Just wondering...... SPAM

[FISHRUS]

If anyone out there likes Spam? I do and just wondering if I'm queer or what? I even out check the internet for spam recipes....lol and there is lots of sites with recipes for spam . ;D

[Robyn2]

I remember as a kid my mom making it. I don't remember what it taste like BUT I do remember that we didn't like it.

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Robyn

[carnation037]

We had it growing up as kids. I even tried it when I first got married. My husband ate it, but said not to make it gain as he didn't care for it...so I have not had any in over 20 years. lol

[Chris in NM]

Yes, we do! We fix it occasionally for Sat. or Sun. breakfast fried. We serve it as we would a ham slice or 2! We also have eggs and hash browns with it. Very good. We also have it occasionally - fried - in a slice of bread (with mustard) as a sandwich for lunch. Good! Not too often, though, 'cause it is full of all the bad stuff for us! Health-wise, that is!

Chris

[Baking_Bud]

Hi Fishrus!,

I've heard SOOOOO MANY jokes about it for SOOOOO MANY years, that I am afraid to even 'think' about trying it! Just has always been made to sound like a hunk of yuck to me, so have had NO DESIRE to even want to sniff it.

I know some people do like it, and you are right that there are lots of recipes out there using the stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if someone who really likes it hasn't started up an "I LOVE Spam" website. Bet the actual website for it has recipes from the Spam People themselves.

Personally, I think I will just stick with ham and create dishes out of it! I think Spam is suppose to taste like ham, right?

We'll be expecting a report about its taste, and what the heck makes it up?!!

Always With My Best, Baking Bud

[Baking_Bud]

Hi Fishrus!,

Well, I went out on the internet to try and find some support for you in your taste for SPAM. Look what I found instead!

Haiku's about SPAM:

Spam feeds the masses
Who have nothing else to eat.
Be blessed to avoid it.

Spam tastes like rubber
It's made from dead pig blubber
don't eat evil ham

I used SPAM instead
of my hair gel this morning.
All of the dogs knew

Spam is called a meat.
But what is it you eat?
The nose, the tail, feet?

Once a starving young sailor named Sam
Who’d washed up on an isle near Siam
Started eating his feet
But was found by the fleet,
And cried out, “Woe is me! Back to SPAM.”<br>
Machine removed meat;
Snout, jowls, member, all float in
Mosaic jello.

Under Ground Zero
Blue cans in bomb shelter
I pray for fallout!

Thousand of years on,
Civilization is gone
Only SPAM lives on

U.S. on alert!
Threat of meat terrorism
Outbreak of SPAMthrax

Lonely plate of SPAM
Your chewy pinkness lures me
Hear my bowels roar

Pink fat in can
Cholersterol for my heart
Have I a death wish?

To read more go to:
www.spamhaiku.com/spamhaiku/site/view_haiku.php

Knew I had to keep this proper, but I'm still laughing over the KY jelly one! ;D

No doubts left in my mind! My Best, Baking Bud

[Baking_Bud]

Hey Chris! ;D

That LAST Haiku was for you! Stay heart healthy! Eat fish and die of mercury poisoning instead! At least they will marvel looking at your heart saying, "Great Omega 3 and 6 intake!"

Don't know about anyone else, but the foods, drinks, and the vitamins we put into our bodies is making me crazy! I gave up coffee for tea, and don't feel I can drink that if I don't offer it a bag of green tea also to make my heart healthier! Of course, next to the green tea sits my green tea capsules, and 25 other supplements that honestly do who knows what?!! But I've got to have them because I've read they are good for us!!!

Ignorance must have been BLISS back in the good old days. Lard, fats, etc. to them meant healthy shiny hair and glowing good skin! Now we all visualize what the fats do on the inside, and instead have to buy 10 moisturizers to keep our skin from becoming leathery on the outside!I have so many 'fake foods' it isn't funny. Next I want to conquer my fear of TOFU! I haven't gotten past 'poking it' in the market! But I KNOW it is healthy for me, so I must find a way to consume it. YUMMY. Can't wait to try my recipe for barbecued tofu chunks of yuck. Care to join me?!! We can wash it down with some wine, if we ever figure out which one?!!

