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Succulent SPAM Fritters

From the official SPAM UK site: Frantic lifestyle? Need to prepare something fast for breakfast, lunch or evening meal? Or maybe you just want a traditional, comforting meal for the family in the colder weather.Well, we’ve brought back the traditional SPAM® Fritter to fit just that bill. What’s more, all the hard preparation work is done for you – new SPAM® Fritters are ready to be ovenbaked for 15-20 minutes and served with your favourite vegetables or breakfast menu. If you can't read the copy on the container in the photo above, the Fritters are described as "succulent pieces of SPAM® covered in a deliciously light and crispy golden batter." Truly, as Andrew said, the UK is the Hawaii...

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Post a Comment | Posted by Lia Bulaong, March 23, 2007 at 8:57 AM
Tagged: breakfast, fritters, Hawaii, SPAM, UK

McDonald's Haupia Pies

Love or hate McDonald's, you have to admit they usually do a good job of integrating local specialties into their menus. McDonald's restaurants in Hawaii have lots of custom items on their menus--the breakfast menu alone has two dishes with SPAM: a SPAM McGriddle and SPAM served with eggs and rice--and they frequently get limited edition delights too. Pomai of Honolulu food blog The Tasty Island recently tried the current offering, the Haupia Pie: "Similar to their familiar Apple Pie, this item uses the same crust and turnover shape, except with this, it has a filling intended to (loosely) replicate the traditional Haupia dessert offered at a Hawaiian Luau. Upon first bite, you 'll notice the light, golden crispy...

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1 Comment | Posted by Lia Bulaong, March 16, 2007 at 2:24 PM
Tagged: desserts, fast food, Hawaii, McDonald's, pies, SPAM

SPAMARAMA 2007

The 29th anniversary of Austin's pandemonious potted pork festival is coming up—this year's SPAMARAMA® will be held April 7, from noon till six. There's a SPAM™ cook-off, of course, with cash prizes going to the winners of the Open and Professional categories, as well as the People's Choice Award; the SPAMALYMPICS™ features storied events like "the SPAM® Disc Shoot, the SPAM™ Call (remotely similar to a hog call), the SPAM™ Can Relay and the SPAMBURGER® Eating Contest". Keep Austin weird, indeed. [via Weird Eats]...

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Post a Comment | Posted by Lia Bulaong, March 16, 2007 at 12:40 PM
Tagged: Austin, awesome, food festivals, SPAM, Texas, weird

Year of the Pig Bento

Cooking Cute made this amazing Year of the Pig bento the other day: "salmon-rice sushi shaped like little piggies, hotdog flowers with carrot-star centers, kamaboko fans, tricolor swirled sushi made from three flavors of sticky rice, sweet sticky rice flowers, pig-shaped spam nigiri, and a pig-shaped egg." Someone please make me one of these for lunch today? Thanks!...

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Post a Comment | Posted by Lia Bulaong, February 20, 2007 at 7:56 AM
Tagged: bento, Chinese New Year, Japanese, spam, sushi, Year of the Pig

A Food Bully Haiku

My favorite response to Adam Roberts' recent feature on being a food bully? By a mile, this seventeen syllable gem from Seriouspoorcook: A Food Bully Haiku Food Bullies Abound Telling you what not to eat And then there is SPAM...

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Post a Comment | Posted by Lia Bulaong, January 30, 2007 at 4:15 PM
Tagged: food bullies, poetry, spam