Do you buy/eat Spam?

Spam, like so many things retro, became rather cool and Instagrammable a few years ago (yes, one of my daughters told me that, I’d never have known!). Hot spam sandwiches certainly appeared on the menu at some of the trendier cafes round here for the first time, though our local market sandwich stall has always offered it.

I wouldn’t have thought it was a good choice for a food bank though - ours asks for things that don’t need cooking, and I don’t think many people eat it cold, do they?

I used to get sent to the local corner shop for a quarter of spam,it used to come from a big round tin and cut on the bacon slicer,you could ask for thick or thin slices,we had thin,there was enough for our lunch with 4d of chips from the chip shop with scratchings,and some for dads sandwhiches on night shift at Fords,we would have with baked beans.
Or corned beef cut the same way with tinned peas.

Quite often I picked it walking home and would get a clout for doing it,as there wouldnt be enough to go round.

HowVeryDareYou

Blondiescot You felt the need to highlight my comment but not the posts of anyone else who said they don't like the stuff.
Odd.

It wasn't intended as anything personal. That was simply the comment I noticed.

It's something stored away in my memory from school days, we had Spam and salad, which was okish, until a dollop of the lumpy white stuff was added, their version of mashed potato, yuk!

Other than that I seem to remember a homage to Spam by the Monty Python team that went "Spam! Spam! Spam!" in the opening chorus.

I think I've spied it the supermarket but I've never had the inclination to buy any, definitely a retro product, associated with bygone days. I think I read it was a staple food stuff in the war.

Thank you for all your responses.

We get a fair amount of it donated to our Foodbank and I always avoid including it in the ‘meat’ allocation for our clients if I can.

It occurred to me though that people might actually like it, hence this thread, and I shouldn’t disregard it as we don’t know our clients’ preferences when we pack the stock boxes in advance.

I don’t ever recall eating it in my childhood but know that I wouldn’t have liked it.

I think I have, years and years ago.

Wyllow3, no I haven't. I'm up to try just about anything, but it would not be my first choice on a menu!

Dear heaven no. Spam !!!

I have a hideous memory of deep fried Spam and bendy greasy chips at school

We used to have spam, chips, and peas occasionally, growing up.

Did you ever try corned beef hash, tho, CanadianGran?

I love spam and tomato sandwiches soaked in salt and vinegar

No! I bought it once because my son asked me about it, but none of them liked it, and I thought it was awful.

I do seem to remember corned beef sandwiches when I was a child, and I think I barely put up with it. It was on the same level as head-cheese or liver pate. It was eaten, but not enjoyed.

Blondiescot You felt the need to highlight my comment but not the posts of anyone else who said they don't like the stuff.
Odd.

Never. I don't know how we escaped it though, Mum must have taken against it.

I could never stand the ghastly stuff, especially fried.

I laughed at it been called a few things in my time!

Isn't that exactly what I said though?

oh for the love of God, that remark was meant for BlondieScot

sorry, Redhead56, I didn't mean to highlight your post

Redhead56

I didn’t get it at home and didn’t often stay school dinners either. I first tasted spam in my twenties fried it was ok but not really for me. My mum sometimes bought what the butcher called sliced Ulster fry years ago. It tasted like bacon but the butchers closed down and it’s never been seen since.

Jezebel Ooh, that's odd, I assumed we were entitled to have our own opinion...........

I didn’t get it at home and didn’t often stay school dinners either. I first tasted spam in my twenties fried it was ok but not really for me. My mum sometimes bought what the butcher called sliced Ulster fry years ago. It tasted like bacon but the butchers closed down and it’s never been seen since.

HowVeryDareYou

With so many different types of tasty food available, why??

Why not? If people like it, why shouldn't they enjoy it? It'd be a boring world if we all liked the same things. Lot of food snobbery going on here. Apparently Spam is a massive seller in Hawaii, of all places - they certainly don't look down their noses at it there.

With so many different types of tasty food available, why??

Battered, fried spam was very useful when I was young with 3 hungry children, and we loved it, wouldn't touch it now, too much fat in it.
Janejudge you're not the only one who loves M&S tinned ham.