On Wednesday, December 19, 2018 at 5:36:13 AM UTC-10, graham wrote:
> On 2018-12-19 2:15 a.m., Fruitiest of Fruitcakes wrote:
> > On 19 Dec 2018, Ophelia wrote
> > (in article >):
> >
> >>
> >> "Nancy2" wrote in message
> >> ...
> >>
> >> Gary, when I was a young married (1962), we would often have Spam slices,
> >> browned and crispy
> >> on one side, flipped, and browned on the other...but when I turned them
> >> over, I would spoon on a
> >> little drained crushed pineapple and a little bit of brown sugar. It was
> >> really good that way...making
> >> myself hungry for it, talking about it.
> >>
> >> OTOH, I had a 6th grade classmate (we were in Bowling Green, KY then) whose
> >> mom fixed her
> >> lunch every day, and it was always white sandwich bread with a slab of Spam
> >> for the filling. Cold,
> >> not even cooked, no spread...looked awful to me. I never tried that combo.
> >> ;-))
> >>
> >> N.
> >> ==
> >>
> >> I only learned here about frying spam) I always fry it in soy sauce till
> >> crispy
> >>
> >> I will certainly be trying it with crushed pineapple and brown sugar)
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >
> > Spam isnt that bad eaten cold. I buy those big round wraps in packs
> > (because they can be frozen for a short time) and slice up spam into small
> > strips, add veg of my choice (cucumber, tomato, etc.) I have various sauces
> > that I brush on the wrap (ketchup, barbecue, garlic mayonnaise - one each
> > time, not mix them up) add the spam/veg filling, and just roll it up and cut
> > into two pieces.
> >
> > It makes for a varied lunch; and the grandchildren love them.
> >
> > However, I prefer it fried and occasionally fry it in batter to bring back
> > distant memories of school dinners.
> >
> >
> "Let me not to the contents of thy can"
>
> Let me not to the contents of thy can
> Add any condiments. Spam is not Spam
> When altered by unbalanced minds,
> Or flaked when the remover doth remove:
> O no; it is the ever-fixèd pork,
> Uncooked, ungarnished, and by Time undinted;
> It is like gold to every plundering fork,
> Whose worth's unknown, although its price be printed.
> Spams not uncool, though rosy-hued and cheap
> And from it oily trickles constant come;
> Spam alters not, doth neither wake nor sleep,
> Its worth cries out though it be deaf and dumb.
> If this be error, and such claims a sham,
> Neer have I writ, and neer man ate of Spam.

Thank you for finally bringing some needed class to this joint!