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    Image of VikingP77 VikingP77
    11/15/08

    In reply to No One Can Afford Anything But Spam
    I worked at a bar up in AK and they served Spam nachos, burgers, bagels and pretty much anything else you could think of. Took me at least 1 1/2 years to be convinced to eat a Spam burger but once I did it was one of the best things I have ever tasted. That being said though I could never cook Spam by myself....that nitrate stuff on top always ruined it for me!
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    11/15/08

    @VikingP77: Was it served with a diuretic chaser to get rid of the sodium overload?
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    Image of VikingP77 VikingP77
    11/15/08

    @Weegee's bored: Ha! I guess if you consider beer a diuretic then yes!
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    11/15/08

    @VikingP77: That works for me too.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    11/15/08

    In reply to No One Can Afford Anything But Spam
    Spam (cubed), rice, kim chi, sesame oil, soy sauce, two eggs, and a dash of butter fried up in a cast iron skillet.


    It doesn't get any better than that under any economic circumstances.

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    Image of mitchel_stevens mitchel_stevens
    11/15/08

    @92BuickLeSabre:

    ...


    so...how much kimchi are we talking?

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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    11/15/08

    @mitchel_stevens:


    Depends on how much you like kim chi.


    For two people, I use 1/2 can of Spam (or even Spam Lite) and 1.5 cups of rice (before it's cooked), and probably about 1/2 cup of kim chi. But you could make it spicier and less dry with more kim chi or saltier with more Spam.


    I like to fry the hell out of it and get some nice crispy rice on the bottom, so I try to use kim chi that's really soaked (not stuff that is a little dried out.)

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    11/15/08

    @92BuickLeSabre: And you don't want to make it too oily, but don't underuse the sesame oil. It's not just to coat the pan, it's being used to flavor (with its heavenly sesame taste), so I do a decent pour over the rice as well.
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    Image of Urban Sombrero Urban Sombrero
    11/15/08

    In reply to No One Can Afford Anything But Spam
    Oh but it can be so good. Take Spam, Velveeta, Miracle Whip and an onion, stick in a processer and blend until smooth. Spread on a hamburger bun and broil. Mmmm.....White Trash Ham and Cheese.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/15/08

    @MrsJ: Oh my God. Spam, Velveeta and Miracle Whip--the nonfood food trifecta.


    Sorry, you pork eaters of America, but I maintain that ham is inedible and is only good for comedy. A slab of Velveeta looks futuristic but I would never put it near my mouth. Miracle Whip? Meh. In a pinch, maybe.

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    Image of Urban Sombrero Urban Sombrero
    11/15/08

    @BookishLookish: Oh, but you don't know what you're missing!


    I grew up poor. Can you tell?

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/15/08

    @MrsJ: Baby, you're coming over to my house for pastrami on rye with a nice brown mustard. Do you want a Dr. Brown's cream soda or a ginger ale with that?
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    11/15/08

    @BookishLookish: Not Cel-Ray soda?
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    Image of Xylo Xylo
    11/15/08

    In reply to No One Can Afford Anything But Spam
    I don't care what anyone says, I am not fucking eating that shit.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/15/08

    @Xylo: Thank you.


    And hello, morning glory.

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    Image of Xylo Xylo
    11/15/08

    @BookishLookish: Good morning, sweetums. I may be lapsed Catholic, but I don't trust anything but kosher meat.


    (It's been years since anyone called me 'morning glory'! *swoon*)

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    Image of Xylo Xylo
    11/15/08

    @Xylo: Or halal, in a pinch. :DD
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/15/08

    @Xylo: Once my mom's dog jumped into the back of an open van, the driver of which was delivering halal baby goats. He started gnawing on the goat and I started to freak, he was a big dog and he wouldn't come down. I finally got him out and took him back to my apartment. My parents were living with me at the time (long story) and I told them what happened. My mom told me to go back and pay for the goat right away lest the driver be penalized for the gnawed goat, and my dad said, "Ah, fuck 'im."


    You can glimpse the moral conundrums I had to push through growing up in such a family.

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    Image of mmstk101 mmstk101
    11/15/08

    @BookishLookish: That is an awesome story.
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    Image of Xylo Xylo
    11/15/08

    @BookishLookish: I love your mom. And your dad, frankly.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/15/08

    @Xylo: I was lucky to have good parents. It makes being a mom a lot easier. I just think of what she would've done and I do it. Problem solved!
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    Image of GirlyWhirl GirlyWhirl
    11/15/08

    @Xylo:


    I can't even imagine what Spam is like. At the most I prefer to only ever view the outside of the sealed tin.

