Thoughts on SPAM "meat"

[8 BORE]

Spoiled buttermilk

 

[George]

Fifteen pages of guys telling what their personal preferences are...interesting.

It has always been obvious that the Camp Cooking forum has nothing to do with HC/PC foods except by accident, but I wonder... does anyone ever try using only period foods preserved/prepared in the period way when trekking or camping?

Spence

 

[Black Hand]

Fifteen pages of guys telling what their personal preferences are...interesting.

It has always been obvious that the Camp Cooking forum has nothing to do with HC/PC foods except by accident, but I wonder... does anyone ever try using only period foods preserved/prepared in the period way when trekking or camping?

Spence

Yes. Other than the modern version of portable soup, the rations I carry are period (with the exception of the dried tomato paste in my dried vegetables):
Cornmeal
Barley
Wild rice
Dried vegetables (mix of onion, green onion, carrots, tomato paste)
Hominy
Dried apples
Dried plums
Bacon
Meat (Venison, Elk, Bear and occasionally Beef. Sausages, when the mood strikes me)
Maple sugar
Crushed red pepper
Black pepper
Salt
Parched corn
Jerky (home-made)
Coffee
Tea
Rum
Shrub

We have caught fish for cooking on the fire, roasted meat, squirrels in the pot and made Bear paws baked in mud one time. Standard fare is a pot of stew and some roasted meat washed down with coffee, tea or rum/shrub/whiskey. On one occasion, we carried 4-6 Bison femur bones up the mountain and roasted them on the fire.

 

[Baxter]

Shrub?

 

[Black Hand]

Shrub?

https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/threads/shrub-a-capital-drink.113090/
Enjoy!

 

[mechteacher]

After having to live on MRE's, Spam isn't so bad. Especially the flavored kind like Jalapeno or the Turkey version. You can buy a no name version at the Dollar Tree and it isn't so bad. I have a dozen or so cans in the pantry for just in case storage.

I never had to eat MRE's but did eat C Rats many times. I was in the Navy and we were able to heat them up. In a microwave oven in the later years. I did not have it anywhere near bad as those in combat arms.

 

[tenngun]

I did not delve into religion in any way - it was an example. This is far less than many others have done and yet I am called out publicly...

Hand, I didn’t call you out for saying any thing about religion. From paint your wagon I recall the line about not caring how a man prays since there is plenty of room in hades for all of us. I called you out for condemnation of making blanket statements about vegans and turning around and making a blanket statement about fundamentalist pollster that they could not be objective. It failed because it was the same sort of blanket statement made about vegans and the idea that one is or is not objective is in fact subjective. It’s not about religion it’s about double standards.

 

[tenngun]

Fifteen pages of guys telling what their personal preferences are...interesting.

It has always been obvious that the Camp Cooking forum has nothing to do with HC/PC foods except by accident, but I wonder... does anyone ever try using only period foods preserved/prepared in the period way when trekking or camping?

Spence

I try. I make salt pork, and buy dry smoked baking to carry to events. Fry some bacon and make Johnny cakes or hasty pudding for breakfast. I dry some potatoes, onions and mushrooms before an event, and have some dried meat. Mostly make soups or stews for dinner.
I will make a hunters pudding before an event and have made some at events to serve as a Fried food with breakfast or dessert. I make green pea soup, hopping John, succotash , lobscouse, mostly for dinner. Take a hard cheese and nuts for afternoon snack as I don’t normaly eat lunch at an event. I have made ships biscuits and a more short term biscuit that’s not as hard. And Johnny cackles lasts several days well. Coffee, rum or brandy in the flask. I can fit most of my food in a market wallet. My big cheat is some dark beer in bottles hidden in a bag. English, Irish and Scott’s beer is pretty tasty room temp to warm, but I always pour it in to a cup to drink.

 

[8 BORE]

Who needs food when you got all that beer and whiskey !!!!

 

[Carbon 6]

Hand, I didn’t call you out for saying any thing about religion. From paint your wagon I recall the line about not caring how a man prays since there is plenty of room in hades for all of us. I called you out for condemnation of making blanket statements about vegans and turning around and making a blanket statement about fund a mentalist pollster that they could not be objective. It failed because it was the same sort of blanket statement made about vegans and the idea that one is or is not objective is in fact subjective. It’s not about religion it’s about double standards.

It's about beliefs governing actions, those beliefs need not be religious in nature.
Therefore the standard can be broadly and equally applied if all share that commonality.

 

[tenngun]

It's about beliefs governing actions, those beliefs need not be religious in nature.
Therefore the standard can be broadly and equally applied if all share that commonality.

Ahhh. Then you need go back and re read the statements. A blanket statement was made about vegans. Black Hand then went on to state that we can’t judge a group with a blanket designation, then went on to use a blanket statement that religious pollsters could not be objective.
Often people who talk about the need to see something objectively are quick then to explain why you need to see it their way, and if you don’t agree it’s because of a failure to be objective on your part.
The fact is no one holds an opinion with out being objective about it. Different points of view arise not from lack of objectivity, but from how the facts, theories, hypothesis, divine revelation, what the tarot cards say, what the ghost told me, verdict of history, is evaluated, one mans truth is another mans belly laugh.

 

[fleener]

I think you guys will be happier when the weather turns nicer and you can go out and shoot more.

Go cast some more balls or bullets.

Fleener

 

[One Eyed Blacksmith]

Tried spam once, never never again. Way way to salty.

 

[8 BORE]

I think you guys will be happier when the weather turns nicer and you can go out and shoot more.

Go cast some more balls or bullets.

Fleener

AND EAT MORE SPAM !!

 

[Black Hand]

It's about beliefs governing actions, those beliefs need not be religious in nature.
Therefore the standard can be broadly and equally applied if all share that commonality.

Once an individual, group or organization has publicly stated and then demonstrate with word and/or deed they have a certain agenda, to name their agenda/view/position isn't an opinion, rather an expression of FACT....

 

[Juice Jaws]

15 pages on eating spam, its been a long, long winter.

 

[crankshaft]

I'm certainly not opposed to a good soup mix, quality sausages or other portable food items, but the jerky & parched corn are portable (I've carried both when flying), quick, nutritious and require no preparation.

Yes...but you need something to take care of the taste.

 

[8 BORE]

Just had some spam with scrambled eggs with homemade biscuits and gravy.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Yes. Other than the modern version of portable soup, the rations I carry are period (with the exception of the dried tomato paste in my dried vegetables):
Cornmeal
Barley
Wild rice
Dried vegetables (mix of onion, green onion, carrots, tomato paste)
Hominy
Dried apples
Dried plums
Bacon
Meat (Venison, Elk, Bear and occasionally Beef. Sausages, when the mood strikes me)
Maple sugar
Crushed red pepper
Black pepper
Salt
Parched corn
Jerky (home-made)
Coffee
Tea
Rum
Shrub

Wow...., Mine are for an overnight or several day trek:
Rockahominy (ground, parched corn)
raisins
air cured, dry bacon
cayenne pepper flakes
salt
Jerky (home made)
Tea ("gunpowder", a green tea in tiny little balls that looks like canon powder)
Rum
I may or may not also carry ship's biscuit

For a day trek:
Parched corn
Jerky
tea
maybe some taffy

LD

 

[mwsalter]

Just had some spam with scrambled eggs with homemade biscuits and gravy.

Sausage or chipped beef gravy? (Both are great!)