BS: War Winning Weapon

Subject: RE: BS: War Winning Weapon
From: CarolC
Date: 03 Mar 02 - 09:07 PM

Wow, MarkS. I love Montreal. Do you think we can get DougR to launch a fundraising campaign to send me to this Greek restaurant with the to die for lima beans? I think he has some background in fundraising, and he seems pretty attached to the idea of people liking lima beans. Maybe he can get the North American Lima Bean Council involved or something.

We could even do a photo thing with me posing with a bowl of these amazing lima beans at all of the major landmarks in the city, and I'm sure somebody could come up with some sort of fancy title for me, like Ms. To Die For Montreal Lima Bean 2002 or something.

I'm salivating already.

Subject: RE: BS: War Winning Weapon
From: bob schwarer
Date: 04 Mar 02 - 04:11 PM

Ate a lot of spam back in the 40's. A thought it was great compared to the other stuff we could get. Haven't had any in years.

Road kill is fine if you get it soon enough. A little bit ago there was a big to-do about who was entitled to road kill and what could be done with it. (No jokes please).

Can't remember all the details, but the gist of it was that you couldn't give it to the needy. Something about inspections if I am remembering right.

Bob S.

Subject: RE: BS: War Winning Weapon
From: Irish sergeant
Date: 04 Mar 02 - 09:32 PM

Now scrapple is good! I ain't sure about the road kill but hell, if you knew what they put in hot dogs, road kill would be preferable. Now here is a commercial I'd like to see. remember the old Shake and bake commercial with the little southern girl? dig this tag line. "Momma made shake and bake for road kill and I helped!" Neil

Subject: RE: BS: War Winning Weapon
From: ddw
Date: 05 Mar 02 - 12:37 AM

I grew up eating Spam once or twice a week, then went for years without any. I was camping once and went into town for supplies, saw some on the shelf and decided to try it. I was always told the name was a contraction of "spiflicated (sp?) ham" and it was as good as any other luncheon meat. My memory was that I quite liked it.

What was in that can bore NO resemblance to what I remembered. It was salty, laced with a gelatinous, fatty yuk and had a half inch of suet on top.

'Fraid I'm in the don't-like-it camp now.

cheers,

david

Subject: RE: BS: War Winning Weapon
From: Amergin
Date: 05 Mar 02 - 02:01 AM

When I lived in Astoria, OR...I knew several Hawaiians....they would all get these huge care packages from home....half the packages were nothing but Spam...then a part of them would be their funky tasting candies.....

Subject: RE: BS: War Winning Weapon
From: artbrooks
Date: 06 Mar 02 - 11:03 PM

In acknowledgement of the timeless popularity of this mystery meat, I see in today's (3/6/02) paper that Ms. Mary Jones of Gosport, Indiana has won a $2,500 shopping spree at the Mall of America for her recipe for muffins made with cranberries, corn bread stuffing and Spam Oven Roasted Turkey. The recipe is here: Spam Muffins

Way to Go, Mary Jones!!!

Subject: RE: BS: War Winning Weapon
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 07 Mar 02 - 03:38 AM

Harking rioght back to John Gray's first post: I believe the US dropped a lot of Spam on Britain in WWII ... that explains a lot!

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: War Winning Weapon
From: GUEST,Penny S. (elsewhere)
Date: 07 Mar 02 - 10:51 AM

School dinner: Spam fritters (fried in batter), chips and tinned spaghetti in tomato sauce. Possible with sliced beetroot.

Yeurgh

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: War Winning Weapon
From: M.Ted
Date: 07 Mar 02 - 12:44 PM

Time to get out the recipes--Hawaii's famous SPAM sushi:

Halau Style - SPAM MUSUBI

3 1/2 cup uncooked rice - steamed
1 can Spam cut into 10 slices
1/3/ cup sugar
1/3 cup shoyu (soy sauce)
1 tsp. rice vinegar
5 sheets sushi nori (seaweed)
Furikake Nori
<> Use either bamboo sushi mat or musubi mold
(small mold, cut nori in half - large mold, use whole nori
sheet)
<> Fry Spam until light brown and remove from pan.
Heat sugar, shoyu and rice vinegar until sugar is dissolved then
return Spam to pan, cooking for 1 minute.
<> Using Musubi mold:
Place nori on flat surface and center mold on top of nori
Place rice in mold and press down (rice should be 1/2" thick)
Sprinkle Furikake Nori over rice
Place seasoned Spam on rice
Add another 1/2" of rice on top of Spam and press down
Lift mold off then wrap nori around the rice
Turn musubi over placing on fold allowing the nori to seal
Slice & Enjoy!