Had it with the Food Channel...

**blue** · 03-13-2009, 11:37 PM

Im a fan of Spam and eggs, fried Spam, Spam and Mac & Cheese.....

**Daisy and Delilah** · 03-13-2009, 11:39 PM

Now I wish I had some Spam here. I think I'll go into the kitchen for a midnight snack.

All of the choices sound good.

**Karen** · 03-13-2009, 11:48 PM

We saw Chopping Block - we are watching "Last Restaurant Standing" on BBC America, and I though the description sounded like an American version of that show. Same "couples" compete - one 'front of house' and one cook on each team. In the British version of the show, though, it's a French chef, Raymond Blanc, leading the British teams, so I guess you need to have a foreign accent to be the big baddie on a restaurant competition?

It looks interesting - but in the American version, there are just two restaurants, in the Brit version, each 'team' gets their own restaurant to try to run.

**Cinder & Smoke** · 03-14-2009, 12:04 AM

Originally Posted by Daisy and Delilah

[Spam]
How did you eat it, Richard?
Plain, fried, in a casserole ?

What are the ingredients in it?

Prep??
ANY way you could possibly imagine - and then some more!

Ingredients ??

Uhhhhh ... mostly "Pig Parts" ...
but some would say ya don't really wanna know.

Ya need to give it a chance ... sorta *grows* on ya.

**Daisy and Delilah** · 03-14-2009, 09:24 AM

Originally Posted by Cinder & Smoke

Prep??
ANY way you could possibly imagine - and then some more!

Ingredients ??

Uhhhhh ... mostly "Pig Parts" ...
but some would say ya don't really wanna know.

Ya need to give it a chance ... sorta *grows* on ya.

lol Phred!! You're right, we probably don't want to know.

I'll try it.....I promise I will.

**Medusa** · 03-14-2009, 09:29 AM

Originally Posted by Daisy and Delilah

lol Phred!! You're right, we probably don't want to know.

I'll try it.....I promise I will.

When I was a teenager, my dad would get Surplus Spam which is an even, um, less quality grade than commercial Spam, if you can imagine. My mom would pack my school lunch and the kids could smell me comin'. Just thinking about it today makes me gag. Some Surplus goods were tasty; the butter was really good and chicken in a can was, too, believe it or not. Open the can and an entire cooked chicken would come out; great for soup. But Spam? Forget it. It always reminded me of congealed brain matter, not that I would know what the looks like. (Have I sufficiently whetted your appetite?)

**Daisy and Delilah** · 03-14-2009, 10:33 AM

YUCK!!!! I'm not so hungry now. Phew!! I may have to pull back that promise.

**RICHARD** · 03-14-2009, 01:41 PM

Thanks Phred,
I was trying to get people to try it before they became too inquisitive!

I had Spam, cubed, in M&C. It gave it a good salty flovor.

I have never tried the other SPAM flavors...One of these days?

Spam is huge in Hawaii!

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MY fave SPAM story is seeing a food bank asking for donations at the front of a store one day. I bought two cans for them.....If I had to eat it.....

**jennielynn1970** · 03-14-2009, 02:02 PM

Spam... that's like the PA Dutch Scrapple, but made out of regular pork products, not the smoked pork.

Still not very yummy. And like Spam, made out of the "scraps" of the pig.

HOWEVER... if I'm really craving food from home, I will go to my mom and dad's and have them get some of the scrapple out that their friends make when they butcher. That's the only kind I'll eat (I know what they put in it, so to speak).

I remember being really broke and eating fried spam and mustard sandwiches.

**Scooter's Mom** · 03-14-2009, 05:17 PM

My friend at work, Billie, and I have been on a Spam kick. We have been buying those little SPAM single packets and having Spamwiches for lunch. People look at us like we're crazy, but she and I have done it once a week for the past month. We're nuts.

**jennielynn1970** · 03-14-2009, 09:12 PM

Hrm... now I'm hungry for a fried spam and mustard sandwich!!

Did you notice how NOT cheap spam is lately?! I about fell over when I saw the price of it last night.

**RICHARD** · 03-15-2009, 06:36 PM

Originally Posted by jenn_librarian

Hrm... now I'm hungry for a fried spam and mustard sandwich!!

Did you notice how NOT cheap spam is lately?! I about fell over when I saw the price of it last night.

They do have the 'bargain SPAM' but it's enough to eat the Brand Name Stuff!

**Scooter's Mom** · 03-15-2009, 08:42 PM

Originally Posted by jenn_librarian

Hrm... now I'm hungry for a fried spam and mustard sandwich!!

Did you notice how NOT cheap spam is lately?! I about fell over when I saw the price of it last night.

SPAM is on sale at Walgreens this week for $2.19 a can.

**Karen** · 03-15-2009, 11:28 PM

There is no price low enough to entice me to eat Spam, thanks!
Even though I am not allergic to it.

**cassiesmom** · 03-17-2009, 08:48 AM

FN enthusiasts, did I see Adam from last year's "Next Food Network Star" on the channel recently? I think he got burned by FN when they took his idea for a show and went with it with someone else as host.