Roger Simmons
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Has anyone ever tried this stuff?
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Special Processed American Meat
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Derek Funcks
Senior Member & Supporter
good old SPAM, many threads on here about it, use the search button top right corner. 
Roger Simmons
Member
in all the years of using it i never knew it meant that
Robert Larkin
Member
Hi,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(food)
Nice Grilled.
Bob
Ps If you look at UK bit, Danish Crown, Tulip. Bought a fair few Tins of the Danish Crown from B&M, just for feeding, cheap, certainly lot cheaper than SPAM.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(food)
Nice Grilled.
Bob
Ps If you look at UK bit, Danish Crown, Tulip. Bought a fair few Tins of the Danish Crown from B&M, just for feeding, cheap, certainly lot cheaper than SPAM.
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Damian Kimmins
Senior Member
Steven Hodges
Senior Member & Supporter
Spam is an abbreviation for: Special Processed American Meat.
It is a simple shortening of “spiced ham” or “shoulders of pork and ham.
Spam only contains six ingredients: pork with ham meat added (that counts as one), salt, water, potato starch, sugar, and sodium nitrite.
To make spam, the ground-up pork and ham are mixed with the other ingredients for 20 minutes.
When the mixture reaches the correct temperature, it is put into the cans, which are then vacuum-sealed.
The cans are cooked and then cooled for three hours, after which they are ready for their labels.
The US company Hormel Foods introduced spam luncheon meat in 1937.
According to the official spam story, the name was the brainchild of Ken Daigneau, brother of Hormel Food's VP, who won $100 in the contest to name Spam.
As a food item although spam is convenient, easy to use and has a long shelf-life, it's also very high in fat, calories and sodium but low in important nutrients such as protein, vitamins and minerals.
Additionally, it is highly processed and contains preservatives like sodium nitrite that may cause several adverse health effects in humans.
In addition to the normal spam flavour there over 20 varieties of flavoured spam that have been produced over the years.
It is a simple shortening of “spiced ham” or “shoulders of pork and ham.
Spam only contains six ingredients: pork with ham meat added (that counts as one), salt, water, potato starch, sugar, and sodium nitrite.
To make spam, the ground-up pork and ham are mixed with the other ingredients for 20 minutes.
When the mixture reaches the correct temperature, it is put into the cans, which are then vacuum-sealed.
The cans are cooked and then cooled for three hours, after which they are ready for their labels.
The US company Hormel Foods introduced spam luncheon meat in 1937.
According to the official spam story, the name was the brainchild of Ken Daigneau, brother of Hormel Food's VP, who won $100 in the contest to name Spam.
As a food item although spam is convenient, easy to use and has a long shelf-life, it's also very high in fat, calories and sodium but low in important nutrients such as protein, vitamins and minerals.
Additionally, it is highly processed and contains preservatives like sodium nitrite that may cause several adverse health effects in humans.
In addition to the normal spam flavour there over 20 varieties of flavoured spam that have been produced over the years.
Derek Funcks
Senior Member & Supporter
Neil Smart
Senior Member
You have never served in the Forces have you?
'Compo' supplies in the field were unique but I can assure you SPAM was fine dining. Personally I find it fine to eat, you can fry, or out of the tin into a sandwich.. mmmm..
Jon Frisby
Senior Member & Supporter
Babies heads, out of the rat pak, were my favourite.
David Clewer
Senior Member & Supporter
For those of you that are Costco members, 6 340g cans of standard SPAM are on offer for £11.99 in their warehouses now. At £2 a tin that compares very favourably to supermarket prices. Fuel is cheap at their garages too (generally at least 5p cheaper per litre than the cheapest local garage/supermarket), so worth a visit or joining if you have a local warehouse.
Dave
Dave