A few words about Spam...

Seems with the higher price of most food products, the canned meat product (not the email scourge!) Spam is enjoying a new popularity...

I had Spam and waffles for breakfast, then a couple hours later I proceeded to puke all over a pinball arcade.

Violently.

Good times! :P

The whole family loves it.

I've eaten before... I used to like a fried spam & cheese sandwich with mayo, lettuce & tomato on toast... been many years since I had one, though...

Less sodium and fat. And it is still pretty tasty.

If it's all gone out of the new kind, it must be like chewing cardboard. Wonder if you could put enough ketchup or gravy on it to make it taste good?

Came over during the war and it caught on, now they cook/serve it everywhere: http://spamjamhawaii.com/recipes.asp

and his wife recently sent in some spam and egg sushi. It was fantastic. Home made that morning and hand rolled.

I like Spam. I like eggs. I like Sushi.

To sleep, perchance to
dream. To wake, perchance to find
the SPAM was a dream.

http://web.mit.edu/jync/www/spam">Spam Haiku

They set it on a stove and waited for it to explode!!

It just sort of went splat.

:rofl:

We also often had a macaroni-cheese-with spam bit casserole. When there wasn't SPAM an Oscar Meyer Weiner was substituted...

An advantage of being old enough to have been through several episodes of hard times is that I have memories of hard-time recipes.

Spam a few pickles and red pepper ground into a paste with a bit of mayo also makes an absolutely great sandwich spread.

Spam strips in salad (complete with plantain leaves and dandelion greens from the lawn!)...

Fried Spam with a bit of canned pineapple (I really grew to hate tinned pineapple)...

Spam and eggs...

Spam and bean chili (Oh! that was good!)...

Diced Spam stir fried with carmalized onions and chopped collard ...

We knew nothing different and never complained. Amazing how food in the stomach kept a house full of kids completely unaware of how bad times were.

a childhood memory.

That is more than the 4% overall food increase.

If you're going by the "official" government figures, take those figures, triple them, and then toss the whole thing in the trash, because the government figures are totally phony -- just like inflation, unemployment, whatever.

And I bought a great souvenir t-shirt. It says "I"m not dead yet".