It's amazing that consumers are switching to Spam while apparently they continue to buy iPods and iPhones and Blackberries and Kindles.
Speaking of Kindles, has anybody seen one yet? Bezos says they sold out quickly, but here in the tech-nerd haven of Silicon Valley, I have yet to see one out in public.
The deep, dark truth about Spam. Also some nifty trivia. Impress your friends and relatives!
Ingredients:
* Chopped pork shoulder meat with ham meat added.
* Salt (for binding, flavour, and firmness)
* Water (to help in mixing)
* Sugar (for flavour)
* Sodium Nitrite (for colour and as a preservative)
Yum yum!
Nutrition Information For SPAM (original style):
* Calories Per Serving: 170
* Calories Per Serving From Fat: 140
* Serving Size: 2 oz.
* Servings Per Container: 6 (large) or 3.5 (small)
* Total Fat: 16g
* Saturated Fat: 6g
* Cholesterol: 40mg
* Sodium: 750mg
* Total Carbohydrates: 0g
* Fiber: 0g
* Sugars: 0g
* Proteins: 7g
* Vitamin A: 0%
* Vitamin C: 0%
* Calcium: 0%
* Iron: 2%
Maybe all the extra sales are to stock doomsday bunkers. There are only so many shelf-stable canned meats out there. I can't see any reason to eat spam short of the end of civilization, anyway.
30 Calories of non fat nutritive goodness per serving.
mmmm...my grandmother aways fried it, so it seared a bit in all it's fatty splendor, and then served it with eggs. just the smell takes me back. that and percolated coffee.
of course you ate that when, you know, people actually did manual labor.
I grew just down the road from the Capital of Spam - besides helping win a major world war, Spam sent a lot of kids of the workers there to college.
Besides - if you didn't know, Spam has had a big marketing push lately. So the bump in sales just might NOT be inferior goods at all but a new found appreciation for an American icon.
My FIL & I were watching the tube & there it was a SPAM commercial - very retro hip. He ate mountains of the stuff during the war and couldn't stand the the thought of it. About had to get up & leave.
Anyway SPAM Kabobs, SPAM Burgers & SPAM stir fry (with canned pineapples, green pepper, white onion & canned baby corn with a little pineapple juice, ginger & splash of soy sauce) are quintessential retro 'car camping' fare. A couple large Martinis (or Daiquiris as my wife prefers), ugly Hawaiian shirts, hot summer evening, some Rat Pack Musak. I highly recommend.
King Arthur: Please, please, good people, I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?
Woman: No one lives there.
King Arthur: Then who is your lord?
Woman: We don't have a lord.
Dennis: I told you, we're an anarco-sydicalist commune.
I can't think of a more sacreligious thing than pairing a good martini with Spam.
Come now...haven't you ever had a Spamatini? Instead of an olive, there is a spam chunk on a stick!
Although, speaking of retro, my friends and I are on a mission to bring back another disused icon of the past...Clamato juice. That tempting combo of clam and tomato juice.
bluestatedon writes:
I can't think of a more sacreligious thing than pairing a good martini with Spam. I'd rather eat tofu.
bluestatedon | 05.28.08 - 8:43 pm | #
Tofu is a very different genre. That would be Asian poverty food. They consider SPAM exotic - we consider tofu exotic. Grass is always greener...
But actually a martini goes pretty well with retro SPAM dishes. At least going down.
You can hardly go to any Hawaii resturant and not find spam on the menu. They love the stuff and have festivals devoted to Spam. Even Burger King has spam on the breakfast menu. Poi, spam and eggs, Yummy!
Thankfully, I've never had the opposite happen with spam! ick.
Clamato juice at the 7-11??? We went on a mission here to find it, and when we asked at the grocery store and told the woman what it was, she got this really stange look on her face...
Did you know that Hawaii is the most span-eating state? tis true! ever have Hawaiiam "plate lunch"?
no surprise at all, Peoples of the pacific Islands love spam. My old neighbours from Samoa used to send a pallet home every year for the family, they used to break down a SUV type car for parts and jam spam in all around the spares and freight it to the islands.
I also went on holiday to Rarotonga and the locals bought buckets of KFC as carry on luggage for the flight!
My old house mate used to make moussaka out of spam, not to bad after a session at the pub!
You got it dryfly! Some horseradish, Clamato juice and a couple of shots of vodka with a stalk of celery and a nice fat quahog on the top. New England at it's best!
I went on a weekend backpacking trip with a friend who had been in The US Infantry. I packed my sissy boy REI freeze dried chicken stir fry for night one. Night two, it was Spam. I bit into a piece of bone. He said, "Congratulations, you ate the only identifiable ingredient in the can!"
My old house mate used to make moussaka out of spam, not to bad after a session at the pub!
andy in NZ | 05.28.08 - 8:51 pm | #
I played rugby in college with a guy from Christchurch - he was a foreign exchange grad student here studying agriculture. When he realized he actually LIVED in the state where SPAM was born & still made and that my roommate & I grew up close to the plant - it became time for a road trip. We became his tour guide...
It didn't hurt that there were also some very good strip clubs in that town. VERY good. AAA Five Star Rated.
Thanks for the comments - don't like to post from work (the authorities frown upon blogging) so a little late.
I agree with you guys that prices are going to slide - I'm not one of those that believes that 50+% corrections don't happen. When I started working in Mumbai in 1995 the last real estate boom had just ended and some areas corrected 70% or more. Worked in Japan for some years and every year we'd get the landlord to reduce rent.
However, I like the house. Old house - the potential (??disaster??) looms at you and we can see ourselves living there several years. As you noted I'm in a strong negotiating position and will put in a lowball - if accepted good, if not then better and we'll be back next year.
Best restaurant to order spam is the Fly By Night Club in Anchorage, Alaska...the only place on the planet where you can purchase a tie adorned by the can of spam.
And if you order the Dom Perignon there, yes they will serve you a complimentary can of spam!
Slice the spam paper thin, and use it as a wrap for many veg recipes, and grill it. Excellent, and, as the Spam is paper thin and the veg dominates...quite good.
"Tuna, chicken, salmon, chili, cocktail franks, franks and beans..."
Ahhhh,the foods of the single gods. Spam is right up there but I really think some posters need to expand their culinary horizions a bit. I mean come on,3 weeks ago my brother and I were bored so we had tree rat for dinner...Think about it...
wow energycon who knew? my first run-in with clamato was making a similar drink in college when we didn't have tomato juice and found an errant bottle of clamato. hey, i was 19 and didn't know any better.
"And the one time I had clamato, I actually got nauseous."
homedad43 | Homepage | 05.28.08 - 9:17 pm | #
I ate stuff in the Philippines that would make most people gag. I really don't want to know what it was(from street carts). Clamato is even more disgusting than that...
