SPAM SPAM SPAM and SPAM....?
I saw a post here that had SPAM in it... When I was a kid, I detested seeing the dreaded blue can come out of the pantry. My mother would ocassionally put it in Mac-n'-Cheese which was bearable, but her other way of cooking it was fried with mustard on top. My brother loved the stuff... I... decidedly, did not!
I came home from college one year and was raiding the pantry, I actually took a can of it thinking I'd eat it when I got hungry enough...I never did... to this day I have the same can that sits on my desk at home. Mom also had a thing for the corned beef (for lack of a better term) in a can... But that is another story.
So, do you like SPAM? If so, how do you eat it.....
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25 Comments:
Could just be a guy thing but I like it fried with musturd sandwich
Markbb at 1:40PM on 12/24/08
I used to love to eat it on occasion fried with an over-easy egg or in fried rice. That all changed this summer when I went on a 5-day hiking trip with my husband and my in-laws. My MIL (God love her) discovered Costco and bought a month's worth of SPAM for a week's worth of hiking. We had a RAW SPAM sandwich everyday for lunch and sometimes for dinner. I had never had raw SPAM so that totally freaked me out. Then I realized that all the additives, fillers, preservatives, etc. were probably more harmful to my health that eating uncooked SPAM. I felt like I needed to detox after that trip. Don't care to even look at SPAM for a long time.
Esmeralda at 2:18PM on 12/24/08
I admit, I used to eat it fried with ketchup. I've even tried slicing it thin and cooking like bacon. I hate to admit it but I'm craving it now. spam fried crisp with smaltz fried latkes, I think that may kill me but what a way to go.
huneybumper at 3:31PM on 12/24/08
I used to love Spam sandwiches - with white bread and American cheese, of course. I tried it again a couple of years ago and couldn't stomach it - I think my palate might have changed a bit.
jenilowrance at 3:40PM on 12/24/08
I grew up on it -- Spam fried crisp with sesame Pietro dressing and a little sriracha served over fresh white rice is the best!
Or slice up Spam, fry it crisp and then add it as one of 5-6 toppings (shrimp, spinach, etc.) for yakisoba or ramen.
Then when I grew older, Spam musubi for lunch at the Korean convenience store next door to the lab where I worked! Yum!
The last time I ate McD food was several years ago with my father. We ordered Portuguese sausage, Spam, with eggs and rice breakfast platter.
Cassaendra at 4:44PM on 12/24/08
Yum, I love Spam. I ate it when I grew up and still occasionally have a craving and satisfy it with fried Spam with eggs over rice. Or cut up fried Spam with rice and soy sauce. I only eat Spam raw when I am cutting it up to be fried. Makes me want some now.
pequenalooloo at 5:35PM on 12/24/08
I love it! I've grown up eating it.
Spam and rice, spam in ramen, spam musubis, spam in kimchi fried rice, spam in kimchi stew, spam in kimbap, spam with a sunnyside up egg over rice...spam in anything basically.
GLEE827 at 5:57PM on 12/24/08
I have actually never had Spam. I just asked DH and he said he has never had it either. Where does Spam come from?
izatryt at 6:21PM on 12/24/08
Love it. Spam sandwiches are great. I love it pan-fried, served atop white rice with an over-easy egg on top, drizzled with soy sauce - a great after-club or hangover food.
Makes a great fried rice or pasta dish, like penne and spam with marinara. Yum.
And Iz, it comes from where all good things come...PORK. That's all ya need to know!
hungryinhouston at 6:58PM on 12/24/08
Why do you keep the spam on your desk?
I don't have a problem with eating Spam (even "raw" Spam), but I'm not exactly seeking it out.
wunami at 7:51PM on 12/24/08
i think i ate it fried with mustard. it's up there on the food chain with velveeta and liverworst.
dearrie at 8:00PM on 12/24/08
I guess it says something to me like..... no matter how hungry or down you get, keep trudging along. Cause if you don't... THE SPAM WILL GET YA!
Hell I don't know why I keep it on my desk, I guess because I've had it since college...
