The economy must be bad- people are eating SPAM!
The economy must be bad- people are eating SPAM!
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#1The economy must be bad- people are eating SPAM!
Posted: 5/28/08 at 4:27pm
Kimberly Quan, a stay-at-home mom of three who lives just outside San Francisco, has been feeding her family more Spam in the last six months as she tries to make her food budget go further.
She cooks meals like Spam fried rice and Spam sandwiches two or three times a month, up from once a month previously.
Pulling Spam from the shelf prevents last-minute grocery store trips and overspending, said Quan, 38, of Pleasanton, Calif.
"It's canned meat and it's in the cupboard and if everything else is gone from the fridge, it's there," she said.
Spam sales rise as consumers trim food costs
#2re: The economy must be bad- people are eating SPAM!
Posted: 5/28/08 at 4:35pm
Why not just eat beans? They're WAY cheaper than Spam and much healthier and tastier.
Or tuna...it's cheaper too.
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#3re: The economy must be bad- people are eating SPAM!
Posted: 5/28/08 at 4:39pm
Oh my! That's not Spam Sushi- though there is such a thing. That picture is of a Spam Musubi, "the main on-the-go snack at convenience stores.
To the untrained eye, the Spam Musubi looks like a perversion of culinary science. But in Hawaii, it's at the top of the snack food caste system. To create a Spam Musubi, take a big, fat, juicy slab of rectangular Spam meat. Fry it in teriyaki sauce. Plop it onto a rectangular bed of rice (the musubi). Finally, wrap it in a sheet of dried seaweed (nori) and eat it like a sandwich.
The more than 50 7-Eleven Hawaii stores sell hundreds of Spam musubis every day. According to one employee, each store regularly prepares at least 20 Spam musubis every day in two varieties: regular and deluxe, which adds an extra bed of fried egg sandwiched between the Spam and rice."
I am well-known to a an adventurous eater, and yet I am REPULSED by the Spam Musubi.
Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam
#4re: The economy must be bad- people are eating SPAM!
Posted: 5/28/08 at 4:43pm
I'm adventurous too, bring on the offal! But having been to Hawaii, it's not the greatest cuisine--which is odd, considering the fusion of cultures there. Unless you're going to Alan Wong's which is awesome by any standard.
I just couldn't with the poke...
#5re: The economy must be bad- people are eating SPAM!
Posted: 5/28/08 at 4:44pm
Spam kept many people in Hawai'i alive during WW2.
It is one of the favorite foods there, and more spam is sold in Hawaii than in any other state.
It is a staple there.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#6re: The economy must be bad- people are eating SPAM!
Posted: 5/28/08 at 4:51pmAnd you can use the leftovers for spackle or grout.
#7re: The economy must be bad- people are eating SPAM!
Posted: 5/28/08 at 4:52pmFried Spam and eggs. Mmmmmm.....
#8re: The economy must be bad- people are eating SPAM!
Posted: 5/28/08 at 4:53pm
I am well-known to a an adventurous eater, and yet I am REPULSED by the Spam Musubi.
Hee- grew up in Hawaii, have eaten many a Spam Musubi in my day...hmm, possibly explains why I was vegetarian for a number of years... how about Spam Saimin, could I get you to try the Spam Saimin? :)
#9re: The economy must be bad- people are eating SPAM!
Posted: 5/28/08 at 5:02pmYou did? I was in Honolulu for a week...got to try ONO Hawaiian Foods...not bad....
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Joined: 12/31/69
#10re: The economy must be bad- people are eating SPAM!
Posted: 5/28/08 at 5:16pm
Spam Saimin. It looks better. My dad used to make Spam & eggs when i was a kid and I think it killed all desire to Give Spam A Chance.
#11re: The economy must be bad- people are eating SPAM!
Posted: 5/28/08 at 5:16pm
SO much more to Hawai'i than Honolulu....I hope you got to see the other islands Lil, so much more enjoyable.
Nothing compares to a Molokai beach, with no one else around for miles...or the Big Island at night, watching the volcano and the magma, or the rain forest of Kauai, or upcountry Maui.
thatgirl712
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/08
#12re: The economy must be bad- people are eating SPAM!
Posted: 5/28/08 at 5:16pmThat's true.
#13re: The economy must be bad- people are eating SPAM!
Posted: 5/28/08 at 5:24pm
I didn't even go to Honolulu til my third trip.
And we spent a day there a year ago as my sister insisted on seeing it.
We vowed never again. I am really a fan of the Big Island and even moreso, Molokai
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#14re: The economy must be bad- people are eating SPAM!
Posted: 5/28/08 at 9:14pmSpam is like fruitcake. It will survive anything including atomic blasts.
nygrl23
Broadway Star Joined: 4/18/07
#15re: The economy must be bad- people are eating SPAM!
Posted: 5/28/08 at 9:51pmMan, JoeKv99. The stuff you know.
#16re: The economy must be bad- people are eating SPAM!
Posted: 12/22/08 at 6:57pm
lol totally thought of and had to bump up this thread- Obama eats the Spam Musubi. :) (Even if the press calls it Spam *Sushi*, lol)
Barack Obama Snacks on Hawaiian Spam Sushi
KrissySim
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/08
#17re: The economy must be bad- people are eating SPAM!
Posted: 12/22/08 at 8:12pm
There is no reason to eat spam no matter how poor you are. As lildogs said, beans are a lot cheaper and better for you. Especially if you buy the beans in 25/lb sacks. Try Mexican food.
Or Italian. I make marinara with pasta a lot (with Tuscan tomatoes, of course) not because I'm concerned about price, but because I really like it. Putanesque, whore food. You can't beat it for a relatively quick, tasty, easy meal.
#18re: The economy must be bad- people are eating SPAM!
Posted: 12/22/08 at 10:08pmDAMMIT. I'm a vegetarian but this thread is making me want to try Spam. I've never had it.
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#19re: The economy must be bad- people are eating SPAM!
Posted: 12/22/08 at 10:09pmObama eats SPAM? And you thought that inauguration speaker was going to horrify people!
#20re: The economy must be bad- people are eating SPAM!
Posted: 12/22/08 at 10:18pmHe's from Hawaii. Of course he eats spam. Just like Lutherans from Minnesota eat powdermilk biscuits and listen to Garrison Keillor.
#21re: The economy must be bad- people are eating SPAM!
Posted: 12/23/08 at 8:06am
When I was little I liked Spam with some scrambled eggs. Wait, maybe that was Scrapple that I liked. Either way, it's disgusting...
Did anyone else on here eat Scrapple?
#22re: The economy must be bad- people are eating SPAM!
Posted: 12/23/08 at 8:37am
I don't know what scrapple is. But I loved Spam when I was a kid. And they have a great website
http://www.spam.com/whatisspam/
#23re: The economy must be bad- people are eating SPAM!
Posted: 12/23/08 at 8:57am
Now I'll be singing SPAMalot songs all day *lol* 
Could be worse.
My name is Pam. My brother calls me Spam 
#24re: The economy must be bad- people are eating SPAM!
Posted: 12/23/08 at 10:35am
This is what scrapple is - it actually tastes better than it sounds:
It's dictionary defined as "cornmeal mush made with the meat and broth of pork, seasoned with onions, spices and herbs and shaped into loaves for slicing and frying." The word, scrapple originates from "scrap" or "scrappy" meaning made up of odds and ends for that's exactly what it is—boiled, ground leftover pig scraps with cornmeal and spices thrown in. Scrapple lovers think of it as food for the gods. Anti-scrapplers consider it a culinary abomination.
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