SPAM lovers unite! I ate a can of SPAM tonight

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I sometimes buy a can of turkey spam. When Spamalot was on broadway, I bought a can of special Spamalot spam as a keepsake. A few years back, I noticed the can of turkey spam I’d just opened tasted odd. It didn’t taste bad, just not the usual way. I then noticed I’d accidentally opened my Spamalot spam and eaten a spoonfull. The scary thing is, it hadn’t gone bad and I suffered no ill effects from eating it- even though it was at least 10 years old.

I have the official Spam cookbook. It has a recipe for ‘savory spam cheesecake’. At first, this sounded terrible. Then, I thought savory cheesecake would basically be spam with Laughing Cow. That sounds great.

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Nevertheless. I explained why you need to use Miracle Whip.

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Unless you ate the gel and licked the gel on the lid, you didn’t eat the contents in its entirety!

I used to work with a guy who ate the entire can and then lick the lid [he said it was ‘dessert’] for lunch.

[shudder]

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Ooh, yes. My mom would make that sometimes. Put some cheese over the top. I haven’t eaten Spam in years but that’s starting to sound good.

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How is it “not oily” when the second ingredient after water and before sugar is Soybean Oil?

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It doesn’t taste oily/greasy, like mayonnaise does, because it’s sweet.

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Miracle Whip has far less fat than mayo, which a Google would have shown you.
1 tbsp Mayonnaise: 90 calories, 10g fat (depends on the brand)
1 tbsp Miracle Whip: 40 calories, 3.5g fat

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Bolding mine. Excuse me?

In any case, there’s less oil in Miracle Whip, but oil is still a primary ingredient of both Kraft Mayo and Kraft Miracle Whip. I disagree that Miracle Whip can be considered “not Oily”, but that’s just my opinion. YMMV.

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I will have to recreate it sometime for nostalgia. Though I doubt my wife will partake!

Back then we used lard for frying since it was cheap. But of course the doctors are all yacking at me about cholesterol these days.

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My wife puts Spam in fried rice sometimes. I don’t find it objectionable.

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A couple of times a year, we’ll have SPAM® and over-easy eggs for breakfast.

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I restrict myself to Spam Light for the salt level, but I still use the stuff fairly often. Often enough to keep a couple of cans in the pantry, at least. Diced in baked beans, fried with eggs or potatoes or both, made into the same Spam Salad Johnny_L.A mentioned above. I also have cans of Underwood ham and chicken in the pantry.

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That’s close to our traditional Christmas breakfast: SPAM®, pancakes and scrambled eggs (scrambled because it’s not practical to do eggs any other way for more than two people). Though I’ve cheated the last couple of years and gotten the reduced sodium variety.

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I have no cite for this, but I saw a report some years ago that most Spam sold in the UK was used as bait. Some fishing competitions have apparently banned its use as unfair.

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In my what now?

My mom had a meat grinder back in the 1960s but I don’t think I’ve seen one since then. Do people still use them?

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I have two of them, plus the food processor. Both cast iron and heavy as hell, but they get the job done!

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I use mine… for SPAM® salad. (Also for shepherd’s pie, but I haven’t made that in a while.)

I got mine at a yard sale for $2. It looks like this:

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My neighbor, Mrs Lovett says three times through the grinder is the secret of her scrumptious meat pies.

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On a Hawaiian vacation years ago we stayed at a place in Hana that had a full kitchen, so we went to the Hasegawa General Store to get something to fix for dinner. My girlfriend picked out a can of Turkey Spam, some green beans, and an onion. She sauteed them with some of the rudimentary spices from the kitchen…and it was one of the best meals I had on the trip.

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The only way I’ll eat Spam is fried, otherwise it’s just too fatty for me…in an unappetizing way.