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Yes, I do have various Google alerts set up watching for food-related spam articles. Or SPAM, in this case! Without those alerts, I wouldn’t have stumbled across this deliciously described spam fried rice recipe courtesy of the Recipe Critic. A simple combination of pan-fried spam, fluffy rice, eggs, and veggies, it seems very much like your typical fried rice recipe, but the addition of the diced, salty SPAM luncheon meat kicks things up a notch and this one is going on my “gotta try this” list immediately. Spam Fried Rice Recipe | The Recipe Critic
Here’s the tiniest bit of happy news after a week of FTC compliance actions, DNS downtimes and blocklist glitches: Hormel, makers of the beloved food known as SPAM, have kindly donated more than a million dollars worth of the stuff to help Maui wildfire victims. Here’s coverage from NBC News and here’s an announcement from Hormel themselves.
Yum! Is it as delicious as it looks? Alas, we likely will never know, as it it is not real. It’s SMEAT, the fake prop meat product originally created for the movie Waterworld and later re-used in many, many other TV shows and movies.Thankfully, there’s a website where you can learn more about SMEAT: smeat.net. And where did I get this glorious screen capture? From this Youtube video: Adam Savage’s Tested: What’s Wrong With These Products? There’s fun to be had here, whether you’re a fan of movies, graphic design, or just spiced ham and pork products. Hopefully all of the above, like me. Please enjoy.Come to think of it, if the cans of SMEAT were originally made as props for a movie released in 1995, that means that they were probably created in 1994, and if they started out life as real cans of SPAM, and if those cans
Well, Figgy Pudding Spam is a thing that exists, apparently. Laurel Wamsley for National Public Radio explains that this limited edition concoction is apparently so popular, that you may have already missed your opportunity to purchase it this holiday season. Oh, well.Incidentally, the SPAM brand just turned 85 years old, says Hormel.
Well, we were warned that this was coming. Hormel’s name is conspicuously missing from the latest news article, but it sounds like Shinsegae Food’s Better Meat is indeed moving forward with a vegan SPAM-like product, and going so far as to form a US subsidiary company to assist with those efforts. Read the story here, while asking yourself, was vegan SPAM the thing missing from your life?
Lifehacker’s Claire Lower wants you to know: “Spam was made to be air fried.”She adds: “Thanks to its large amount of inherent grease, it’s one of the few foods that you can actually “fry” with nothing more than the hot, whipping winds of the air fryer.”Damn. That’s amazing. Let’s all try this ASAP! Read more here.
Slice it up thin and fry it up nice; it goes great with eggs and hash browns for breakfast. But what to do with the rest of it? Don’t forget to refrigerate the now half-filled open tin; apparently folks don’t always remember to do this! To remind yourself how to avoid this and other mistakes while preparing the delicious foodstuff that is SPAM, click on through to read “Mistakes Everyone Makes While Cooking Spam” by Samantha Maxwell for Mashed.Don’t miss the bit about the meat explosion.
From the Atlantic and WNYC: Uh…finally? The podcast you’ve been waiting for! This is “a story of America told through the history of SPAM.” In this three-part series as part of the Experiment podcast, they’ll try to answer “some of the meatiest questions the United States faces about how we work for the food we eat play out in the story of special processed American meat.” I’m not entirely sure what to make of this one. Let’s compare notes after we listen, shall we? Because there’s no way you’re not going to listen to a podcast about America’s favorite tinned meat. More info: The Atlantic | WNYC
I’m on the road this week, dealing with family stuff, and I’ve ordered BBQ twice to the hotel for dinner. I must be hungry, and I’ve got BBQ on the brain. Anyway, while the source here is not not quite the Wall Street Journal, this article from Travis Sams for WKDQ Radio managed to catch my eye. The topic: How to make (fake) burnt ends out of SPAM. I think my low sodium diet might preclude me from actually trying this one out, which is a bummer, because I like both SPAM and burnt ends, and I’m really curious about this one. Somebody among the Spam Resource readership will have to test this one out and let me know how it tastes.
I hope everyone has a happy and safe Thanksgiving Holiday. Maybe you’ve got a long weekend ahead or perhaps you’ll need to be up and ready to provide deliverability support for those Black Friday email campaigns. Either way, I hope things go smoothly and that you have a good one.I hear that supply chain issues could interfere with turkey deliveries, so don’t forget that our good friend SPAM® Oven Roasted Turkey is always available as a backup.Disclaimer: Neither I nor Spam Resource are connected to Hormel or the foodstuff known as SPAM in any way. I’m just a fan! Please don’t sue!Take care and I’ll see you back on the blog and in email soon!