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Times must be hard – Americans are buying Spam again
TimesOnLine ^ | December 6, 2008 | Mike Harvey

Posted on 12/07/2008 8:07:40 AM PST by vietvet67

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To: PGR88
I ate SPAM sandwiches everyday. From kindergarten until fifth grade, my lunch was always a SPAM sandwich, Fritos and a milk (a small can of Hawaiian Punch's Tahitian Treat if I was lucky.) Even to this day, I occasionally get a hankerin' for the stuff.

Fried with eggs, oh my...

41 posted on 12/07/2008 8:41:55 AM PST by RepoGirl ("I've seen things you wouldn't believe. Sea beams glittering at the Tannhauser Gate.")
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To: dearolddad
My mom used to dice it and put it in scrambled eggs. (good stuff)

I've diced it into fried rice. That's good too.

42 posted on 12/07/2008 8:42:22 AM PST by DejaJude (Proud denizen of the fighting fringe.)
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To: Electric Graffiti

*LOL*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODshB09FQ8w


43 posted on 12/07/2008 8:42:40 AM PST by Canedawg ("The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it")
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To: helpfulresearcher

I especially love that part!

Muslims in America will also be hurting to afford higher end cuts of meat, that is unless they are near a local goat farm.

And that sounds like a good way to control Muslims, tax the goats!


44 posted on 12/07/2008 8:47:55 AM PST by Eye of Unk (Americans should lead America, its the right way.)
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To: vietvet67

I’ve liked spam ever since it came out in WW2, I don’t know what everyone has against it.


45 posted on 12/07/2008 8:50:37 AM PST by dalereed
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To: vietvet67
Cubed and fried makes excellent pigs in a blanket.
46 posted on 12/07/2008 8:52:04 AM PST by org.whodat (Conservatives don't vote for Bailouts for Super-Rich Bankers! Republicans do!)
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To: Canedawg
Lmao....hadn't seen that for decades. A Classic, along with the dead parrot skit. Monty Python - Dead Parrot
47 posted on 12/07/2008 8:53:07 AM PST by Electric Graffiti
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To: vietvet67
Austin advertises itself as Spam-town and it boasts 13 restaurants with Spam on the menu. Johnny’s Spamarama menu includes eggs benedict with Spam for $7.35.

Yeah.....really hard times. Around here, in a tourist town, you can get Denny's Grand slam breakfast for about $5.49.

48 posted on 12/07/2008 8:53:12 AM PST by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: helpfulresearcher

Thanks! Still laughing!


49 posted on 12/07/2008 8:53:23 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Allah FUBAR is what I say. Why? Because I can.)
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To: napscoordinator

“I find it really hard to believe that we are really in this bad of shape.”

Most of us aren’t, but many are anticipating bad times. I suspect a lot of spam is being purchased for later use.

I believe it to be a prudent precaution. If things don’t go that far south you can always use it later.


50 posted on 12/07/2008 8:53:45 AM PST by EEDUDE
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To: river rat
Some people were born with a silver spoon in their mouth.
51 posted on 12/07/2008 8:53:49 AM PST by org.whodat (Conservatives don't vote for Bailouts for Super-Rich Bankers! Republicans do!)
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To: dalereed
I don’t know what everyone has against it.

Me neither, I love it.

52 posted on 12/07/2008 8:57:19 AM PST by softwarecreator (Wow, free food, free gas and no more mortgage payments after January 2009, thanks Obama!!)
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To: DejaJude
"Maybe a lot of people are stocking up. Spam lasts forever. If there were some sort of catastrophe, you wouldn't go hungry."

You may have something there. If i lived out in the country I'd have a stock of food on hand in case thing got real bad and the supermarket didn't get restocked regularly. Of course I live in the Peoples Republic of Cook County Illinois so if trouble comes I'm going to be running West. Heavy canned food is just not an option.
53 posted on 12/07/2008 8:58:29 AM PST by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: DejaJude

My mom used to put cloves in it and bake it like a ham then glaze it with honey. One can for four people along with fried potatoes and onions.


54 posted on 12/07/2008 8:58:49 AM PST by tom paine 2
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To: vietvet67

This is too funny...I just made an omelet with Spam for breakfast. I will admit, I have a loyalty to the product most others wouldn’t, since Hormel employs family members of mine.


55 posted on 12/07/2008 9:00:37 AM PST by MinnesotaLibertarian
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To: vietvet67

Of course Obama will react to this news by massively scaling back the inauguration celebrations. After all, it’s obscene for the President and his entourage to be chowing down on buckets of caviar whilst the rest of us are eating Spam.
</sarcasm>


56 posted on 12/07/2008 9:01:41 AM PST by Flashman_at_the_charge (ItÂ’s not his pigmentation I object to, itÂ’s his politics.)
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To: tom paine 2

My mom did the same...we loved it. I guess we didn’t know any better.....LOL


57 posted on 12/07/2008 9:04:24 AM PST by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: vietvet67

In our household Spam is camp food. Cooked on a woodfire it’s actually fairly good. At home, I want to eat pig, I’ll stick with my own smoked pork, an upscale ham, or a wonderful French recipe for pork chops in a mustard cream sauce.


58 posted on 12/07/2008 9:05:44 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: DejaJude

“I loved it as a kid and still like it now. Spam and eggs ymmm.”

Spam and baked beans on Saturday nights growing up and Spam and canned potatoes on the boat; God forgive me, but 50 years later I still love the stuff and just 2 months ago She Who Must Be Obeyed finally relented, after 32 years of marriage, and bought some for me. She still won’t eat it but it puts a smile on my face!


59 posted on 12/07/2008 9:06:33 AM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: vietvet67
I suspect the upped sales may be due more to people starting to realize they should have, at minimum, 2 weeks food supply - better 6 months to a year.

Spam is one of the cheapest canned meats. There are pretty decent cheap canned hams also.

Corned beef hash is another good one along with, of course, tuna and canned chicken.

We need to put up stores ourselves and encourage others to do it.

Over 100,000 truckers are off the road this year. A year ago, the industry was SHORT @ 8,000 truckers. Since the fuel crunch, 1,000 trucking companies have closed. Others have laid off thousands of drivers and made solo drivers team up.

Thousands of O/O's have had to park their rigs.

It's a major crisis on the brink of MAJOR crisis. WAshington and the media ignores the vital trucking industry while putting it's energy into deciding how many billions of our dollars to hand Detroit.

Detroit, with it's mega-billionaire CEO's flying around in their private jets, have caused their own problems due to miserable business practices. I suspicion they didn't worry because they own enough politicians to bail them out, as they have in the past.

Fact is, if many fewer new model cars rolled off the lines, we would still have transportation even if, oh horror, we had to drive the same car a few years.

However, if the trucks stop rolling, it will take just 2 days for the grocery store shelves to empty - and a few more days for most other stores to suffer the same.

We have a disastrous crisis looming - and no one gives a rip.

If the trucks stop rolling, New Orleans after Katrina will be played out across the country.

Gotta run...wanna get to the store before they run out of Spam.

60 posted on 12/07/2008 9:06:58 AM PST by maine-iac7 ("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" Lincoln)
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