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Agreed, better flavor balance. Regular is too salty unless you're a sailor from San Francisco

>>18973830
I have have a fucking love affair with salt. Salt gets my fucking dick hard. That being said you are correct the low sodium spam tastes better.

>>18973830
I've been to the spam museum ama

>>18974159
Have you been to the spam museum?

>>18974160
Yes

>>18974172
Fucking liar

>>18974175
Nah bitch I'm the real deal. I even had a spample

>>18974190
Damn, I guess I am a bitch after all. Sorry for calling you a liar.
Was the spam museum cool?

>>18974197
Yeah it's surprisingly well curated for being a small museum in a small town. Has some fun history stuff, spam facts, recipes, and samples.

>>18974208
That's cool to hear. Sorry I doubted you, and thank you for sharing your experiences with the rest of us.

>>18974224
No worries friend. Spam is a very interesting product with a surprisingly important history and because of its success its parent company hormel has been able to contribute quite significantly to medical and food research.

>>18973830
Theres no low sodium spam

>>18973830
>My favorite breakfast is spam eggs and toast.
>t. Hawaiian

>>18973830
Could not disagree less OP. The lowdium SPAM is still salty as fuck anyway, just somehow has less than the other SPAM. It's the only SPAM I buy and it's fucking delishes.

The only exceptions are sometimes I buy the Hot & Spicy or even the Roast Turkey SPAM (fite me) and those are normal sodium but worth it because of how good they is

>>18974841
>>18974732

>>18974878
>is still salty as fuck anyway

Yeah like I said nigganomicon

https://youtu.be/9Y-IVg5sxRQ

>>18974886
and also this

https://youtu.be/Ku-I-7wttsg

>>18974886
Thats not what I said. There is no low sodium spam. There is only spam with less sodium

>>18974891
THAT'S WHAT I SAID MAYBE I NEED BETTER COMPREHENSION OF READANCE AND MISSED SOMETHING HERE

Does the bacon spam actually taste like bacon/ What hot varieties of spam are there?

>>18974896
Thats not what you said but okay mister

>>18974913
I SAID
>The lowdium SPAM is still salty as fuck anyway

>>18974921
Its not low sodium. Its less sodium

Lite > Low sodium

>>18974938

>>18974938
actually trüe but the Lite comes and goes from year to year for some reason
>mfw Lite just means higher offal content

https://youtu.be/C7E_Q4loZwU

>>18973830
yep. the lower sodium one is better all around.

>>18974948
>he thinks low sodium is a legal term
>>>/pol/ until you learn how the world really works.

Agreed. I'm a fat fuck who never gets the "healthy" version of anything, but regular spam is just too damned salty. Low sodium spam is still quite salty.
>>18975315
This is terrible advice.

>>18975315
Its regulated by the FDA

>>18975315
>you can just put whatever labels you want on food
You must be 18 to post here

i just like the way diet coke tastes and the aftertaste way more than coke or coke zero.

>>18974908
It's a bit inconsistent desu, sometimes the bacon really comes through other times it's just barely there in the background. I still get it on occasion because it keeps so long and worst case scenario it just tastes like spam cooked in bacon fat.
As for hot spam varieties I'm a big fan of Tocino Spam. If you have any good Asian stores you can probably get some there. It's the perfect mix of salty and sweet imo. But I am a filip so I have a bit of bias there. Seriously though, a few slices of browned Tocino Spam, white rice cooked with minced garlic, and a fried egg is an amazing breakfast. Topped only by having actual tocino or longanisa. Haven't really tried the other flavors cause I hear most of them are just meh or bad compared to standard spam or 25% less sodium.

>>18973830
>Mfw the couple years I lived in Hawaii, I couldn't attend the Spam Jam in Waikiki due to covid shutting everything down. At least I was able to get plenty of local deluxe platters (spam, eggs, Portuguese sausage, and white rice) at McDonald's before I moved away.

>>18976230
>Spam Jam
I'm glad we live in a world where this exists

>>18976737
I actually did get to go to it. I meant to type *last couple years I lived in Hawaii*. It was pretty good. I had a really good spam pizza.

I had spam for the first time in my life a month ago as someone in their late 20s and I feel like I've been robbed my whole life. It was better than I expected.

>>18973830
This is true, as a lifelong spam enjoyer.
Doesn't keep as long but unless you're stockpiling that really isn't an issue.
The real revelation is that the flavored spam has about the same amount of salt or even less than the regular low sodium kind, against all logic.
Now, the tragic part is those rat bastards at hormel discontinued at least half of the flavors.
I'll miss you dearly, garlic and black pepper.
But mostly garlic that stuff was food of the gods.
They did keep that turkey spam that to this day, no one asked for.
Presumably to mock me

>>18977149
bruh.

one thing you gotta try is dice into cubes and fry, and then mix with rice and drizzle with some light soya. especially magnificent if you use the hot & spicy variety

>>18978128
My thoughts were able simulate it with 99% accuracy and it was okay, but definitely not gotta try

>>18978128
>soy sauce on spam.
Why.
Also add some stuff to that, anything. Onions would work well, it's never a bad time for fried onions.
You're also a third of the way to spam fried rice. It's good, but don't half ass it.

