Tried Spam for the first time today

[NikolaeVarius]

Nitrites turn into nitrosamines under heat, which are carcinogenic. That's not a "studies kind of lead to this conclusion" thing. It's a fact.

Then eat it raw. Going outside into the sun is carcinogenic. Respiration is carcinogenic.

 

[lxskllr]

Then eat it raw. Going outside into the sun is carcinogenic. Respiration is carcinogenic.

I'm just sayin'... It's more for the wienies that get their panties in a bunch over smoking, but will shove bacon in their mouths, and chase it down with some well smoked pit beef. I don't care, and fully expect to die some day, so I'm gonna enjoy my time while I'm here ;^)

 

[Carson Dyle]

It's edible out of the can, but the texture isn't my favorite - I prefer frying it since it makes the outside crispy. Got a bunch of recipes to try...shredded like tuna for spam salad sandwiches, as a ham slice for breakfast sandwiches, etc.

Taste is kind of like deli ham, but with way more salt and a more meaty flavor. It's actually quite good!

Jeezus. You sound like you just discovered that your brother-in-law can get you lobster tail or filet mignon for free. It's fuckin Spam: 78% of its calories are from fat, and just a single 2oz serving contains 33% of an adult's recommended daily salt intake. Engineered in the food lab with enough added chemicals to both taste good (like Coke and Oreos and a myriad of other wonderfully tasty crap foods) and to last years in a can. It's good tasting garbage.

 

[yuchai]

Fried spam is great, especially paired with a fried egg, rice, and some boiled cabbage. Don't add any oil when frying the spam, and don't add any seasoning to the egg or cabbage. There is enough oil and salt for everything. This was one of my favorite childhood lunch meals.

Edit: We always get the Chinese brands - I think either "Ma Ling" or "Great Wall". I think the "Great Wall" one is good in particular because it includes some actual chunks of ham within the meat, giving it better flavor & texture.

 

[madoka]

Spam is garbage.

Treet is where it's at!

You POS MFer! Because of your post, I spent the better part of this morning traveling to every supermarket, convenience store, dollar store, and drug store around me looking for Treet. I finally found it at Walmart, but I don't think they carry the Lite version. Treet has even more sodium than SPAM!

Furthermore, as a result of this thread, I also bought about $50 worth of SPAM in whatever different favors I could find. Surprisingly, the bacon favor has the least sodium; even less than SPAM Lite.

 

[brainhulk]

You POS MFer! Because of your post, I spent the better part of this morning traveling to every supermarket, convenience store, dollar store, and drug store around me looking for Treet. I finally found it at Walmart, but I don't think they carry the Lite version. Treet has even more sodium than SPAM!

Furthermore, as a result of this thread, I also bought about $50 worth of SPAM in whatever different favors I could find. Surprisingly, the bacon favor has the least sodium; even less than SPAM Lite.

$50 = bulk...

Damn that's alot of spam

 

[zinfamous]

You POS MFer! Because of your post, I spent the better part of this morning traveling to every supermarket, convenience store, dollar store, and drug store around me looking for Treet. I finally found it at Walmart, but I don't think they carry the Lite version. Treet has even more sodium than SPAM!

Furthermore, as a result of this thread, I also bought about $50 worth of SPAM in whatever different favors I could find. Surprisingly, the bacon favor has the least sodium; even less than SPAM Lite.

Oh....

I am so, so sorry, sir. That was meant as a joke, and not to be taken seriously.

I would never ever, ever, never never under good conscience recommend to anyone that they put "Treet" in their bodies.

It's pretty good for carp fishing, though. :thumbsup:

 

[madoka]

Oh....

I am so, so sorry, sir. That was meant as a joke, and not to be taken seriously.

I would never ever, ever, never never under good conscience recommend to anyone that they put "Treet" in their bodies.

NNOOOOOOOOO!

I should have known. Something tastier and cheaper than SPAM sounded too good to be true!

 

[zinfamous]

NNOOOOOOOOO!

I should have known. Something tastier and cheaper than SPAM sounded too good to be true!

dude--it's called TREET ffs.




I thought it was obvious enough.

 

[Kaido]

I am so, so sorry, sir. That was meant as a joke, and not to be taken seriously.

I would never ever, ever, never never under good conscience recommend to anyone that they put "Treet" in their bodies.

