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FREEDGUY 
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Posted: 10 Sep 2020 at 6:21pm |
Do any of you eat Spam? I haven't had any for at least 20 years for reasons that escape me. I had no issue with the taste or texture, perhaps the $$ played a roll? Just seems like Spam is really pushing their product with "mega" tv adds recently. Might bring a can home this weekend  .
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Tbone95
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Posted: 10 Sep 2020 at 6:28pm |
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Been probably 40 years since I had it. I didn’t hate it. I’d eat it if that’s what there was.
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Posted: 10 Sep 2020 at 7:12pm |
Not a regular meal with he kids when they were growing up, little pricey in my mind but we would get it when on sale. Fry some pieces up in a pan, put them on a hot dog bun and a slice of KRAFT singles split in half on top. Kids loved it.
If you are travelling on I-90 near Austin, MN the SPAM Museum is a short distance off the interstate. Free admission.
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Posted: 10 Sep 2020 at 7:16pm |
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Grilled SPAM n cheese. Mmmmm. Only lobster dipped in butter can beat that. My accountant also does some great stir fry with it
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Posted: 10 Sep 2020 at 7:51pm |
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i've had it too...guess the only thing that turns my tummy is when i see all that gel around it in the can, kinda unappitizing to me.
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Posted: 10 Sep 2020 at 7:52pm |
Spam, IE Some Pieces ARE Meat, most are not. The Glue that holds the loaf together is nothing more than meat collagen IE FAT. Then the Greatest of them All, ALL the Spam that was EVER Made was done by 1947, the stuff is on cold dry storage around the globe in a endless supply!!
Personally HAD to eat that stuff in US of Army LONG ago, then a dear friend was coming to his 60th birthday at work, his main desire a Crew Feed on Spam. LAST time any of that stuff crossed my lips and yes, it WAS Still as nasty as when I first had it, 2010.
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Posted: 10 Sep 2020 at 7:56pm |
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i've had it too...guess the only thing that turns my tum my is when i see all that gel around it in the can, kinda unappitizing to me. |
Yes Shameless, I am starting to recall the "gel" now that you mentioned it LOL!!
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Posted: 10 Sep 2020 at 8:20pm |
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A marketable use for lips, tongue's, snouts, eyeballs and arseholes. Why not?
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Posted: 10 Sep 2020 at 8:46pm |
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Fried spam with taters and eggs for breakfast, spam sandwich for lunch. It is a bit expensive for scrap meat though.
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Posted: 10 Sep 2020 at 8:59pm |
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Had a spam sandwich for lunch today, I fry it a little and put on buttered bread, I like it, have also put it in salads and scambled eggs.
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Posted: 10 Sep 2020 at 9:16pm |
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I don't mind the taste fried, just usually try to think about other things while eating it.
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Posted: 10 Sep 2020 at 9:20pm |
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God, they used to put it in mers when I was in the air force and pass it off as ham. Meals rejected by Ethiopians!
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Posted: 10 Sep 2020 at 9:21pm |
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Been a long time. I liked it, but sadly, the salt content is rather high, no good for BP
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Posted: 10 Sep 2020 at 9:34pm |
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Turkey Spam is the only version my wife buys. Since this Covid plannedemic, it cannot be found in any stores in our area.
That and Formula 409, is totally absent from stores.
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Posted: 10 Sep 2020 at 9:35pm |
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why not just buy a 2-3 pound cooked ham and keep it in the frig and cut off a slice for sandwiches ?
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Posted: 10 Sep 2020 at 10:29pm |
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I was gonna but a can and take with us on this trip. Bought a lb of honey ham instead. Sorta getting a hankering for it now. May have ta run across the Missouri river and pick up a can in Auburn Ne.
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Posted: 11 Sep 2020 at 5:05am |
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We call it Minnesota pork chops.
