ncbill
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"Spam with bacon" tastes the best to me but is expensive enough that I don't stock it.
Spam's basic ingredients are primarily pork shoulder and ham,[3] with salt, water, modified potato starch (as a binder), sugar, and sodium nitrite (as a preservative).
I never hated Spam but probably only ate it once every year or two... Until going to Hawaii for the first time in 2021. We've been to Hawaii several times since and have enjoyed many different versions of Spam musubi. .
Funny how so many of the replies talk about eating it for breakfast, with eggs. It is good cubed up and cooked with onions, then put in scrambled eggs and cheese.
Agree. I ate it when younger but avoid it these days.
A 2oz serving of Spam has 790mg of sodium.
*1. Love Spam musubi! Spam is a guilty pleasure food for me, on several levels (tho not because of the salt) so I don’t normally buy. But maybe I’ll try to make my own musubi.
In fact I'm making a batch now. 1 cup of rice, 1 can of spam, 3 sheets of nori, some furikake and sauce makes 6 delicious musubi.
Some day I might buy a can of it for "hurricane food". But then, who would I be fooling!
Who can only eat 2 oz?
I resemble that comment.That's exactly my problem!
It's VERY popular in Hawaii- not sure why.
I love spam, but I have battled overweight for most of my life (mostly unsuccessfully), and it's way too fattening for someone like me. In the past 20 years I have probably had no more than 1-2 cans of spam.
Some day I might buy a can of it for "hurricane food". But then, who would I be fooling!
Growing up in the islands long, long ago, my mother used to fry spam and eggs and fresh pineapple in a skillet for breakfast.
And by hurricane food I hope you mean it's fair game as long as there is a hurricane (broadly defined as tropical cyclone), somewhere on the planet at the time, regardless of whether it is over land or in your hemisphere...
Very smart! People here in Louisiana don't like spam so it wouldn't be any good for bartering here.I live in Hawaii. I keep a few cans in my hurricane kit in my car, not necessarily to eat but...barter baby! Gold coins are useless here. Spam has value!
Exactly! You never know when that tropical cyclone might make a beeline for your refrigerator and destroy all your food, but spam will save the day.
Very smart! People here in Louisiana don't like spam so it wouldn't be any good for bartering here.
I'm surprised Koolau hasn't posted here yet! Oh, yeah- it's VERY early in Hawaii.
It's VERY popular in Hawaii- not sure why. I was on small-ship cruise there and one of the passengers bought Spam-flavored macadamia nuts. Spam with rice and scrambled eggs on the side was one of the breakfast offerings one morning. Few partook of it. I had a veggie omelet.
When I was a kid Mom served it broiled with pineapple and I liked it, but now due to the salt and fat content and my general avoidance of meat, I haven't had it in decades.