They are prodigious drinkers in Christchurch, and can be quite scary too!
Ya our buddy was too - lost track of him decades ago after he went home but we had some fun here for awhile.
The wildest I saw him was when we did a road trip to Mardi Gras. Check out on Google Earth just how long a drive it is from Minneapolis to New Orleans - for a long weekend of partying then drive all the way back - and it was in the middle of the semester for us, not on a break. We drove around the clock down there then partied-crashed-partied-crashed etc until they started cattle driving us all out & cleaning up the street just after midnight Tuesday night Wednesday morning... then drove round the clock back home.
Ya we made sure this guy went back & new something about what made us tick. It wasn't all books for him.
"I ate stuff in the Philippines that would make most people gag."
That's why you needed lots of San Magoo around. Drink enough, and you don't care what comes off the cart. Baluuuut!
I did one of those party deals as well. Drove from Seattle to Miles City, MT. Happened by there on a cross country, looked like a fun place. Decided to wing it one weekend. Lots of cowgirls....and fun.
While in Hawaii my wife was eager to have some sushi as we were on an island and it all must be the freshest around.
they made the sushi with spam. We passed.
Proud to say i saw the python skit as a youngster and from that point never ever once was brave enough to actually eat the stuff. However, we raised our own pigs so there wasn't much need to dig into the Mystery when you had real smoked hams and bacon hanging in your root cellar.
yah ipodius, the Calgarians are a nice bunch and their town has the amenities of a much larger city without the population...plus short trip to Lake Louise and environs
even if they do insist on making a drink based on Clamato juice their signature drink!
I mean come on,3 weeks ago my brother and I were bored so we had tree rat for dinner...Think about it...
Back in 'stagflation' my single buddies would go 'golfing for geese' - think about that for a while.
They would go to a nearby city park where a large flock of Canadian Geese would congregate year-round. Huge flock - like 30,000 geese. They would bring a golf club (usually a nine iron) and a bag of bread crumbs. Fill in the rest with your imagination.
And 'yes' an athletic young man can drive a goose head about as far as a golf ball - a long way.
They did it for years and were never reported because the locals hated the geese so much - goose crap everywhere. They did finally get caught & were ticketed but because they were unemployed at the time (and the judge was also a local & hated the geese) - he let them off easy.
Still makes a good story though all these years later.
We had those in Ohio and they wouldn't leave. I had never thought about trying them. Probably would be decent. Oh,there was no such thing as a small flock...
Spam... anyone link to the many spam haiku pages on the intertubz?
Spam has a long heritage on the Last Frontier, Alaska. And the fat calories go down like water when you are in an environment where you get too far from the woodstove and its -60 F.
"And it been almost 20 years...the taste never goes away ."
Man, my beer is all over the computer. Brought back some memories, did I?
Went back a couple of years ago with my wife to finally meet the relatives. The family had a big fiesta. Roast pig, pancit, you know the drill. Had a few San Magoos and next thing I know I'm in the back yard cramming down bagoong with mangoes, chased by Balut. Boy did I impress the Brother in laws. I hadn't done that stuff in 20 years either... You are right, it tasted the same.
So are people going to start stockpiling the stuff? Will Walmart and Sam's club have to limit customer purchases? When that happens, then we'll know that it is the end!
I picked up some stuff from Sams last night and there are stacks of rice and beans with no limits anymore. There are no shortages of this stuff, it just fucks up the logistics chain when everybody buys in a panic...
Skip this post if you don't want to wander down an OT Trail...
The house next door was foreclosed in Jan'07. The residents were finally moved out in Nov'07. The bank finally got around to getting the house listed today.
Here's the kicker. Current asking price is $419,000 with taxes at $12,300. The judgement of foreclosure was for $583,000 - this from a cash out refi in April of 2005 for $585,000 - courtesy of Ameriquest. Deutsche Bank was listed as the trustee on behalf of some MBS pool in the foreclosure judgement. That cash out refi had to be a 100% LTV deal - hoocoodanode it would end in tears...
I toured the house today - no dishwasher, no kitchen sink, holes in the walls, a complete wreck. Whoever buys it is looking at $50k to $80k to make it livable. The guy up the block asking $599k for the same house must be ready to chit a brick...
"I'm guessing it is due to the increased wealth in China. Spam is like caviar in some parts of Asia."
Cheers,
Misean | 05.28.08 - 10:01 pm | #
A better item to have for,ahem,barganing power-M&M's. Regular or Peanut. It didn't matter. For a while we were limited in what we could buy from the PX overseas. We would literally clean 'em out on delivery day.
Oh and Baluut - no friggin way. I did eat some meat that I later learned was horse the last time I was in the Philippines - it actually wasn't bad at all. Spam is a high demand item there that's for sure...
In Sri Lanka, getting Spam (from US) or Corned beef (UK) from a visiting relative was a luxury. Specially during the 70's socialist years when no imports were allowed.
No way it would be wasted on eating it with Booze. For that you would use cheap stuff like lobster or shrimp.
Well, those day are long gone. The shrimp and lobster now exported out of the country !!.
"Yeah, I could tell some sea stories about that too. It starts with Sujo, bulgogi and Kimche. You know the ending.."
Joe Six Pack | 05.28.08 - 10:11 pm |
I guess there is a good reason for most guys to be young in the military. This shit would kill me today in the quantities I used to suck down. I have all kinds of cool stories about Iwakuni.
I don't know if you ever had the pleasure of partying with ROK Marines.
They are one of the few that scare the shit outta me...but fun as hell.
This blog is the nutz - we can be all cats and dogs on some fine point of economic arcana - but get the spam thread rolling and you get a whole different look at everyone!
Particularly the international perspective, the upside of globalization...
Most of Fisher's speech was devoted to a warning considerably more dire than his inflation fears. "I see a frightful storm brewing in the form of untethered government debt," he said.
Taking his audience through the familiar territory of Medicare and Social Security's long-term financial insolvency, he said the long-term fiscal situation of the federal government "could be unimaginably more devastating to our economic prosperity than the sub-prime debacle and the recent debauching of credit markets."
Aside from the straightforward fiscal damage, Fisher said the "dark and dirty secret about deficits -- especially when they careen out of control -- is that they create political pressure on central bankers to adopt looser monetary policy down the road."
And the greater the financial hole of the US deficit, the greater the pressure on the Fed will be to print money to get out of it.
Yep, did the ROK thing as well. They are only rough around the edges, heh.. I partied with just about everyone. Went with a bunch of Kiwis to a rugby match up at the USMC HQ in Hawaii. They have this drunk game where you try to balance a stick on your nose. The Corps escorted us off base. Spoilsports.
Royal Marines in Diego Garcia were a fun crew too. I used to get around a bit. Part of the job. Now I only deal with Marines and Sailors.
