There's always time for Spam

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

I'll be honest. We ate a ton of this growing up (it was a welcomed change from beef) and I still like it. Good thing I married into a culture that worships it!

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[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

I still like me some fried Spam, not gonna lie! It's really good with eggs in the morning, mmm.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

I totally agree! I wouldn't want it every day, but nor would I want bacon or sausage (not much of a morning meat person).

[memnet.livejournal.com]

Ewwwww.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe not in this above application, but Spam sushi is very good and I do enjoy fried Spam in the morning.

[memnet.livejournal.com]

*chuckle* I have horrid memories of it from my childhood...a very long time ago. ;) Plus I still wake up screaming at thoughts of that gel stuff that clings to Spam. :D

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Yikes, that gel stuff was pretty scary, I can certainly agree with you on that. Now you know what the made the slime for "Ghostbusters" out of.

[pronker]

We also liked it as a change, and Spam day was great! I remember as a kid looking under the sink, where, in addition to the usual cleansers, there was a stack of 25 or so cans of Spam. Well, they stacked so neatly we used them as blocks ...

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

My mum used to wash the cans out and give them to me to play with. They were the perfect size for making sand bricks, pretend hay bales (for the good guys to hide behind when being hornswoggled by the Backroom Boys).

[pronker]

It's amazing what kids find fun in. Twisting the key to unseal the cans was fun, ha! And the little twirly bits of metal resulting could be made into shapes, carefully, of course.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

I didn't want to say anything about those keys. I was so fascinated by them! Even today I like to mess with them. How weird is that?

My mom never left me have the metal strips. She insisted upon protecting me - what fun is that?

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

I didn't want to say anything about those keys. I was so fascinated by them! Even today I like to mess with them. How weird is that?

My mom never left me have the metal strips. She insisted upon protecting me - what fun is that?

[pronker]

I was the middle of 4, so I got away with a lot by being under-noticed!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Oh, lucky! As the youngest, I think I got away with a lot because the parents were much older (my da was 58 when I surprised him) and they tended to leave me to my own devices. But it was also very lonely as the siblings were all out of the house before I was three, so there was never a closeness between us.

[pronker]

Some siblings find that as the kids age, the age differences smooth out, I think? At least the 18-year spread between all of us got smoothed out, and now that our last parent, Mom at 90, needs us more, the closeness happened, where it did not before.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

My oldest brother is nearly the age of your mom (he was 35 when I was born). The one sibling closest in age to me died a few years ago, so it's just my sister (19 years my senior) and my older brother. And to be honest, as long as we stay on opposite ends of the country, we get along just fine.

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

there's over 20 years between my dad's brother and their youngest sister. my grandmother was the ONLY thing that kept the family together.

kudos to your family for coming together. :)

[pronker]

That happens. Just think of the varied interests of a 10 year old and a 30 year old ... Your grandma was their anchor.

Thanks! We were all spoiled by having our mom in her home for 54 years, where we gathered and touched bases. She did not remarry after dad died, either, and that makes a big difference. Now we're spread out about 900 miles apart. Not so much compared to other families, though. Good thing there's Skype.

[bluebear2.livejournal.com]

Spam is okay. It is no different than any other luncheon meat. The main thing nowadays though is that, at least in North America, it's associated with poor people so there's that connotation.
But the stuff itself is okay.

Then there's the slang term of spam meaning email junk mail. It originally though, in the '80s and early '90s meant flooding newsgroups with the same message.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Boy, not in Hawaii. You can get it in just about every restaurant there, upscale or family style. I think it suffers from bad press. It isn't all that awful when prepared properly.

[ponitacupcake.livejournal.com]

I was wondering if you were Hawaiian.

I love SPAM, I remember liking it as a kid as it reminded me of liverwurst. In my adult life I discovered SPAM sushi, starting with onigiri.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Not by birth, but certainly by temperament. My hubby grew up there and we have family on the Big Island, so we tend to visit a lot.

[ponitacupcake.livejournal.com]

lucky you!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Yes, I don't cry very loudly when the Big Guy suggests we take a trip. We were just there in September and it was great to see everyone. One of the perks of a very good marriage.