When did you last eat spam? [... if ever]

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

quite possibly as a midnight sandwich on a merchant ship in the mid 70s ..... spam, plastic cheese, chutney and the unmistakeable solidity of ship baked white bread with freezer taint .... i was drinking then but still a culinary masterpiece in my recollection

[amateur51]

I confess that I do occasionally hanker after Spam and its supermarket own-brand relatives.It has to be cold, straight from the fridge and mustard, ketchup and pickles, good bread and butter must be to hand also.

After slowly giving up salt for health reasons, it's a tremendous shock to realise how salty Spam is - but I regret I still find it ... moreish

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Not since Primary school: always made me think I was eating raw pig!

[Bryn]

I used to really look forward to Spam fritters for school lunch when at what was then called junior school. Then, however, an aunt bought what turned out to be a 'blown' tin of the stuff and not recognising the potential danger, duly battered and served it up as a 'treat'. I was violently ill (food poisoning) and was immediately put off the very thought of ever touching the stuff again. A couple of years ago a tin caught my eye in Morrisons and I decided to try it out again. I found it not unpleasant. My induced aversion was neutralised, but I have felt no great desire to buy another tin since.

[salymap]

yesterday masquerading as ham with added water content, from local so called general store. Add tomato or some salad and it makes a passable cheap snack.

I am old enough to remember WW2 food and Snoek was awful, spam slimy and parsnips coated with Golden Syrup given to school children as mock bananas were sick making, literally.

[Anna]

Never knowingly eaten Spam, but recall from childhood various aunties serving Ye Olde Oak tinned ham for a Sunday tea, I presume it's more or less the same as Spam? It always needed a fair amount of pickle to give it any taste. Tinned ham is not a product I'd think of buying but from a quick glance online it seems to be cheap. When I was staying with one of my brothers last year we were talking about foods which no-one seemed to eat anymore and he suggested corned beef. He bought an own brand tin from the CoOp and tasting it room temperature it seemed to be a good substitute for catfood. However, he made corned beef hash which wasn't too bad (with the addition of a lot of brown sauce!)

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

... i think the ship i was on was a refrigerated cargo ship returning from S America [Argentina and Uruguay] with meat and potatoes in the hold, after that trip i never again ate corned beef no matter where it was canned!

...yep spam fritters at school ....

[Mary Chambers]

I think I last ate Spam at school in the 1950s. I had no idea it still existed! I quite liked Spam fritters, but I doubt if I would now.

[Pabmusic]

I think I last ate Spam at school in the 1950s. I had no idea it still existed! I quite liked Spam fritters, but I doubt if I would now.

It is still going strong in the Philippines. In any supermarket here you will find an entire aisle devoted to Spam and corned beef. Most spam does actually seem to be Spam, not pseudo-Spam. One of the easiest meals is rice with fried Spam slices. A typical breakfast will often include fried Spam, fried eggs and rice. I doubt there's a cupboard here that doesn't have at least one tin of Spam and one of corned beef (fry the latter with peas, onion and finely chopped potato for another very quick meal). When we are in the UK, we send large packages to my wife's family (a very Filipino thing to do) - Mrs Pabmusic always includes 10-20 cans of Spam or similar, as well as corned beef.

[Flay]

As a student a simple meal was fried spam chopped up on boiled rice and smothered in mushroom soup. Sounds awful, tasted delicious.

Or use sausages.

[MrGongGong]

This maybe ?

http://cbsop.com/recipes/spam-musubi/

[rauschwerk]

The canteen in the Post Office Research Centre in N London, where I worked in the early 70s, used to serve spam fritters, in which I indulged as a somewhat guilty pleasure.

[mangerton]

Never knowingly eaten Spam, but recall from childhood various aunties serving Ye Olde Oak tinned ham for a Sunday tea, I presume it's more or less the same as Spam? !)

Not really. Ye Olde Oak, as far as I remember, isn't too bad for tinned ham, but Spam is dreadful stuff, frittered or not. I think I last had it in the 60s.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Not really. Ye Olde Oak, as far as I remember, isn't too bad for tinned ham, but Spam is dreadful stuff, frittered or not.

... took the very words from my mouth. Now, if only someone could do the same with the "ghost" taste that's smeared my mind's tastebuds since the start of this Thread!

[Nick Armstrong]

...yep spam fritters at school ....

Yep!! I'd blotted them out... Greasy... salty... I hated them.

I think in retrospect, a key reason why the adolescent Caliban headed from the Midlands to live south of the Channel asap after school...!