One of my bachelor plants was a Venus Flytrap. One night, I ran out of hamburger for it. The only meat product in the house was a can of Spam on the shelf.
I opened it, tore off a tiny piece of one corner, fed it to my plant.
I went away for 20 minutes to shower. When I returned, my flytrap was not just dead; but dry, dessicated, mummified, crispy.
I figure anything that can kill a plant evolved to thrive in brackish swamps would probably do terrible things to my innards.
Joe Six Pack writes:
That was the only decent one for this thread. :"
Joe Six Pack | 05.28.08 - 10:48 pm | #
Ya my Kiwi rugger buddy & I instigated a couple of those... the high point was when our rugby team was 'asked to leave' a pretty rough biker bar in Mason City Iowa after an especially raucous post-game party...
The Six o'clock swill was the last-minute rush to buy drinks at a hotel bar before it closed. During a significant part of the 20th Century, Australian and New Zealand hotels shut their public bars at 6 p.m.; between finishing work (5 p.m.) and this early closing hour, men drank heavily.
And there is bugger all to do down here sometimes, although some don;'t drink they bother sheep...
This is just the beginning. Caddys for Chevys (hyundais nowadays) etc. People are getting squeezed. where I work in San Francisco I meet more and more people that are laid off or have no more savings than what is in their pocket. At the gas station I see people digging around in the car to find change to get as much gas as they can. I would sure love to know who is still shopping.
"and a nice fat quahog on the top. New England at it's best!"
Any New Englander worth his salt knows the only damn thing a tough old quahog is good for, is grinding it up, dressing it up, and baking it on the half shell.
Dunno, are people from Wisconsin sports mad, heavy drinkers, animal husbandry experts and insanely provincial? They also have this crazy wind in summer that drives them all mad!
Spam. My mom used to fry it. It'd shrink down to 1/3 its size, 'cause so much fat would cook away. Even my 10 year old self thought, "Not good value."
Face it, tofu hot dogs are the enviro-Spam of the 21st century! Enough mustard, and you can't tell the difference.
On another economy note, brighter I guess, a friend tells me his son-in-law got a job after a year of looking. He'd been chief of engineering at a small aerospace firm that went belly up. Sent out zillions of resumes, worked at Disneyland for a year as a park cop. Finally got a marketing job at an outfit that makes aluminum parts for cars and airplanes.
SAN FRANCISCO - Two Federal Reserve policy-makers today warned that interest rate increases might be needed before too long to curb inflation, even as the United States struggles with a weak economy.
The remarks solidified expectations that the Federal Open Market Committee has ended an aggressive rate-cutting campaign and could start to reverse its policy course late this year.
Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher and Minneapolis Fed President Gary Stern, both voting members of the FOMC in 2008, said they are keeping a close eye on the level of inflation expectations being dialled into financial markets.
"Dunno, are people from Wisconsin sports mad, heavy drinkers, animal husbandry experts and insanely provincial? They also have this crazy wind in summer that drives them all mad!"
Yep, that fits most of them to a T. They wear cheese on their heads, beat up people from Chicago over the Green Bay Packers, spend summer Sunday's on the brewery tours, and I've heard they do strange things up in Dairyland. Do tornadoes count as crazy winds?
Think I've spammed this thread enough. Have a good evening all.
I knew plenty of french canadians that drank beer/clamato or beer/tomato as a hangover cure. this was 35 years ago but doubt the tradition ended abruptly.
Yes, but is Spam a Giffen good? Does your consumption of spam only rise when the economy sucks? Is this because it is a staple or is it a schadenfreude food for you?
i wonder why...how...i'll have to ask some latinos i know. why can't they be like germans and put some nice raspberry syrup in their lager?
Maybe, the closest you can come inland to beer and disarticulated Clamato clams on shell, with spot of cocktail or tabasco sauce, enjoyed on beach. Beer with clams, champagne with oysters.
A question about Spam once taught me how thoroughly my mother was capable of ignoring me.
Whilst coming back west from Michigan one year, we stopped by the Spam HQ and museum in dryfly country. What a hoot! How much spam can you can in one minute?
Best served fryed in brown sugar. Kids won't touch the stuff so more fore me. Calories are overrated anyway.
Good news, this will cause a huge increase in stock prices. Follow my impeccable logic: increase sales of SPAM mean people are substituting SPAM for steak; according to the BLS CPI algorithm, this means that the cost of food has gone down, yielding less inflation; less inflation will pump up the "real GDP" numbers; higher "real GDP" will cause the stock market to rally.
So you see, YOU TOO can spike the stock market - just buy more SPAM!
Back Where I Came From, we had a fondness for scrapple, which is a bit like unprocessed Spam. (Scrapple from the Apple!) One local brand of scrapple, to differentiate itself from other, cheaper brands, proudly displayed a banner on its packaging that read: No Snouts. After seeing that, how could you possibly buy the cheaper brands, the ones that do contain snouts? Marketing genius, yes, genius.
Love,
Jacques
(With shout-outs to AJ Liebling and Bird)
I will forgo the clamato and spam in my doomsday bunker and stock it instead with champagne and caviar. That way when the mutant hordes descend and kill me I'll have had a helluva party first.
Just paid 4 bucks a pound for (Oscar Meyer fat free) bologna - but the regular stuff wasn't much cheaper.
I normally hate spam, but one of the best meals I ever had was when I was hitching around the country (and surviving on a handful of raisins, one of peanuts, and one granola a couple of times a day) I had a breakfast of fried spam and powdered eggs in Big Sur. Never enjoyed a meal more.
I think it was pretty well established in the 70s that the rumors about old folks and pet food weren't true - not because there was no poverty or hunger - because there are cheaper alternatives.
I have a hankering for a glass of Tang,
a bowl of Cheerios with Powered Milk,
and a slab of spam on day old bread.
It all tastes better the second time....which,
hedonically adjusted, counts for two meals.
Treet is gourmet compared to the off-brand imported from Argentina (I know, grass fed beef but what about their pigs?) potted meat product I see at the dented can store.
lentils and black beans beat spam on price any day.
First - spam in hand.
"But I like SPAM!"
It's amazing that consumers are switching to Spam while apparently they continue to buy iPods and iPhones and Blackberries and Kindles.
Speaking of Kindles, has anybody seen one yet? Bezos says they sold out quickly, but here in the tech-nerd haven of Silicon Valley, I have yet to see one out in public.
"I DON'T LIKE SPAM!"
But have you tried green eggs and Spam?
Oh, I love Spam. I'm having Spam, Spam, Spam, eggs, bacon, Spam and Spam.
Cheers,
YUM!!!
CR,
Spam's not an inferior good. Americans are becoming one with their obesity and running with it.
Cheers,
(comment deleted as spam)
Probably due to more people thinking armageddon is coming.
Well, OK maybe not running...
Waddling perhaps a better "fit"?
