# Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam ...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-spam-spam-spam/785504
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 29, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-spam-spam-spam/785504 "2017-04-29T15:52:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-spam-spam-spam/785504/1 "2017-04-29T15:52:26Z")
Woo Hoo! It’s time again for the annual [Waikiki Spam Jam](http://spamjamhawaii.com/)!
It didn’t start until after we left Hawaii so many years ago, so I’m psyched. And it’s right here in my own backyard of Waikiki. I think I’ll order me some spam spam spam spam spam spam spam beaked beans spam spam spam and spam, only with spam instead of the baked beans.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2017, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-spam-spam-spam/785504/2 "2017-04-29T16:02:05Z")
I have never eaten Spam.
I have no problem with the concept of “spiced ham,” and I’ve even bought it occasionally freshly sliced as a cold cut, at a deli counter. But ham in a can worries me.
I eat tuna and sardines and other seafood out of cans, but never anything like corned beef hash. Or Spam.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2017, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-spam-spam-spam/785504/3 "2017-04-29T16:02:17Z")
I hope it’s a great as the [Maui Onion Festival](http://www.paradise-found-in-maui.com/maui-onion-festival.html). I especially liked onion onion onion onion onion onion onion onion onion onion onion onion poi onion onion onion onion onion and onion (poi optional).
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### Author:  [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-spam-spam-spam/785504/4 "2017-04-29T16:04:01Z")
I’ve had spam musubi. It’s not bad. I don’t recall having eaten spam otherwise.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2017, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-spam-spam-spam/785504/5 "2017-04-29T16:07:16Z")
Spam is the state dish! Introduced I think during WWII. Spamburgers are quite common. I loves me some spam. But you have to cook it. I can’t imagine eating it straight out of the can.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2017, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-spam-spam-spam/785504/6 "2017-04-29T16:10:26Z")
We often had spam when I was a youngster in the early 60s. My mom was a Depression era/WWII veteran who grew up in New England, so was not used to eating real food (or if there was real food it was boiled until tasteless). Spam was just one of the many artificial food-like substances we ate as kids. Right up there with the Velveeta cheese!
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-spam-spam-spam/785504/7 "2017-04-29T16:11:11Z")
I know. I first heard about Spam in _From Here to Eternity_ (the novel) as part of the famous “You WILL prepare hot food for the men on patrol even though it’s three in the morning” scene. They got grilled Spam and cheese sandwiches, possibly as retribution from the sleepy cook.
I guess if you got stationed at Pearl Harbor, you learned to enjoy Spam.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2017, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-spam-spam-spam/785504/8 "2017-04-29T16:12:28Z")
Spam is real food, dammit! :mad:
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2017, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-spam-spam-spam/785504/9 "2017-04-29T16:13:47Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> Spam is the state dish! Introduced I think during WWII. Spamburgers are quite common. I loves me some spam. But you have to cook it. I can’t imagine eating it straight out of the can.
I do not like spam
from the can.
My spam must come
from the frying pan.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2017, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-spam-spam-spam/785504/10 "2017-04-29T16:33:54Z")
Cooked with pineapple chunks is my preference.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2017, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-spam-spam-spam/785504/11 "2017-04-29T16:35:27Z")
Well, could I have her SPAM instead of the baked beans, then?
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2017, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-spam-spam-spam/785504/12 "2017-04-29T17:15:04Z")
You’d think we would have gotten an email about this.
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### Author:  [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-spam-spam-spam/785504/13 "2017-04-29T19:10:26Z")
Do they serve a Lobster Thermidor à Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provençale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pâté, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam? If so, I’m all in.
(Spam, btw, is good eats on a camping trip. Fries up nice in the pan, but you don’t have to worry about how hot you got it…)
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### Author:  [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2017, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-spam-spam-spam/785504/14 "2017-04-29T23:19:56Z")
I’ve eaten spam. It’s better than it sounds.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2017, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-spam-spam-spam/785504/15 "2017-04-30T00:45:13Z")
And it sounds pretty darned good.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2017, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-spam-spam-spam/785504/16 "2017-04-30T12:41:26Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> I have never eaten Spam.
I did not until I was about 35 years old. My Mother, born in 1947, remembered it at the very end of WWII rationing in England. I think her mother taught her it was subpar food. That is how I viewed it as a kid.
Anyway, we enjoy it now. My kids like to have it diced up into squares. We mix it with rice and seaweed.
[I recommend Aldi brand SPAM](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/chXYuE3AIe8/maxresdefault.jpg), by the way. Equally as good as regular SPAM and a lot less expensive.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-spam-spam-spam/785504/17 "2017-04-30T14:34:57Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> I have never eaten Spam.
Sad. ☹
> [@Acsenray](#):
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> I’ve had spam musubi. It’s not bad. I don’t recall having eaten spam otherwise.
SPAM[sup]®[/sup] musubi is _great!_
> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> Spam is real food, dammit! :mad:
Indeed it is. Once again I’ll mention dad’s SPAM[sup]®[/sup] salad sandwiches. Grind the SPAM[sup]®[/sup], mix in Miracle Whip (I’ll explain) and sweet pickle relish, chill, serve on soft white bread. Basically it’s just ham salad, only made with SPAM[sup]®[/sup]. OK, the Miracle Whip. SPAM[sup]®[/sup] is salty and fatty. If you mixed it with mayonnaise, you’d be adding fat and salt to salt and fat. Miracle Whip is a sweet dressing, so when you add it to SPAM[sup]®[/sup] its sweetness counteracts the saltiness and fattiness of the meat. I’m sure dad never thought about it, because he always used Miracle Whip on everything, but the sweet/savoury thing is well established. Dad had to coax people into tasting their first SPAM[sup]®[/sup] salad sandwich. Once they did, they always asked for more.
SPAM[sup]®[/sup] is a versatile meat, too. Musubi has been mentioned. Or you can slice it for a cold sandwich. Or fry it for a warm sandwich. Fry it and eat it with eggs. Cut it into cubes and put it in an omelette, or in mac’n’cheese, or fried rice. Make a Hawaiian pizza. You can even score the top, put whole cloves in the intersections of the cuts, glaze it with mustard and brown sugar, and bake it like a canned ham.
And yes, I have Ann Kondo Corum’s [_Hawaii’s Spam Cookbook_](https://www.amazon.com/Hawaiis-Spam-Cookbook-Kondo-Corum/dp/0935848495) and [_Hawaii’s 2nd Spam Cookbook_](https://www.amazon.com/Hawaiis-2nd-Spam-Cookbook-Corum/dp/1573061352). 😉
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### Author:  [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2017, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-spam-spam-spam/785504/18 "2017-04-30T14:40:16Z")
Reported for SPAM.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2017, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-spam-spam-spam/785504/19 "2017-04-30T15:19:04Z")
I’m not a Spam addict, but I do have several tins of chorizo Spam on hand. I like Spam. Potted meats were a staple of my parents Polish pantry, so I grew up on that kind of stuff (in addition to real homemade deli products sold at the local Eastern European groceries.) It’s all good to me!
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### Author:  [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2017, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-spam-spam-spam/785504/20 "2017-04-30T15:48:49Z")
I Don’t LIKE SPAM!!!
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZio278IKGI)
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