Spam - the pork product in a can

Fry it up and serve on mini Hawaiian Rolls with American cheese for breakfast. (Sriracha works well)

Spam and eggs

Spam musubi

Spam and fried rice or ramen

You could dig a hole in it and try to fuck it

I've been reading up on it and it sounds like it is popular in Hawaii. Sounds like R1's suggestions might be Hawaiian based.

I use it to make my version of an Egg McMuffin. Very tasty.

These are all good suggestions. It's great for breakfast, using it in place of sausage. the Hawaiian uses of it are good too.

As a kid I would fry up 2 slices, lay between white bread with ketchup and enjoy. Not sure I would do that NOW, but spam ramen sounds good.

SPAM is the only product that is canned raw and cooked in the can.

Spam ice cream is the only reason to get an ice cream maker. Add corn and seaweed for a musubi ice cream. Ice cream 🍨

I go to Republican states and drop the cabs off of skyscrapers.

You could SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS!

R8 - what does that mean?

R10 i meant cans. Oops.

Fry a slice in a hot skillet. Add a slice of cheese, a slice of tomato on bread. Yum!

Keep it for storm food. I think it has a long shelf life. It’s high in fat, so you might try dicing up a potato and cooking the potato cubes in a microwave until they’re softened, then finish by combining the potato with a block of spam in a hot skillet. It might make a hash (I would add black pepper). Top with poached eggs. Call it a truck stop brunch or something. Maybe added some chopped chives or spring onion on top. If you don’t want to eat it, pack it with some other tins of nonperishables and take it to a food bank, and give them a cash donation, too.

It's delicious fried up with eggs and toast.

I don’t mind the taste of spam but would never touch it because of all the fat in it. It’s on the menu at Denny’s and McDonald’s throughout Hawaii. I would grill it and put it on a bun with caramelized onions and some garlic aïoli.

I used to see spam musabi (spam with sticky rice, wrapped in seaweed) at the convenience stores in Hawaii. They put it in and on everything- on ramen with fish cake/egg

Throw it away, it's bad bad food.

Save it for the post- nuclear holocaust apocalypse. It will be the only thing that survives for the cockroaches to eat.

The best way to eat Spam is sliced, then fried (no or very little add'l oil needed) in a pan. The key is to get some browning and crusty texture on the surfaces.

After that, you could eat it with eggs. You could also make an omelet (with cheese as well).

You can also make a sandwich on soft, white bread.

Could I make Spam in my Instant Pot?

OP here, thanks for all the suggestions. I sliced and fried it and put it on toast with cheese and a sunny-side up (runny) egg. It was pretty good.

Apparently there's a healthier Spam . . .

Diced Spam and scrambled eggs. It's like an angel came in your mouth.

Spam & pasta

R24 yum

It's a big part of Okinawan cuisine (Okinawan cuisine is kind of gross).

Spam comes in lots of flavors.

If you want to see a double-feature of "Spamalot" and "Seussical."

Slice it very thin and fry it. Serve with Kraft mac and cheese. You may sneer, bitches, but I used to be broke as hell.

I've seen recipes for "Hawaiian fried rice" with cubed Spam and crushed pineapple, that might be good.

You pigs are gross. Spam? Are you crazy? It is devil food.

I don't even think it counts as food

You would get better replies if you asked the best way to eat "sperm"

[quote] You would get better replies if you asked the best way to eat "sperm"

Is true. I have many opinion about the eating of sprem but not spam.

[quote]You would get better replies if you asked the best way to eat "sperm"

…and the musical it inspired, [italic]Spermalot.[/italic]

There are people here (not me) who consider themselves to be arbiters of taste and discernment, not to mention the merits or not of draining pasta, and they are all flocking here to praise Spam, staple of their childhood. Pathetic.

Jeffrey Too in has a few special spam recipes.

He's very creative.

Green Eggs & Spam

Has OP not seen those recent horrid commercials about using SPAM as a meat substitute in stir fries and everything under the sun?

