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I guess I'm the only person who has never tried it. | |||
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Having grown up in a small town with way to much seafood available and fairly cheap back in the 1960s - 70s. I can hardly eat seafood these days. Salmon and Tuna is about the only seafood I will eat anymore. That bacon Spam with cheese, rice, and eggs is mighty good. | |||
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Spam was introduced to Hawaii by the military during WWII. So much was supplied that surplus was sold to civilians. The various mixed cultures readily embraced the new "delicacy" into their cuisines, conferring on it the esteemed status it enjoys today. Spam musubi is a legitimate form of sushi, since the only requirement is vinegared rice (which is the literal meaning); raw fish is not an actual requirement, or raw anything for that matter. | |||
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| Stop Talking, Start Doing |
I’ve still never had spam. _______________ Mind. Over. Matter. | |||
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The little market near where I lived had a whole aisle dedicated to Spam. I'll see if I can't find the picture I took. ____________________________ While you may be able to get away with bottom shelf whiskey, stay the hell away from bottom shelf tequila. - FishOn | |||
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A black market for Spam...odd. It's a commodity in Hawaii, every store that carries food stuffs, has multiple shelves devoted to Spam, there's not a single community anywhere in the entire state where Spam cannot be purchased. It's not a controlled item like cigarettes or, alcohol nor, does it require any special handling like gasoline. Would be interesting to hear the economics of this black market. | |||
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I buy the half-sized cans of Spam® and use a flat knife to divide it (inside the can) into 9 slices about 1/8" thick. I brown these in a cast iron skillet using bacon fat. I toast wheat bread and make 3 sandwiches from those 9 slices (3 to a sandwich) with yellow mustard (French's preferred). I typically eat 2 of them for a meal and save the 3rd one as a snack. Yumm! flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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| 10mm is The Boom of Doom  |
I don't care how prepared you think you are. If you don't stock cases of Spam, you are not. I made Spam chili tonight. God Bless and Protect the Once and Future President, Donald John Trump. | |||
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Spam definitely caught on throughout the Pacific during WWII. I was surprised how common it still is on some of the smaller islands in the South Pacific, along with other canned meat like canned corned beef. I don't recall ever having a Spam musubi made with vinegared rice in Hawaii. The same goes for other musubi or onigiri like chicken or salmon. They just use short grain white rice. I have seen recipes for Spam musubi in the U. S. mainland that call for "sushi rice" but musubi is usually plain rice, salted rice or rice with a little furikake, no vinegar. 十人十色 | |||
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I'm sure its not the typical black market we think about for drugs, but more like the one for razor blades and tide detergent in the cities, and Mountain Dew in the Appalachians. Those items have emerged as a currency. They are small, portable, commonly used commodities; so people steal them or buy them with welfare benefits. Then they take them down to the corner markets. The corner markets give them 50 cents on the dollar in store credit and put them on the shelf to sell. "The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." "Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy." "I did," said Ford, "it is." "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?" "It honestly doesn't occur to them. They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates the government they want." "You mean they actually vote for the lizards." "Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course." "But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?" "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard, then the wrong lizard might get in." | |||
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Yup...no vinegar rice on spam musubi in Hawaii. And roger that on the corned beef for Micronesian and other S. Pacific islanders, part of their regular diet, extra large cans made in New Zealand mostly. Local 7-11 stores sell a ton of the spam musubi's, and have been voted best "spam musubi's" for many year's in a row by local newspaper readers. Also, spam platters (spam, scrambled eggs, white rice) are sold at McD, Jack/Box, BK..along with another island favorite..Portuguese sausage. kkina...maybe you're thinking of Inari sushi (aburage) cone sushi, popular as well, but not quite on the same level as Spam Musubi. Bothe the maki and inari use the vinegar rice.This message has been edited. Last edited by: rpm2010, | |||
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This thread was a day brightener for me – made me laugh. Black market Spam! Whoda thought. I am a Spam fan. Serious about crackers | |||
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They can steal all the Spam for all I care. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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Had a lot of SPAM on Boy Scout backpacking trips back in the day; bread, SPAM and mustard - culinary ecstasy.  Spent a year plus in Korea back in the early 90s; we all received a case of Korean SPAM (in the yellow can) from the Korean 4-star commanding general of First RoK Army as a gift. All of us on our floor in the BOQ gave it to our house lady. She was very happy. As I couldn't read/understand the ingredients list on the can (written in Haugul), I was not inclined to partake in this SPAM. _________________________________________________________________________ “A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.” -- Mark Twain, 1902 | |||
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White bread, mayo, SPAM steak, large sliced onion and tomato plus processed cheese. all at room temp. I cannot nor will not live without the fantastic Nebraska product SPAM Wrapped in Swiss cheese for a great low sugar snack. | |||
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Any American food was worth it's weight in Gold when I was there. Inchon locals loved cans of "C" rations. ********* "Some people are alive today because it's against the law to kill them". | |||
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I could definitely live on nothing but Sushi and other seafoods... as long as I also had access to Pizza, BBQ, Tacos/Salsa/Queso/Guac/etc, and American Breakfast (hashbrowns, overeasy fried eggs, bacon, etc).  | |||
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| Baroque Bloke |
Little ray of sunshine. Serious about crackers | |||
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I don't eat sushi in the US with very, very rare exception. One place in Hawaii in particular. While I like most seafood, I couldn't eat it every day either. Maybe once or twice a week. Show me the beef, baby. I like steaks and burgers and other foods with beef. Yea, I need pizza, noodles and pasta too. Bacon, yea, baby. First thing I eat when I come back from Japan trips is a burger and pizza. But I still wouldn't include Spam. I ate spam when I was a poor student. Heck, I had to catch crawdads to eat dinner sometimes. But with anything higher than a minimal income, I'm not buying Spam. I just don't get the attraction. "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | |||
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