Spam, it's not just for E-Mail inboxes !!

[phreakwars]

Yum, SPAM, and SPAM sales have been on the rise:

 

Spam sales rise as consumers trim spending - U.S. business - MSNBC.com

 

I quite enjoy SPAM myself, however, it's been a while since I had some SPAM.

 

I like cutting it in slices with the cheese cutter here at home and have it as a sandwich with just bread and mustard.

 

Another thing to do with SPAM is cut it up in small cubes, fry it up a bit, and throw it into your eggs. Makes for a GREAT breakfast burrito !!

 

If you want to get creative a tad, you can cut it up in cubes and mix it with scalloped potatoes.

 

I grew up PO' and that was one of the ways my mom would save a few bucks and cut a couple corners.. AND IT ACTUALLY TASTES GOOD !!

 

So to start off this SPAM recipe post, I'll start by listing mom's scalloped potatoes and SPAM concoction.

 

You will need:

 

 

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  [ ]7-8 lbs of potatoes (peeled and sliced about 1/4 in thick or less)
  [ ]2 cans of Campbell's Mushroom Soup
  [ ]2 cans of Campbell's Cheddar Cheese Soup
  [ ]2 cans of SPAM
  [ ]1 cup of milk
  [ ]Salt/Pepper for taste
  

 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees, place peeled/sliced/washed potatoes in a decent sized roasting pan.

Place the soups and milk together in a bowl and mix/wisk till blended, cube SPAM into 1/2"x1/2" chunks and toss in to the roaster with the potatoes, pour soup mixture over potatoes and SPAM and mix with a decent sized spoon, add salt and pepper, mix a little more, cover roaster, toss in the over for about an hour or till potatoes are tender.

 

Feed your entire family for a little over $10... maybe less.

 

 

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[snafu]

I haven't done spam in a long time.

I need to have it fried. I get grosses me out otherwise. But fired spam on toasted bread with mustard...

 

Yeah I can go for that.

[Old Salt]

Spam is the favorite meal of native Hawaiians.

 

Recipe for carp:

 

Ingredients:

one fresh carp,

One 2X8 board

Salt

Pepper

 

Instructions:

Clean carp.

Cut board (preferably pine) to size leaving a 2 inch overlap on all sides of fish.

Nail carp to board.

Salt and pepper to taste.

Grill for five minutes over hot fire (can be put under broiler)

Remove nails

Throw carp in trash and eat board.

Serves two.

[snafu]

SPAM,

 

 

possibly a contraction of "spiced ham", was named by actor Kenneth Daigneau, the brother of R. H. Daigneau, a former Hormel Foods vice president. When other meatpackers started introducing similar products, Jay C. Hormel decided to create a catchy brand name to give his spiced ham an unforgettable identity, offering a $100 prize to the person who came up with a new name. At a New Year's Eve Party in 1936, Daigneau suggested the name SPAM.

Jay C. Hormel, son of the company's founder, was determined to find a use for several thousand pounds of surplus pork shoulder. He developed a distinctive canned blend of chopped pork and ham known as Hormel spiced ham that didn't require refrigeration.

SPAM luncheon meat was hailed as the "miracle meat," and its shelf-stable attributes attracted the attention of the United States military during World War II. By 1940, 70 percent of Americans had tried it, and Hormel hired George Burns and Gracie Allen to advertise SPAM on their radio show.

100 million pounds of SPAM were issued as a Lend-Lease staple in the rations to American, Russian, and European troops during World War II, fueling the Normandy Invasion. GIs called SPAM "ham that failed the physical." General Dwight D. Eisenhower confessed to "a few unkind words about it - uttered during the strain of battle."

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, as a young woman of 18 working in her family's grocery store, remembers SPAM as a "wartime delicacy."

In Khrushchev Remembers, Nikita Khrushchev credited SPAM for keeping the Soviet Army alive during World War II. "We had lost our most fertile, food-bearing lands, the Ukraine and the Northern Caucasians. Without SPAM, we wouldn't have been able to feed our army."

[emkay64]

Ewwww Spam! We have that and also a kind of canned ham called Klik....yucky! Can't eat that stuff. Just the sound of it coming out of the can grosses me out.

[Old Salt]

What, that pshloop sound?

[emkay64]

LOL...Zactly!

[ImWithStupid]

Ewwww Spam! We have that and also a kind of canned ham called Klik....yucky! Can't eat that stuff. Just the sound of it coming out of the can grosses me out.

 

Don't forget about "Treet"...

 

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[emkay64]

My Mom used to make these sandwiches with ground up spam, pickles and mayo....I think I just puked a bit in my mouth. Gross!

[emkay64]

Sorry Bender....everything else sounds good except the spam

[phreakwars]

Sorry Bender....everything else sounds good except the spam

 

I can see why:

 

ground up spam, pickles and mayo

 

EWW... YUCK !!!

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[emkay64]

I know she was trying to make do for us, and she was really a great cook. I guess it all just came down to budgeting. I would rather eat pork hocks than spam anyday. She also served a canned chicken once. I still remember that knarley looking scrunched chicken coming out of the can with all that nasty jello on it LOL.