I’m still not sure why there is vegetarian Spam, but…
Tbh I’ve tried it and its not great. It’s made of Glutens and has a sort of nutty texture.
Whilst both forms of processed meat, luncheon meat and spam are not the same things.
Here’s the thing. You said “vegan luncheon meat is spam.”
Is it in the same USDA classification? Yes. No one’s arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies processed food, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls luncheon meat spam. If you want to be “specific” like you said, then you shouldn’t either. They’re not the same thing.
If you’re saying “luncheon meat category” you’re referring to the economic grouping of the USDA, which includes things from Armour Treet to Great Value to Swift Prem.
So your reasoning for calling a vegan luncheon meat spam is because random people “call the one in the tin spam?” Let’s get King Oscar and Chicken of the Sea in there, then, too.
Also, calling something meat or spam? It’s not one or the other, that’s not how nutrition classification works. They’re both. Spam is spam and a member of the luncheon meat category. But that’s not what you said. You said luncheon meat is spam, which is not true unless you’re okay with calling all tinned meat spam, which means you’d call prem, treet, and other luncheon meat spam, too. Which you said you don’t.
It’s okay to just admit you’re wrong, you know?
Jackdaw
Counterpoint: no there isn’t
why not just eat fucking vegetables? asking as a vegetarian
Got me. I prefer decent meals made with vegetables like Indian food.
Because that don’t taste like that?
They taste better
Spam is one of the grossest food i ever tried
Spam is just pork sausage in a rectangle.
Pork sausage (wurst?) is way more tasty
I’d rather skip a meal if the only option was spam
Vegetables don’t exist as a block I can cut slices of, fry, and put in a sandwich.
Well eggplant does but if I’m buying canned spam substitute I’m not in the mood for breading something.
Because there’s only so many vegetables and so many ways inspiration will help you on how to prepare them. Especially if you care about protein intake, it can be quite a challenge with just vegetables.
Plus that’s a can that lasts forever and is easy to transport.
I like variation, protein and ease of use. I’ll take 3 please and thank you.
That’s good to know if I ever start craving Hawaiian food
Meatn’t
TIL there’s such a thing as luncheon meat. I thought that was just what they did in junior league.
Why is there regular Spam?
That’s a good question.
SPAM is great. I will hear no slander.
/signed.
Does Spam need meat to be great? Feels like an easy swap to me!
Totally agree. I love SPAM but I’ll bet a non-meat version is totally doable.
Are you Hawaiian?
E: or maybe Filipino?
Nm this has been covered.
Neither! SPAM is cheap fatty salty protein. What’s not to love? It’s isn’t worse than a hot dog.
Lips and assholes, in cube form!
Your face isn’t worse than a hot dog
(Things I brag about on my tinder profile)
Thank you, I moisturize.
You just declared war on the entire country of Hawaii.
And South Korea.
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TIL that Hawaii is a country…
And don’t they rely on fishing? They have a severe lack of farm land…
They’re pretty shitty vegans because they eat seven million cans of Spam per year.
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Those are really small numbers.
622/1,000,000 vegans
If everyone went to a vegan restaurant at the same time there would be 52,631.6 people there.
And 52,631 people are gonna have PTSD from seeing the 2/3 of a person mangled on their way in through the door
Slightly less then two thirds.
Damn. This doesn’t match my experience in Hawaii at all. My in-laws live there, and everytime I visit I sustain my life with fruit and Avacados. I’d kill for some plant based SPAM.
I thought they were big on pork, much like other pacific island nations. But also with the history of Asian immigrants and agriculture, I would think soy and soy based products would also be readily available.
Real talk though. My vegetarian wife struggled to find good vegetarian meals in Oahu that were Hawaiian themed. Not that they didn’t exist. Just that they were lacking compared to most major cities in America.
Me as a BBQ eater though… Gimme dat pork butt.
Gimme dat pork butt
Someone’s gonna be going “wee wee wee” tonight
Don’t do his vegetarian wife like that, bro.
@ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net is the only one threatening to do anyone’s hammy hinds
Kingdom
No, Hawaii.
Lol, what? Yeah, the kingdom of Hawaii, right?
I can’t tell if we’re actually saying different things.
I thought that a country has to be recognized as a country by other countries whereas a kingdom has to… do… something different. And royalty or something?
Fuck it, let’s go back to arguing. Yes! Kingdom!
I’m confused, I’m telling you its the country of Hawaii and you’re saying it’s the country of Kingdom and I’m just trying to say they love SPAM and now you’re picking fights.
Since when is Hawaii a country brah?
Can you please stay on track here?
We’re talking about SPAM and the country of Hawaii’s love for it.
The House of Kamehameha will rise again and everyone will be too scared to do anything because no one is gonna wanna wait to find out if they can actually do that DBZ shit.
Well when you say it like that, I sound like a moron.
But I’m feeling stubbornly ignorant enough to support what I’m supposedly arguing.
The country of Kingdom loves Hawaii which is why they constantly spam my email. If you don’t forward this message to 10 friends in the next two days, Jesus is gonna sneak into your room while you’re sleeping and punch you in the stomach.
Oh I was hoping he’d slip me little Jesus if you know what I mean.
Jesus comes twice.
I blame the Danes
For spam musubi?
they use the word meat a lot on the shelf tag, considering it’s not meat
Apparently this is a soy and wheat gluten loaf and is made in the Phillipines.
Sounds delicious.
It could be better, from my experience.
It is!
Sounds like its essentially seitan, and frankly you can do amazing things with wheat gluten. My personal fav is the hilariously named WTF method (wash that flour).
For spam I imagine they just salt the hell out of it. 😂
Unless you’ve Celiac disease.
Sarcasm.
I know. 😁
Maybe! Idk, I used to like mock duck. Soy based lunch meat is pretty good too. Alas, I’ll never be able to try this company’s stuff as it all has wheat in it.
It does. Honestly SPAM is a good choice for unmeatification.
Maybe I’m crazy, but that actually sounds kinda dope. Spam is underrated, IMO.
I would go past underrated and day much maligned.
Spam is literally like one of the most delicious things on the planet. I have no clue how anyone sane can dislike it…i bet the people saying it’s gross have never even had it and just assume it’s gross because it comes in a can.
I’ve tried it and I didn’t love it or hate it. It was just… on my plate. Like the unsalted mashed potatoes of the meat world.
Canned corned beef, on the other hand - I’d probably eat it every week if it wasn’t so fatty.
Was it fried up and served with veggies or on a breakfast sandwich? Or did you eat it straight up?
That first thing.
Interesting. Idk. It tastes like bacon basically when you fry it. Not sure how that wouldn’t be delicious. But oh well, idk.
You sure you don’t just really like salt?
Well the salt definitely makes it tastier, no shit. Hot dogs also taste good…same with fast food and anything salty from a restaurant…salt = tastes good. It’s a culinary basic principle.
Not saying it’s good for you. Just saying it’s delicious.
Thanks I hate it
Less that they’re on point, rather that they invented the word Spam with this sketch .
Didn’t invent it, but definitely ratified it, socially.
And you’re right, not on point. Just first to make it endemic.
I doubt the original is legally meat either.
What??? I gotta find me some of this Spam!
