SPAM!

I forgot to say we always had Pek chopped ham and pork My husband likes spam fried for breakfast with eggs,His mum did it that way I lived in a village and my uncle worked for a bacon factory so we always had bacon

I used to make a spam quiche with spam and baked beans and eggs ,the children loved it

j08 Yes.

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

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

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

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 used to enjoy grilled spam.

I like to be able to identify what I eat.

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

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

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

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.

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

I like grilled spam!

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

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 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.

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

I only buy the ready sliced.

Yes, and so does corned beef j08

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

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.

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

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.