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whm1974 wrote:As much as I like Spam, I do have some issues with Hormel.
1) Some varieties like the low sodium and the spread, and some flavors use mechanical separated chicken(or pork). Please stop doing that. Stuff like that doesn't belong in a decent quality product.
whm1974 wrote:2) My biggest issue is that the other flavor varieties are not widely available in budget stores and those dollar places. Why not? I would also like them to bring back different flavors of the spread as well, like the onion and chives they had 12 or 13 years ago.
just brew it! wrote:whm1974 wrote:2) My biggest issue is that the other flavor varieties are not widely available in budget stores and those dollar places. Why not? I would also like them to bring back different flavors of the spread as well, like the onion and chives they had 12 or 13 years ago.
If there was sufficient demand for them to make a profit selling the other flavors more widely they would. They seem to be marketed and sold regionally, where those flavors have sizable followings. The grocery business is very cutthroat when it comes to competition for shelf footage and optimum (eye level) product placement. For niche products that simply aren't particularly popular in most parts of the country, I don't see it happening.
whm1974 wrote:As much as I like Spam, I do have some issues with Hormel.
1) Some varieties like the low sodium and the spread, and some flavors use mechanical separated chicken(or pork). Please stop doing that. Stuff like that doesn't belong in a decent quality product...
...2) My biggest issue is that the other flavor varieties are not widely available in budget stores and those dollar places. Why not? I would also like them to bring back different flavors of the spread as well, like the onion and chives they had 12 or 13 years ago.
trackerben wrote:whm1974 wrote:As much as I like Spam, I do have some issues with Hormel.
1) Some varieties like the low sodium and the spread, and some flavors use mechanical separated chicken(or pork). Please stop doing that. Stuff like that doesn't belong in a decent quality product...
I had no idea that these may contain chicken. Thanks for the FYI....2) My biggest issue is that the other flavor varieties are not widely available in budget stores and those dollar places. Why not? I would also like them to bring back different flavors of the spread as well, like the onion and chives they had 12 or 13 years ago.
Try the places where your Chicano and Chinese neighbors go shopping. You might find the Black Pepper, Teriyaki, and Tocino varieties at groceries similar to "99 Ranch", a chain in southern California.
JustAnEngineer wrote:There's been another recall:
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2018/05 ... 527434371/
christos_thski wrote:Never, ever, cooked.
christos_thski wrote:I ate simply too much of the stuff, baked in large oven pans, while serving in the army (the draftees called it "godzilla meat" as in "mystery meat")... Got over the aversion to it only recently, many years later... and now I even voluntarily eat it ...sometimes. Mainly when I have to eat at 4 am or something, and all takeout/delivery joints are closed. Usually with omelette. Never cooked though.
Never, ever, cooked.
just brew it! wrote:I guess that's a hint?
just brew it! wrote:IMO it has an undeserved bad reputation. Sure, it's unhealthy (high fat, high salt). But so are a lot of other foods that are far more popular, like fast food burgers, hot dogs, ham, and bacon.
Think of Spam as a canned, pork-based, salty meatloaf... maybe that makes it more palatable to you, or maybe not (depending on your prior opinion of it). But that's essentially what it is...
...As an ingredient, it can work in the right context (e.g. the above mentioned Spam musubi).
Aranarth wrote:BTw I like it, you can fry it up all kinds of stuff.
Quick fact the British version of Spam is called "corned beef", rather different than the corned beef you can by here in the midwest which more like a lunch meat.
Captain Ned wrote:Ah, Hormel canned corned beef hash. Lovely hangover remedy.
just brew it! wrote:No, not the hash. The straight corned beef. Upper right pic on this page: https://www.libbysmeats.com/
whm1974 wrote:just brew it! wrote:No, not the hash. The straight corned beef. Upper right pic on this page: https://www.libbysmeats.com/
Does Libby taste any better then Hormel's brand of Canned Corn Beef and Corn Beef Hash? I don't mind eating the hash, but the canned corn beef doesn't taste right at all... The texture is all wrong compared to Spam. Not that Spam tastes all that great, but... Well I suppose canned corn beef is better then Treet, by half again...