Spam is good.

Like many old boomers we were fed spam fritters for a main meal at school. Often with a slightly greasy mash and a decidedly slimy cabbage. So much so that the spam was the tastiest item on the plate. An optional gravy completed the awfulness to which I normally declined.

How to feed six children for six old pence a head per day was probably the calculation and that was probably generous in the 1960's.
 
This thread actually spurred me on a bit, bought a can of spam yesterday, first in at least a year.

Chopped in to cubes with cheese cubes, gherkin slices, cocktail onions and some crackers with spready cheese, absolutely lovely snack platter.

Feel for the pigs though, the pain they go through to get in mah belleh must be awful. We should probably breed pigs just for that purpose come to think of it.
 
question too - is whether spam would/does taste like it used to - if the pork used to come from the UK, did pigs in 80/90s have better living standards, quality lives (like we did ?)
even if there were more carcinogenic preservatives plus the deep frying oil type.

aforementioneed js corned beef from Poland is a poor imtation of its Brazilian predecessor
 
robfosters said:
I see Johno’s off again on one. Fruitlessly trying to make us feel guilty for eating bit of spam
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if god had not wanted us to eat pigs he would not made them out of sausages and bacon :D

(seriously.... i do think animal welfare should be pushed more than it is. I eat meat and not ashamed of that fact, but some countries are far better at looking after their stock than others)
 
bigmike20vt said:
lol yeah I maybe wouldnt do it now... my uncle used to keep maggots in his fridge so they lasted longer............. he told me he sometimes warmed them in his mouth to wake them up as well.... i *think* he was joking .
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Nope he wasn't joking, some anglers do that.

Yeh don't get me started on maggots. I once spilt a pint of them in a carpet that was rugged and shaggy. Carpet had to come up and flies were hatching every day for two weeks.
 
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