I'm here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitress,
Cheers,
Is Spam considered food for poor people?
What ever happened to good ol' hot dogs?
Inferior good? Obviously, you've never tried a "Spam Musubi"? Yummy!
Spam ingredients:
The deep, dark truth about Spam. Also some nifty trivia. Impress your friends and relatives!
* Chopped pork shoulder meat with ham meat added.
* Salt (for binding, flavour, and firmness)
* Water (to help in mixing)
* Sugar (for flavour)
* Sodium Nitrite (for colour and as a preservative)
Yum yum!
* Calories Per Serving: 170
* Calories Per Serving From Fat: 140
* Serving Size: 2 oz.
* Servings Per Container: 6 (large) or 3.5 (small)
* Total Fat: 16g
* Saturated Fat: 6g
* Cholesterol: 40mg
* Sodium: 750mg
* Total Carbohydrates: 0g
* Fiber: 0g
* Sugars: 0g
* Proteins: 7g
* Vitamin A: 0%
* Vitamin C: 0%
* Calcium: 0%
* Iron: 2%
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30 Calories of non fat nutritive goodness per serving.
Cheers,
Maybe all the extra sales are to stock doomsday bunkers. There are only so many shelf-stable canned meats out there. I can't see any reason to eat spam short of the end of civilization, anyway.
I have yet to see Spam on a restaurant menu. Perhaps I don't get out enough.
Itokuda,
This:
YouTube - Making Of The Spam Musubi
Cheers,
If I sent every poster here a can of spam, would I be arrested for spamming?
30 Calories of non fat nutritive goodness per serving.
mmmm...my grandmother aways fried it, so it seared a bit in all it's fatty splendor, and then served it with eggs. just the smell takes me back. that and percolated coffee.
of course you ate that when, you know, people actually did manual labor.
Joy,
Tuna, chicken, salmon, chili, cocktail franks, franks and beans...
The first 3 are in the bunker in quantity.
Cheers,
No, the ultimate inferior good is Soylent Green...
tj & the bear:
Burger King Puts Spam on the Menu in Hawaii - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com
Check it.
Cheers,
I have spam in the bunker.
I hate the stuff and will only eat it if I have to eat it.
Other then that....YUCK!
I grew just down the road from the Capital of Spam - besides helping win a major world war, Spam sent a lot of kids of the workers there to college.
Besides - if you didn't know, Spam has had a big marketing push lately. So the bump in sales just might NOT be inferior goods at all but a new found appreciation for an American icon.
My FIL & I were watching the tube & there it was a SPAM commercial - very retro hip. He ate mountains of the stuff during the war and couldn't stand the the thought of it. About had to get up & leave.
Anyway SPAM Kabobs, SPAM Burgers & SPAM stir fry (with canned pineapples, green pepper, white onion & canned baby corn with a little pineapple juice, ginger & splash of soy sauce) are quintessential retro 'car camping' fare. A couple large Martinis (or Daiquiris as my wife prefers), ugly Hawaiian shirts, hot summer evening, some Rat Pack Musak. I highly recommend.
Nemo,
Soylent Green is PORK SHOULDER...?
Cheers,
ipodious,
I still...sometimes...during football season...have...Spam and eggs.
-ducks-
Cheers,
Nemo writes:
No, the ultimate inferior good is Soylent Green...
Nemo | Homepage | 05.28.08 - 8:37 pm | #
SPAM is NOT people (SPAM is pigs - I know).
I can't think of a more sacreligious thing than pairing a good martini with Spam. I'd rather eat tofu.
So how's the Peanut Butter Index doing?
Misean...shhh....i still whip them up too and carefully wrap up the spam can so that no one discovers my secret
Did you know that Hawaii is the most span-eating state? tis true! ever have Hawaiiam "plate lunch"?
"some Rat Pack Musak. I highly recommend."
Link?
King Arthur: Please, please, good people, I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?
Woman: No one lives there.
King Arthur: Then who is your lord?
Woman: We don't have a lord.
Dennis: I told you, we're an anarco-sydicalist commune.
ipodius,
The link I posted to tj was about Burger King serving spam in Hawaii.
And yes I hide it too.
If my Dr. found out I think HE'D have a heart attack.
Cheers,
I suppose its a personal call but bologna was our family's ultimate inferior good growing up. We upgraded to SPAM when we felt flush.
I can't think of a more sacreligious thing than pairing a good martini with Spam.
Come now...haven't you ever had a Spamatini? Instead of an olive, there is a spam chunk on a stick!
Although, speaking of retro, my friends and I are on a mission to bring back another disused icon of the past...Clamato juice. That tempting combo of clam and tomato juice.
bluestatedon writes:
I can't think of a more sacreligious thing than pairing a good martini with Spam. I'd rather eat tofu.
bluestatedon | 05.28.08 - 8:43 pm | #
Tofu is a very different genre. That would be Asian poverty food. They consider SPAM exotic - we consider tofu exotic. Grass is always greener...
But actually a martini goes pretty well with retro SPAM dishes. At least going down.
Don't think that it's a cost-cutting measure. Real, fresh meat usually beats Spam on price, unless you live on a Pacific island.
By the way, check out the eyes on the guy on the Spam front page. If there's a Spam-based cult, this guy's the high priest.
SPAM > Home
ipodius,
They sell clamato and Budweiser at the local 7-11...
Cheers,
You can hardly go to any Hawaii resturant and not find spam on the menu. They love the stuff and have festivals devoted to Spam. Even Burger King has spam on the breakfast menu. Poi, spam and eggs, Yummy!
Clamato juice. That tempting combo of clam and tomato juice.
Sign me up - Bloody Clamary w/ SPAM. YUM!!
At least going down.
Thankfully, I've never had the opposite happen with spam! ick.
Clamato juice at the 7-11??? We went on a mission here to find it, and when we asked at the grocery store and told the woman what it was, she got this really stange look on her face...
It's a good thing I had a huge lunch, because my appetite for dinner is about shot now.
Did you know that Hawaii is the most span-eating state? tis true! ever have Hawaiiam "plate lunch"?
no surprise at all, Peoples of the pacific Islands love spam. My old neighbours from Samoa used to send a pallet home every year for the family, they used to break down a SUV type car for parts and jam spam in all around the spares and freight it to the islands.
I also went on holiday to Rarotonga and the locals bought buckets of KFC as carry on luggage for the flight!
My old house mate used to make moussaka out of spam, not to bad after a session at the pub!
dryfly,
"Sign me up - Bloody Clamary w/ SPAM. YUM!!"
At this, I have to say:
NONONOONONONONONONONONONONONO!
A bit of salty Spam in my desert dry vodka martini...
OK
Cheers,
Sign me up - Bloody Clamary w/ SPAM. YUM!!
