Why is Spam so expensive??

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It's 3.50 a tin!

Seems expensive for what it is, no?

And yes i know

• it's crap
• it's unhealthy
• it's not organic hand reared lentils
• it's salty
• it's fatty

Don't worry my kids don't eat it... I'm not overweight...I'm not eating it every meal... I'm not at risk of diabetes or high blood pressure yada yada yada

It is an occasional thing, mostly for a treat of Spam Misubi.

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.

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.

Why are you putting tins in the fridge??

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.

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.

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?

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."

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.

Omg this sounds amazing 🤩

*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!

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

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!

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

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.

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

I bought a stunt Spam -it's still in the cupboard waiting for me to find a recipe.

I would have thought that with the rise of popularity of Asian food on insta, it would be the ither way around. I only buy it for Korean etc inspired meals.

We need a thread on delicious foods we miss from the 1980s. Findus Crispy Pancakes would be top of my list.

You need an Oxo Good Grips tin opener.

Spam curry was a family favourite growing up in the 1980s…I remember thinking it was delicious and a big treat. Blissfully unaware we were so skint that my mum and dad couldn’t actually afford real meat to cook with 😂

Last time I had one of these, remembering they tasted delicious at my Grandmothers house, it tasted of nothing , and had barely any meat in it.

So sad, I don’t know if it was so full of gum and thickener that the lovely meat flavour had gone, but there was also a distinct lack of meat.

Possibly seen them advertised with new flavour, recently, I’m not sure.

But they certainly had no flavour anymore recently

Don’t you put tinned tuna in the fridge either, and of course tinned meat goes in the fridge if it’s ready cooked and will be eaten cold!! 🤣🤣🤣

I've never put a tin of meat in the fridge....

My OH has taken to buying PEK.

Im not sure why people go on about it being dreadful, its much the same as any processed meat product, many of which are enjoyed on the continent (processed meats not necessarily spam).

PEK is polish I believe

I dont know how we got to a point where anything in a tin is regarded with suspicion?

I can tell you now that If spam or PEK was sliced and sold in a deli somewhere, people would be praising it to the hilt. But because it first made an appearance during the war and is in a tin people are critical.

Its just a foodstuff at the end of the day.

Point of tin is no need for fridge...