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grasswire

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27. there's nothing mysterious or awful in spam

Reply to Phentex (Original post)

Wed Aug 8, 2012, 06:27 PM

Aug 2012

The labeled ingredients in the classic variety of Spam are chopped pork shoulder meat, with ham meat added, salt, water, modified potato starch as a binder, and sodium nitrite as a preservative. Spam's gelatinous glaze, or aspic, forms from the cooling of meat stock.

It's not as bad as many other things on supermarket shelves with dozens of ingredients and dubious foodstuffs like pink slime.

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I made spam and eggs for breakfast this morning... [View all] Phentex Jul 2012 OP

I used to get a wild hair every 5 years or so and get a small can Warpy Jul 2012 #1

Interesting factoid... Phentex Aug 2012 #24

No, I don't like Spam... msanthrope Jul 2012 #2

Oh gawd . . . that's one of Callalily Jul 2012 #3

I confess... Phentex Jul 2012 #5

How can you not? MrMickeysMom Aug 2012 #28

As a kid we ate spam, Callalily Jul 2012 #4

Isn't that a little like Phentex Jul 2012 #6

Every few months, I buy one of those single slices and either fry it lightly sinkingfeeling Jul 2012 #7

Didn't know they made that... Phentex Jul 2012 #9

On the shelf, in a little metalic package. sinkingfeeling Jul 2012 #11

I don't know why people are afraid of it. grasswire Jul 2012 #8

Hadn't thought of that in years either! But off topic... Phentex Jul 2012 #10

Spam. Blech! Denninmi Jul 2012 #12

I didn't find it to be nasty... Phentex Aug 2012 #22

I haven't eaten spam since grade school. Lugnut Jul 2012 #13

How did they fix it? Phentex Aug 2012 #23

I have a can in the cupboard. pengillian101 Jul 2012 #14

That's not a bad idea... Phentex Aug 2012 #21

I have never eaten Spam. kurtzapril4 Aug 2012 #15

I think it's worth trying Phentex Aug 2012 #20

My Mom used to fry potatoes and onions. cherokeeprogressive Aug 2012 #16

Funny how that works. My mom made S.O.S. Phentex Aug 2012 #19

As a kid, my family was never wealthy HeiressofBickworth Aug 2012 #29

I'm pretty sure they still make it... Phentex Aug 2012 #32

Koreans are inexplicably crazy about the stuff charlie Aug 2012 #17

LOL! Phentex Aug 2012 #18

I know, amazing, innit? charlie Aug 2012 #25

Being an army brat in the 50s and 60s, I ate my share of Spam. japple Aug 2012 #30

Spam..... Turbineguy Aug 2012 #26

there's nothing mysterious or awful in spam grasswire Aug 2012 #27

Before I die I am going to make Spam Musubi: kestrel91316 Aug 2012 #31

I recall having Spam, cheese, onion, pickle, through a grinder, broiled on hambuger bun halfs Thor_MN Aug 2012 #33