Fact -- Despite Spam's increase in sales, Hormel's total sales are lagging.

Fact -- Hawaii is the per capita leader in US Spam consumption.

Fiction -- They decorate it with unsold pineapple and pretend it's ham.

Another thing my dad ate during his WWII army days, it seems this was not as awful as SOS because he used to fry it for Sunday breakfast sometimes.

"I don't like Spam!!"

I'm not a spam fan. There are other inexpensive meats and I love beans.

Spam was one of the very few things my father would attempt to cook. He'd open the can, dump the contents into a pyrex casserole dish, stud it with whole cloves and dump a jar of apple sauce over the innocent meat product. Then he'd bake it.

Horrible. Just horrible. To this day, I can't take fruit with my meat.

Oh, Lissa, that does sound quite ghastly! I do love many meat dishes with fruit especially pork products, but if that had been my first experience with it, I might have done the same as you.

Spam = Spiced Ham

I have a couple cans of it and the Spam Turkey (Why not call it Spurkey?) in my pantry for my hurricane supplies. But I haven't eaten Spam in quite a few years, we used to sometimes take it with us on camping trips.

Fact -- Despite Spam's increase in sales, Hormel's total sales are lagging.

So?

Fact -- Hawaii is the per capita leader in US Spam consumption.

So?

Fiction -- They decorate it with unsold pineapple and pretend it's ham.

Spam is ham. They do love it with pineapple.
Oxymoron alert: Where does one buy unsold pineapple?

Fact: Spam is practically a health food. In what other food can you identify all the ingredients?

INGREDIENTS: Pork With Ham, Salt, Water, Sugar, Sodium Nitrate

But it's salty...
One serving = Sodium 750mg
V-8 juice :
One serving = Sodium 620mg

Compare to Giant hot dogs:
INGREDIENTS: Beef, Water, Corn Syrup, Flavorings, Dextrose, Salt, Potassium Lactate, Sodium Phosphates, Sodium Diacetate, Sodium Erythorbate, Sodium Citrate, Sodium Nitrite.

Don't pick on the Spam,
unassuming meat in can
porcine food delight

Spam was a food staple for people on the homefront and in the armed forces during World War II. Spam kills Nazis. Spam is a hero of the nation. If you hate Spam, then you hate America and I will not be a part of some anti-American, Nazi-loving propaganda!

[For those of you new to the blog, that's an example of humor, perhaps a reductio ad absurdum.]

SPAM: The People's Meat

"Nikita Kruschev credits SPAM with the survival of the Russian Army during WWII."
http://www.cusd.claremont.edu/~mrosenbl/spamstory.html

http://antispam.blogsome.com/2005/11/11/etymology/
The term spam is derived from the Monty Python SPAM sketch, set in a cafe where everything on the menu includes SPAM luncheon meat. As the server recites the SPAM-filled menu, presently a chorus of Viking patrons drowns out all normal conversation with a song, repeating “SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM” and singing “lovely SPAM, wonderful SPAM” over and over again, stopping all conversation, hence SPAMming the dialogue. The excessive amount of SPAM in the sketch comes from British rationing in World War II, SPAM was one of the few foods that was not restricted and widely available; so by the time of the sketch, the British were fed up with the luncheon meat. Another similarity is that everything on the menu comes with SPAM, therefore representing that you can’t order to something without receiving something you don’t want, much like one can’t be active on the Internet and never have spam sent to your email address(es).....

Yay voodoopork!

Monty Python -
Customer: Morning,

Waitress: Morning.

Customer: What have you got?

Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon, egg, sausage, and bacon
Egg and spam
Egg, bacon, and spam
Egg, bacon, sausage, and spam
Spam, bacon, sausage, and spam
Spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon, and spam
Spam, sausage, spam, spam, spam, bacon, spam, tomato, and spam
Spam, spam, spam, egg, and spam
Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam, and spam.

(Choir: Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Lovely Spam! Lovely Spam!)

Or Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a mornay sauce served in a provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried egg on top and spam.

