Comments on: Blecch: Spam Prices Rising

By: Schizohedron

Schizohedron — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:05:00 +0000

SPAM = Squirrel, Possum, And Mice.

By: Dromedaryhump

Dromedaryhump — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:52:27 +0000

served SPAM for dinner by your employer???

What does that tell you about your value to the company? If I were the recipient of a SPAM dinner I’d get my resume updated. I don’t care if it was smothered in caviar. It’s like putting lipstick on an infected pig.

By: Jim D

Jim D — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:17:38 +0000

During the really crap years of the ’70s, my family would have spam about once a week. We’d also buy a single chicken that would feed a family of four for 3 meals.

Happy days are here again…

BTW – spam will kill a venus fly trap because of the salt content. The plant isn’t designed to eat that much salt at the top, just the bottom.

By: lunatic fringe

lunatic fringe — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:36:42 +0000

Will it be the bottom when Friskies and Tender Vittles are undergoing increasing demand and Spam sales are declining?

By: Mike Nomad

Mike Nomad — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:25:44 +0000

SPAM. Ugh. That stuff is ass in a can. Actually, it’s Shoulder Portion, Added Meat. But, I digress…
My dog wouldn’t even eat it, and that’s after I heated it (the SPAM) up nice in a skillet, little scorch marks and all. I’ll go vegetarian before I’m down to making SPAM a dietary staple.

Can we just get this all over with and move straight on to Soylent Green?

By: daveNYC

daveNYC — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:25:02 +0000

And it’s a $1.99 for 12oz of Vienna Sausage (chicken and pork). The chicken only version is $1.80 for those looking to avoid treyf food. Obviously we’re defining treyf waaaayyy down.

@zackattack: You check out the sodium content for that stuff?

Americans don’t really eat healthy under the best or circumstances, if people start eating SPAM and its equivalents, this recession could have even more fun long term fallout in the form of increased heart disease and diabetes.

By: Barley

Barley — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:20:06 +0000

Hawaiian Treat!!

At first, I found it odd that I was invited over to dinner at the home of the Director who managed HI for the firm we both worked for, and was told we were having Spam. But you know what I loved it. Fried w/ honey mustard poured all over. Per capita this territory is know for Spam consumption.

And for those who like to keep emergency kits in the home Spam can last for up to three years!

As far as killing a plant, it was probably the salt. Give it a piece of a McBurger and you would probably have the same result.

By: zackattack

zackattack — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:45:48 +0000

Here’s why I won’t eat Spam, ever again.

Absolutely true story:

One of my bachelor plants was a Venus Flytrap. One night, I ran out of hamburger for it. The only meat product in the house was a can of Spam on the shelf.

I opened it, tore off a tiny piece of one corner, fed it to my plant.

I went away for 20 minutes to shower. When I returned, my flytrap was not just dead; but dry, dessicated, mummified, crispy.

I figure anything that can kill a plant evolved to thrive in brackish swamps would probably do terrible things to my innards.

One additional comment: I suspect Armour Treet will be the ultimate inferior good in this space. I just did shopping/forensic research and noted the following prices:

- 12 oz can SPAM: 2.39
- 12 oz can private-label SPAM clone: 1.92
- 12 oz Armour Treet: 1.25

By: DonKei

DonKei — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:43:58 +0000

If some folks think the worst thing to come out of these “crises du jour” in the economy is that some more people choose to eat spam than would have otherwise, I’d say we are awfully, awfully rich, yet sadly unaware of our good fortune.

Spam is delicious if you are hungry, as are many other foods we snub our pampered noses at.

By: BustaMove

BustaMove — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:34:46 +0000

To: grumpyoldvet

“Spam” is a portmanteau, not an acronym. Just like the El Camino would be a Trar (or Cruck)