I am seriously rofling here, hahahaha

 

[zinfamous]

I am seriously rofling here, hahahaha

I assumed the image that I linked was properly revolting. Oh well. :\

btw--don't you have that crazy super-healthy and ultra-limited diet?

Spam is ok, eh?

:hmm:

 

[madoka]

dude--it's called TREET ffs.




I thought it was obvious enough.

Yes, TREET as in I'd like to TREET myself to this delicious canned meat!

Dude, you need to learn to use smilies when you're joking!

On a serious note, as I was driving around for three hours this morning looking for Treet, I told everyone who called me what I was doing. Oh the explaining I'm going to have to do!

 

[Kaido]

78% of its calories are from fat, and just a single 2oz serving contains 33% of an adult's recommended daily salt intake. Engineered in the food lab with enough added chemicals to both taste good (like Coke and Oreos and a myriad of other wonderfully tasty crap foods) and to last years in a can. It's good tasting garbage.

It only has 6 ingredients:

1. Pork with Ham
2. Salt
3. Water
4. Potato Starch (keeps the meat moist)
5. Sugar
6. Sodium Nitrite (keeps the meat pink instead of gray)

Versus an Oreo's ingredients:

SUGAR, ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE {VITAMIN B1}, RIBOFLAVIN {VITAMIN B2}, FOLIC ACID), HIGH OLEIC CANOLA OIL AND/OR PALM OIL AND/OR CANOLA OIL AND/OR SOYBEAN OIL, COCOA (PROCESSES WITH ALKALI), HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, LEAVENING (BAKING SODA AND/OR CALCIUM PHOSPHATE), CORNSTARCH, SALT, SOY LECITHIN(EMULSIFIER), VANILLIN-AN ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, CHOCOLATE. CONTAINS: WHEAT, SOY.

 

[Kaido]

I assumed the image that I linked was properly revolting. Oh well. :\

btw--don't you have that crazy super-healthy and ultra-limited diet?

Spam is ok, eh?

:hmm:

Surprisingly, yup! (which is why I'm overly excited that it's actually pretty good lol)

Most deli meats have gluten in them, so it's nice to have some zero-effort meat to eat.

 

[zinfamous]

Yes, TREET as in I'd like to TREET myself to this delicious canned meat!

Dude, you need to learn to use smilies when you're joking!

On a serious note, as I was driving around for three hours this morning looking for Treet, I told everyone who called me what I was doing. Oh the explaining I'm going to have to do!

oh this gets better and better. sorry man.


(btw--it's "treat," not "treet" No one wants to "treet" themselves to anything. I wouldn't even know what that means...Kinda like how no one really should be eating "Cheez")

 

[zinfamous]

Surprisingly, yup! (which is why I'm overly excited that it's actually pretty good lol)

Most deli meats have gluten in them, so it's nice to have some zero-effort meat to eat.

you actually have celiacs though, right--and are not one of those crackpots that was life-coached into thinking that gluten is the devil?

that's actually cool to know about spam. :hmm:

 

[Kaido]

you actually have celiacs though, right--and are not one of those crackpots that was life-coached into thinking that gluten is the devil?

that's actually cool to know about spam. :hmm:

Nope, I don't have Celiac's, just a crack pot with a crock pot :awe:

 

[Kaido]

(btw--it's "treat," not "treet" No one wants to "treet" themselves to anything. I wouldn't even know what that means...Kinda like how no one really should be eating "Cheez")

http://beautybydolly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/treatyoself_main01.jpg

 

[madoka]

oh this gets better and better. sorry man.


(btw--it's "treat," not "treet" No one wants to "treet" themselves to anything. I wouldn't even know what that means...Kinda like how no one really should be eating "Cheez")

To be frank, I saw your avatar and assumed that Treet was some sort of secret hillbilly deliciousness that I was not aware of. I even emailed the parent company last night trying to figure out where I could buy it! Since they didn't respond, I took matters into my own hands and started hitting every store I could think of.

 

[zinfamous]

Nope, I don't have Celiac's, just a crack pot with a crock pot :awe:

oh, that's a shame. You really should get back on gluten, then. You know that it is less than 1% of the population that actually have a legitimate problem with gluten, right?

There is no real medical data that distinguishes "gluten effect" from placebo....

