Posted on 02/22/2013 10:31:50 AM PST by Kartographer
If we keep talking about it, one day we might actually jinx Hormel's (HRL) stock -- but we're not there yet.
Shares of the Austin, Minn., food company were up 1.6% Thursday to $36.74, a level that, if it holds, would be an all-time closing high. This came after the maker of Spam, bacon and canned chili raised its full-year profit forecast following a first quarter in which it met estimates of 48 cents a share. Sales of $2.12 billion were slightly under the $2.14 billion consensus.
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When I was a kid, one of our favorite meals was fried Spam with pineapple sauce on top. Haven’t had that in years and not the least bit interested.
Agreed. I would prefer not to, but a 20 pound sack of rice will provide 5 days of cheap calories for a family of four. Throw in some Spam, sauces, and canned veggies, and you've got an adequate emergency food supply for ten days. Repeat as necessary, substituting pasta, flour, corn meal, potato flakes, or other cheap starches for the rice, but still including a variety of supplemental foods. Add some seeds and a garden, and a way of harvesting small game for fresh meat, and it's sustainable.
Hormel also makes Stagg brand chili.
I love SPAM! Fry it and serve on white bread with Dukes Mayonnaise. Awesome!
I have alot of egg noodles in storage, along with those dried gravy packs.
Cook the noodles and gravy, toss in whatever veggies/cheese/meats you have, spice it up a bit, you can eat pretty well!
I never was a very big rice fan, but I have some of that too.
i love spam too. i mix up yellow mustard and brown sugar and put it on while frying. messy cleanup but good with eggs or on sandwiches, cooked or cold after being cooked. probably ok cold. i suspect the ham slices meal in C-rations was round spam.
If only there was some place http://www.spam.com on the internet that you could verify that rumor. Man that’s a tough one.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/spam-musubi-recipe/index.html
The soy and mirin is a nice touch. I learned using an old style spam can that could be open at both ends. the new cans only have a bead on the end you open. the musubi makers can be found online if that is preferred.
Prick two small holes in the bottom of the new style spam can, use some of the fat from the fried spam inside the can like one would a muffin tin. press the 3/4 inch of sticky rice into the bottom of the greased can, press in the slice of spam. Turn the can over and rap it squarely on the counter and a single musubi should pop out.
Think there will be musubi in the petro45acp house this weekend.
Cheers
I have a “30 day supply” of MREs (90 total), and we’ll go through one MRE a day for the family along with other foods. I consider variety important. I can go over a year on stored food without ever having the same starch or meat more than twice in a week. And I’m with you on noodles and dried gravy packs - compact and enjoyable.
I picked up a taste for spam when I was in HI with USN. It is like a delicacy there where many survived on it during WW2. I like it grilled almost black. It goes well with reconstituted powdered eggs. I pick up a case or two whenever Costco has them on sale.
Growing up we had very basic food, for the 4 of us kids. Not once did my Mom ever get spam.
I have been trying to find Bacon-flavored Spam, but none of the local stores seem to have it...
:-(
The article didn’t say what products were doing well. Or why. Just the company overall.
I wonder if it is spam or their chili or whatever else it is they make?
If the spam - then is it due to people prepping or due to the bad economy and inflation of meat prices in the grocery store?
I would imagine the latter since us the number of us preppers is not huge (that I know of).
I don't eat it as a rule because I'm saving those cans. Sliced Spam, browned in a skillet is simply good as a sandwich with mustard. Also fried with an egg is good. I wonder if people are opening the can and eating it just like that without browning it to produce that good flavor? I would not eat it straight out of the can unless I had no way of browning it and that isn't going to happen because I've got several different fuels to provide cooking - enough for years of browning Spam.
I still need to get Dak ham and can't pass the Hormel products in the grocery store without getting something. All that meat just sitting on the shelf.
Most find consuming SPAM straight-from-the-can unappealing due to its intense flavor. SPAM’s easiest entry into one’s diet is as a pork sausage, bacon, or ham luncheon meat substitute. Keys to this use are quantity, thickness of slice, and skillet browning. This will mellow and use its flavor to good advantage.
One use I particularly enjoy is a small amount of diced skillet-browned SPAM added to eggs as they are being scrambled in the same skillet. Seasoned to taste and topped with a little cheese, this results in a very tasty and hearty breakfast produced with little effort. And doing so satisfies my appetite for either bacon or sausage, eliminating their use for that meal.
My introduction to SPAM was long ago. Though I didn’t care for it then, I revisited it as part of my ongoing search for tasty, nutritious, economical, long shelf-life, pantry food-stock which I could easily obtain and readily work into my consumption rotation. SPAM and other brand equivalents met and exceeded my requirements. Not only was this unexpected, I was pleasantly surprised that less of it was required than the fresh foods it replaced.
Indeed, I have been exploring other canned foods of my youth with similar results. Most of these foods saw wide use in WWII. Served unmodified from the can, they are blandly pleasant and soon boring. Modified with seasonings and additional ingredients they become tasty meals. Most have less expensive store brand equivalents indistinguishable from the original. And these too are quite useful pantry food-stocks.
So, as you can see, I endorse SPAM along with its WWII canned contemporaries as essential to the well-stocked food pantry necessary for comfortable rural life. Given SPAM’s and these others’ long shelf-lives, they should not only be integrated with a normal diet, they should also be part of anyone’s emergency and survival supplies considerations.
Given Hormel’s rising fortunes, this is likely already happenning world-wide.
“I love SPAM! Fry it and serve on white bread with Dukes Mayonnaise. Awesome!”
You have to be crazy - Spam calls for mustard - if you listen you can hear the Spam saying, “Use me with mustard.”
:o)
Dice one can of SPAM or a DAK Ham
Two #2 or #2-1/2 cans of cut yams (I drain mine)
One 16 oz. can of one othe the in following (packed in juice preferably)fruit cocktail, pinapple, peches (I don’t drain)
Add a bit of brown sugar and a cinnamon to taste
bake, mircowave or I’ve cooked it in on the stove or over a fire in a pan while camping.
GOOD EATING!
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