Wife: Have you got anything without spam?

Waitress: Well, the spam, eggs, sausage, and spam. That's not got much spam in it

Wife: I don't want any spam!

Customer: Why can't she have eggs, bacon, spam, and sausage?

Wife: That's got spam in it!

Customer: Hasn't got much spam in it as spam, eggs, sausage, and spam has it?

(Choir: Spam! Spam! Spam!...)

Wife: Could you do me eggs, bacon, spam, and sausage without the spam, then?

Waitress: Iiiiiiiiiiiich!!

Wife: What do you mean 'Iiiiiiiiiich'? I don't like spam!

(Choir: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!)

Waitress (to choir): Shut up!

(Choir: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!)

Waitress: Shut Up! Bloody Vikings!
You can't have egg, bacon, spam, and sausage without the spam.

Wife: I don't like spam!

Customer: Shush dear, don't have a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it,
I'm having spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans,
spam, spam, spam, and spam!

(Choir: Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!)

Waitress: Shut Up!! Baked beans are off.

Customer: Well, could I have her spam instead of the baked beans then?

Waitress:
You mean spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, and spam?

Choir (intervening): Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam!
Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam.
Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!
Spam spam spam spam!

For those who have led a sheltered life
and never had a dead parrot!!!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

Spam = Spiced Ham

Where's the spice? Salt? No, it wouldn't be ham without salt.

Not that anyone asked but I got my name from a Kids in the Hall sketch about overly salty ham -- voodooo pork. Can't find the clip, but I did find one on the Ham of Truth (NSFW):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Ka2nkIi2I

Stick around for the Ham of Truth song.

Best line: "You people have carpet on your hearts."

[Is this off-topic? Hard to say.]

We have a learned discussion of snarky comments deciding they are generally not nice. Then what topic pops up? Spam. Is the snarky hiatus over?

Voodoo reported: INGREDIENTS: Pork With Ham, Salt, Water, Sugar, Sodium Nitrate

It's the "pork with ham" that makes me wary.

SPAM Haiku

Old man seeks doctor.
"I eat SPAM daily", he says.
Angioplasty.

"pork with ham" that makes me wary.

Sounds like a party to me.

Bert, great haiku.
Everyone: Cowherd gets exercised over Spam when Maryland's state meat byproduct is scrapple?

I'm sorry but spam is NOT cheap. I love spam. but do not eat it often because for that price, you can get sausages for cheaper.

anyways... 2 words.
spam musabi

*smacks lips*

I grew up eating Spam sandwiches--sliced thinly and lightly browned in a pan. I loved it. I also grew up eating Taylor Pork Roll prepared the same way. Spam and TPR bring back fond childhood memories, and I still love them. So sue me....

I love Taylor Prok Roll. I also grew up with it and it is comfort food to me.

Spam is very big in Hawaii and the Phillipines specifically because there was so much of it around during the war.

Several years back I sent a note to the folks at Hormel asking them for some giveaway freebies for a party I was throwing (long story behind this). They were very accommodating, sending me a bunch of stuff including magnets, posters and Spam cookbooks. The cookbooks were the most disappointing, as the recipes were little more than basic recipes involving other meats, but using Spam as an alternate meat ingredient.

Spam musubi? Who knew? I knew some Korean grad students who made hotdog sushi rolls.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_musubi
Spam musubi is a very popular snack and luncheon food in Hawaii made in the tradition of Japanese onigiri, also known as a musubi. A Spam musubi is composed of a block of salted (not vinegared; that would be sushi) rice with a slice of Spam (cooked or uncooked) on top, and typically nori (dried seaweed) surrounding it to keep it in shape.

hot dog sushi rolls are pretty common. those sushi rolles are called gim-bap (gim = seaweed, bap = rice).

the length of the sausages makes it easy to work with within a long sushi roll.

again. cheaper than spam as well.

I bet you if you ask those same korean grad students about spam and kimchi jigae (kimchi soup/stew), they'd respond with great enthusiasm. :-)