I’m still not sure why there is vegetarian Spam, but…
Why is there regular Spam?
Neither! SPAM is cheap fatty salty protein. What’s not to love? It’s isn’t worse than a hot dog.
They’re pretty shitty vegans because they eat seven million cans of Spam per year.
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.
I’m still not sure why there is vegetarian Spam, but…
I became a full time vegetarian 10 or 11 years ago. There are still some dishes I miss that had meat in them. Not necessarily the meat itself. Some I have modified to be vegetarian. Other I have not.
All in all there are not a lot I find myself wanting. One is an Italian cold cut sub, another is various dishes made with spam. 20 years ago I worked in a logistics department and most of my coworkers were from the Philippines, I learned to love spam. It was also a great camping food. I would love to try vegetarian spam.
Apparently this is a soy and wheat gluten loaf and is made in the Phillipines.
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. 😂
Maybe I’m crazy, but that actually sounds kinda dope. Spam is underrated, IMO.
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?
Next time grab a photo of the back with the ingredients. That’s the most important photo to capture
https://meetunmeat.us/product/luncheon-style-meat/
Water, Non-GMO Soy Protein, Palm Olein, Seasonings (Onion, Black Pepper), Natural Flavors, Potato Starch (Thickener), Modified Vegetable Gum, Wheat (gluten and fiber, Sugar, Yeast Extract, Vinegar, Potassium Salt and Paprika Oil (color)
So eating meet is bad but eating palm oil is ok? You guys know palm oil is destroying the orangutans right?
I wouldn’t advocate for someone eating palm oil simply for their own personal health. However if you want to talk about the environment way more land is cleared for livestock than oil palm, even if you just focus on the locations where oil palm is grown. And palm oil is usually replacing animal fats in cooking due to it’s saturated fat content, stuff like lard and ghee.
