Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam & spam

Do you like Spam?

  • Yes I love it

    Votes: 43 67.2%

  • Cant stand the stuff

    Votes: 10 15.6%

  • Never tried it, but it sounds awful

    Votes: 4 6.3%

  • I have a good e-mail filter and never get any.

    Votes: 7 10.9%
  • Total voters
    64

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I always keep Spam in my emergency gear bag. More often than not, I find myself fishing the can out to use it to satisfy a craving rather than saving it for an emergency. It tastes good at home, but it really tastes good while camping. :p
 
Love SPAM.
try it tempura style too!
spam fried rice is my favorite. Fry it up diced with a couple of jalapenos and onions. spam grilled cheese. fire roasted spam on a stick. corn batter dipped spam.

It also turns ordinary spicy ramen into gormet spicy ramen! Fry it up and drop in an egg.
 
As a kid, we ate lip and a$$hole loaf because we couldn't afford the good stuff. When I got stationed in Hawaii, I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw Mickey D's served it for breakfast! My wife (from Japan) LOVES the stuff and fries it up with fresh green beans or makes musubi. I grind...

I prefer the Hickory smoked variety, but has anyone else noticed how freaking expensive the stuff has gotten?
 
Don't like spam and I don't like bully beef - unless...

1. Pig-like product in Blankets: Slice spam into thick portions, coat in batter and shallow fry in oil in a skillet or the bottom of a camp oven (that's a Dutch oven to all you UnAustralians) until golden brown and crispy on the edges.

2. Mock Dog in Blankets: As above but using tinned corned beef.

Serve on a bed of warmed baked beans with salt and pepper to taste with a gum leaf on top for garnish. Quick, easy and satisfying breakfast especially after you've run out of fresh or frozen food on a multi-week camping trip and have to dig into the "iron rations".

Lips and bums be damned - that there's good eating.
 
craigwanderer said:
... camp oven (that's a Dutch oven to all you UnAustralians) ...
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Dutch Oven, Camp Oven/Stove, whatever. There's nothing Dutch about a DO anyway, and too many folks get their wires crossed on the phrase. To me, it's a camp stove with legs, and the legless variety is a "bean pot", to some a Dutch Oven's an enameled pot. I think it makes sense to distinguish the variations.

Anyway, back on track.
 
Combat Chuck said:
Dutch Oven, Camp Oven/Stove, whatever. There's nothing Dutch about a DO anyway, and too many folks get their wires crossed on the phrase. To me, it's a camp stove with legs, and the legless variety is a "bean pot", to some a Dutch Oven's an enameled pot. I think it makes sense to distinguish the variations.

Anyway, back on track.
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I read that the name came from them being widely distributed in N America by the Dutch East India company,:meh:
 
craigwanderer said:
Don't like spam and I don't like bully beef - unless...

1. Pig-like product in Blankets: Slice spam into thick portions, coat in batter and shallow fry in oil in a skillet or the bottom of a camp oven (that's a Dutch oven to all you UnAustralians) until golden brown and crispy on the edges.

2. Mock Dog in Blankets: As above but using tinned corned beef.

Serve on a bed of warmed baked beans with salt and pepper to taste with a gum leaf on top for garnish. Quick, easy and satisfying breakfast especially after you've run out of fresh or frozen food on a multi-week camping trip and have to dig into the "iron rations".

Lips and bums be damned - that there's good eating.
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WTF is Bully Beef exactly? I like canned Corned beef, the cheap stuff that comes out of S America. And there is a canned beef in gravy we get here in the US that kind of makes me think of well, Mr Ed.
 
rusty_tlc said:
WTF is Bully Beef exactly? I like canned Corned beef, the cheap stuff that comes out of S America. And there is a canned beef in gravy we get here in the US that kind of makes me think of well, Mr Ed.
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Bully beef is the cheap stuff you guys get out of South America.

Some people love it, but I spent a week living on bully beef and home made hardtack biscuits for a WWII rations article I was writing so I no longer like it.

It's flaked beef and beef hearts with a bit of jelly-like substance to help it hold its shape when you... never mind, it's starting to make me feel queasy just thinking about it. Bully beef three times a day for a week...

No wonder the blokes fighting the Japanese on the Kokoda track suffered malnutrition. Random factoid: After that debacle where large numbers of Aussie soldiers in New Guinea had nothing but Bully and biscuits for 120 days straight, they started issuing dried blue peas. These were kept in a wet wool sock overnight to rehydrate and when they started sprouting they'd be eaten in a mess tin with bully beef and curry powder for an evening meal or eaten raw for lunch with a slab of cold bully beef. The sprouts gave much better vitamin coverage and funnily enough the morale of the troops increased and sickness rates decreased. A few months later they started issuing the Aussie version of US K-Rations which were engineered to be vitamin enriched from the start.

But back to spam - standard issue spam is a bit grotty, but strangely enough, I don't mind the turkey spam. That's definitely good eating on a sammich with mayonnaise and cracked pepper.
 
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Combat Chuck said:
Dutch Oven, Camp Oven/Stove, whatever. There's nothing Dutch about a DO anyway, and too many folks get their wires crossed on the phrase. To me, it's a camp stove with legs, and the legless variety is a "bean pot", to some a Dutch Oven's an enameled pot. I think it makes sense to distinguish the variations.

Anyway, back on track.
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Most of the camp ovens/Dutch ovens/whatever we get here are what you would call the bean pot variety. I've cooked a couple of birthday cakes in camp ovens. The frosting was a bit of a failure, but you get that when you're out in the boonies.

Here's a pic of just one of the standard Australian style camp ovens

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And here's the book that's considered the camp oven bible down under

Amazon.com: Outback Cooking in the Camp Oven (9780867882810): Books

Wow my first real thread hijack. Sorry about that. Back to the culinary legend which is Spam...
 
craigwanderer said:
Most of the camp ovens/Dutch ovens/whatever we get here are what you would call the bean pot variety. I've cooked a couple of birthday cakes in camp ovens. The frosting was a bit of a failure, but you get that when you're out in the boonies.

Here's a pic of just one of the standard Australian style camp ovens

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And here's the book that's considered the camp oven bible down under

Amazon.com: Outback Cooking in the Camp Oven (9780867882810): Books

Wow my first real thread hijack. Sorry about that. Back to the culinary legend which is Spam...
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no hijack, you were talking about cooking SPAM dinner in a camp oven...........:D:D
 
Assassin said:
no hijack, you were talking about cooking SPAM dinner in a camp oven...........:D:D
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Very true.
And I will look into that book.

As to Bully Beef, I believe in The Great War it was also referred to as "monkey meat" because it was like no identifiable beef the soldiers had ever seen.
 
Looks like SPAM may have sub-culture following here on MUD, may have to give it a second try now that I have been schooled.....like most things- sheesh. Has Iron Chef used SPAM for a cooking challenge?!- Ha!
 
Too much as a kid, don't care for it now. That being said there's no other meat by-product that packs as well. :rolleyes:

Spam, it's pink and it's oval
Spam, you can buy it at the Mobil
Spam, its made in Chernobyl
SPAM...

YouTube - SPAM, Save Ferris
 
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