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Who here eats "poor foods" aka Spam, Vienna sausage, deviled meat/potted meat and the like?
I don't mean "due to your current financial situation". I mean you were raised on the stuff when you were a kid and even though you can buy other things you stock it in your pantry.
I, myself eat spam, vienna sausage (Libby's only), pork and beans, and saimin (ramen to some).
I eat it from time to time as does my family as well.
never tried any of that stuff you mentioned.
Around here, Spam is fairly expensive relative to "real" meat. Maybe in Hawaii it's the other way around, because Spam is cheaper to transport to the middle of the Pacific than unprocessed meat. That said, I do enjoy the stuff -- the saltiness really goes well with white rice, and it's delicious when sliced thin and fried crispy.
I enjoy "poor food" in moderation. It's undeniably tasty, but it's generally unhealthy.
I do munch Cous Cous on occasions, it's decent and cheap :-)
Wow you just listed everything (minus liverwurst and canned sardines) that can be found in the cupboards of any traditional filipino home :lolz:
You are so flip and Hawaiian at the same time.... but yeah I like that stuff too.
Cous Cous is good, but the only supermarkets I've found it in are at "fancier" Vons/Ralphs and Whole Foods markets. Sometimes Henry's, Trader Joes or Sprouts has it.
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I ate those "poor foods" alot growing up especially when I was at my grandparents place. I still eat those foods from time to time, but I find myself eating more longganisa and tocino now.
I eat Spicy Spam w/ fried rice and enjoy Shin Ramyun w/ Kimchi. Whenever I want to eat cereal I get the 'off brand' cereals. 'Chocolate Rice Crisps' are about the same was 'Cocoa Crispies' etc.. Poor/Cheap food FTW.
Fried spam is awesome with eggs or on a sandwich. I can't eat it anymore cause it's too salty. We still eat pork and beans... the MRS loves it and grew up on it. I don't care that much for it - never had it until we got together about 4 years ago.
Ramen all the time, only reason I try to stay away from it is the sodium in it. Spaghetti-O's with franks in them, Corned Beef, all sorts of cheap canned food, bring back memories of my childhood.
Growing up our "poor foods" were pig's ears, pig's feet, chuck steak and tripe. We still eat them once in a while.
You never had pork and beans?Quote:
Originally Posted by Agent Sands
Oh yeah... I grew up on chopped ham, "beanie weinie", Mac n cheese and others...
Never eaten spam or potted meat.
Never have. And now on the average joe diet, probably never will.
Funny how this this thread brought out a bunch of Filipino forum members. As someone who's part Filipino, I don't know what that says about us as a culture.
But yeah, a lot of the staples of Filipino cuisine have the hallmarks of "poor food" -- cheap, calorie-dense, long non-refrigerated shelf life.
Never liked Spam. Even when they came out with the Spam w/cheese and I was a fat tub of shit willing to try anything, I couldn't bring myself to like it. Never liked potted meat. I had vienna sausages when I was a kid and remember liking them, but they tasted awful when I tried them as an adult. I've had more than my fair share of ramen noodles, though. It's like 10 cents a pack and there have been plenty of times that was the only thing to get me through the week.
I don't fuck with spam but I love spicey instant kimchi.
Leave it to a Hawaiian to make a thread about spam.
Ramen...but that's it from your list. We do things like not buying hotdog buns when you can get 80 corn tortillas for $2.50. Stuff like that, lol. The only reason we eat this stuff is because we're not financially well off. If I had the money, We'd be eating top notch sh** all month.
growing up not so much, but I do eat Mac n Cheese and plain pasta once in a while. I usually load my mac n cheese with seasonings and real cheese.
Never tried spam or any canned meets. I'm ok with never trying them either
bologna is about as poor as I got, and I haven't eaten that in years.
I still do ramen, but i dunno if that counts. It's cheap...but is it poor food?...
Good, the both of you can be in my play of Auschwitz - you two can be the buff Jews that take over the camp and march to freedom.Quote:
Originally Posted by Agent Sands
Fuck yeah it's poor food. My aunt had a bologna drawer in her fridge - raising 5 boys plus me. I'd ride my bike over to make some sandwiches almost daily in the summer.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoSneth
Pipe bombs are the best.
man I miss eating Saimin at mcdonolads and Zippy's back in Hawaii!!!
Yeah, I eat poor food all the time. Once my kitchen's unpacked and cleaned more I'll be cooking vegetables and stuff again, but for now ramen, pasta and rice are the three food groups of my diet. Besides, I grew up on bologna sandwiches and pasta with canned tomato sauce. Don't even get me started on chips and cheese/nachos. I still eat it whenever I can, I love it that much.
Fun exercise: go to the fancy cheeses section, pick up whatever looks good, and then load the rest of your cart with ramen. The expression on the checkout girl's face was priceless.
I enjoy fried Spam from time to time. I'm also quite fond of those .78 cent teriyaki beef flavored Chow Mein meals from Wal-Mart.
Growing up, my grandmother always had cans of Vienna "Sausages" in the pantry. I used to eat them, and thought they were pretty good. Now, not so much.
I did have some Spam a few years back. They released a bacon flavored variety, and it was awesome heated up in a pan. Now, I try to avoid that stuff. The salt content is usually through the roof, not to mention I don't want to think of where it came from..
Cheap macaroni and cheese is always a good choice though.
As a little kid, i ate Vienna Susages until I heard my Aunt call them monkey dicks.
My favorite way to eat ramen is raw. Works best w/ Top Ramen. Crumbled up makes a great salad toping.
