OT: Spam...Do Ya or Don't Ya

Kilroy6644 · Post by **Kilroy6644** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 3:51 pm

I like SPAM, but we hardly ever eat it. Maybe occasionally when we're camping. So, not only do I like it, but for me it's a treat.

Jeeps · Post by **Jeeps** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:37 pm

rjs wrote:Man I loved the ham and eggs from the c-rats! Ah the memories
Ron

With me being from the MRE generation '86-'90 I dont know what c-rats were
like, but on the seldom occasion that they would fly or truck out a hot meal
while in the field I really loved the scrambled eggs, green or not.

If ya go to mountianhouse foods you can order ham and eggs from their menu
and it is one of my favorites for backpacking/camping.

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:02 pm

I like Spam but don't eat it often. I aways try to keep Spam and Corned Beef in the kitchen larder, good emergency rations!

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:03 pm

BlaineG wrote:
I also used to like the Ham and Eggs that came in C-Rats.
Yes, but not the ham and lima beans......

And the boys gripped about MRE's. Wish I had some old C-Rats around to feed them

Billy Boy · Post by **Billy Boy** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:23 pm

You guys are killling me! As a Certified Executive Chef (there are less than 2500 in the US) I can categorically say that I have not eaten Spam since I was a kid at summer camp with the BSA at No-Be-Bos-Co in Blairstown, NJ while taking test for the Wilderness Survival merit badge! They left us alone on a small mountaintop with a #10 can of Spam to feed about five of us! That night having broiled Spam on a stick was indeed "Livin' Large"!
Wife of 18 years is a little picky though!
Not gonna see the inside of my pantry anytime soon I'm afraid!
BB

stretch · Post by **stretch** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:33 pm

Geez, Duff L Bag - that post most likely put me in need of a
quadruple bypass. Holy Cow!!!!

I used to make Spam 'n Egg sandwiches when I was a poor
student in college.

The fella who built my parents' house was in the SeaBees in
the Big One. He said they lived on SPAM for months and months,
until it all got to be too much. They got yet another shipment of
supplies, couldn't face the SPAM potion of it, and buried it all with their
bulldozers. Said they never got it and could they have some C-rats or something before they all starved.

bigbore442001 · Post by **bigbore442001** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 7:39 pm

Maybe I am an oddball but when I consumed SPAM I would get a wicked headache. Sooo. I don't eat it.

RSY · Post by **RSY** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 7:42 pm

bigbore442001 wrote:Maybe I am an oddball but when I consumed SPAM I would get a wicked headache. Sooo. I don't eat it.

NaCl

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:50 pm

I couldn't take it.......sliced up a can into 4 pieces, fried up brown and hard.....put on rice w/soy, hot sauce and some green beans.........Dang, I eat good....

mescalero1 · Post by **mescalero1** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:13 am

I am so going to tell my age here, but I remember C-rations with some fondness; Except for ham & lima beans

El Chivo · Post by **El Chivo** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:54 am

I haven't had it in years, it's really not that cheap, either.

I have a movie, "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" where he's flashing back to his war experiences. His Italian Girlfriend tearfully confesses "I wish I had some SPAM"

stretch · Post by **stretch** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:11 pm

Anybody remember the classic Monty Python skit,
"Spam, Spam, Eggs and Spam?"

And the Spam song that went with it?!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 6211716271

Great stuff.............

Duff L Bagg · Post by **Duff L Bagg** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:38 pm

mescalero1 wrote:I am so going to tell my age here, but I remember C-rations with some fondness; Except for ham & lima beans

I cant remember if they were "C Rats" or "K Rats" we were fed when I was in basic, but I can truethfully testify that they did use real Rats.

Mokwaw · Post by **Mokwaw** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:27 am

Love spam...strait from the can, fried, nuked, baked with pineapple slice on top....mmmmmmmmm

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omgb · Post by **omgb** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:45 am

The Filipinos love the stuff, along with Vienna Sausages. SPAM, Some Parts Are Meat I love it fried, bar-b-qued, and tempora battered. Mmmmmgood eats.