Spam

[Alan_Hepburn]

They sell more Spam in Hawaii than they do in the rest of the country combined...

 

[Onyrlef]

See post no. 16, more pineapple, more Spam.

 

[Skookum]

I'll eat a hot dog but I won't touch spam. Go figure.

 

[Babe2201]

I was thinking it was going to be about junk emails. It has been a long time since I have had Spam. I am pretty sure I liked it but I don't think it is all that healthy.

 

[Tulecreeper]

They sell more Spam in Hawaii than they do in the rest of the country combined...

And they probably give away as much as they sell. I comes with everything. I went to the McDonald's on base for breakfast and they tossed a slice on the plate next to my eggs, sausage, and hash browns. Pineapple tastes horrible with coffee.

 

[Tulecreeper]

I'll eat a hot dog but I won't touch spam. Go figure.

And you know hot dogs are pretty much just scrapings left over. That package may say all-beef, and they may be telling the truth, but it's all-beef lips, tails, tendons, and AH's.

 

[Skookum]

And you know hot dogs are pretty much just scrapings left over. That package may say all-beef, and they may be telling the truth, but it's all-beef lips, tails, tendons, and AH's.

Absolutely. My repulsion to SPAM isn't because of the ingredients being any better or worse than hot dogs. SPAM just turns me while a BBQ'd hot dog doesn't. It's just a personal preference that even I find peculiar, given two similar choices. My goal is to eat as little of either one as possible. I'm 100% there with SPAM after trying it long ago, never again. Occasionally I'll have a hot dog. It has to have ketchup though.

 

[Tulecreeper]

Absolutely. My repulsion to SPAM isn't because of the ingredients being any better or worse than hot dogs. SPAM just turns me while a BBQ'd hot dog doesn't. It's just a personal preference that even I find peculiar, given two similar choices. My goal is to eat as little of either one as possible. I'm 100% there with SPAM after trying it long ago, never again. Occasionally I'll have a hot dog. It has to have ketchup though.

I haven't has Spam in a long time, but I like it. I just don't see paying $5 a pound for it when I can get a T-bone steak for that much. You used to be able to buy those real good dogs that were bigger/longer than average. I don't remember whether it was Ballpark, Hebrew National, or Nathan's, but they were like 8-inches compared to the standard 6-inch dog. I can't find them now.

 

[Babe2201]

And you know hot dogs are pretty much just scrapings left over. That package may say all-beef, and they may be telling the truth, but it's all-beef lips, tails, tendons, and AH's.

Parts is parts.

 

[Reinigm]

Last time I was on Oahu, I ordered Spam with eggs and rice in a McDonald's in Pearl City. That's how much the Hawaiians like Spam.

 

[Skookum]

I haven't has Spam in a long time, but I like it. I just don't see paying $5 a pound for it when I can get a T-bone steak for that much. You used to be able to buy those real good dogs that were bigger/longer than average. I don't remember whether it was Ballpark, Hebrew National, or Nathan's, but they were like 8-inches compared to the standard 6-inch dog. I can't find them now.

Me too, buddy, I also prefer the 8-inchers. They just...fill the whole bun.

 

[Tulecreeper]

Last time I was on Oahu, I ordered Spam with eggs and rice in a McDonald's in Pearl City. That's how much the Hawaiians like Spam.

I could see Pearl City from my 10th floor barracks room on base.

 

[Onyrlef]

Absolutely. My repulsion to SPAM isn't because of the ingredients being any better or worse than hot dogs. SPAM just turns me while a BBQ'd hot dog doesn't. It's just a personal preference that even I find peculiar, given two similar choices. My goal is to eat as little of either one as possible. I'm 100% there with SPAM after trying it long ago, never again. Occasionally I'll have a hot dog. It has to have ketchup though.

Anyone who'd put ketchup on a hotdog is dead to me. But really, my wife does that too. Do that in Chicago or NYC and you'd be escorted to the city limit and told never to come back. I just look the other way when she does it.

 

[Oldgator73]

Anyone who'd put ketchup on a hotdog is dead to me. But really, my wife does that too. Do that in Chicago or NYC and you'd be escorted to the city limit and told never to come back. I just look the other way when she does it.

Hot dogs with mustard and onions, sometimes chili.

 

[NY_Dutch]

Hot dogs with mustard and onions, sometimes chili.

Years ago I used to buy hot dogs at a little shop that had a meat sauce everyone raved about and wanted the recipe. A friend of mine worked there one summer and told me the "secret recipe" was nothing more than the left over cooked dogs ground up and combined with a mustard, ketchup, and relish mixture.

 

[Tulecreeper]

Anyone who'd put ketchup on a hotdog is dead to me. But really, my wife does that too. Do that in Chicago or NYC and you'd be escorted to the city limit and told never to come back. I just look the other way when she does it.

I don't put ketchup on anything. Never have. Not that I don't like the taste, but it's like putting steak sauce on a nice ribeye.

 

[jymbee]

 

[CharlesinGA]

Read the labels carefully. Virtually all of the various SPAM flavors have chicken blended into them, except the original SPAM and the SPAM with bacon. Even the low sodium version has chicken.

I like Dutchman's way to cook it, never thought of butter.

Charles

 

[8Muddypaws]

I lived on fried spam sandwiches, Reds Tamales and fast food for over a year. It was not a good time in my life.

Nonetheless I have a tin of spam in my pantry. I'm not sure how long it's been in there.

Costcos large hot dogs are da best! (Inside tip: If you buy a $1.50 hot dog there you have to ask for onions when they hand it to you)

 

[Professor David]

Note to self: Buy Spam, Fried Rice, Pineapple, Saltines Small Sardines and Braunsweiger.

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