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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    11/15/08

    @GirlyWhirl: For all intents and purposes, it's low-grade canned ham with extra salt.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/15/08

    In reply to No One Can Afford Anything But Spam
    To quote my grandmother: "Uch, the goyim!"
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    11/15/08

    @BookishLookish: Eastern European Jewish cousine is so much healthier.


    Maybe if you think of Spam as being porcine gefilte fish. You must admit there's a resemblance.

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    11/15/08

    @Weegee's bored: Gefilte fish is some delish and extremely healthy varieties of mercury-free fish, a bit of egg and some matzah meal all yummily smooshed together. It is lovingly prepared by the kosher elves at Mrs. Adler's house. Spam is some pork shoulder, pork asshole and pork ladybits all smooshed together and it is not good for you nor is it yummy, I'd bet.


    Don't diss my ghetto food, Irish.

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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    11/15/08

    @BookishLookish: Whoa. You're talking to an experienced shaygetz here.
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    11/15/08

    @Weegee's bored: Respect, I know you have endured much.
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    11/15/08

    @BookishLookish: This Irish Catholic boy hooked up with a Russian Jewish girl and met halfway. Chernobyl, as I recall.
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    11/15/08

    @Weegee's bored: there was some kind of reaction in chernobyl
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/15/08

    @Weegee's bored: Wow, that's incendiary, all right. But your kids must be gorgeous.
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    11/15/08

    @BookishLookish: Actually, yeah. He is pretty cute. But so is the one from a previous marriage to a German-Polish girl, and the consequent granddaughter. I like beautiful, smart people. That's why I hang out with you guys. :-)
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/15/08

    @Weegee's bored: Please, I would die without my Irish. They are the cutest and smartest, most viciously witty and most back-having-in-a-fight peeps!
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    Image of Xylo Xylo
    11/15/08

    @BookishLookish: I just happen to be part Black Irish, along with the Cherman (and the Yugoslavian and Acadian). I'm a mutt!!

    And now I must go arrange my IV coffee infusion.
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    Image of GirlyWhirl GirlyWhirl
    11/15/08

    @BookishLookish:


    Pork Ladybits is a great DJ name.

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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    11/15/08

    @BookishLookish: And they come from the only Western European country with virtually no history of antiSemitism. Of course, virtually no Jews either. Unless you've heard Gaelic spoken, in which case it's clear that the Irish are the missing tribe of Israel.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/15/08

    @Xylo: Oh, classic Canadian muttsky! Rock on, Xylo. Now you have to see about passing that goodness on to the next.


    May I recommend to you a Japanese/black guy from the South with partial Cherokee ancestry? I know a very cute one!

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    11/15/08

    @Weegee's bored: Yet Dublin had a Jewish mayor before NYC did.
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    11/15/08

    @BookishLookish: There's also a small Jewish community and an Irish-Jewish museum (housed at Trinity, of course), that has an adorable logo that shows a blue Star of David within a green Irish harp.
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    Image of ClicheLaMoron ClicheLaMoron
    11/15/08

    @Weegee's bored: And let's not forget Leopold Bloom. Ireland is quite rich in fictional Jews. Which are the best kind after all.
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    11/15/08

    @ClicheLaMoron: And "Leo Bloom" has since become a legendary part of "The Producers" empire.
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    Image of Meg Meg
    11/15/08

    In reply to No One Can Afford Anything But Spam
    I make it a habit never to eat meat that has come straight from the can. Unless it's freshly showered.
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    11/15/08

    @Meg: ...aaaand the Spam just became a pepperoni log.
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    Image of souplines souplines
    11/15/08

    @Aaron Altman: hi-yo!
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    Image of Arceus Arceus
    11/15/08

    In reply to No One Can Afford Anything But Spam
    Spam is murder.
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    Image of Dickens_Ghost Dickens_Ghost
    11/15/08

    @Arceus: +1 for the obscure Smiths reference
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    Image of mitchel_stevens mitchel_stevens
    11/15/08

    @Dickens_Ghost:

    Obscure?


    Well, now he knows how Joan of Arc felt.

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    Image of surfacenoise76 surfacenoise76
    11/15/08

    In reply to No One Can Afford Anything But Spam
    I'm pretty frugal in general, but food is the one thing on which I won't scrimp. It's one of my main sources of pleasure in life.
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    Image of Xylo Xylo
    11/15/08

    @surfacenoise76: Exactly my thinking. I will go without new clothing to afford a good meal out. (Of course, new underwear trumps everything.)
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    Image of billybobnyc billybobnyc
    11/15/08

    @surfacenoise76: For real. People at work think I am silly when I think out loud about what I am having for dinner tonight, because they are having a poached chicken breast. I'll say, "Meatloaf, macaroni and cheese, and cornbread," (I eat very lightly during the day, and don't snack) and they'll say, "But where is your vegetable?" and I'll say, "Hello - the macaroni and cheese."
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/15/08

    @billybobnyc: And next time you can say, "Bitch, what about 'corn' in cornbread do you not understand?"
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    Image of Peoplefamiliarwith Peoplefamiliarwith
    11/15/08

    In reply to No One Can Afford Anything But Spam
    $3.20/lb. for SPAM or $3.99/lb. for bone-in Ribeye at the HEB? Tough choice.