Off to not eat SPAM! My Best, Baking Bud

[Baking_Bud]

Hi Again Fishrus! Thought you'd enjoy this!

Ode To SPAM

Oh SPAM! Oh SPAM! Gourmet delight!
My food by day, my dreams by night.
To carve, to slice, to dice you up -
pureed in a blender and sipped from a cup.

What shining deity from Olympus knelt
down to the earth and hog butt smelt?
Creating then man's eternal desire
for swine entrails congealed by fire.

On some corporate farm, a pig has died.
Eyes, tongue, and snout end up inside
that cube of SPAM hidden in the can
I now hold in my trembling hand.

More than mere food, SPAM is for me
a hedonistic expression of gluttonous glee.
Mottled with pork fat, the pink cube engrosses.
My mouth takes it in, my intestine disposes.

Long have my arteries clogged to the sound
of sizzling SPAM when there's no one around -
furtively chewing or swallowing whole.
Triple bypass by forty, my medical goal.

Other processed meat products I've tried or declined
Vienna Sausages, Treet, even pig's feet in brine.
Though each may be tasty in different ways,
none matches SPAM for gelatinous glaze.

That glistening pinkness beckons me
with gristle, fat, and BHT.
Oh SPAM! Oh SPAM! - the taste, the smell!
The sacred meat product, from Hormel.

Author Unknown

PS. Found 3 recipes for you, but I'm not sure where to post them? I'll have to look at the categories and decide 'where' they belong!

[Baking_Bud]

Well, I will put the recipes under 'pork' as nothing else fit. Maybe kitchen humor ;D but will stay with pork.

Hope you enjoy! Baking Bud

[Chris in NM]

;D

hehehehehe

Chris

[NancyRogers]

SPAM TREATS

1 can Spam, grated
1 bottle chili sauce
American cheese, grated

Mix and spread on bread squares with crusts cut off. Toast in oven. Serve hot.

[NancyRogers]

SPAM SALAD

1 can Spam
1/2 c. chopped dill pickle
2 tbsp. onion, chopped (optional)
1/2 c. grated carrot (optional)
1 c. grated Cheddar cheese
1/2 c. or more mayonnaise to moisten

Use a grater and grate your Spam. Add remaining ingredients. Stir. This is good served on bread as sandwiches.

[NancyRogers]

SPAM AND MACARONI CASSEROLE

17 oz. pkg. macaroni (2 c. before cooked)
2 tbsp. oleo
1/2 c. chopped onion
2 tbsp. flour
1 tsp. wet mustard
1/4 tsp. pepper
2 c. milk
1 c. shredded Swiss cheese
1 (12 oz.) can Spam
1 c. frozen peas & carrots
Buttered bread crumbs

Cook macaroni as directed; drain. Melt margarine. Add onion, cook until tender. Stir in flour, mustard and pepper. Blend in milk, cook, stirring constantly, until thickened. Add cheese. Combine with macaroni, Spam and vegetables. Pour into casserole. Top with bread crumbs. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

[NancyRogers]

POTATO & SPAM BAKE

7 pared, sliced potatoes
1 onion, chopped
1 green pepper, chopped
1 can Spam or cooked ham, julienne sliced
Salt & pepper to taste
2 eggs, beaten
1 c. grated cheese

Layer: 1/2 of sliced potatoes in lightly greased electric fry pan 1/2 onion 1/2 green pepper 1/2 Spam/ham slices in spoke fashion Salt & pepper Add remaining 4 ingredients in same order. Cook 20 minutes at 350 degrees, covered or until potatoes are tender. Add egg mixture. Cook 10 minutes. Add cheese. Cook until cheese is melted. Serve immediately. Cut in wedges.

[FISHRUS]

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