spring flowers and good food

[fredk]

Here there are different levels of Spam; from the downright awful you wouldn't feed to your dog to the quite tasty stuff. All come in tins. The awful kind has loads of jelliefied fats but the nice stuff has minimal fat. I mostly avoid eating it as it reminds me of taking a packed sandwiches lunch to primary school

This may be a measure of how it is disliked here; In the 1970s we had a national strike for 3 months. Everything became near impossible to buy due to shortages. But not spam. The shops always had plenty of stock of that! 

[toxo]

13 minutes ago, fredk said:

Here there are different levels of Spam; from the downright awful you wouldn't feed to your dog to the quite tasty stuff. All come in tins. The awful kind has loads of jelliefied fats but the nice stuff has minimal fat. I mostly avoid eating it as it reminds me of taking a packed sandwiches lunch to primary school

This may be a measure of how it is disliked here; In the 1970s we had a national strike for 3 months. Everything became near impossible to buy due to shortages. But not spam. The shops always had plenty of stock of that! 

Whilst I can take or leave spam as is, I'm quite partial to a spam fritter.

[chuck123wapati]

On 8/17/2025 at 10:33 PM, Handstitched said:

@chuck123wapati you've convinced me, i'll give the ol bunky bbq a rebuild .

Our spam comes in a nicely formed lump out of a tin and can be sliced, just like corned beef in a tin , full of fat and God knows what else, a vegos  worst nightmare, that and black pudding, ha! But they taste great 👍 

HS

heck yea you have a nice summer coming up to enjoy some good eats.

Dont get me going on that corned beef, I love me some hash, and eggs for breakfast.  I usually corn a couple of elk roasts every year if I have enough but they don't last long lol. We have one on St. Patrick's day. I've gotta start wrenching on the burb, summer is about over, and the mornings are getting brisk. The hummingbirds are starting to thin out last week we had about a dozen at the feeders now we only have one or two. They were eating over a pint of nectar every day its crazy how much they eat getting ready for thier adventure.