You got it dryfly! Some horseradish, Clamato juice and a couple of shots of vodka with a stalk of celery and a nice fat quahog on the top. New England at it's best!
ipodius,
No...not Clamato....
A Budweiser product. Budweiser and Clamato. I do not make this up. If I have to take a picture I will. Hopefully this will prove.
RumorsDaily » The Worst Idea Imaginable: Clam Beer
Cheers,
So how was Rarotonga? I've heard some 'interesting' stories about the Cooks.
I went on a weekend backpacking trip with a friend who had been in The US Infantry. I packed my sissy boy REI freeze dried chicken stir fry for night one. Night two, it was Spam. I bit into a piece of bone. He said, "Congratulations, you ate the only identifiable ingredient in the can!"
Budweiser and Clamato
Oh dear. You weren't kidding. I don't quite know what to say. I mean, can you imagine the marketing genius that comes into your office with that idea?
My old house mate used to make moussaka out of spam, not to bad after a session at the pub!
andy in NZ | 05.28.08 - 8:51 pm | #
I played rugby in college with a guy from Christchurch - he was a foreign exchange grad student here studying agriculture. When he realized he actually LIVED in the state where SPAM was born & still made and that my roommate & I grew up close to the plant - it became time for a road trip. We became his tour guide...
It didn't hurt that there were also some very good strip clubs in that town. VERY good. AAA Five Star Rated.
Ah yes - Midwest American culture at its finest.
Misean, in the comments section, this is my favorite:
Im waiting for the Organic, low sodium version made
with free range (cruelty-free) clams.
One day will they have hypoallergenic genetically modified clams so that shellfish-intolerant folks can enjoy it?
Will that be allowed to be sold in Europe? In Germany?
Is there an exemption in the Reinheitsgebot for clam drinks?
I'm a cochicken man, myself.
So how was Rarotonga? I've heard some 'interesting' stories about the Cooks.
Loved it, you have to get your head around 'Island time', no rush. They use the NZD as currency, so a nice beer is USD $4 (5NZD).
Great diving and fishing and beaches, rent a motorbike and its about 40mins around the island.
Get up to Aitutaki, stunning. Trying to convince the wife on a return visit.
In the Phillipines Spam is a favorite,
date a filipina and you'll be sure to eat some at her house or a party! I move right to the lumpia..
Sorry Off topic from the 'NPR ---' thread.
doom, tj, jm,
Thanks for the comments - don't like to post from work (the authorities frown upon blogging) so a little late.
I agree with you guys that prices are going to slide - I'm not one of those that believes that 50+% corrections don't happen. When I started working in Mumbai in 1995 the last real estate boom had just ended and some areas corrected 70% or more. Worked in Japan for some years and every year we'd get the landlord to reduce rent.
However, I like the house. Old house - the potential (??disaster??) looms at you and we can see ourselves living there several years. As you noted I'm in a strong negotiating position and will put in a lowball - if accepted good, if not then better and we'll be back next year.
dryfly,
They are prodigious drinkers in Christchurch, and can be quite scary too!
Ah yes - Midwest American culture at its finest.
Can tell you from experience that it sounds 100x more fun than Christchurch and surrounds, all they have is cows..
ipodius,
"One day will they have hypoallergenic genetically modified clams so that shellfish-intolerant folks can enjoy it?
Will that be allowed to be sold in Europe? In Germany?"
If the Germans ever mix it with beer...get to the bunker. The appocalypse HAS arrived.
Cheers,
Spam, fresh tomato, eggs and rice. Masarap.
Oh, and a San Miguel...
I prefer lumpia as well.
andy in NZ,
Where dryfly lives...they have a lot of ice...the very cold kind.
-ducks-
Cheers,
beer & clamato is a latino thing
I saw the Bud and Clamato in stop and rob today.
It's marketed towards the Hispanic market. It's in
a tall boy can so drink fast before it gets warm.
Best restaurant to order spam is the Fly By Night Club in Anchorage, Alaska...the only place on the planet where you can purchase a tie adorned by the can of spam.
And if you order the Dom Perignon there, yes they will serve you a complimentary can of spam!
Joe Six Pack,
"Spam, fresh tomato, eggs and rice. Masarap.
Oh, and a San Miguel..."
Slice the spam paper thin, and use it as a wrap for many veg recipes, and grill it. Excellent, and, as the Spam is paper thin and the veg dominates...quite good.
Cheers,
I still relate Spam to the Spam-cam run by a couple of engineering students too lazy to do the dishes.
And the one time I had clamato, I actually got nauseous.
Yecccch.
beer & clamato is a latino thing
i wonder why...how...i'll have to ask some latinos i know. why can't they be like germans and put some nice raspberry syrup in their lager?
"Tuna, chicken, salmon, chili, cocktail franks, franks and beans..."
Ahhhh,the foods of the single gods. Spam is right up there but I really think some posters need to expand their culinary horizions a bit. I mean come on,3 weeks ago my brother and I were bored so we had tree rat for dinner...Think about it...
Chris
P.S. - Tastes just like rabbit or chicken.
o the clamato drink thing is quintessentially Canadian, specifically in Calgary...the Caesar!
Caesar
wow energycon who knew? my first run-in with clamato was making a similar drink in college when we didn't have tomato juice and found an errant bottle of clamato. hey, i was 19 and didn't know any better.
"And the one time I had clamato, I actually got nauseous."
homedad43 | Homepage | 05.28.08 - 9:17 pm | #
I ate stuff in the Philippines that would make most people gag. I really don't want to know what it was(from street carts). Clamato is even more disgusting than that...
Chris
They are prodigious drinkers in Christchurch, and can be quite scary too!
Ya our buddy was too - lost track of him decades ago after he went home but we had some fun here for awhile.
The wildest I saw him was when we did a road trip to Mardi Gras. Check out on Google Earth just how long a drive it is from Minneapolis to New Orleans - for a long weekend of partying then drive all the way back - and it was in the middle of the semester for us, not on a break. We drove around the clock down there then partied-crashed-partied-crashed etc until they started cattle driving us all out & cleaning up the street just after midnight Tuesday night Wednesday morning... then drove round the clock back home.
Ya we made sure this guy went back & new something about what made us tick. It wasn't all books for him.
Clamato juice goes great in a bloody mary. No joke.
"I ate stuff in the Philippines that would make most people gag."
That's why you needed lots of San Magoo around. Drink enough, and you don't care what comes off the cart. Baluuuut!
I did one of those party deals as well. Drove from Seattle to Miles City, MT. Happened by there on a cross country, looked like a fun place. Decided to wing it one weekend. Lots of cowgirls....and fun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hákarl
dryfly
Sounds like an undie500:
Undie500
we don't do book learnin here either, its more an in depth study of the opposite sex and beer, preferably combined..
Have to say Kiwis always immerse themselves in other cultures, specially drinking and stupidity.
