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Not to be confused with the SPAM POLE, which is almost entirely different.

As a kid I used to occasionally spend the night at my grandma's house. For breakfast, she would prepare Spam and eggs. It was less of a culinary choice and more driven by economics, I think.

I honestly had no idea anyone other than poor people ate Spam until a couple of years ago while eating Hawaiian in Vegas. Sure enough, they do. Last year I went to Hawaii and confirmed the fact first hand. Every burger shop we stopped at had a Spam and pineapple burger on the menu, served with a hula skirt and inside a coconut.

There is a Hormel plant in Oklahoma City. It's next to a set of train tracks, and I've been stuck there before while waiting for a train to pass. The smell downwind will cure most Spam cravings anyone might have.

Flack wrote:As a kid

Huhhh boy, here we go.

Spam and eggs.

Not coincidentally, I just placed this very item into my body less than 15 minutes ago! Mmm-mm!

Hawaiian

"Spam Musubi" = grilled spam with teriyaki and sushi rice, wrapped in seaweed, like a hand roll. Not to be missed!

In a state where it's tough to be more than an hour away from the ocean, it's interesting that they choose to make Spam sushi.

Well, there's a good reason for that.

Paul? HIT IT!

Spam and eggs....I just placed this very item into my body less than 15 minutes ago!

Yeah? From which end? That's a hell of a category.


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I eat it once in a while. Fried and on bread.

Flack wrote:a Spam and pineapple burger.

I never had Spam, but I do currently own both a pineapple and George Foreman grill....

You NEVER had Spam? Go out right now and get a can, preferably of the reduced sodium (but NOT reduced fat) version, fry some of that shit up and go to town.

It is a flavor unlike anything else, and though some find it nauseating beyond description, god damn.

Also, remember that without SPAM we'd all be speaking Japanese and eatin' knockwurst and schnitzel for dinner every night.

pinback wrote:You NEVER had Spam?

No, but this topic is making me hungry for it.


What do you add to make a Hawaii pineapple spam burger like flack said (besides spam, pineapple, and bun)?

What is your favorite way to prepare a spam dish?

Thank you

Favorite SPAM dish: Hawaiian breakfast plate, which is a scoop or two of white rice, a slice or two of fried SPAM, and one or two eggs prepared the way you like (over-easy for me, please.)

Search this forum for Ben's Famous "Dyin' Hawaiian" burger. I only made it once, but it was still the best thing ever.

I was reading some reviews online that stated Spam just tastes like salty ham, you recommend that people buy the low sodium ham, which should taste like less salty ham, or a lot like ham, I like ham, so why not just cut to the chase and purchase ham instead? If you compare the amount of ounces in a can of Spam, the price point is very reasonably within that of regular ham, therefore, what is the benefit of buying Spam?

Hormel's current stance is that "SPAM" is a contraction of "Spiced Ham" (though in the past, they went with "Shoulder of Pork & Ham") so it definitely resembles ham more than, say, any other lunch meat, but saying "it tastes like ham" is, in my opinion, incorrect.

If you like ham, by all means, buy ham instead of SPAM. But they are definitely not substitutes for each other (even if that was Hormel's original intent back in WW2 days.)

pinback wrote: (though in the past, they went with "Shoulder of Pork & Ham)

While I enjoy ham, I go bonkers over pork shoulder. Does Spam make a variety that is just 100% canned pork shoulder?

"I do not like Green Eggs and Spam, I do not like it Sam-I-Am."

I am really tempted to purchase a can of it today just to understand what all the fuss is about over the product. Would I be right in assuming that you need to scrape off the gelatinous top covering I read about before consuming, or is that where all the flavor resides?

I don't mind if you brush off the gelatin, there's not THAT much. It's not like, a whole layer, it's just, y'know, enough to let it sliiiide outta the can with that nauseating "plop" we love so much.

I just got back from purchasing one tin of low sodium spam, all of the ingredients to make the Hawaiin spamburger from the official Spam website, and a packet of strawberry pocky which is not relevant to the spamburger but is unbelievably delicious.