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Gosh guys, no respect at all for spam. Any of you ever try to eat the old Wilson bacon bars from backpacking days of old? I have a 20 year old bacon bar in the foil package that I carried as "emergency rations" in the bottom of my pack. I would not open that package now on a dare!

substantial distinction:
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<br>The Wilson bacon bar and other "survival" foods are designed to sustain life in emergency situations, without taste-enjoyment considered at all. Spam is supposed to be home-and-family food, presumably enjoyable by ordinary mortals.
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<br>I first heard this distinction when a mountain-climber friend in Alaska answered another friend's question about how mountain climbers could be warm in such light sleeping-bags in the subzero cold of Mt McKinley's permanent snow fields. He answered that the bags were designed (and included in their gear) "to keep you alive, not to make you comfortable."
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<br>The bacon and other meat bars I've eaten in Montana and Alaska were definitely not flavor delights. I only wonder how near death I'd have to be before I'd eat another one.

Most of the survival foods that I have sampled such as the Wilson bars, tropical chocolate, and the God awful cheese that came in a tooth paste tube were designed to be eaten when all hope was gone and you had just as soon the food killed you as the weather.
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Spam jelly on boots ... You can eat them???? Where do you find that big bread?? Is it the same place you find those big papers to "smoke" a turkey???

Thats got to be somebody's cruel joke...cheese in a squeeze-tube? Why not just use a cyanide pill?

Spike it was just about as bad as you imagine. Late fifties or early sixties some time along in there. Came in a metal tube as it was before plastics were commomplace. Came from Germany or Scandanivia I think. Big soft metal tube. You unscrewed the cap and some sort of oily goo came out and when you squeezed the stuff a pale yellow gunk like johnson's wax curled out. Smelled like burnt lube. Tasted like hell. Was promoted as a trail/ emergency food and ideal for bomb shelters. I hope some other old pharts will chime in and say they remember it too so you won't think I am bs'ing you.
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Ken, you would have to be on your last breath to open the bacon bar I've been totin around for the last 20 plus years. Have you ever "enjoyed" the big mint bars? They might keep you alive too.

Yes, tooth paste cheese. In the winter you put it in your under shorts to warm it up so you could squeeze it out of the tube. Just squeeze the greese out first before you put it on your bagel. But the new squeze cheese in the plastic packets is good stuff.

I would bet that you have had or at least know about hogs head cheese? Spam isn't so bad next to that. Sort of the same stuff now that I think about it.

PDS, I'm glad somebody else remembered the cheese. I know your post wasn't to me but I know hog head cheese or souse as it is also called and I think the folks in Pennsylvania call it scrapple but it is all more or less the same thing. I will agree that most of the commercial stuff isn't too good as there is too much gelitan (sp) and not enough meat and spice. Home made where you can get enough red pepper and vinegar in it is good. You have to season it up the same way you like your sausage.
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Are you talking about "Spiced Pork Aspic Loaf"? When I was doing catering in a big way I couldn't give head cheese hors d�oeuvres away. Named them as above and sold a ton at $6.50 a dozen.

Well, I think enclosed in a large garbage bag tightly sealed, is a good start. Then, if you are a city dweller, you place it on the curb and watch carefully to be sure that the garbage collectors pick it up before it frees itself and sneaks back into your garage. If you live in the country, think Joan of Arc........

Hi Boggy, feel free to chime in any time. I spend way too much time talking to myself..... I have had more than one "cheese" sandwich when I was a kid. I liked it browned in the iorn skillet and slaped between two slices of bread. When we raised hogs we eat everything but the tail and the squeel. Spam isn't so bad if you were raised on those vittles.

Lets see, sliced and fried with eggs, chopped and put in omlets, sliced and fried on Roman Meal bread w/mustard, diced and put in mac & cheese, diced and mixed with pork and beans, Ad infinitum. can you tell I like the stuff?

I'm really surprised!
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<br>In all these posts, I still haven't seen any mention of Tennessee Mountain Spam --
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<br>-- which is with a fifth of Jack Daniel (green or black label) and a very lean hound --
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<br>-- the latter to eat the Spam, of course.

Ken, I leave it to you to come up with the funnies. ROTFLMAO!