I have a hangover. I bought these little single slices of spam in a CVS on a trip to the US recently. You also need to get Pam imported from the states as you can’t buy it here. There were also frozen hashbrown triangles baking in the oven at the time of this photo, and a slice of sourdough bread in the toaster.
What would be the closest ‘meat product’ to Spam where you live?
Far as I remember, Spam is some kind of ham blend, maybe more basic than bratwurst, let’s say.
I’m in Singas, and there’s a Danish canned pork (luncheon meat) that we buy on occasion. It’s cheaper and better tasting than spam.
https://nutritionandingredients.com/spam/
ps very different flavor profile, brats to spam. brautwurst is spiced in a very specific way that tastes like bratwurst, which of course tastes different than bockwurst or weißwurst.
spam tastes like spam… its just a specific spice mix in the meat slurry.
spam tends to be a finer ground than lots of brauts ive had in germany. varies by make of course.
the phillipino ma-ling one is far more coarse with little blocks of fat and denser bits speckled throughout
So you’re a world traveler, eh? You must have seen plenty of interesting food & cultural items.
I haven’t been back to Europe since… shit, it’s been over 30yrs, now. :S
dang sounds like its time to come back around. obviously really good and diverse food all over europe… I find northern germany to be terribly underrated food wise
Huh, I’ve only been to Österreich, and only briefly at that. (had some great Viennese Schnitzel while there as a teen, would not repeat nowadays as someone who respects my fellow animals)
So… what do you like about N. German cuisine, if you don’t mind my asking?
so its a lot of pork and potatoes and gravy… red cabbage (shredded, cooked forever, seasoned with butter etc). like the best meat and potatoes dishes ive ever had. itd be lost on you as a vegetarian id say. good on you, I try to reduce meat intake a bit. not terribly successfully
I’m mainly vegetarian, but I like meat here and there, at least as my excuse for still eating meat, getting complete proteins and all, yadayada.
Over here, I do love cabbage & potats, and curried gravy. I don’t usually slow-cook my food, but you are seriously making a case of my reconsidering my cooking life. :S
theres a dish called schweinshaxe, which is a ham hock served with cabbage and potato dumplings in bavaria which is absolutely devastating https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweinshaxe
im not wild about anything curry, which is why my wife orders indian take out when im away
honestly you can get something very similar here, ma-ling comes to mind. its phillipino but its shipped all over the world
https://www.asiamarket.ie/maling-luncheon-meat-340g.html
One thing I miss to hell where I live now is a chain Asian supermarket named “H-Mart.” I’m trying to remember back whether they might have had this…
At the same I see it’s actually a product of Holland?
yes, I stand corrected, looks like its made in holland, its popular in the phillipines, not made there.
thats probably better for quality control, just a guess
Okay, thanks.
I didn’t mean to be rude, but I’m not totally familiar with this stuff.
Appreciate you explaining. ❤️
no no, I didnt take it as rude, youre totally right :)
A lot of Asian markets, at least around me, carry kind of a lot of spam and spam-like products (often called something like “luncheon meat”)
I think a lot of it has to do with the US military having a big presence in Asia during WWII, Korea, Vietnam, etc. and still having sizable bases in Japan and Korea. They brought spam with them and it made its way into the local diet from there.
It’s big in a lot of Pacific islands for basically that same reason.
Damn, that’s… kinda heavy. oO