Jul 30 2008
There must be more than this provincial life…
The New York Times has The Minimalist, The Atlanta-Journal Constitution gets regular features from John T. Edge, and our local paper of record, not to be outdone, festoons the front page of the Taste section with “Miracle Meat” a dubious piece featuring ten Spam laden recipes, each more disgusting than the last. In their defense, it is a syndicated story, so half the blame goes to McClatchy and the other half we’ll hang the TFP staff. And as If I didn’t have enough petty gripes, they don’t even post the Taste section on the newspaper website, so if you want to read the article in all its Spamtastic glory, you’ll have to click on this link to the Bradenton Herald.
Not that I’m some elitist and haven’t eaten my share of Spam, in fact my favorite Spamsnack is about as lowbrow as it gets. Fry slices of spam just shy of burnt-to-a-crispiness, nestle them into canned biscuits and add a squirt of plain ol’ yellow mustard. I call it the Karl Childers. The article claims these recipes elevate simple Spam to “specialty dish” status with “aplomb” which might be stretching it a bit.
If there’s a silver lining to this cloud of spiced ham its this; it makes a nice segue to the most brilliant piece of Spam related British sketch comedy known to man. Anyone in the mood for Lobster thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce garnished with truffle paté, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam ?
Isn’t Spam considered a delicacy…..somewhere??
yuk
But hey, anything that inspired Monty Python, and of course, Spamalot, is all right by me- as long as no one tries to make me eat it.
Don’t you love how computer garbage is named ‘Spam’???
This is so random, but one of my son’s school supply lists included SPAM, I kid you not. It was for the hurricane safety thing. I just think he might rather starve than eat SPAM, but I bought it anyway. Perhaps my first SPAM purchase. I giggled.
Fun post!