# Do you like Spam? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 20, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-spam/653461 "2013-03-20T16:36:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-spam/653461/41 "2013-03-21T17:27:40Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I slice it thin and fry it crispy. This. It’s the only way I can eat it. I don’t eat it very often, I can’t remember the last time I had Spam. Now I’m strangely craving it… dammit. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-spam/653461/42 "2013-03-21T18:40:39Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I slice it thin and fry it crispy. This, though I buy the singles as it is wicked salty even for me and so I eat a fried spam sandwich about 4 times a year or so. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-spam/653461/43 "2013-03-21T18:43:31Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > It’s OK, but not something I look for. I’ll sometimes buy it if it’s on sale. > > I did visit the SPAM Museum in Austin, MN once. > [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > My abject apologies. Be glad it was just the once. Fortunately I live in eastern South Dakota so I didn’t have that far to go. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-spam/653461/44 "2013-03-21T18:44:40Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I chop it up and put it with corn and cooked pasta and mayaonnaise in a delicious pasta dish. It’s not meant to be eaten straight out of the jar or anything! And it is yummy in my pasta dish. Where do you get SPAM in a jar? ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-spam/653461/45 "2013-03-21T18:50:58Z")
I tried grilling some on my little charcoal grill once and a slice fell through into the coals so I got it out and threw it in the grass figuring some animal would eat it. I picked it up and threw it in the trash after nothing touched it. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-spam/653461/46 "2013-03-21T19:24:54Z")
I ate it when I was a youngling, along with Vienna sausages and all that wonderful canned meat by-product food. I remember liking it and I probably still would if I could not think about what it was. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-spam/653461/47 "2013-03-21T19:43:09Z")
Other than copious amounts of salt and fat, what’s in it that’s so bad? ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-spam/653461/48 "2013-03-21T20:37:34Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > Other than copious amounts of salt and fat, what’s in it that’s so bad? Pig anus. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-spam/653461/49 "2013-03-21T20:45:09Z")
> [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > Back in my meat-eating days, I really liked it; especially the turkey version. In fact, my fiance’ and I entered a Spam cook-off at a local bar and came in 3rd with our Wham Bam Thank You Spam Junk E-mail Chili. I think the winner was a Spam jambalaya. The place cleared out for a bit because someone’s blackened spam got a little out of control. I made the cutest little purse out of an empty Spam can. I had a Spam t-shirt for awhile. Ok, now I just sound like a Spam freak. If the winners didn’t call their concoction ‘Spambalaya’, they didn’t deserve to win. I like Spam ok, but it has to be fried or otherwise heated. The pastyfatty texture is too much, cold. I’m much more likely to grab Vienna sausages if it linger too long by that shelf in the store. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-spam/653461/50 "2013-03-21T21:02:49Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > Pig anus. I’m sure you’re joking, but if not I’d like to see a cite on that. On the ingredients list it just says pork shoulder meat with ham meat added. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-spam/653461/51 "2013-03-21T21:14:11Z")
Spam has always had its detractors. Just let the scorn roll off you like water off a duck. It’s just pork, ham, spices and a shitload of salt. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-spam/653461/52 "2013-03-21T21:28:02Z")
> [@brad\_d](#): > > Of course, Spam musubi. . . [Tonto]Mmm…that right, Spamusabi; you one bad actor.[/Tonto] ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-spam/653461/53 "2013-03-21T23:05:43Z")
You forgot the option _ **Don’t like Spam, but I really like the jelly it is packaged in** _ Seriously, a guy I used to work used to eat only the jelly. {{shudder}} And upon google search, I found this [SDMB thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=113646). ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-spam/653461/54 "2013-03-21T23:14:43Z")
I like spam a lot! ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-spam/653461/55 "2013-03-22T00:00:32Z")
Spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-spam/653461/56 "2013-03-22T01:34:16Z")
Fried spam sandwich on toast w/mayo. Mmmmmm. My wife refuses to touch it (or bologna.) ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-spam/653461/57 "2013-03-22T01:52:40Z")
Mmmmmm. Loves me some Spam. Fried. Grilled. Mmmmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-spam/653461/58 "2013-03-22T02:00:52Z")
I like Spam when camping, fried in the open air. I never eat it otherwise, but somehow it’s great when eaten outdoors. (I voted I like it OK.) ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-spam/653461/59 "2013-03-22T02:07:59Z")
I strongly dislike Spam. It’s too salty and mushy and nasty. There are foods I dislike more, but if all that’s left in the house for dinner is a can of Spam and I can’t get to the store until the following day, well, I’m going hungry. ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-spam/653461/60 "2013-03-22T04:18:05Z")
Ugh, no thanks! I judge no one who loves it, but spam is very much not my cup of meat. Sorry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-spam/653461.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-spam/653461.md?page=4)