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So we were watching my Monty Python DVD ....

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CogitoErgoSometimes · 27/10/2011 09:51

... and DS wondered what Spam was. :) Being the indulgent mother adventurous person that I am, I spent a whole £1 and bought him a can. I'm aware of the 'Spam Fritter' but, despite my working-class upbringing (DM v aspirational), have never actually made or eaten one. Any tips?

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Slubberdegullion · 27/10/2011 09:56

I think you have to flatten it into a round. No idea how you would achieve this while maintaining the spam's integrity.

Have you a mangle?

Slubberdegullion · 27/10/2011 09:57

Obviously the mangle would just roll it flat, then you would have to use a large scone cutter to get the round shape.

Fritters have to be round? yes?

southeastastra · 27/10/2011 09:58

oh no not spam fritter they were vile. i think i actually saw some ready made (by spam) in tesco the other day.

was like eating oily cardboard

Ponders · 27/10/2011 09:59

you can have rectangular spam fritters too, Slubber (I did, at school, being v v old)

slice it, batter it & fry it, Cogito (there, isn't that helpful? Wink)

batter needs to be quite light, my mum used to make it so thick sometimes it was like a slice of bread, yeuch

Ponders · 27/10/2011 10:01

spam fritters were one of the better school dinners we had - compared with ox liver, or shredded cabbage salad

served with tinned toms & mash - lovely

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CogitoErgoSometimes · 27/10/2011 10:01

OK... mangle... bucket on stand-by. I was thinking of slicing it and grilling or fying it but does there have to be some kind of coating? (Starting to think it may just stay in the cupboard and be one of those things the grandkids find when I turn up my toes and have a good laugh at the old crap granny couldn't bear to part with...)

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catherinetheElf · 27/10/2011 10:01

Make a batter, dip in spam slices, fry. Presto. Spam fritter. Compellingly tasty shit although greasy as hell!

Slubberdegullion · 27/10/2011 10:02

can you Ponders?

That seems all wrong. A rectangular fritter.

maybe fritter shapes are a time line thing

1800s shaped with the fist
1950s rectangular
1970s round
2000s ironic trapezoid

Pascha · 27/10/2011 10:02

Our school must have been very cheap, we got semicircles not whole ones. I remember them tasting very salty and they always made me feel sick.

lostinwales · 27/10/2011 10:03

Noo don't make it round, you just slice it the way it comes (down the long side) and deep fry it somehow. The ones I remember from school were rounded edged triangles as they were being cheap and chopping each slice into two across the diagonal. Mushy peas essential side dish IMHO.

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CogitoErgoSometimes · 27/10/2011 10:03

Deep fry or shallow fry? BTW I just suggested this to DS and he pulled a Confused yuk face. So much for culture.

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Slubberdegullion · 27/10/2011 10:04

of course it has to have a coating Cogito

if it's not battered its not a fritter it's just fried spam

Ponders · 27/10/2011 10:04

fritters can be any shape

cf banana fritters (tend to be banana shaped)

Ponders · 27/10/2011 10:05

deep fried gives you crispier browner batter but you can shallow fry if you must

Slubberdegullion · 27/10/2011 10:06

hahahaha

look in Wales you get a rounded edged triangle

as with all things on mn it's a class and Nation divider.

In Hertfordshire we has aspirational round and shallow fried fritters, with a black current coulis.

GuillotinedMaryLacey · 27/10/2011 10:06

I'm going to end up spending the morning on Youtube now aren't I? Hmm :o

Um, isn't spam flat if you slice it thinly?

Slubberdegullion · 27/10/2011 10:07

Ponders banana fritters are round. cos when you cut the banana shaped banana up it turns into little rounds

allhailtheaubergine · 27/10/2011 10:08

I'm sure my mum used to refrigerate the tin, slice and shallow fry.

Or am I thinking of corned beef?

Ponders · 27/10/2011 10:09

noooo, slubber, you slice them lengthwise - otherwise you'd keep dropping all your little roundels in the batter & spend hours fishing them out

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CogitoErgoSometimes · 27/10/2011 10:09

I'm Hertfordshire.... Spam Goujons, surely....?

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Bloodredrubyblue · 27/10/2011 10:12

Fry them as round fritters, leave them to cool then varnish them and use them as coasters.

Slubberdegullion · 27/10/2011 10:12

yah yah but in Malaysia the bananas there are GIGANTIC, maybe they are not even bananas anymore, they have transmogrified into something altogether bigger and more impressive. Anyhoo they slice those up into rounds and you get a little paper cone of them.

I have never frittered a banana (or spam) on home ground.

lostinwales · 27/10/2011 10:13

Slice from tin (chilled or otherwise) dip in batter (and none of your poncey Japanese stuff, beer batter please), deep fry, done. Mushy peas and possibly some chips if you feel the need for more fat,

certainly none of your fruity coulis, ugh

Ponders · 27/10/2011 10:14

really? there are Malaysian banana fritter stalls? like Belgian chip stalls? coo

lostinwales · 27/10/2011 10:16

I am officially a Northener so I think you'll find I'm right