Spam - the FOOD

[asharpshooter]

I like spam.

 

[untamed]

yup - fried spam with rice and ketchup is where it's at. then again, i'm filipino and we've been known to eat pretty much anything. i didn't know spam came in individual packets! must...go...grocery...shopping.

Man, adobong spam with potatoes and turn the sauce on the sweetish, gingery side with rice is spectacular!

 

[Cpl Punishment]

SPAM chunked and thrown in with Ramen and onions was a staple food in college.

 

[killa_concept]

yup - fried spam with rice and ketchup is where it's at. then again, i'm filipino and we've been known to eat pretty much anything. i didn't know spam came in individual packets! must...go...grocery...shopping.

Ah - a fellow pinoy! Though I guess I'm a mutt (a canapino if you will).
That said, I still remember eating egg soaked, fried spam and rice for breakfast back when I was growing up over there. I occasionally cook it up for breakfast these days. 'Tis a guilty pleasure...

 

[Joben]

I don't think I have ever had SPAM...

 

[Guyon]

Nothing like a good old SPAM martini.

 

[Mannlicher]

Spam, in the single slice pouch, is always in my BOB. I also carry it when camping. A pouch of the Uncle Ben's pre cooked rice, Terryiaki flavor, mixed with a slice of diced Spam, is a great meal. Filling, almost 12 ounces total, and packed with about 700 calories, 17 g protein.

...oh, and it tastes GREAT

 

[kage]

I've seen the pouches of Spam before but have never bought them. I thought the cans were single servings!

The Bacon Spam is my favorite. I think the flavor is greatly improved.

I prefer mine fried, and it's a staple in Hawaii, Guam and The Philippines, so I ate it a lot growing up. I try to keep some in the pantry, but somehow it always ends up in a frying pan.

Realistically, it's an amazing survival food. Fat, protein and salt, as others have mentioned, are often hard to come by in the backwoods. When I was winter climbing I would bring Spam (it sure beat the frozen sticks of butter I used to eat for fat when I was a really poor teen climber).

 

[Jesse D.L]

rather pack a few cans of corned beef, not that I don't like spam but I wouldn't want any more than half a can within a few week period.

 

[Cpl Punishment]

The canned corned beef deserves a thread of its own.

 

[lambertiana]

Don't get me going with the corned beef, too. My wife is from the Philippines, and where she is from, corned beef is very popular. Her father was in the US Army in WWII, and when they landed at Lingayen, he stayed in nearby Dagupan after the war and married my mother-in-law. The army units my father-in-law was in did not have the proverbial spam for every meal, he said it was nothing but corned beef. He said that when he was on New Guinea he had nothing but corned beef for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for 18 months. Then for Thanksgiving 1944 they got a real turkey dinner, I bet that was a welcome change.

Anyway, the army brought corned beef to that part of the Philippines, and it remains popular to this day. There is a reason we have a couple cases of it at home.