>>18978189
light soy, you don't want it overly salty. and that's if you're enjoying with plain white rice

>>18978194
Maybe I've never had light soy sauce. What's a good brand?

>>18978203
Standard either yamasa or kikkoman

>>18978203
I'm not a fan of Kikkoman regular but yeah they have a pretty delishes light soy. In fact you may never go back to regular soy. Also getting Lee Kum Kee or similar "Premium Soy Sauce" in the slightly fancier glass bottle is essentially light soy (Chinese and Jappernese use different naming conventions for what they consider regular soy). Dark soy is an option if you're really salt-averse but I don't recommend that product for anything except colour.

>>18978128
i fucking love fried hot and spicy spam with rice, eggs, and soy sauce

>>18973830
>Not because I'm trying to watch my sodium intake, I just like it bet-AAAAACK

>>18976230
When I finally move out of Hawaii I'm gonna miss the Portuguese sausage and exotic fruits. Why is lilikoi impossible to find anywhere but here?

>>18974190
>not the XXXXL
poser

25% for musubi or anything where you're gonna eat a big slice of grilled spam

full salt for fried rice or anything where it's diced into little cubes and used as an ingredient in something

This is what my Hawaiian friend taught me and it has never failed me

No one will believe me but I eat an entire can of spam every single day.

>>18978785
Nice. It's not actually that bad for you. It was literally developed as a cheap alternative to fresh meat.

>>18978785
the little cans or the full sized

>>18978803
the big ones

>>18978824
anon to help you maybe have a slightly more balanced diet might I suggest a canned bird two days a week?

You get hosed as a consumer by paying for the packaging, but those Spam singles are pretty much the perfect serving size. All the Spam I want to eat in a given day, and then I don't have to worry about eating the rest of the can.

>>18973880
>Salt gets my fucking dick hard.
why did redditors talk like this? no need to make everything sexual. you sound like a fag.

>>18978841
/out/ here. the singles shit on beef jerky and crackers any day. three days in the woods? 6 spam singles. perfect.

>>18978841
I mean, its not like the rest is going to go bad. Its spam.

You aren't a real American if you don't eat Spam (bacon variety), egg and cheese breakfast sandwiches. Of course the bread has to be French toast or pancakes.

>>18978980
I'm a longtime SPAMfan and have tried a number of the varieties, but I kind of stopped branching out because it was getting just silly with some of this shit. I admit I have a Roast Turkey SPAM in the cupboard but haven't tried it yet.

BUT this is why I never bought the "bacon" SPAM. Like wtf? Is this really necessary? I hate choice overload, it pushes me right away.

>>18978980
>>18978988
The concept of bacon SPAM confuses me. Fried SPAM already basically tastes like bacon, what else could you add? Smoke flavor? That doesn't sound pleasant at all.

>>18978995
I suspect it's just that.
>cured fatty pork product needs to be made to taste like cured fatty pork product
I'm guessing they're just drizzling liquid smoke into the blenders

>>18978988
>Is this really necessary?
No.

>>18978995
>what else could you add? Smoke flavor? That doesn't sound pleasant at all.
It mellows out when you fry it, but it's not very good cold.

It's just personal preference, but it has almost completely replaced normal Spam for me.
Despite having that distinctive Spam flavor, the normal variety tastes, I dunno, plain to me now I guess. Sort of like those little Vienna sausages in a can.
I'd still go with the default or low sodium if I were having it cold though.

>>18979004
I think I'll try the bacon SPAM now that at least one person can vouch for it. I can imagine how it only shines when cooked so I won't rely on it for a hiking snack. Thanks anon. When I buy-n-trry I'll post about it and maybe you'll see

>>18979012
I will warn you, it's probably the saltiest variety I've tried. I'm not sure if it has the highest sodium content or not, but it really comes through, so if you generally salt your sides I'd err on the lighter side.

>>18979034
Nah s'all good anon. Normally I have SPAM with eggs and greens (kale or spinach) and aside from a dusting of cheese I never salt anything fully aware the SPAM's gonna balance that out just fine

>>18979034
I have no idea how but bacon spam manages it, but it has less salt than low sodium spam.
Not going against what you're saying at all, just kind of being astonished.
It's black magic.
Still salty but it's preserved meat what can you do

I buy the store brand spiced ham and corned beef.

treet > spam

I literally tried eating Spam for the first time two days ago.

This shit smells like cat food out of the can. You guys are gross. Nigger tier shit

>>18980348
I bought treet once, and it had this gross axel grease fat on it.
Never again.
And chicken and pork?
I'll keep my pork shoulder and ham.

anyone tried the beef luncheon meat?

>>18974159
Me too and I never even eat spam