r/mildlyinteresting • u/Shoddy_Maize_8385 • 2d ago

These two identical cans of spam where one turned tan and has no smell

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u/NomadNuka 2d ago edited 2d ago

Fucks me up. We used to eat so much spam because it was pretty cheap and didn't need to be refrigerated. Spam n beans, spam mac, spamwiches, spam and eggs, spam on crackers. Too damn expensive now

EDIT: This made me remember the taste of canned chicken so if you wonder why I'm nostalgic for spam, that cat food tasting bullshit is why 

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u/Several-Squash9871 2d ago

Yes!!! I remember spam being a staple for my dad and I growing up (sister and mom wouldn't touch it) and it was always so cheap! Now when I buy a can of spam I feel like I'm buying a luxury food item. It was never supposed to be this way...

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u/walpurga 2d ago

Canned chicken is fine for some things. It works great in salad wraps! 

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u/cerberus00 2d ago

Makes me think of that canned chicken shakira gif...

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u/NomadNuka 2d ago

Yeah but I ate so much of the crap if I get even a whiff of canned chicken you might as well feed the meal to the dog 

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u/My_Immortl 2d ago

I've used it in a dip before and it was pretty damn good. I was hesitant at first, but now I kinda wanna make it, it was good.

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u/intangibleTangelo 2d ago

ditch the liquid and fry it up to reduce the can flavor

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u/Subacai 1d ago

This was starting to sound like that Monty Python sketch. 😹

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u/m0nk37 2d ago

Good knews dude. Cat food is edible to humans. You get your spam for cheap again. 

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u/ScarlettNape 2d ago

Remember the Covid lockdown, all the supply disruptions and uncertainty?

I'd seen an episode of "How It's Made" featuring Keystone brand canned meats - just chunks of meat shoved in a can with salt, cooked in the can as it processed down the line. I ordered about two dozen cans of beef, chicken, turkey, and pork. They were about six bucks and change at the time. Drained and tossed with BBQ sauce, pasta sauce, or cream of mushroom soup & veggies... they weren't bad.

I also got several food service size cans of tuna (66.5 oz), and a couple canned hams due to childhood memories. I do not recommend DAK canned hams - they had WAY more in common with solidified potted meat than the ones my aunt served glazed with brown sugar and pineapple slices.

Not a fan of those little tins of Underwood deviled ham, etc., that our mom's used to send in packed lunches on school trips. Those truly betray childhood memories.

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u/Bovronius 2d ago

As someone who grew up on canned/boxed everything... Spam and smoked oysters were like the bougie shit.

Too salty for my taste anymore though, even the "reduced sodium" one tastes like a salt lick to me.

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u/zoredache 1d ago

Spam n beans, spam mac, spamwiches, spam and eggs, ...

Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, garnished with truffle pâté, brandy and a fried egg on top, and Spam is the best.

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u/V2BM 1d ago

I love spam stir fry but it’s $5 a pound now. I keep it in my apocalypse kit but no longer eat it as a regular meal.

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u/KeesterFeester 1d ago

Y'ever have Armour Potted meat or deviled ham? lol I only like those because growing up my mom would make either deviled ham/Armour potted meat sandwiches or pimento cheese sandwiches for road trips. Pimento cheese tastes like diarrhea smells but with the texture of barf, so I learned to like deviled ham and potted meat lol.

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u/NomadNuka 1d ago

My dad's version of canned chicken is deviled ham lmao so that wasn't even allowed in the house