    Beef prices are really low right now due to lower feed costs and a glut of supply (Thank you mad-cow).


    Put some garlic salt&pepper (McCormicks California style) on your Ribeye and grill at 425 degrees for around 12 minutes. Take it off the grill once blood starts to collect on the top of your steak. Make sure you don't over-do the steak. It needs to be bloody or else you won't get as much virility. Add some A-1 sauce and you got yourself a meal baby!

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    Image of Xylo Xylo
    11/15/08

    @Peoplefamiliarwith: Great. Now I want meat for breakfast.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/15/08

    @Xylo: It's not breakfast without meat!
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    Image of sunnyciegos sunnyciegos
    11/15/08

    In reply to No One Can Afford Anything But Spam
    I was once driving across 90 in southern Minnesota on a roadtrip to Yellowstone when an indefinably meaty smell filled the car. It was the Spam factory, still ten miles ahead of us. Needless to say of course we stopped and visited. That place is like freaking Disneyland, if Disney loved pork shoulder.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/15/08

    @sunnyciegos: I miss the times when that meaty smell filled the car. Pulaski Skyway 1975.
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    Image of BowlingForDollars BowlingForDollars
    11/15/08

    @sunnyciegos: I was recently in MN for work and very close to Austin, MN where they make Spam. I had to go visit the SPAM Museum...and it was hilarious. Very well done and very tongue in cheek. I loved that the SPAM folks have a sense of humor about their product.


    SPAM is created from the pork shoulder and trimming of Hormel's Cure 81 hams. SPAM also stands for "spiced ham".

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    11/15/08

    @BowlingForDollars: Sadly, the SPAM sample lady was on her lunch break when we were there, so I never even ate any SPAM. But I did leave with a deeper understanding than when I came.
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    Image of BowlingForDollars BowlingForDollars
    11/15/08

    @sunnyciegos: Oh how sad. I'm a vegetarian and even I had a teeny tiny sample, and it was pretty good for "meat". They present them on a pretzel stick instead of a toothpick.


    I also got all of my friends SPAM koozies in the gift shop. I was amazed at how reasonably priced the souvenirs were.

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    Image of surfacenoise76 surfacenoise76
    11/15/08

    In reply to No One Can Afford Anything But Spam
    Well, we elected a semi-Hawaiian president, so why not adopt a semi-Hawaiian diet? (They LOVE Spam in Hawaii)
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    11/15/08

    @surfacenoise76: That makes marginally more sense than they're being wacky over Jello in Utah.
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    Image of Xylo Xylo
    11/15/08

    @Weegee's bored: I hear some people like this abomination mixed with pineapple and other objects in something they call "salad".
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    11/15/08

    In reply to No One Can Afford Anything But Spam
    Dear Hormel PR department: although you DIDN'T come up with "meat with a pause button", you simply MUST use it in your next Spam press release.
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    11/15/08

    In reply to No One Can Afford Anything But Spam
    perfect time to stop eating meat people. Saves you money...
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    Image of GirlyWhirl GirlyWhirl
    11/15/08

    @garbagehead:


    Exactly.

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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    11/15/08

    In reply to No One Can Afford Anything But Spam
    Does the reappearance in the news of Spam corrrelate with the reappearance in the news of Ashley Dupre?
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    Image of GirlyWhirl GirlyWhirl
    11/15/08

    @Weegee's bored:


    Across the board theme of low quality meat?

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    Image of Bos'un's Mate Bos'un's Mate
    11/15/08

    @GirlyWhirl: overpriced, low quality meat
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    11/15/08

    @GirlyWhirl: ... instantly available when needed.
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    Image of GirlyWhirl GirlyWhirl
    11/15/08

    @Weegee's bored:


    Spam's shelf life is longer, though.

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    11/15/08

    @Weegee's bored: She was a little more than $3.20 per pound, though, no?
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    11/15/08

    @surfacenoise76: But had a lot less salt.
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    11/15/08

    @Weegee's bored: Yeah, but Spam has much less silicone and almost no daddy issues.
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    11/15/08

    @surfacenoise76: and it's not from new jersey
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    11/15/08

    @surfacenoise76: Ha! Nice.
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    11/15/08

    In reply to No One Can Afford Anything But Spam

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    11/15/08

    @souplines: Of course!


    (hahaha, Vikings always crack me up.)

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