I’m still not sure why there is vegetarian Spam, but…
Apparently this is a soy and wheat gluten loaf and is made in the Phillipines.
Sounds delicious.
Unless you’ve Celiac disease.
Sarcasm.
I know. 😁
Maybe! Idk, I used to like mock duck. Soy based lunch meat is pretty good too. Alas, I’ll never be able to try this company’s stuff as it all has wheat in it.
It could be better, from my experience.
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. 😂
It is!
It does. Honestly SPAM is a good choice for unmeatification.
For that price I’d happily try it.
However good or bad it is. It can’t be worse than luncheon meat. Treet meat and it’s offbrand variants.
The price of spam is just criminal nowadays. Costs more than corned beef.
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?
That first thing.
Interesting. Idk. It tastes like bacon basically when you fry it. Not sure how that wouldn’t be delicious. But oh well, idk.
You sure you don’t just really like salt?
Well the salt definitely makes it tastier, no shit. Hot dogs also taste good…same with fast food and anything salty from a restaurant…salt = tastes good. It’s a culinary basic principle.
Not saying it’s good for you. Just saying it’s delicious.
I would go past underrated and day much maligned.
I’m always more and more weirded out when plant-based foods try to mimic meat. Even to extremes like with Spam here. Just…why?
TBH, I’m not convinced regular Spam is trying to act like meat. Sometimes people just want a hunk of spiced protein.
Next time grab a photo of the back with the ingredients. That’s the most important photo to capture
This guy/girl
fucksknows how to vegetarianhttps://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?
Just because a company has created a product, doesn’t mean that anyone has made a moral judgement. Even if some vegetarians decide to eat this, it still doesn’t mean that all vegetarians agree.
The things you are doing are destroying something somewhere.
Right. Try to buy clothing that doesn’t have slavery somewhere in the supply chain. It’s impossible. Same with chocolate.
I roll around in locally sourced mud to cover my shame.
I killed some grass to dig a whole to plant a tree.
We can quantify the harm against the benefit in tons of carbon equivalent added or removed from the air and calculate the net effect.
Growing vegetarian food is magnitudes less harmful then raising animals for food in almost every ecosystem and species
Wow a whole hole? You monster.
Oversimplifying a complicated situation is a great way to show you know nothing about complicated situations.
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.
Something something no ethical consumption
Backyard garden vegetable consumption comes fairly close?
Quantitatively, eating meat is wayyy worse for the environment, yes.
So its an oily tofu block with seasoning and preservatives
Spam is an oily meat block with seasoning and preservatives. Sounds like they nailed it in spirit.
I’m sold
What??? I gotta find me some of this Spam!
I doubt the original is legally meat either.
I’ve seen one that comes in a bag, pre-sliced and frozen. Feels like over fancifying something that’s supposed to mimic something cheap
I feel this way about packaged sliced cheese
With their fancy plastic bags?
Why is there regular Spam?
That’s a good question.
You just declared war on the entire country of Hawaii.
And South Korea.
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They’re pretty shitty vegans because they eat seven million cans of Spam per year.
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Those are really small numbers.
622/1,000,000 vegans
If everyone went to a vegan restaurant at the same time there would be 52,631.6 people there.
And 52,631 people are gonna have PTSD from seeing the 2/3 of a person mangled on their way in through the door
Slightly less then two thirds.
Damn. This doesn’t match my experience in Hawaii at all. My in-laws live there, and everytime I visit I sustain my life with fruit and Avacados. I’d kill for some plant based SPAM.
I thought they were big on pork, much like other pacific island nations. But also with the history of Asian immigrants and agriculture, I would think soy and soy based products would also be readily available.
TIL that Hawaii is a country…
And don’t they rely on fishing? They have a severe lack of farm land…
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.
Gimme dat pork butt
Someone’s gonna be going “wee wee wee” tonight
Don’t do his vegetarian wife like that, bro.
@[email protected] is the only one threatening to do anyone’s hammy hinds
Kingdom
No, Hawaii.
Lol, what? Yeah, the kingdom of Hawaii, right?
I can’t tell if we’re actually saying different things.
I thought that a country has to be recognized as a country by other countries whereas a kingdom has to… do… something different. And royalty or something?
Fuck it, let’s go back to arguing. Yes! Kingdom!
I’m confused, I’m telling you its the country of Hawaii and you’re saying it’s the country of Kingdom and I’m just trying to say they love SPAM and now you’re picking fights.
Since when is Hawaii a country brah?
Can you please stay on track here?
We’re talking about SPAM and the country of Hawaii’s love for it.
The House of Kamehameha will rise again and everyone will be too scared to do anything because no one is gonna wanna wait to find out if they can actually do that DBZ shit.
Well when you say it like that, I sound like a moron.
But I’m feeling stubbornly ignorant enough to support what I’m supposedly arguing.
The country of Kingdom loves Hawaii which is why they constantly spam my email. If you don’t forward this message to 10 friends in the next two days, Jesus is gonna sneak into your room while you’re sleeping and punch you in the stomach.
Oh I was hoping he’d slip me little Jesus if you know what I mean.
Jesus comes twice.
SPAM is great. I will hear no slander.
Does Spam need meat to be great? Feels like an easy swap to me!
Totally agree. I love SPAM but I’ll bet a non-meat version is totally doable.
/signed.
Are you Hawaiian?
E: or maybe Filipino?
Nm this has been covered.
Neither! SPAM is cheap fatty salty protein. What’s not to love? It’s isn’t worse than a hot dog.
Your face isn’t worse than a hot dog
Thank you, I moisturize.
(Things I brag about on my tinder profile)
Lips and assholes, in cube form!
For spam musubi?
I blame the Danes
I bought one of those vegan Spam-a-likes and I have to say I really didn’t like it.
I my thought process was “Spam’s so heavily processed, how much worse could it be if no meat were involved?” the answer turned out to be “A lot.” I don’t know how to describe it. It’s like… you know how there are all beef hot dogs, but they don’t taste anything like beef? It was kinda that but with Spam… but Spam isn’t very meat like to begin with.
All that being said, after the plant based Spam sat in my fridge until it started to get fuzzy, I threw it out for the stray cats in my neighborhood. Despite the fact I found it to be quite unappealing, starving alley cats found it to be meat like enough to eat it… which I guess is a mark in it’s favor?
You gave moldy food to stray animals? How nice of you!
It’s probably better then the days old garbage they usually scavenge. And I cut off the moldy part too.
Why do you give moldy, spoiled food to animals? It can make them sick too.
they use the word meat a lot on the shelf tag, considering it’s not meat
I prefer it to real spam. Way less greasy with more flavors
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.
Haven’t had this particular brand, but I’ve made vegan musubi before with another. Turned out great and tbh I couldn’t tell the difference. The only downside was the price difference.
I went on a date like that.
