Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam

[chromedome]

The notion of a Spam-carving contest put me in mind of this comedy about butter-carving competitions from a decade or so ago. Well worth watching, btw, if your sense of humor skews just that little bit dark.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1349451/

[rotuts]

@chromedome 

 

nice tip.

 

am D/L'ing now 

 

thank you 

[weinoo]

Just when you think you've seen it all...

 

Jacques and Spam (and beans)

[Anna N]

  On 6/27/2023 at 4:47 PM, weinoo said:

Just when you think you've seen it all...

 

Jacques and Spam (and beans)

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MADE MY DAY.  (The beans would have to go.)

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

I can only quote Kurtz at the end of 'Heart of Darkness' or Marlon Brando, as Kurtz, at the end of 'Apocalypse Now'...'the horror...the horror...'

 

[heidih]

The sidenote did say he was addressing people in a food deesert w/o access to fresh foods.  I just love how he uses his hands.

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

No disrespect towards Jacques Pepin. I just consider Spam two rungs below canned dog food.

I'm a home cook so I do admire his manual skills but what he does bring to mind is watching one of my late uncles who was a master carpenter/cabinet maker work with hand tools.

 

 

[weinoo]

  On 6/27/2023 at 6:19 PM, Senior Sea Kayaker said:

No disrespect towards Jacques Pepin. I just consider Spam two rungs below canned dog food.

I'm a home cook so I do admire his manual skills but what he does bring to mind is watching one of my late uncles who was a master carpenter/cabinet maker work with hand tools.

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When he does the dog food video, I'll put that up!

[rotuts]

i guess I can't get too ? instagram.

 

is this available any other way ?

 

looking foraged to it.

[gfweb]

  On 6/27/2023 at 4:47 PM, weinoo said:

Just when you think you've seen it all...

 

Jacques and Spam (and beans)

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Can you imagine  the ecstasy at Spam HQ when they saw this?

 

And @Anna N I agree about the %$# beans

[gfweb]

  On 6/27/2023 at 7:19 PM, rotuts said:

i guess I can't get too ? instagram.

 

is this available any other way ?

 

looking foraged to it.

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https://jp.foundation/video/spam-steak-on-lima-beans

 

[rotuts]

has JP lost his mind ?

 

Lima Beans ?

[Anna N]

There is not even a hint of scorn in his voice as he prepares a meal and tells of his father bringing home cans of Spam during the war and his mother stretching them to two meals. And I am sure he is aware how many millions of people still depend on Spam. 

[heidih]

  On 6/27/2023 at 7:19 PM, rotuts said:

i guess I can't get too ? instagram.

 

is this available any other way ?

 

looking foraged to it.

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I am not on instagram and comes right up for me. Google Chrome.

[chromedome]

  On 6/27/2023 at 7:59 PM, heidih said:

I am not on instagram and comes right up for me. Google Chrome.

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Ditto, in Firefox.

[weinoo]

  On 6/27/2023 at 7:33 PM, Anna N said:

There is not even a hint of scorn in his voice as he prepares a meal and tells of his father bringing home cans of Spam during the war and his mother stretching them to two meals. And I am sure he is aware how many millions of people still depend on Spam. 

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Maybe even billions?

 

In any event, you're absolutely correct that it's the story as much as the meal.

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

  On 6/27/2023 at 9:26 PM, weinoo said:

 

Maybe even billions?

 

In any event, you're absolutely correct that it's the story as much as the meal.

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Billions would be really stretching it. 

However if you're looking at the other main component of the recipe, namely legumes (beans, lentils.....) billions would be much more appropriate.

 

 

[weinoo]

  On 6/27/2023 at 10:08 PM, Senior Sea Kayaker said:

 

Billions would be really stretching it. 

However if you're looking at the other main component of the recipe, namely legumes (beans, lentils.....) billions would be much more appropriate.

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Perhaps billions don't depend on Spam; my guess is that most of them wouldn't mind getting their hands on some!

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

  On 6/27/2023 at 10:25 PM, weinoo said:

 

Perhaps billions don't depend on Spam; my guess is that most of them wouldn't mind getting their hands on some!

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Quite right.

 

[weinoo]

 

Actual Size, by Ed Ruscha (1962), on view at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC

 

  Quote

One of the best-known examples of Edward Rusha’s early works is the painting Actual Size (1962). Like his contemporaries in New York, Pop ArtistsAndy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Ruscha focused on subjects that relate to mass production and consumer culture. Actual Size focuses on a can of Spam, a staple in American society during the Cold War era. The top half of the painting depicts the giant brand name from the can of Spam, while the lower half shows the actual can of spam in its true size. The can of Spam seems to be shooting into space like a comet or a cannonball. In small print behind the can, Ruscha wrote ‘Actual Size’. The written text and the title refer to a phrase borrowed from the world of advertising, used to refer to the accuracy of the depiction.

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https://www.wikiart.org/en/edward-ruscha/actual-size-1962

Edited January 9, 2024 by weinoo (log)

[gfweb]

"a staple in the American society during the Cold War era" 

 

which would be my child and early adulthood

 

I never saw a can of spam until college.

 

Perhaps the Canadians ate it?

[Darienne]

  On 1/9/2024 at 10:03 PM, gfweb said:

"a staple in the American society during the Cold War era" 

 

which would be my child and early adulthood

 

I never saw a can of spam until college.

 

Perhaps the Canadians ate it?

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Never eaten it in my life nor even purchased it.  And I am a Canadian.  

[Shelby]

I was born in '74....I never had Spam until the middle '90's when the place I worked at held a Spam carving contest on St. Patrick's Day.  No.  I don't know why...we just thought it was funny lol.

[chromedome]

  On 1/9/2024 at 10:03 PM, gfweb said:

"a staple in the American society during the Cold War era" 

 

which would be my child and early adulthood

 

I never saw a can of spam until college.

 

Perhaps the Canadians ate it?

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I don't recall seeing it here until... I dunno, the 90s maybe? We had our homegrown equivalents, mind you, called Kam and Klik.

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

I never tried SPAM until about twenty years ago on the Big Island Hawaii. Never really noticed it in grocery stores at home. Spam musubi and fried as part of a plate lunch. Interesting to try but not a fan.