Pavlov at 9:10PM on 12/24/08
I loved it when I was a kid and then didn't have it for years until a few years ago and it was still good (a little on the salty side but that's okay), How I like to have it is raw, thick sliced, piled on a white bread with mayo and bib lettuce. Fried, on a burger bun with cheddar cheese (melted), either srirachi or ketchup and lettuce. I also like it in sushi.
pjracz10 at 9:18PM on 12/24/08
It's been years since I had it, but when I was a kid (even more years ago) it was always eaten in a thick slice on white bread with yellow mustard. I'll have to try it again one of these days.
dbcurrie at 1:33AM on 12/25/08
if given a choice between spam and most fast food I choose spam.
huneybumper at 8:26AM on 12/25/08
when i was younger, my mom would always dredge it in egg w/ salt, pepper and sliced green onions, then pan fried it
i liked it at the time
machellebelle at 8:53AM on 12/25/08
I used to go to the same church as an immigrant Filipino family. They used to invite some of the members over for tea and they'd do it up lavish with cookies and things. But they always included a big plate of Spam - sliced thin and fried until crisp. Then it turns into low-rent bacon – and nobody has anything to say against bacon.
gentlyferal at 2:03PM on 12/25/08
I've never had Spam, but I think I may like it. Growing up, we never had tinned meats in our home, but my cool bachelor uncle used to always keep tinned ham and tinned corned beef on hand. To me, this stuff was a novelty, and I remember being particularly fond of tinned ham (especially the one that came in those pear-shaped tins). I imagine Spam may taste very similar - overprocessed and salty, right?
brooke29 at 2:29PM on 12/25/08
Little cubes of fried Spam are great in fried rice. Add some scrambled egg and green onions, and it's a quick and tasty meal!
cochon at 3:23PM on 12/25/08
You guys scare the shit out of me.... I love pork but F#$@ ! You bastards have cast iron innards. I think it's the sodium that turned me off.... I watched the Bourdain show when he did Hawaii, some of the stuff actually looked decent like the spam sushi... I'll have to give it another shot someday.... I'll probably get a different can though.... eating the one on my desk would be like eating an old friend.
Pavlov at 7:23PM on 12/25/08
If you grow up with SPAM, it rocks. If not, not so much. Spam musubi, spam and eggs, spam fried until crisp on both sides on white bread with cheese. So good. I am ridiculed often. But you know what? I usually make a sushi version of musubi when I have parties, and it's always the first thing to go. Always.
chisai at 4:56AM on 12/26/08
@Brooke: It doesn't really taste like ham. I actually dislike ham because it's slightly sweet, and esp. when people serve it with cloves and pineapples *weep*. Nor do I care for bacon.
If you like ham, you may not like Spam. Of course, there are a lot of varieties of Spam -- Bacon Spam, Tabasco Spam, Garlic Spam, etc. The texture is a little different too. Plus, most people don't fry ham to a crisp, like they do Spam.
I get the low sodium version so I don't have to eat so much rice with my Spam to kill the saltiness. Of course, YMMV on the percieved saltiness. I don't cook with salt, so I can taste salt in EVERYTHING, even cookies.
Cassaendra at 7:49AM on 12/26/08
@Cass - ha, I was talking about tinned ham - it doesn't taste like ham either, trust me:-). There's no sweetness in tinned ham, it's just salty and, well, processed, but it was precisely that "process-ness" that I liked in it when I was little - which is what made me think that I just might like Spam. Now I'm really curious. I may buy a tin tonight. From the looks of it, it does seem to be softer than other tinned meats I've seen though.
brooke29 at 10:15AM on 12/26/08
I grew up eating it two ways: Fried spam sandwiches (white bread, mayo maybe sliced tomato in the summer) and with pork & beans. It used to frustrate my mother because she was a really, really good cook but one of the meals she made that we got most excited about was spam & pork & beans. Campbells pork and beans in a can, which is harder to find than it used to be.
About once a year I have a random craving for Spam, but like others have said, the sodium kills.
RegrettableFoodie at 5:42PM on 12/26/08
Spam, seared black in a dry pan, on wheat, with either yellow mustard or sliced dills.
beth1 at 10:21PM on 12/26/08