Funny how now when people talk about Spam they're usually talking about something to do with junk mail. How they got spammed by some site selling porn or Viagra or advising you that you've won the Nigerian lottery.
Recently I have several several encounters with a SPAM of a different sort, the original spam as I would like to think of it, the luncheon meat made mostly of ham and discarded pork products.
It was on my way to Vanessa's Dumpling House one night this week when I noticed a new Hot Pot place with a window filled with bright pink and orange cards in Chinese and English advertising the various kinds of hot pots available. It was the SPAM one that caught my eye. Sure I've seen SPAM on menus in many Vietnamese restaurants, which I assumed was a hold over from the war, as I always thought that SPAM was a standard ration, it kept well in it's cute tin container and was a cheap substitute for pate, which the earlier colonial powers, the French, had introduced years before.
Then I went into my local Chinese grocery store to buy some coconut milk and there before me were shelves upon shelves of SPAM and it's imitators!
It's not surprising there are several web sites dedicated SPAM, which was first introduced in 1937. A lot of websites are dedicated to SPAM recipes and along the way there is some interesting SPAM trivia like apparently the name was a smash up of spiced and ham...
lastly once out of the SPAM section of the grocery store I saw this bottle of Tendorizer which I fully expected to be MSG, so I was shocked to see that the only ingredient in this bottle was : Papaya Powder
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