Comments on: Desperate Times Renew Demand for SPAM

By: Arnold

Arnold — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:17:36 +0000

@Royce: I think we got ours on eBay! :)

By: Royce

Royce — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:45:57 +0000

How did I miss hearing about the “In Honor of Guam’s Liberation” SPAM! I thought I had them all! Too bad I don’t know anyone in Guam …

By: Arnold

Arnold — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:59:11 +0000

@The Bean Counter: Always great to know that future generations of SPAM eaters are out there… :)

By: The Beancounter

The Beancounter — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:59:49 +0000

Hello there Arnold! I’m a newbie to your site… Great site btw!

It’s not fashionable…but i love SPAM…and i’m bringing up the next generation of SPAM lovers as well…

We thought we’re the only ones…probably here downuder.

And thanks for the photos… the only SPAM varieties that i thought exist are Regular and low sodium..

By: Sooj

Sooj — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:22:41 +0000

“SPAM reentered my life”

Never let Spam exit your life.

By the way, in regards to your photo, another good variation:
Fried egg, sunnyside up, with 3 slices of bacon, on top of rice and kimchee as a side…for breakfast.

By: Arnold

Arnold — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:00:09 +0000

SPAM Lite is an abomination. If you’re going to eat it, go balls to the wall! :-)

By: lester

lester — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:37:56 +0000

spam doesn’t have to be unhealthy. i eat spam on a regular basis and i’m not dead yet. just switch to spam lite. it’s healthier and less salty

By: Jude

Jude — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 08:24:59 +0000

That plate is the perfect breakfast for me. Sometimes I prefer tuyo, though.

By: Arnold

Arnold — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:36:09 +0000

I wonder if it’s because the Chinese have their own canned luncheon meat made by Ma Ling. It looks like SPAM but doesn’t taste quite like SPAM..not as salty.

The Koreans, on the other hand, have budae jjigae, a.k.a. “Army Base Stew” that features hot dogs and SPAM among other things. It was something the Koreans made up using leftover, black market or stolen Army rations during the lean times after the war. I’ve had different variations of this stew and it’s really good.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:45:56 +0000

I’m in New York, specifically on Long Island, where the population is largely caucasian. I do go into and work in Queens everyday though, where the Asian population is large, but primarily Chinese, and they don’t seem to approve as much of SPAM as Filipinos and other asians ethnicities do.

As the grandson of a WW2 veteran, I was given accounts of SPAM as a rubbery sort of… substance, mass produced from ground-up cats somewhere. But it doesn’t look that bad here, honestly. Reminds me of labercase.

By: Arnold

Arnold — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:35:21 +0000

Ryan, SPAM and eggs is a classic and that’s garlic fried rice underneath. I’ve always looked at SPAM through a Filipino/Asian lens, so it’s always interesting to see what other cultures do with it.

Where are you exactly?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:02:18 +0000

Well, this is interesting. Where I live, SPAM is nearly non-existent, and has always had a tendency to stay on the shelf. I always thought this to perhaps be because the food lasted so long and since no one was eating it… There always had to be a can tucked away from 1942 somewhere, right?

But I never actually saw what was inside those dusty cans until now. It’s actually less scary than I expected. And now that you mention it, I have been seeing more cans of the stuff in shopping carts lately. Apparently it still serves it’s role as a staple of hard times.