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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I understand that the reason Spam is so popular in Hawaii & other Pacific Islands is that it tastes like 'long pig'.....According to the Old Folks who remember when. |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by Mr. Ovation:
Sorry Lanaki, I didn't see it the first time..
So why aren't you defending the State food?
i cannot, with a good conscience, defend something that can cause or contribute to premature death, colon cancer, obesity, cardiac troubles and inflated medical insurance premiums. |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by Gospel Guitar Guy:
I like a fried Spam sandwich. Grill the Spam, add enough mustard and onions to kill anything in the meat that might be harmful.
Gargle with a gallon of Scope afterward so the wife doesn't kick you out of the house and you're good to go. :D tried fried scrapple |
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Location: SoCal | Living in Alaska as a child, lots of Spam, powdered milk, and split-pea soup. :( :mad: :( |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Mmmm! Split pea sour with Spam chunks! mmmmm Spammmm... |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | From Wikipedia..
Scrapple is a savory mush in which cornmeal and flour, often buckwheat flour, are simmered with pork scraps and trimmings, then formed into a loaf. Small scraps of meat left over from butchering, too small to be used or sold elsewhere, were made into scrapple to avoid waste. Scrapple is best known as a regional food of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland.
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Location: NJ | . . . and then there's Taylor Ham . . . |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | When I was a kid I'd visit my grandma in Maryland, and she'd get scrapple from an amish farmer. Scrapple, fresh fried fertilized eggs, raw milk, hash browns, tomatoes and just baked bread for breakfast. While I probably coulda pick-up all kinds of nasty microbes, Man, it was good.
Strange, I have no warm memories or Spam consumption. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I meant to say "... of Spam consumption."
I have to admit, i have eaten spam. |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | Temp, that is the one of the most amusing things I've read in along time. Usually, I'd rather see less OT posts on this board, but this is just great.
I recently saw the turkey Spam in the supermarket and wondered to myself "who the heck would eat that?" Compared to the stuff eaten by Steve, turkey Spam is healthful gourmet cuisine. |
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| Originally posted by Mr. Ovation:
I notice no one from the great state of Hawaii is commenting. LOL!!!!! I grew up eating Spam both on the Mainland (OK, MI, IL, MD, VA) and Hawaii, because my parents didn't have cable TV so instead they had six kids, which they had to feed. I LOVED it! Still do! My Dad used to ruin it by frying it and slathering it with orange marmalade...BLECCH!
While living in the Land of Aloha, I learned how to eat and make Spam musubi: a slice of fried Spam, a little teriyaki sauce, some furukake seasonings on top of a small cake of rice and rolled up in a little sheet of seaweed: Ono-licious, brah!
Come over to my house for Thanksgiving and I always have turkey, macaroni salad, kalua pork (that shredded pig like you get at the luau) and Spam roll - fried julienned Spam rolled up like California roll sushi!
Spam, the Steak of Hawai'i! |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I think my own concoction...
Huli Huli Spam... yummmmmmmmm
Basically just fried in a pan in Huli Huli Sauce. |
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Location: big island | just cuz it tastes good, doesn't mean it's good for ya. dogs lick up antifreeze... :rolleyes: |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Lanaki Q--- "just cuz it tastes good, doesn't mean it's good for ya. dogs lick up antifreeze... :rolleyes: "
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Yeah! :mad: And I have always wondered why they don't put something that tastes nasty in that... JERKS! |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
Lanaki Q--- "just cuz it tastes good, doesn't mean it's good for ya. dogs lick up antifreeze... :rolleyes: "
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Yeah! :mad: And I have always wondered why they don't put something that tastes nasty in that... JERKS! OK, now we're waaaay OT, but here's the reason. Antifreeze is ethylene glycol. There is no way to take the "sweet" taste out of ethylene glycol because it's chemical structure stimulates the sweet taste buds. It's toxic, but chemically is very similar to gycerine and propylene glycol both of which are safe to consume and used as sweeteners. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | anti-freeze, it's what makes chinese tooth paste taste so good!
Actually, humans lick some nasty stuff too, but eventually it becomes an acquired taste. Just like spam. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I think we've almost exhausted the topic of spam.
So let us allow Monty Python the last word in spam . |
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OT... What is really in SPAM ???