There is this restaurant by crackpots, for crackpots that just opened here (Berkeley, of course), that is 100% gluten free, with special fans and filters to extract and trap all of the "free-roaming gluten" from the outside environment, no one is allowed to carry any bread into the store, you can't have touched any bread in the last day...etc etc. it goes on. I understand a restaurant for special needs service for people that have a legit condition...but who thinks it is a good idea to open a restaurant that really only serves less than 1% of people in the world?

These are legit wackadoos. (of course, the property was previously a dingy Chinese takeout shop for the last ~decades--so not even filters crafted by Thor himself will ever remove the gluten from this horrible place)

You'd love it, I guess.

 

[Kaido]

oh, that's a shame. You really should get back on gluten, then. You know that it is less than 1% of the population that actually have a legitimate problem with gluten, right?

There is no real medical data that distinguishes "gluten effect" from placebo....

I've never really understood why people would willingly go off gluten. Then again, I'm not a girl & just being skinny by cutting it out of my diet isn't a huge draw for me. Gluten is awesome: deli meats, pizza crusts, hot dog buns, hamburger buns, toast, waffles, pancakes, cupcakes, calzones...if it didn't make me sick, I would eat it every day

Right now, there is no accurate test for a gluten intolerance. Sometimes you test positive on the IgE test, sometimes not - whereas with Celiacs, if you have Celiac sprue in your gut, it's easy to tell with an endoscopy test. My problems are more psychological than physical on gluten, which are currently not things you can really test for...brain fog, ADHD, severe anxiety, feeling cold all the time, extreme fatigue, etc. A bunch of hypochondriac stuff that goes away a few days after I stop eating gluten, and comes back within minutes or hours after consuming gluten. It's basically like Stomach.exe sucks up 100% of the brain CPU power until it clears my system...all of the other processes choke...temperature regulation, adrenaline dispersion, etc. all get screwed up. Took me a long time to pinpoint the root cause. Perfectly healthy now that I know what foods to avoid. Go figure

 

[zinfamous]

I've never really understood why people would willingly go off gluten. Then again, I'm not a girl & just being skinny by cutting it out of my diet isn't a huge draw for me. Gluten is awesome: deli meats, pizza crusts, hot dog buns, hamburger buns, toast, waffles, pancakes, cupcakes, calzones...if it didn't make me sick, I would eat it every day

Right now, there is no accurate test for a gluten intolerance. Sometimes you test positive on the IgE test, sometimes not - whereas with Celiacs, if you have Celiac sprue in your gut, it's easy to tell with an endoscopy test. My problems are more psychological than physical on gluten, which are currently not things you can really test for...brain fog, ADHD, severe anxiety, feeling cold all the time, extreme fatigue, etc. A bunch of hypochondriac stuff that goes away a few days after I stop eating gluten, and comes back within minutes or hours after consuming gluten. It's basically like Stomach.exe sucks up 100% of the brain CPU power until it clears my system...all of the other processes choke...temperature regulation, adrenaline dispersion, etc. all get screwed up. Took me a long time to pinpoint the root cause. Perfectly healthy now that I know what foods to avoid. Go figure

I am 100% certain that you could be eating gluten all day, every day, and never get sick. As long as you thought everything was gluten free.

There are no accurate tests for gluten intolerance, because it doesn't really exist. Several double-blind studies have rather convincingly destroyed this latest asinine diet craze. "Gluten Intolerance" is almost completely propagated by life coaches and fly-by-night diet of the month scammers.

It really isn't a medical or sound nutrition term. It's the exact same thing as "MSG intolerance": Never happened.

 

[Kaido]

I am 100% certain that you could be eating gluten all day, every day, and never get sick. As long as you thought everything was gluten free.

Well, there's also the gas of death, so come on over & let's eat some bread in the same room :awe:

 

[zinfamous]

Well, there's also the gas of death, so come on over & let's eat some bread in the same room :awe:

Are you into that Soylent stuff? Because apparently that sends you farting for weeks once you start working your way through that goo.

 

[zinfamous]

To be frank, I saw your avatar and assumed that Treet was some sort of secret hillbilly deliciousness that I was not aware of. I even emailed the parent company last night trying to figure out where I could buy it! Since they didn't respond, I took matters into my own hands and started hitting every store I could think of.

hey! Pigpen was not a hillbilly. If anything, he was a dirty hippie/blues man!



also, I'm starting to doubt the veracity of your Treet hunt. :hmm: