Nothing beats eggs & Spam for Breakfast

saddletramp

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I cooked this rare delicacy for breakfast & few mornings back & my wife turned up her nose & told me how bad Spam was for me.

After I consumed it I realized I screwed up. I should have thrown in onions & potatoes.

It was great!

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I love spam. Ate it growing up as a kid. Fry it in a pan and eat it as a sandwich with mustard on it. I got back into eating it a little in the past couple of years. And I do have it with eggs from time to time, but don't eat it regularly.
 
SPAM is probably the best survival food you can put in your gear bag. And yummy for breakfast or a snack. I have a case in the pantry right now. I always get a kick out of the SPAM section in Hawaiian grocery stores. They get flavors we never see on the mainland. At least not in Alaska.
 
Once a year or so I'll have a hankering for a SPAM sandwich. I'll get a can and fry it up and put it on white bread with some mayo. Same goes for bologna. As a kid, that and SPAM was one of the first things I ever learned how to cook. Lately I've been on a corned beef hash kick. I loaded up on briskets during the St. Patricks sales and will throw one in the crock pot with some beer once a month or so. I'll make straw sandwiches first, then use the remainder for corned beef hash.
 
I've been doing the corned beef hash and eggs also the last few days. I tired to buy SPAM, but my wife said "No." Sigh... so much for making SPAM Masubi.
 
Always thought that was the real test of a cook, what can you do with a can on spam. I've had some sautéed spam that was very good.
 
azblackbird said:
Once a year or so I'll have a hankering for a SPAM sandwich. I'll get a can and fry it up and put it on white bread with some mayo. Same goes for bologna. As a kid, that and SPAM was one of the first things I ever learned how to cook. Lately I've been on a corned beef hash kick. I loaded up on briskets during the St. Patricks sales and will throw one in the crock pot with some beer once a month or so. I'll make straw sandwiches first, then use the remainder for corned beef hash.
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I went through a corned beef hash with eggs benedict hankering not too long ago. Lasted for several months. lol.
 
The thread title is fake news or alternative facts or something of that nature. We all know that it is bacon and eggs with or without beating the eggs.

I object. I am offended. I call for a ban.
 
Yup, Mom used to like frying up SLT sandwiches for lunch, they were good!
 
When I was a kid my mom made Spam sandwiches using the stuff right out of the can. I hated them. It wasn't until years later I discovered that if fried it actually tasted good. I occasionally get the urge and buy a can. The suggestion on carrying it in a survival kit is good. It was concocted to be an energy food for soldiers in the field.
 
Glad to see you got the reduced sodium version, the regular stuff is too salty. My youngest wanted to know what Spam was like, I bought a can and was going to fry it up for breakfast, but she opened it first and tried it room temperature. Needless to say, the reaction was not positive. I did use the rest of it for breakfast, it's not bad, just too salty.

Given my druthers, I'd like a nice breakfast burrito with green chili sauce.
 
When I traveled to South Korea on business several years ago, I was told Spam is very popular over there...according to my co-worker that's because of the prevalence of it during the Korean war when other food was in short supply.

They even sell Spam gift boxes over there :)
 
Only thing that beats Spam and eggs for breakfast is...just about anything!
 
Have you tried musubi? It's SPAM sushi roll. Excellent!
 
I prefer Scrapple to SPAM. Even the lower sodium SPAM tastes way to salty for me.
 
I think I lost my taste for Spam after eating about four pounds of it over the weekend. I managed to score one of those Army issue 4 lb 'loaf, ham, processed' in a dark green long rectangular can from the mess hall and went to town on it starting Friday night.

Underwood Deviled Ham is the shizz, though.
 
BrianNC said:
I agree on how salty it is. The low sodium is what I get and it could still be less salty.
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I guess from trying to eat a lower sodium diet, a lot of things taste saltier to me now.
 
saddletramp said:
I cooked this rare delicacy for breakfast & few mornings back & my wife turned up her nose & told me how bad Spam was for me.

After I consumed it I realized I screwed up. I should have thrown in onions & potatoes.

It was great!

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You made me hungry.
You gotta pay for that.
What's your address? I want some of your bfast now.
 
The US Army supplied SPAM to soldiers during WWII and they nicknamed it "ham that didn't pass its physical", "meatloaf without basic training", and "Special Army Meat".

It's made of pork parts (knuckles, entrails, scraps), with some ham meat added, salt, water, modified potato starch as a binder, sugar, and sodium nitrite as a preservative.

Sodium nitrites combine with naturally present amines in the meat to form carcinogenic N-nitroso compounds. When ingested, these compounds are associated with cancer.
 
citizen5000 said:
The US Army supplied SPAM to soldiers during WWII and they nicknamed it "ham that didn't pass its physical", "meatloaf without basic training", and "Special Army Meat".

It's made of pork parts (knuckles, entrails, scraps), with some ham meat added, salt, water, modified potato starch as a binder, sugar, and sodium nitrite as a preservative.

Sodium nitrites combine with naturally present amines in the meat to form carcinogenic N-nitroso compounds. When ingested, these compounds are associated with cancer.
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I new there was a reason that it tasted so good. :eek:

If we quit eating everything that was supposed to cause cancer we would all be breatharians.
 
All this talk of crispy carcinogens between two slices of fresh bread is making me starving.
 
The title is correct if read with the correct emphasis. (Eating) Nothing is better than eggs and Spam for breakfast.;)

Cheers
 
citizen5000 said:
The US Army supplied SPAM to soldiers during WWII and they nicknamed it "ham that didn't pass its physical", "meatloaf without basic training", and "Special Army Meat".

It's made of pork parts (knuckles, entrails, scraps), with some ham meat added, salt, water, modified potato starch as a binder, sugar, and sodium nitrite as a preservative.

Sodium nitrites combine with naturally present amines in the meat to form carcinogenic N-nitroso compounds. When ingested, these compounds are associated with cancer.
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If you knew that, you also know that nitrite is limited to 200 ppm in food as a preservative and color fixative (1)
You'd also know that 80% of nitrite consumption comes from vegetables (2), and that "Normal functioning of human vasculature requires both the presence of nitrite and nitric oxide along with the necessity to respond to these important signaling molecules" (2). Nitrite also prevents the germination of botulism spores.

(1) https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/csem/csem.asp?csem=28&po=8
(2) http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/90/1/1.full
 
Sac Arrow said:
Underwood Deviled Ham is the shizz, though.
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Shut The Front Door! Where the heck are you getting THAT? I haven't seen a can of that in forever-and-a-day. Man I miss that stuff. I can still remember spreading that across a piece of nicely browned toast. Mmmmmm. Well, that or Oscar Meyer Liverwurst that I liked really well...
 
We just always had potted meat. Potted meat and mayo sandwich. Mmmm...
 
Wife would say Spam, pork and beans, and rice are the proper breakfast. Po' girl's Loco Moco!
 
I view Spam in my eggs the same way I view spam in my email.
 
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