Poor foods comes in handy when I just haven't gotten around to shopping at times. Canned corned beef comes in handy if you have potatoes and onions or cabbage and onions... just fry it up, add some beef broth (or a little water if your out), add a little caraway seed and you get a really tasty meal. I actually eat flavored sardines on Ritz crackers with a coke to drink when I am hungover at times.
Ramen noodles are more of a snack to me than a real meal. There is no nutrition in it. It seems like when you add some stuff like meat or veggies to ramen, it really never works out great. I only add eggs, dried chives and a little Mongolian Fire Oil (chinese hot oil, pretty much). This is the only way I can feel like I got a meal out of it.
Love all that stuff brah. ALL OF IT.
Don't much care for the Sardines in mustard thing anymore though.
Personally I can't live without Deviled Ham Sammiches and Grilled SPAM sammiches either. I usually whip up this stuff while watching Trailer Park Boys and wash it down with Rum & Coke (Captain Morgan) to have the TOTAL T.P.B. experience. :tickled: But I'm the kid who loved to eat C Rations and MREs too, so there you go.
C ration choco-crunch dessert bar FTW!
If they still made bacon flavored Spam, I would probably buy a can or two..
Potted Meat? Not so much. That shit's full of peckers.
Actually, all that stuff is stocked in my cupboards at the moment. I don't do the shopping but just checked and yup, I eat all this, spam, ramen, vienna, I guess I was raised on this stuff and never considered them to be "poor" but to each their own. If by "poor" you mean nutritionally than yes, very bad and full of sodium, but "poor" like "your so poor you eat this (etc)" than I guess I do and kind of like eating this stuff.
They still make Spam with bacon. It's not only flavored, it has pieces of bacon within the Spam. Pretty good stuff though it's definitely very salty.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ghost-Dog, presented by TervisŪ
Other food I like...Kraft Macaroni & Cheese and good old Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Ravioli eaten straight out of the can. Yummers!
Holy.. shit. Where can I buy this confection of the Gods?Quote:
Originally Posted by Arcademan
I was actually super tired of instant ramen, I used to love it as a kid but eating so much through my life I grew to hate them, but I have discovered I love nong shim instant kimchi http://www.filifoodms.com/images/nong-shim-kimchee.jpg still shitty for you and not a meal, but if you need a cheap quick snack, throw in a egg and you got a damn tastey snack for a buck or so, I think the spicey flavor compliments the egg well.
Those better be sardines in tomato sauce and not the fancy peel lid in olive oil type.Quote:
Originally Posted by StealthLurker
I was actually watching Bizzare Foods with Andrew Zimmern and he came to Hawaii and I watched a lot of his shows where he eats cow dick, chicken vagina, balut, blood cake and bugs. But when he came to Hawaii he said there is only two things in this world that he doesn't enjoy eating, one was spam and the other was walnuts WTF?? Walnuts??Quote:
Originally Posted by 68k
I actually don't eat much spam as it's too salty to me now. I do eat it when my wife buys the low sodium one which is not often as she likes the regular one.
i was actually considering making a health food thread when i saw this oneQuote:
Originally Posted by Agent Sands
working at Whole Foods really opened me up to a ton of interesting/beneficial new foods/drinks
Do itQuote:
Originally Posted by Average Joe
I like fried spam.
I remember when I first moved to here a few years ago
when I was trying to save money like crazy.
My diet consisted of hotdogs, hot pockets, pbj sandwiches, and burritos that probably cost close to 15-20 cents eat.
Talk about bottom feeder food.
I get a gag reflex just thinking about it.
I find it at WalMart all the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ghost-Dog, presented by TervisŪ
Must be a regional thing, cause the few times I've been in Wal-Mart in the last several months, they never have it. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Arcademan
Yep, I have plenty of experience w/"poor foods" to this day, but I wish my folks would stop mispronouncing Vienna like VY-EENA.
This reminds me even more that I actually need to cut out sodium in my diet. I try to eat healthier, but everything canned of which I cook with has sodium in it. My blood pressure is a little higher than it should be and my doc has me on water pills so I won't end up with hypertension. My foot has been messed up since my sprain a while back and keeps becoming re-injured... so I haven't been able to exercise properly for 7 months now. All of this at the age of 30.
Order directly from Hormel's SPAM site.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ghost-Dog, presented by TervisŪ
Also, I'm not sure if it qualifies,
but I love corned beef.
Not mixed with hash browns,
just straight corned beef de brazil.
Totally chock full of salt though.
And I'm not sure if it qualifies because
it's pretty expensive whenever I see it nowadays.
Like 4 dollars for a spam can sized amount.
Corned Beef Hash anybody?
I once heard somebody refer to it as "prison food". I love it.
BTW... I love making Spam Tacos.
LOL, well when I was in jail over a weekend that was what we had for breakfast on Sunday along with coffee with creamer and no sugar. I thought the no sugar was weird until I learned you could make alcohol with sugar then it made sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2D_Master
Yeah, I've had most of that stuff growing up. Not partial to it any more especially the Spam and Vienna Sausage.
Still have the odd Ramen but throw out the flavoring and strain the water instead add Thai peanut sauce.
Pork/Franks and beans all the time. Easy and not total shit but don't use hotdogs, toss in some Brats or Bahama Mamas and you got something good.
Tonk mentioned "pipe bombs" which is string cheese wrapped in bologna, which is amazing. I'm not partial to the term pipe bomb, more the hillbilly burrito or trailer park tornado. Or if you want to get fancy some nice deli pepperoni also works.
Knox blox.
Poor food on the strenth. Too broke to pay toward Mr. Cosby's endorsement deal back in the day.
i used to eat alot of fried bologna sandwiches and virginia canned ham back in the day, but now im a vegetarian so i dont eat it anymore :/