SPAMarama!

I could eat pickled or smoked herring every day for breakfast!!
Low on the food chain, it's a good choice, as well as delish!!
I love all you folks who like Spam, but I could not make myself buy it, when I went out for that sole purpose!! I remember not liking it many years ago . . . .:(
So I bought some kippered herring!!:D
 
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Ironically I got an email today from a friend in Finland, with a photo of him eating this Christmas meal by himself while doing UN service in Kashmir many years ago. His dinner was boiled potatoes and carrots, luckily for him some Finnish cheese sent from home, and Danish canned pork, which is pretty close to SPAM. Wonder if it was Tulip brand? John
 
bill2000 said:
Peoiple, people, people. Spam is NOT food. It is a food-like product much like soylent green. If you can afford to play with these beautiful GEC forum knives surely you can afford some real food. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
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I like soylent green. Spam is pork shoulder and ham, mostly, with salt. Good stuff!
[I know it's not for everyone. In a family of eight (most of my children have moved out, though), only two of us eat Spam.]
 
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Peregrin said:
I have to admit. I walked right past the Spam aisle too!
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"If" I walked past the Spam aisle... I certainly wouldn't find myself in the pickled herring section.:confused:
That said, I still have 5 cans of Spam remaining and am completely unsure of its fate.:rolleyes:
Don't really know what possessed me to grab all of this stuff.
But apparently I've got till oct 2022 to eat it.:thumbsup:

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Mayonardo said:
Ft. Worth Native, lived in north Texas, central, south (Corpus), west (Lubbock, Big Spring). My dad was into oil and alcohol, so we moved a lot
I love Spam.[/QUOTE

I grew up in Breckenridge, west of F.W. about 80 miles.
I know about the oilfield and the alcohol. Funny how that can be a fairly common Texas family thread.
I worked the patch early in my late teens a while and then my late twenties. Decent money but a HARD life. Glad I moved on from that. Will make you old early--KV
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Barman1 said:
"If" I walked past the Spam aisle... I certainly wouldn't find myself in the pickled herring section.:confused:
That said, I still have 5 cans of Spam remaining and am completely unsure of its fate.:rolleyes:
Don't really know what possessed me to grab all of this stuff.
But apparently I've got till oct 2022 to eat it.:thumbsup:

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I remember Art Donovan, defensive tackle for the Baltimore Colts in the '50s and early '60s, telling a story about confiscating/stealing a case of Spam during WWII when he was in the Marines. I think he got it from another outfit. His commanding officer told him if he could finish it in a week, there would be no punishment. It's been a few years since I read this, but I believe he had to eat five pounds of Spam a day, and he did it.
 
Prester John said:
I remember Art Donovan, defensive tackle for the Baltimore Colts in the '50s and early '60s, telling a story about confiscating/stealing a case of Spam during WWII when he was in the Marines. I think he got it from another outfit. His commanding officer told him if he could finish it in a week, there would be no punishment. It's been a few years since I read this, but I believe he had to eat five pounds of Spam a day, and he did it.
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And he lived to be 89.
Go Spam!
 
waynorth said:
I could eat pickled or smoked herring every day for breakfast!!
Low on the food chain, it's a good choice, as well as delish!!
I love all you folks who like Spam, but I could not make myself buy it, when I went out for that sole purpose!! I remember not liking it many years ago . . . .:(
So I bought some kippered herring!!:D
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I am not as discriminating in my taste, I like herring and spam equally.

Perhaps some of the, shall we say, less commonly encountered foods in the Philippines that I have eaten have made discussions like this seem like an easy choice for me...I'll take them all.
 
Prester John said:
I remember Art Donovan, defensive tackle for the Baltimore Colts in the '50s and early '60s, telling a story about confiscating/stealing a case of Spam during WWII when he was in the Marines. I think he got it from another outfit. His commanding officer told him if he could finish it in a week, there would be no punishment. It's been a few years since I read this, but I believe he had to eat five pounds of Spam a day, and he did it.
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True story but shortly afterwards right out of the blue for some reason he became known as "Fart" Donavan or Art The Fart...by his platoon buddies.
 
meako said:
True story but shortly afterwards right out of the blue for some reason he became known as "Fart" Donavan or Art The Fart...by his platoon buddies.
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Ha! Reminds me of another story: I was in the Texas Hill Country a couple of months ago, attending an Oktoberfest celebration. In the evening, I was enjoying a beer (or two) and a cigar (can't smoke in the room) by the poolside, and a guy walks over to me. "I assume you're a rider?", he says to me. There were lots of bikers staying there. He was just inviting me to join them because he saw I was alone. (Wife and daughter were in the room at the time.) He was wearing a black t-shirt with white letters: "FART BOY." Said that was his nickname. I could call him David or Fart Boy. Maybe not that relevant a story, but I'm on my second Wild Turkey 101.
Cheers!
 
waynorth said:
I could eat pickled or smoked herring every day for breakfast!!
Low on the food chain, it's a good choice, as well as delish!!
I love all you folks who like Spam, but I could not make myself buy it, when I went out for that sole purpose!! I remember not liking it many years ago . . . .:(
So I bought some kippered herring!!:D
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Yum! I used to like sardines in mustard sauce, but haven't had it in -years--decades. I'll have to pick some up next time I'm at the store.
 
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