SPAM!

My DD worked on a cooked meats stall in our local covered market as a Saturday girl when she was 16. They sold the ends of the various cooked meats - all mixed up - very cheaply. One day a woman asked her for the best whole pieces from the pile of ends as she was having visitors for tea! DD was horrified!

If I like something I dont look to see whats in it, Absent or no doubt there would be a few things I would have to do without !

As for spam, we used to spend our dinner money on rolls and spam from the shop across the road from school, far more tasty than school dinners

I do usually keep a tin of Spam Lite in the fridge as it keeps for ages and if I get a notion for bacon and eggs and have no bacon, the spam grills nicely.

Thats all I do with it, I dont like fritters of any kind, and I did try the spread but it was horrible.

I always find it interesting what foods are eaten in other countries.

I remember the ends of cooked meats being sold cheaply. I bought them. A bargain brought such a satisfying glow in those hard-up days.

What's with this keeping tins in the fridge? Have you not got cupboards?

Same syndrome as keeping jams and pickles in the fridge, jings. It is the result of brainwashing by the hygeine police.

Unless you prefer it chilled, like white wine. That is individual choice.

It probably slices more easily cold though! (just thought of that!)

Yes, and so does corned beef j08

I only buy the ready sliced.

Can you buy Spam ready sliced then? doesn't it only come in tins?... liking all the comments so far ...

I had no idea that one could buy Spam nowadays. I hate it and corned beef. Spam I think takes 1st prize. I do not know why but we rarely had either when I was a child.

I have a book with a recipe for Spam Masala, which is rather nice!

I'm rather fond of the stuff myself, although I don't use it very often.

Corned beef is fine, too - a close relative of the salt beef OI used to eat on rye bread at the Nosh Bar... mit a gless tea!

I must admit I like a home made, corned beef hash in the winter. it's very tasty.

I like grilled spam!

AH - words to look out for: 'Healthy', 'natural', 'Lite' -- I never buy anything with any of those words on the pack...

j08 No it's not a bit like gnawing a chop bone. Animal carcasses are pulverised and made into a paste which is then added to the meat mixture for spam or other things such as hot dogs.

That's how I gnaw a chop bone... it all gets made into a paste when you eat it anyway!

feetlebaum Mechanically recovered meat starts with all the bits that haven't been used – gristle, fat, cartilage and so on.

no thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I like to be able to identify what I eat.

I used to enjoy grilled spam.

Nelliemoser It's also found in cheap sausages and burgers. My father always used to say, "You get what you pay for 99% of the time."

I LOVE grilled spam, eaten with a grilled tomato and a grilled apple!

absent is that any worse than simmering a chicken carcass for a couple of hours to get all the goodness out for stock?

You'd usually strain that, surely though...?

j08 Yes.