Had first frost this morning, winter has come early this year
While in Hawaii my wife was eager to have some sushi as we were on an island and it all must be the freshest around.
they made the sushi with spam. We passed.
Proud to say i saw the python skit as a youngster and from that point never ever once was brave enough to actually eat the stuff. However, we raised our own pigs so there wasn't much need to dig into the Mystery when you had real smoked hams and bacon hanging in your root cellar.
I doubt i'll ever get that hungry.
Bunker Menu: Tuna, beans, rice, pasta, tomatoes.
i'm laughing...our poor host! makes a post about the economic ramifications of the increased buying of spam, and we end up in clamato juice. Sorry CR
"That's why you needed lots of San Magoo around. Drink enough, and you don't care what comes off the cart. Baluuuut!"
Holy shit!!! I am eating a bag o popcorn and my stomach just turned. And it been almost 20 years...the taste never goes away
.
Chris
yah ipodius, the Calgarians are a nice bunch and their town has the amenities of a much larger city without the population...plus short trip to Lake Louise and environs
even if they do insist on making a drink based on Clamato juice their signature drink!
I mean come on,3 weeks ago my brother and I were bored so we had tree rat for dinner...Think about it...
Back in 'stagflation' my single buddies would go 'golfing for geese' - think about that for a while.
They would go to a nearby city park where a large flock of Canadian Geese would congregate year-round. Huge flock - like 30,000 geese. They would bring a golf club (usually a nine iron) and a bag of bread crumbs. Fill in the rest with your imagination.
And 'yes' an athletic young man can drive a goose head about as far as a golf ball - a long way.
They did it for years and were never reported because the locals hated the geese so much - goose crap everywhere. They did finally get caught & were ticketed but because they were unemployed at the time (and the judge was also a local & hated the geese) - he let them off easy.
Still makes a good story though all these years later.
dryfly | 05.28.08 - 9:41 pm | #
We had those in Ohio and they wouldn't leave. I had never thought about trying them. Probably would be decent. Oh,there was no such thing as a small flock...
Chris
Spam... anyone link to the many spam haiku pages on the intertubz?
Spam has a long heritage on the Last Frontier, Alaska. And the fat calories go down like water when you are in an environment where you get too far from the woodstove and its -60 F.
eating bread pan from the philipines wishing i had some spam musubi while remembering trying to play it as it lies (ball) on a course with geese
I remember shooting anything with a 410 that launched into the air and eating it. Gamey...not bad though.
Now where's my damned can opener...
Cheers,
Andy,
Any termination dust on the mountains yet?
"And it been almost 20 years...the taste never goes away
."
Man, my beer is all over the computer. Brought back some memories, did I?
Went back a couple of years ago with my wife to finally meet the relatives. The family had a big fiesta. Roast pig, pancit, you know the drill. Had a few San Magoos and next thing I know I'm in the back yard cramming down bagoong with mangoes, chased by Balut. Boy did I impress the Brother in laws. I hadn't done that stuff in 20 years either... You are right, it tasted the same.
off russ winter's blog fuel lines in china
File Moved
I'm guessing it is due to the increased wealth in China. Spam is like caviar in some parts of Asia.
jri writes:
I'm guessing it is due to the increased wealth in China. Spam is like caviar in some parts of Asia.
Of course it is. Calorie increase is phenomenal.
Cheers,
energyecon
Have had a couple of light dustings of snow on mountains, nothing of consequence yet.
3 weeks and will be all on!
I can't believe you guys haven't labeled it:
SPAM- the ultimate hedonic adjustment!
The BLS guys probably are going to have to remove it from the CPI- after all it might go up in price!
Geez- I think it is the last meat substitute that is shelf worthy.
Someday this war's gonna end...
Just wait 'til we get to chub night...
"You are right, it tasted the same."
Joe Six Pack | 05.28.08 - 9:57 pm | #
A buddy I work with who was also in the Corps married and brought he family over. Never could bring myself to eat the stuff here.
Now a great hangover chaser would be da Kimche!!!
Chris
So are people going to start stockpiling the stuff? Will Walmart and Sam's club have to limit customer purchases? When that happens, then we'll know that it is the end!
Sub
Prim
American
Meat
MiTurn | 05.28.08 - 10:07 pm | #
I picked up some stuff from Sams last night and there are stacks of rice and beans with no limits anymore. There are no shortages of this stuff, it just fucks up the logistics chain when everybody buys in a panic...
Chris
"Now a great hangover chaser would be da Kimche!!!"
Yeah, I could tell some sea stories about that too. It starts with Sujo, bulgogi and Kimche. You know the ending..
I LOVE this thread!
Ok, is it just the demographics, popularity, or do bubble bloggers have a thing for Monte Python?
ltokuda writes:
Inferior good? Obviously, you've never tried a "Spam Musubi"? Yummy!
Exactly! My wife asked what I was tying, I replied "the really good analytical blog has an article on Spam."
Her: "I LOVE SPAM!"
tj & the bear writes:
I have yet to see Spam on a restaurant menu. Perhaps I don't get out enough.
We're going to L&L Hawaiian BBQ. Just accept it.
For the record, we did multiple Monte Python skits in Scouts.
Got Popcorn?
Neil
OT Alert:
Skip this post if you don't want to wander down an OT Trail...
The house next door was foreclosed in Jan'07. The residents were finally moved out in Nov'07. The bank finally got around to getting the house listed today.
Here's the kicker. Current asking price is $419,000 with taxes at $12,300. The judgement of foreclosure was for $583,000 - this from a cash out refi in April of 2005 for $585,000 - courtesy of Ameriquest. Deutsche Bank was listed as the trustee on behalf of some MBS pool in the foreclosure judgement. That cash out refi had to be a 100% LTV deal - hoocoodanode it would end in tears...
I toured the house today - no dishwasher, no kitchen sink, holes in the walls, a complete wreck. Whoever buys it is looking at $50k to $80k to make it livable. The guy up the block asking $599k for the same house must be ready to chit a brick...
"I'm guessing it is due to the increased wealth in China. Spam is like caviar in some parts of Asia."
Cheers,
Misean | 05.28.08 - 10:01 pm | #
A better item to have for,ahem,barganing power-M&M's. Regular or Peanut. It didn't matter. For a while we were limited in what we could buy from the PX overseas. We would literally clean 'em out on delivery day.
Chris
Crashcadia writes:
Sub
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American
Meat
Crashcadia | 05.28.08 - 10:09 pm | #
That was too funny. I'll remember that long after the rest of this decade is (hopefully) forgotten.
Who would have figured a thread about Spam would be so much fun?
Oh and Baluut - no friggin way. I did eat some meat that I later learned was horse the last time I was in the Philippines - it actually wasn't bad at all. Spam is a high demand item there that's for sure...
