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My mother served it occasionally when I was very young. I couldn't stand the stuff. I even tried it with ketchup, one time; utterly disgusting, but that was my own fault, I guess.
When I was broke and had only a part-time job, I used to make fried Spam sammiches (with cheap store-brand white bread, and sometimes cheap store-brand sliced cheese). Yeah, salty as hell, but wonderful when you can't afford anything else.
When I couldn't even afford Spam, store-brand bologna had to do (I liked that even less, and still do. Yuck).
Spam is also extremely popular on Guam, and in Korea. Both due to generous GIs in the post-war period, I assume.
There is a Korean dish, Budae Jjigae. "Army Base Stew." It's a hybrid of Korean and US ingredients - specifically, ingredients that might have smuggled from a Base PX. Things such as Spam, Vienna sausages, canned baked beans and American cheese alongside kimchee, shiitake, ramen, rice cakes and tofu. Sounds weird, but it's been a special occasion dish in Korea since the fifties.
In Guam that "Hot and Spicy" Spam is often diced and added to fried rice. A chain of coffee shops in the Marianas, Shirley's, has several varieties of fried rice that are a local tradition. I never went for the Spam friend rice, my go-to order was always the shrimp variety.
I like Spam, but then I spent part of my youth in Hawaii. There is a lower sodium version and different flavors now. Spam and eggs is delicious. It's versatile. I like it with teriyaki, but it could go well with salsa. It's on the grocery list.
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I'll have Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, baked beans, Spam, Spam, Spam and Spam.
Baked beans are off,
I never understood why people like Spam, yet many do. For one thing, I find it too salty, and for another I really don't like the texture - spongy.
But hey, I am free to not eat it and that's fine.
My mother served it occasionally when I was very young. I couldn't stand the stuff. I even tried it with ketchup, one time; utterly disgusting, but that was my own fault, I guess.
When I was broke and had only a part-time job, I used to make fried Spam sammiches (with cheap store-brand white bread, and sometimes cheap store-brand sliced cheese). Yeah, salty as hell, but wonderful when you can't afford anything else.
When I couldn't even afford Spam, store-brand bologna had to do (I liked that even less, and still do. Yuck).
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"Hot and Spicy" Spam diced, then fried until it's crispy and scrambled with eggs is a breakfast delight. Millions of Hawaiians can't be wrong.
Zardoz: Diced and fried to a crisp doesn't sound too bad.
JeffS: Those lyrics are pretty complex.
Spam is also extremely popular on Guam, and in Korea. Both due to generous GIs in the post-war period, I assume.
There is a Korean dish, Budae Jjigae. "Army Base Stew." It's a hybrid of Korean and US ingredients - specifically, ingredients that might have smuggled from a Base PX. Things such as Spam, Vienna sausages, canned baked beans and American cheese alongside kimchee, shiitake, ramen, rice cakes and tofu. Sounds weird, but it's been a special occasion dish in Korea since the fifties.
In Guam that "Hot and Spicy" Spam is often diced and added to fried rice. A chain of coffee shops in the Marianas, Shirley's, has several varieties of fried rice that are a local tradition. I never went for the Spam friend rice, my go-to order was always the shrimp variety.
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I like Spam, but then I spent part of my youth in Hawaii. There is a lower sodium version and different flavors now. Spam and eggs is delicious. It's versatile. I like it with teriyaki, but it could go well with salsa. It's on the grocery list.
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