Who would want an omelette Like, Yeah! Fuck Dude - highly concentrated sodium and pureed pork anuses up for supper!!! Whee!

I'm sure all these folks looking down their noses at Spam probably have some nasty, secret eating habits.

There used to be a recipe on the side of the can about baking the whole hunk of spam dotted with whole cloves and covered with a glaze made from yellow mustard/brown sugar/vinegar. My mother would make it when there was nothing else in the house. As a kid I thought it was fine.

Sperm and anuses... hehe

Get a few more cans and use them to create Spam sculptures. Here's No. 45 rendered in Spam. It's really the ideal medium for him, when you think about it.

And here's Spamhenge.

I think Spam is popular in South Korean cooking?

r37, see r28.

Hawaii's fondness for Spam supposedly began during World War II, when the Hormel company provided 15 million cans every week to Allied troops stationed there. It didn't require refrigeration and had a long shelf life.

Cook it like a fried bologna sandwich. I put it in Ramen.

Deep fried spam fritters with french fries - Friday school canteen ‘treat’ in the late 1970s

My father would have a can of Spam once a year. He first had it in the military during World War II. I’ve never tasted it. So I guess I never Spammed for my father.

I've known been using it as a perfume behind the ears, it is quite the aphrodisiac!

Monty Python appreciated it.

My favorite, for the entire family, all the time, for everything.

My dog loves it when I do that, r50.

[quote] My father would have a can of Spam once a year. He first had it in the military during World War II.

I associate Spam with my dad too. When we'd have a Saturday project, he'd let my mother sleep in, cook up fried Spam and scrambled eggs with rye toast and then wake me up for breakfast. Afterward I'd go get dressed, he'd do the dishes, and we'd head off to Sears Roebuck to get the tools for whatever god-awful DIY project he had in store for us to ruin our Saturday.

Dad's long gone, and I haven't had Spam in years (too high in sodium). I may have to get a can for old time's sake, but my non-American-born partner will be horrified, I'm sure.

We always had it growing up, good on sandwiches , sliced and right out of the can, great fried with pineapple

R43 It truly has become a sad day. Spam has replaced my old Lincoln Logs.

I've never had SPAM . Is it anything like Corned Beef Hash? I used to slice it out of the can and fry it in a pan. It was salty but tasty.

Spam is way too salty. Even though I know that sausage products have a lot of filler and probably some really gross ingredients, I'd prefer to slice those up for my scrambled eggs. Certain sausages have a sweetness to them that no Uncle Porky in a Can could replace on my pallet.

R58 - there is a low sodium version.

Disgusting

Even low sodium Spam is high sodium. The salt is to preserve it. It lasts for a long time.

It sounds disgusting. Never going to try it.

[quote]You pigs are gross. Spam? Are you crazy? It is devil food.

Even they know it's devilish . . .

[quote] It sounds disgusting. Never going to try it.

🙄🙄🙄

Spam is a portmanteau for spiced and ham.

Koreans make kimchi stew with spam, served alongside rice. Kimchi, water or broth, spam, then garnish with green onions and sesame oil.

[quote]Certain sausages have a sweetness to them that no Uncle Porky in a Can could replace on my pallet.

You buy sausages by the pallet?

Korean army stew with Spam.

[quote]In the United States in the aftermath of World War II, a troupe of former servicewomen was assembled by Hormel Foods to promote Spam from coast to coast. The group was known as the Hormel Girls and associated the food with being patriotic. In 1948, two years after its formation, the troupe had grown to 60 women with 16 forming an orchestra. The show went on to become a radio program where the main selling point was Spam. The Hormel Girls were disbanded in 1953.[62]

OK, 'fess up-- how many of you are former Hormel Girls?

R50 - is that a Tom Robbins reference? They do that with genital secretions in one of his books

I'd never tasted it until a bf made it for me when I told him that. It was ok.

I've made Spam masubi a few times after having it in Hawaii. It's actually pretty good. The saltiness of the Spam plays well balanced against the sweet tanginess of the sushi rice.

The Spam is often made even saltier by sautéing it in teriyaki sauce.