In Sri Lanka, getting Spam (from US) or Corned beef (UK) from a visiting relative was a luxury. Specially during the 70's socialist years when no imports were allowed.
No way it would be wasted on eating it with Booze. For that you would use cheap stuff like lobster or shrimp.
Well, those day are long gone. The shrimp and lobster now exported out of the country !!.
Well, those day are long gone. The shrimp and lobster now exported out of the country !!.
sbarrkum | Homepage | 05.28.08 - 10:21 pm | #
In exchange for SPAM... Ricardo would be proud.
"Yeah, I could tell some sea stories about that too. It starts with Sujo, bulgogi and Kimche. You know the ending.."
Joe Six Pack | 05.28.08 - 10:11 pm |
I guess there is a good reason for most guys to be young in the military. This shit would kill me today in the quantities I used to suck down. I have all kinds of cool stories about Iwakuni.
I don't know if you ever had the pleasure of partying with ROK Marines.
They are one of the few that scare the shit outta me...but fun as hell.
Chris
This blog is the nutz - we can be all cats and dogs on some fine point of economic arcana - but get the spam thread rolling and you get a whole different look at everyone!
Particularly the international perspective, the upside of globalization...
Mike in Long Island | 05.28.08 - 10:14 pm |
Mike,
O.T.- What do you think those homes would/did sell for around 99/00 ?
That is where we are headed here in Florida.
Chris
Most of Fisher's speech was devoted to a warning considerably more dire than his inflation fears. "I see a frightful storm brewing in the form of untethered government debt," he said.
Taking his audience through the familiar territory of Medicare and Social Security's long-term financial insolvency, he said the long-term fiscal situation of the federal government "could be unimaginably more devastating to our economic prosperity than the sub-prime debacle and the recent debauching of credit markets."
Aside from the straightforward fiscal damage, Fisher said the "dark and dirty secret about deficits -- especially when they careen out of control -- is that they create political pressure on central bankers to adopt looser monetary policy down the road."
And the greater the financial hole of the US deficit, the greater the pressure on the Fed will be to print money to get out of it.
Business finance news - currency market news - online UK currency markets - financial news - Interactive Investor
Print money. Bank on it.
Yep, did the ROK thing as well. They are only rough around the edges, heh.. I partied with just about everyone. Went with a bunch of Kiwis to a rugby match up at the USMC HQ in Hawaii. They have this drunk game where you try to balance a stick on your nose. The Corps escorted us off base. Spoilsports.
Royal Marines in Diego Garcia were a fun crew too. I used to get around a bit. Part of the job. Now I only deal with Marines and Sailors.
Went with a bunch of Kiwis to a rugby match up at the USMC HQ in Hawaii. They have this drunk game where you try to balance a stick on your nose.
We have a drinking game for every occasion....
That was the only decent one for this thread. :"
Here's why I won't eat Spam, ever again.
Absolutely true story:
One of my bachelor plants was a Venus Flytrap. One night, I ran out of hamburger for it. The only meat product in the house was a can of Spam on the shelf.
I opened it, tore off a tiny piece of one corner, fed it to my plant.
I went away for 20 minutes to shower. When I returned, my flytrap was not just dead; but dry, dessicated, mummified, crispy.
I figure anything that can kill a plant evolved to thrive in brackish swamps would probably do terrible things to my innards.
Ahhh... This brings up memories of my Hawaiian grandmother cooking breakfast for us when we were kids.
Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure SPAM was also a factor in her premature passing from congestive heart failure.
And oh yes, if you want a taste of the islands, L&L Hawaiian BBQ is da place.
Thanks guys.
I haven't laughed so friggin' hard in years.
God, it's so tempting to yell out "he who must not be mentioned."
Ah, screw it.
JEHOVAH
ducks
L&L Hawaiian BBQ is da place.
Well, only if you're planning on burning those massive calories snorkeling.
Bud and Clamato: that's NASSSTYYY!
(...said the narrow-minded):
I think we now have an export the world wants for its dollars.
SPAM: Rebalancing the global economy one pork shoulder at a time.
Joe Six Pack writes:
That was the only decent one for this thread. :"
Joe Six Pack | 05.28.08 - 10:48 pm | #
Ya my Kiwi rugger buddy & I instigated a couple of those... the high point was when our rugby team was 'asked to leave' a pretty rough biker bar in Mason City Iowa after an especially raucous post-game party...
in my budget-conscious past, i opted for hormel's turkey chili instead. much better than spam.
What is it about Kiwis that they are always asked to leave? Heck, I never had better drinking mates.
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The Six o'clock swill was the last-minute rush to buy drinks at a hotel bar before it closed. During a significant part of the 20th Century, Australian and New Zealand hotels shut their public bars at 6 p.m.; between finishing work (5 p.m.) and this early closing hour, men drank heavily.
And there is bugger all to do down here sometimes, although some don;'t drink they bother sheep...
The Classic Spam Haiku--only one I ever memorized:
Tender pink morsel
Glistening in salty gel
What the hell is it?
Jay-Yello looks like she's been eating a bit too much Spam. Where the hell is bacon dreamz?
potted meat is just plain disgusting. Its gross garbage and fat, not food. They can have it.
That was kind of the way it was in Oz when I was there. Not that the pubs closed early, just that the patrons drank like it was going to.
What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Joe Six Pack
Nothing has changed!
We have fire service announcements on TV: Don't Drink and Fry!
Boys get drunk start a fry up, fall asleep and burn the house down.
Maybe spam straight from the tin could have saved them
Spam I am
This is just the beginning. Caddys for Chevys (hyundais nowadays) etc. People are getting squeezed. where I work in San Francisco I meet more and more people that are laid off or have no more savings than what is in their pocket. At the gas station I see people digging around in the car to find change to get as much gas as they can. I would sure love to know who is still shopping.
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What happens when the price of spam goes up ?
I think the ultimate inferior good is "I Can't Believe It's Not Spam" Spam substitute.
carlo --
What happens when the price of spam goes up ?
Congress increases the margin requirements on spam futures.
Then imposes price controls.
Pretty soon we get a repeat of the infamous spam shortages of the 70s. You will only be able to buy on alternate days, etc.
I suggest going long the SPM ETF.
"and a nice fat quahog on the top. New England at it's best!"
Any New Englander worth his salt knows the only damn thing a tough old quahog is good for, is grinding it up, dressing it up, and baking it on the half shell.
Can tell you from experience that it sounds 100x more fun than Christchurch and surrounds, all they have is cows.
Oh, so it's like Wisconsin.
In another important food group:
Dunkin Donuts Pulls Ad Featuring Rachael Ray In A Scarf That Looks Too Arab (Spam is never too Arab)
Dunkin Donuts Pulls Ad Featuring Rachael Ray In A Scarf That Looks Too Arab
Look for sales of dog food to explode as well. Now the dollar is worthless and food costs are exploding, people have to eat something.