I don’t touch the stuff
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Posted: 11 Sep 2020 at 7:26am |
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I'm surprised it's considered "pricey". I mean, I had no clue because A) it's been 40 years and B) I don't do the grocery shopping. But still, surprises me, because I thought the whole point of it was cheap/scraps.
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Posted: 11 Sep 2020 at 8:36am |
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we get it daily on the phone, say SPAM and we don't answer.
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Posted: 11 Sep 2020 at 8:56am |
When we was growin up we used to get "The Commodities" and the four oldest boys used to have to rotate as to who had to take Mom to get them,,,,, One time when it was my turn,,I drive up to the center and there right there parked in front of the store is the shinest most longest new car ,,,,that I thought I recognized,,,,and right bout then,,,here comes my friend, Henry, his brother, his sister AND their Momma,,,al of them luggin an armload of commodaties,,,right straight into that shiny new car,,,,,!! I made sure that ole Henry seen me and ,,,and,,I waved and called out his name,,,, his face turned as red as that car,,,!!!  BUT,,,he never onced made fun of how POOR we were,,,,, I was whistlin a lot when it was our turn to get our groceries,,,,OH,,Chit,,kinda got off my story. Anyway,,I use to LOVE what they called "Canned Meat" in the 303 sized cans that looked just like the Spam that the RICH people ate,,UMMmm,,take and slice it thick, fry it up and two slices of home made bread and get out the way,,I got to go to school,,,!!!! 
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Posted: 11 Sep 2020 at 9:05am |
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Been a while for me to. I guess 25 years or better. Nana used to fry it for us for breakfast sometimes. Pawpaw loved it then, as mentioned earlier, the sodium stopped him from being able to eat it. Never will forget that suckling sound it makes coming out of the can. Makes me want to shiver. The last fart leaving all those buttholes I guess
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Posted: 11 Sep 2020 at 9:13am |
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Ate lots of that Spam in my young years also. Mom used to fry it up and serve it with taters and boiled cabbage. I don't think I would touch the stuff now!!
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Posted: 11 Sep 2020 at 10:15am |
thendrix wrote:
Been a while for me to. I guess 25 years or better. Nana used to fry it for us for breakfast sometimes. Pawpaw loved it then, as mentioned earlier, the sodium stopped him from being able to eat it. Never will forget that suckling sound it makes coming out of the can. Makes me want to shiver. The last fart leaving all those buttholes I guess |
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Posted: 11 Sep 2020 at 10:24am |
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cubed up and put in mac and cheese. I like it and the kids eat it every time I make it. just not to often its full of fat and salt. I was deployed to kyrgyzstan during a winter had to hide you're spam or someone would eat it.
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Posted: 11 Sep 2020 at 10:56am |
So I'm the lone dissenter? Had it for breakfast this morning and we buy it by the case at Sam's. Probably not good for my health, but beats dying a slow death in a nursing home.
When kid was in USMC, stationed in Hawaii, we went to visit. Had a Spam fried rice Big Breakfast at McDonalds.
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Posted: 11 Sep 2020 at 12:00pm |
I'm a fan of Spam. I like it pan fried with a fresh tomato. The youtube video on the stuff is pretty neat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP7e0tV1sYE
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Posted: 11 Sep 2020 at 5:49pm |
Lars(wi) wrote:
Turkey Spam is the only version my wife buys. Since this Covid plannedemic, it cannot be found in any stores in our area.
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Lars, I never knew that there was a "turkey" version ??
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Posted: 11 Sep 2020 at 5:51pm |
Alberta Phil wrote:
Ate lots of that Spam in my young years also. Mom used to fry it up and serve it with taters and boiled cabbage. I don't think I would touch the stuff now!!
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The boiled cabbage would have me on a water diet, given the choice between the 2
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Posted: 11 Sep 2020 at 8:11pm |
This is interesting I never knew, I figured spam was just the scraps squeegeed of the locker plant floor like bologna and hot dogs. Haven't knowingly ate it since college days.
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