Random tidbits of the day: SPAM

All you need to know about SPAM. This entry is dedicated to the canned meat -- SPAM, not email SPAM. But while I am researching for this entry, I realized that I have no idea what SPAM stands for in the email sense and, for some odd reason, the origin of the term SPAM in that usage wasn't easy to find. But for those of you who has a curious mind for useless knowledge, here's a link:

Origin of the term "spam" to mean net abuse

Now back to what I originally meant to say...

My Filipino friend made me some spicy SPAM musubi. Many of you might not know what musubi is as it is original to Hawaii. Here's a picture of SPAM musubi (again, a decent picture of it was impossible to find on the web so I finally have to take my own):



My friend used these spicy Tobasco flavored SPAM in her musubi. Frankly, I never know that SPAM comes in more than more flavor. A quick search on Amazon generated the following results. For the ingorants like myself, there are:

Turkey SPAM



Hickory Smoke SPAM



Hot & Spicy SPAM



SPAM with Cheese (ugh)



and the very disturbing SPREADABLE SPAM (just the idea of spreadable meat....)



Please refer to their official website for a complete list of SPAM products.

Just when I thought I was nuts to have a blog entry on SPAM, I found someone equally as crazy, if not more so, than me.

A Tale of Two Spams

This guy (girl?) not only blogged about these new SPAM products when the first appeared in 05, s/he also have complete pictures of him/her cooking them... =.=

Unfortunately, our local Safeway carries ALL kinds of SPAM except the spicy ones. Amazon sells them in pack of 6. Who would want to buy 6 cans of SPAM at one time? Just went back to check, the last pack was sold on Amazon. :( I officially am unable to purchase spicy SPAM anywhere. :( (Okay, I have not yet scouted out ALL grocers in my nearby vicinity...)

While reading about what SPAM are made of, I have also learned the term Mechanically separated meat (MSM) which is also known as mechanically recovered meat (MRM), as opposed to Advanced Meat Recovery.... Okay, I think that concludes all-I-ever-need-to-know-about-SPAM.