True or False? [Does spam have maggots in it?]

[chowder]

@LouisB

During WW ll*, we ate a ton of Spam; I was very young and didn’t know any better. We continued eating the stuff for a couple of years after war and I actually got to like it. I ate it in college and on fishing/camping trips right to my early thirties. I tried to eat Spam a year or so ago and couldn’t stand it. Age robs one of so many previously enjoyable things.

*Yes, I remember several things about the war years and I vividly remember the day my Father came home and announced that the war was finally over.

You ate a ton of Spam during WWII?

Jebus, we were lucky to get half a roofing tile thinly smeared with lard.

And that was at Christmas

[Mangetout]

I think if you cut a few chunks of Spam and leave them out on the counter, they’ll dry out - and in doing so, shrink, causing the extrusion of little sticks or threads of semi-solid fat, which probably look a bit like maggots.

I haven’t tried this though, because it’s a waste of Spam.