Spam. Do you love it or hate it?

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I just saw this photo and was intrigued enough to look into it. Apparently, this is called Spam-musubi (Spam musubi - Wikipedia). I don't care for Spam so I've never tried it.

What say you? Do you love Spam or not?

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And, here's a funny I saw elsewhere...

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Love it. really learned to enjoy it living on O'ahu. Spam saimin and a Spam Fried Rice I still make from time to time (low sodium kind). They have a bacon spam and jalapeno one that are really damn good. Hell, even the McDonalds in the Hawaiian islands serve spam, lol.

The Musubi, are quick breakfasts for a lot of folks. Even grab them out of the hot holder at the local 7-11 convenience stores. Rice (filler) Spam (salty meat) Nori (savory) it's not a bad little snack.
 
mjd said:
I just saw this photo and was intrigued enough to look into it. Apparently, this is called Spam-musubi (Spam musubi - Wikipedia). I don't care for Spam so I've never tried it.

What say you? Do you love Spam or not?

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And, here's a funny I saw elsewhere...

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I do not buy or use Spam, but have had Musubi in a good Hawaiian restaurant that I have frequented. Musubi is apparently a big special item in Hawaiian cuisine.
 
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flyinglentris said:
I do not buy or use Spam, but have had Musubi in a good Hawaiian restaurant that I have frequented. Musubi is apparently a big special item in Hawaiian cuisine.
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I don't know about special, per se. It's ubiquitous throughout the islands and a staple in a lot of diets. I found it best after a night of drinking, and dipped in a little teriyaki sauce. Only time I ever really did rice with breakfast was for the occasional Loco Moco. Hard to get a days work don after one of those. Belly. BUSTAH'!

We have had a couple of Hawaiian places pop up in my area, but the never last. Not sure why really. I have a concept that I wanted to do as a lunch truck, menu and plans done...then COVID happened, so to the back burner it went.
 
ThatDude said:
I don't know about special, per se. It's ubiquitous throughout the islands and a staple in a lot of diets. I found it best after a night of drinking, and dipped in a little teriyaki sauce. Only time I ever really did rice with breakfast was for the occasional Loco Moco. Hard to get a days work don after one of those. Belly. BUSTAH'!

We have had a couple of Hawaiian places pop up in my area, but the never last. Not sure why really. I have a concept that I wanted to do as a lunch truck, menu and plans done...then COVID happened, so to the back burner it went.
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There are two Hawaiian Restaurants in my local area with the closest one being the best.

L&L Hawaiian Barbecue
 
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It's as bad (or worse) for you than bacon; salty, fatty, etc.. of course I love it!

In my house Spam is sometimes airfried in slices as a course/dish to go with white rice. We also sometimes have Spam Fries, and as some have mentioned, it's a terrific ingredient as little cubes in fried rice.

In my travels in the Philippines, I saw at one time they had a restaurant chain called SpamJam which was great (now sadly defunct I believe). Think 'McDonalds' but every item has Spam instead of a beef patty.

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In Korea, Spam is venerated as some kind of high class luxury food (like processed meat caviar). Hard to believe it is given as gifts to a host in these big boxes. I've also seen massive hampers in my travels like picnic baskets overflowing with tins of Spam.

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I don't know honestly. I have a bad memory from it from childhood and never tried it since.

We were in Germany in a restaurant and I was about 7 years old and a picky eater, and didn't dare try anything on the menu. So my dad said I would probably like the Spam & bratkartoffelen (fried potatoes) because he said it tasted just like ham. I thought that would be ok, so I then got a wagon wheel of spam (Germans don't do small portions) and I knew with the first bite I hated it. But was forced to finish the whole wagon wheel, as I did order it.. Well, that was the first and last time for me.
 
One of the kids wanted to try Spam.
I cut the turkey spam in (Vegas) dice sized cubes and soaked them in buttermilk for a few hours.
Then rolled in flour, egg wash and Panco crumbs. Fried in oil.
It got a pass.
 
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