the time. I even have a Spam Musubi press and a slicer that works the same as the kind for hard-boiled eggs. Since it's pork shoulder and ham with a little cornstarch modifier, it is actually pretty good stuff. I had Tocino flavoured Spam on my egg sandwich this morning and will again, tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteI knew a girl who made spam-chilli... that was nasty.
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Surprised no one mentioned Hawaii, They have like 500 differant flavers.
ReplyDeleteI’m surprised too. I saw a whole grocery rack of the different kinds. Just about blew my mind.
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Mix ketchup or mustard with brown sugar, slice the spam, coat it with the mixture, and bake till hot. Another method is to mix cheap grape jelly and chili sauce (not the powder, the "ketchup with a kick" liquid) 50/50, slice the spam thin and put it all in a slow cooker to heat up.
ReplyDeleteFried Spam, lettuce, tomato, and mayo. Yum!!! I haven't had it in 30 years though.
ReplyDeleteSalt, sweet, fat. What's not to love?
ReplyDeleteKen, fry it with teriyaki sauce and its doable. Even soy sauce with some sugar, garlic & ginger works. Edible but better with sticky rice & nori wrap for da kine Spam Musubi like I know you ate when your were here!
ReplyDeleteMy mom had a great skillet recipe for spam that was almost a kind of vegetable/spam stew. Awesome stuff.
ReplyDeleteAs I write this, there're 28 comments about Spam, with more to come, I'm sure.
ReplyDeleteSpam, it's what's fer supper.
Another po family main course: my mother's baked baloney chunk. Convinced my wife to try it about 10 years into marriage. Wasn't as good as mama's.
ReplyDeleteI keep a stock of Dinty Moore beef stew for emergencies. I only remember it in a big can. A while back I found it in soup can size. Meat, vegetables and gravy. Nope aint my favorite but it works. I make stew from scratch with two lb of cubed meat. Always throw in a couple cubed turnip fer kick. My stew is a stump blower.
ReplyDeleteI think it’s safe to say that most of us here share a similar socio-economic background, based on how many of us are intimately familiar with cheap, processed meats. My Dad was more favorably disposed to Vienna sausages, than Spam.
ReplyDeletefried or steamed Vienna sausage and pancakes.
DeleteSpam the national food of Hawaii. 3.99 is a steal. Selling for over 5.50 here in Texas. Good calorie load. Mix with rich beans or pasta plus sauce.
ReplyDeleteEveryone's got a spam story. Here's Mine:
ReplyDeleteWhen blogging was new, I was one of the first maritime bloggers. I worked for a low-end shipping company that fancied themselves rednecks but were far too suity and came from houses with way too many bathrooms to be country. They were legit coonasses, though. And I blogged about the Thanksgiving when we got sent boxed frozen Turduckens instead of Turkeys and 50lb bags of spuds for the holiday, and said bad things about southern cooking, and coonass cooking, including that I believed that as a man raised solely on the 3 Irish Spices (boiling water, salt, and butter, but butter just for holidays) I knew bad food when I saw it, having grown up with lower class Boston Irish cooking.
Before Christmas, my ship got a massive 1/4 pallet box with a huge red bow on it, with my name on it. It was a 1/4 pallet of spam cans for my dinners, and a nasty letter from the CEO to me.
I love it when the squaw fries it up in a cast iron skillet with a little butter to make it turn easy . A bit of mayonaise on some lightly toasted Schwebels Jewish Rye and I'm in heaven . Cept I can't shit the next day . It's still industrial food .
ReplyDeleteSpam fritters. Make up a batter mix, slice spam about 3/8 thick, roll in flour, dip in batter and fry in pan. You can deep fry too it you think your arteries can take it.....
ReplyDeleteyeah,... no. I'll kill something first.
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