Bushwalk Australia

SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM... & MORE SPAM!

What is your favourite SPAM recipe?







I like my SPAM fried and on rice toast...

The musubi is the ultimate bush walking snack!

The typical musubi will consist of Spam, sushi rice, furikake (those tasty sweet/salty sprinkles you often see in Japanese restaurants) and nori. A slice of Spam is fried, often with a splash of teriyaki sauce, then laid atop a pile of sushi rice that has been dusted with furikake. A strip of nori (dried, roasted seaweed) encircles the whole thing, which is pressed into a cube. This is done to compress the musubi into a condensed, portable “sandwich.”

I just like Spam with" real bacon" and eggs or even cold as a nightime munchie with pickled onions and Kalmatta olives and quaffing wine

I hate to admit it but I still pack the odd can of Camp Pie.

Me too.....

I have no shame about my love of Spam. It's hearty, cheap, keeps well and spreads its flavour with aplomb. Apparently it is so popular in Hawaii as a comfort food, both McDonald's and Burger King make a Spam n' eggs breakfast menu item sold only on the islands. I like it cubed in fried rice. Have not tried it on the trail, I think if I did it'd be used how I normally use salami, but salami does everything Spam does only better. It goes without saying I think salami is the food of the gods. Spam's good, but it's not that good.

NY Times article on the McDs/BK Hawaiian Spam wars:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/busin ... .html?_r=0

quill wrote:Hawaiian Spam wars

ROFLMAO

quill wrote:McDonald's make a Spam burger sold only on the islands.

Oh wow, I can taste it now...

http://www.spam.com/recipes/Hawaiian-SP ... -Hamburger



Yum Yum...

Zone-5 wrote:

quill wrote:McDonald's make a Spam burger sold only on the islands.

http://www.spam.com/recipes/Hawaiian-SP ... -Hamburger



Yum Yum...

Looks amazing - I edited my original post after a quick search proved it's a Spam and eggs breakfast platter rather than a burger (though I'd go for the burger any day of the week) - I added a NY Times link with a lot more information.

And OP - your musubi gets a special mention in the NY Times article, apparently it's sold in convenience stores in Hawaii like we have sausage rolls here in Oz (AND my love of Spam fried rice gets a mention)!

'Spam "musubi" - a slice of Spam atop a block of rice and wrapped in seaweed - is sold at nearly every convenience store, including 7-Eleven. Spam fried rice is a local classic'.

Here's the link again, for convenience (pun not intended but I'll take it).

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/busin ... .html?_r=0

quill wrote:'Spam "musubi" - a slice of Spam atop a block of rice and wrapped in seaweed - is sold at nearly every convenience store, including 7-Eleven.

Wow, perhaps Australia should get commercially on board with this...

Zone-5 wrote:

quill wrote:'Spam "musubi" - a slice of Spam atop a block of rice and wrapped in seaweed - is sold at nearly every convenience store, including 7-Eleven.

Wow, perhaps Australia should get commercially on board with this...

I like the way you think - make it with roo meat, call it the Bounce Burger, profit.

quill wrote:I like the way you think - make it with roo meat...

Call it SKAM instead of SPAM!

Zone-5 wrote:

quill wrote:I like the way you think - make it with roo meat...

Call it SKAM instead of SPAM!

hahaha - we have a winner!

quill wrote:

Zone-5 wrote:

quill wrote:I like the way you think - make it with roo meat...

Call it SKAM instead of SPAM!

hahaha - we have a winner!

eh... might have already been done!

Love spam. Lightly toasted you cant beat it

Zone-5 wrote:

That's terrifying. And I will eat pretty much anything put in front of me.

Yummo

My experience is that the appeal to the palate of tinned camp pie, corned beef, and spam increases in inverse proportion to the availability of alternative food.

I have my doubts about any canned food, except perhaps yummy luxuries, being any hiker's friend.

stry wrote:I have my doubts about any canned food, except perhaps yummy luxuries, being any hiker's friend.

I like canned food having on my very first school hike having a hike partner secretly eat all our food on the first camp night on a 4 day bush trek!

I've luvved canned grub since...

I also have carried a memorable show knife on every hike after that!

quill wrote:
That's terrifying. And I will eat pretty much anything put in front of me.

Your challenge for this week -.......

Actually I thought it was a joke posted on my fb, but apparently not.

Coincidentally read this thread when I was looking to see whether anyone in Oz sells Spam in the sachet/pouch style packaging, rather than in a tin:



http://www.spam.com/varieties/spam-single-classic

I came across this in my travels last year, but didn't know if it was even available in Aust. I've previously bought the tuna sachets/pouches like these http://www.safcol.com.au/products/tuna/ ... lli-sauce/ for bushwalking, but have never spotted Spam in a pouch.

Ive not seen it but it sounds great!

yep, SAFCOL do a great Chilli Tuna...

keithy wrote:Coincidentally read this thread when I was looking to see whether anyone in Oz sells Spam in the sachet/pouch style packaging, rather than in a tin:



http://www.spam.com/varieties/spam-single-classic

I came across this in my travels last year, but didn't know if it was even available in Aust. I've previously bought the tuna sachets/pouches like these http://www.safcol.com.au/products/tuna/ ... lli-sauce/ for bushwalking, but have never spotted Spam in a pouch.

Was available a few years ago ,can't remember what Hormel advised when I queried them but suspect is was something to do with low demand.