FFDIC
Its sad when a blog and its posters have so much sway over people.=)
Oh, so it's like Wisconsin.
Dunno, are people from Wisconsin sports mad, heavy drinkers, animal husbandry experts and insanely provincial? They also have this crazy wind in summer that drives them all mad!
Also very flat!
Spam. My mom used to fry it. It'd shrink down to 1/3 its size, 'cause so much fat would cook away. Even my 10 year old self thought, "Not good value."
Face it, tofu hot dogs are the enviro-Spam of the 21st century! Enough mustard, and you can't tell the difference.
On another economy note, brighter I guess, a friend tells me his son-in-law got a job after a year of looking. He'd been chief of engineering at a small aerospace firm that went belly up. Sent out zillions of resumes, worked at Disneyland for a year as a park cop. Finally got a marketing job at an outfit that makes aluminum parts for cars and airplanes.
Success -- I guess.
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carlo wrote...what happens if the price of spam goes up?
simple, people switch to alpo dog food or kibbles and bits
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SAN FRANCISCO - Two Federal Reserve policy-makers today warned that interest rate increases might be needed before too long to curb inflation, even as the United States struggles with a weak economy.
The remarks solidified expectations that the Federal Open Market Committee has ended an aggressive rate-cutting campaign and could start to reverse its policy course late this year.
Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher and Minneapolis Fed President Gary Stern, both voting members of the FOMC in 2008, said they are keeping a close eye on the level of inflation expectations being dialled into financial markets.
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Don't the English eat more Spam than any other people? Acquired the taste during WWII.
I will eat spam again when i run out of feral cats.
andy in NZ writes:
Oh, so it's like Wisconsin.
"Dunno, are people from Wisconsin sports mad, heavy drinkers, animal husbandry experts and insanely provincial? They also have this crazy wind in summer that drives them all mad!"
Yep, that fits most of them to a T. They wear cheese on their heads, beat up people from Chicago over the Green Bay Packers, spend summer Sunday's on the brewery tours, and I've heard they do strange things up in Dairyland. Do tornadoes count as crazy winds?
Think I've spammed this thread enough. Have a good evening all.
when you eat spam you may be eating feral cats... NO?
"beer & clamato is a latino thing"
I knew plenty of french canadians that drank beer/clamato or beer/tomato as a hangover cure. this was 35 years ago but doubt the tradition ended abruptly.
peak spam?
"simple, people switch to alpo dog food or kibbles and bits"
Ya know, I've been seeing seniors buying cases of cat food and private label booze at the supermarket. Nothing else in the carts. Tough times.
Yes, but is Spam a Giffen good? Does your consumption of spam only rise when the economy sucks? Is this because it is a staple or is it a schadenfreude food for you?
beer & clamato is a latino thing
i wonder why...how...i'll have to ask some latinos i know. why can't they be like germans and put some nice raspberry syrup in their lager?
Maybe, the closest you can come inland to beer and disarticulated Clamato clams on shell, with spot of cocktail or tabasco sauce, enjoyed on beach. Beer with clams, champagne with oysters.
A question about Spam once taught me how thoroughly my mother was capable of ignoring me.
Whilst coming back west from Michigan one year, we stopped by the Spam HQ and museum in dryfly country. What a hoot! How much spam can you can in one minute?
Best served fryed in brown sugar. Kids won't touch the stuff so more fore me. Calories are overrated anyway.
Spam and ramen noodles. It's going to be what's for dinner in a lot of households.
bears won't eat spam....
How is pork orthogonal to ham, exactly?
Is it chiral or something?
I see!
People are stocking them for emergency candles.
They should burn like a charm with a wick or something. The poor dears.
Good news, this will cause a huge increase in stock prices. Follow my impeccable logic: increase sales of SPAM mean people are substituting SPAM for steak; according to the BLS CPI algorithm, this means that the cost of food has gone down, yielding less inflation; less inflation will pump up the "real GDP" numbers; higher "real GDP" will cause the stock market to rally.
So you see, YOU TOO can spike the stock market - just buy more SPAM!
Back Where I Came From, we had a fondness for scrapple, which is a bit like unprocessed Spam. (Scrapple from the Apple!) One local brand of scrapple, to differentiate itself from other, cheaper brands, proudly displayed a banner on its packaging that read: No Snouts. After seeing that, how could you possibly buy the cheaper brands, the ones that do contain snouts? Marketing genius, yes, genius.
Love,
Jacques
(With shout-outs to AJ Liebling and Bird)
Spam = Lips + _____
All other parts of the pig are spoken for.
Bon appetit.
Cobradriver writes:
Mike in Long Island | 05.28.08 - 10:14 pm |
Mike,
O.T.- What do you think those homes would/did sell for around 99/00 ?
That is where we are headed here in Florida.
Chris
Chris,
Somewhere around $325k to $350k in 99/00 timeframe...
I have sent many a balikbayan box back to my in-laws in the Philippines laden with SPAM.
Lumpia, pancit, adobo, crispy pata, lechon - even chicharon bulaklak I'm in but Baluut - no friggin way...
2 years ago San Mig's were @ $.25 now with the dollar tanking they're probably closer to $.50/piece...
Sales of Spam rise=Recession
Sales of scrapple* go up=Depression
*described as "All the parts of a pig that you won't eat if you read the label.
Just got back from the week's shopping (and forensic research) at the grocery store.
Treet will be your ultimate inferior good in this space.
I will forgo the clamato and spam in my doomsday bunker and stock it instead with champagne and caviar. That way when the mutant hordes descend and kill me I'll have had a helluva party first.
Spam is actually pretty expensive. You don't get a whole lot for you money and the only upside is that it's meat that doesn't have to be refrigerated.
Just paid 4 bucks a pound for (Oscar Meyer fat free) bologna - but the regular stuff wasn't much cheaper.
I normally hate spam, but one of the best meals I ever had was when I was hitching around the country (and surviving on a handful of raisins, one of peanuts, and one granola a couple of times a day) I had a breakfast of fried spam and powdered eggs in Big Sur. Never enjoyed a meal more.
I think it was pretty well established in the 70s that the rumors about old folks and pet food weren't true - not because there was no poverty or hunger - because there are cheaper alternatives.
I have a hankering for a glass of Tang,
a bowl of Cheerios with Powered Milk,
and a slab of spam on day old bread.
It all tastes better the second time....which,
hedonically adjusted, counts for two meals.
Treet is gourmet compared to the off-brand imported from Argentina (I know, grass fed beef but what about their pigs?) potted meat product I see at the dented can store.
lentils and black beans beat spam on price any day.
Pan fried Spam on toasted white with mayo and a leaf of lettuce... a thing of joy!
If we lived in the UK we could eat Breakfast In A Can!