A comment a few posts down got me thinking about this, which I had never previously considered. It will either seem to you like an idea whose time has come or the most nauseating thing you’ve ever heard of. Possibly it will depend on where you were raised. Remember, an open mind is not always an empty one.
Chicken Fried Spam Recipe
Except for the hot sauce, the batter recipe is more-or-less exactly what I sometime fry chicken parts in and it’s delicious. Guess that’s why it’s called “chicken fried.” But chicken isn’t a strong-tasting meat, and fried Spam is, so I don’t know whether I’d like it. But sooner or later I will be driven to try it.
ETA: Oh, I’ll go ahead and get it over with…
Sorry I can not resist…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbIZDb998wI
Spam takes a lot of flak but it’s pretty tasty. My favorite is Hawaiian sushi. It is a rectangle of pressed rice topped with a 1/4 inch slice of spam wrapped in a sheet of nori. Awesome..
“Now that it’s in my head, I can’t get it out.”
Did you think about the consequences of putting it into everybody else’s heads? Huh? Didya? Didya? And you still went ahead and did it anyhow. You sadist. Chicken-fried Spam. The very thought would put a normal person off the entire idea of food* for at least a month.
And you, too, MJR. It’s taken me 30 years to forget the Pythons’ “spam spam spam spam spam” and now I’ll be in my 90s before I manage to forget it again.
Fie upon you both!
* Which is not to imply that chicken-fried Spam is actually in the food category.
This is so perfect! Except Tabasco is the hot sauce to use. Add a mess of greens and beer. Toss a few pieces to the dogs. Or for more fun, toss pieces in the air and see if you can catch them in your open mouth before the dogs jump for them or they hit the ground and the dogs get them. Life don’t get no better.
I enjoy a spam and egg sandwich on toast, with a touch of sharp cheese, mustard and what makes it really work, a tomato. Better than an egg McMuffin by far but then, what isn’t.
I will have to try that chicken fried, perhaps with gravy.
Sounds great.
White gravy and mashed ‘taters required.
In a pinch, ‘taters can just be microwaved and then sorta squashed up on the plate, skins and all . . . but gravy for sure.
😉
I don’t have the patience for that, a pair of slices with a slice of cheese and mustard on one side of bread and I’m satisfied.
My Dad ate Spam’s poorer cousin (Treet) for 30+ years at lunch period at his job. A single can would last the entire week, he would just take two slices of Rainbow bread, some lettuce and tomato every day and that was it. Liked it plenty – he was a Depression Baby :^)
Plain old batter mix, the same recipe as pancake mix, dip spam slices in flour then in the mix and fry. As demonstrated to us by some guys from the REME in Germany. Every time we make it takes me back to those years. Simple and delicious.
Spam is good any way you can make it. Might skip spam cheesecake though.
Ohhh no thanks. Marine brat, Navy wife lots of years ago. Had plenty of “spam” then and never want to even smell it again. sigh But my sons love it. Go figure…
What Claire said. I think I’m gonna get sick just thinking of it. OTOH, those of you sufficiently open-minded about canned fat, enjoy!