Why is Spam so expensive??

Have a dekko at these International recipes for Spam:

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/jan/17/suspiciously-delicious-undeniably-asian-four-ways-with-spam-recipe

FIL was given food parcels during Covid (no idea why) consisting of random tinned delights including FB pies, chilli, curry etc. The FB pies were surprisingly tasty when well-baked. How the pastry and filling coexist in the tin is one of life's mysteries.

I really fancy a school dinner spam fritter now.
But hold the tinned plum tomatoes.

Never tried spam but corned beef is equally as expensive for what it is. Full of salt and other rubbish but I do like a corn beef and tomato sandwich

Shit, I don't give spam (or the cost of it) a thought usually but your description sounds like it might be right up my street. Curse you OP!

I HAVE the rabbit mould!! DH occasionally tries to bin it. He's been unsuccessful so far

*Tarkan
Our Farmfoods does stuffed Spam breaded things which my fussy teen loves. It's cheese stuffed ones I get but I think they also do curry ones. A bit like chicken kyivs but with Spam instead.

Omg this sounds amazing 🤩*

Isn't this a Spamwich? Sure I used to have them, with really fakey cheese inside.

There was also some v suspicious frozen rissoles called Chicklets that I loved in the 80s. Must have been sweepings up from the abbattoir floor in breadcrumbs, but a couple of those with cold baked beans and I was in heaven!

Omg this sounds amazing 🤩

I put corned beef/Pek tins in the fridge so that the fat hardens and it’s easier to remove. Otherwise the fat/jelly is very runny and it’s harder to remove.

Just looked it up and

"All spam is luncheon meat but not all luncheon meat is spam. "

Which sounds like some ancient wisdom! Also -

"Basic idea is that Spam is a type of luncheon meat. It's also a brand name. Whereas luncheon meat is any kind of meat that is typically cured and precooked."

As an alt to blancmange, my mum used to make a Table Cream. Very pedestrian name and taste and also from a packet. She'd crumble a Cadbury's flake on top for a treat.

She still has Spam (in her 80s) and takes ages to get thru a tin. It stinks up the fridge all clammy like some corpse thigh.

I did love a spam/luncheon meat fritter back in the day though for school dinners, with greasy chips n cheapo beans. I think luncheon meat is just non-brand spam isn't it?

I only ever encountered blancmange in a Just William book. He was always scheming to break into a pantry and pinch a blancmange. I assumed it must have been something delectable.

Luncheon meat and Spam are not the same thing!

I love Spam, especially fried slices of Spam on top of Ramen noodles. It is the Hong Kong breakfast of champions.

Spam contains six ingredients: a mixture of pork and ham meat, salt, water, potato starch, sugar, and sodium nitrite, a food preservative added to bacon, hot dogs, cured meats, sausage, and smoked fish
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so all you negative snobby Nellie's. Eat your bacon.. sausages and smoked fish.. because that sounds much better than Spam.
Special American Processed Meat.

See I’ve never had corned beef either because again looks like pet food tbh😅 No idea what a bacon grill is.

Though yes I have sausages from the butchers. I’m well aware that may well be the scrapings up of whatever. But at least it looks like a sausage not stodge in a tin.

People who say " oh no yuk..it's horrid" etc.. you can bet they eat sausages.. which is just about the same .
Spam / bacon grill/ cornedbeef are so expensive these days.
Cornedbeef hash used to be a cheap meal.
Spam fritters were often on school menus.
( l still buy all three)

Tinned semolina for the food bank...do you actively hate other people..🤮

Spam sandwich with yellow piccalilli
Cubes of spam mixed into baked beans or tinned spaghetti hoops
Slice of spam with fried egg on top and HP sauce to the side
What's not to like

Excuse me but I made a chocolate blancmange over the Christmas period. From scratch. None of your packet rubbish!

I do have a fancy mould (not a rabbit) and must admit it did not hold its shape very well. However it tasted delish

Half my bottom fridge drawer is full of tins of Spam!!! I love it cooked and "raw", which it really isn't! I don't have it often at all, but it's there when it's needed for comfort!
Used to love Vesta! Both the chow mein with the crispy noodles and the paella... They are absolutely extortionate now!
And Fray Bentos pies are just soggy, claggy pastry and a tiny bit of filling! Rough!

Yes in Morrisons.

I don’t understand spam. Like what is it? Why do people seem to love what from eyeballing a tin looks like dog/cat food. I don’t get it.

Runs away 😅

OMG. Haven't thought about blancmange for years! Sunday afternoon early 1970s tea was ham sandwiches, a slice of fruit cake and a bowl of strawberry jelly and blancmange with some Carnation poured over.

Trying to purchase a simple tin of corned beef needs a mortgage these days. How did that happen?

Is it still possible to get Billy bear luncheon meat?

Spam is HUGE is Japan! Sold everywhere , can even buy Spam t shirts and other memorabilia