kohlenklau Posted February 15, 2015 Author Share Posted February 15, 2015 Breakfast!!! (Farm fresh eggs and SPAM) Oh, and what is cowboy coffee Mark? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heirloom_Tomato Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Hey, you are pretty much straight south of my old place: 30°41'34.18"N, 98°16'11.67"W Even though I have moved a little closer, I would still be a few days late for breakfast. I believe cowboy coffee is coffee grounds tossed straight into a cup of hot water. Let sit for a few minutes to allow the grounds to settle and then enjoy. If the water was not boiled over a fire it is not cowboy coffee. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kohlenklau Posted February 15, 2015 Author Share Posted February 15, 2015 That sounds like the last cup out of my Mr Coffee....I spit out a few ground that slip by the filter.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kohlenklau Posted February 15, 2015 Author Share Posted February 15, 2015 Steven Steven Steven... How about we can eat it out of army mess kits and feel like we're in the Ardennes. ...? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 hmm with a hot seat game of CM going on projected on a movie screen with surround sound? Okay I might even eat spam for that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kohlenklau Posted February 15, 2015 Author Share Posted February 15, 2015 Alright! Jalapeno Spam was very tasty fried up with some eggs. A glorious breakfast! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinnart Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 (edited) damn the look on those guys faces says it all. Yuuum cold spam. Lol.. I recall having that very same look getting my very first MRE thrown off the back of a truck at 4am for breakfast. The dreaded "dehydrated pork patty". Served nice and cold in a brown plastic bag. Followed by greasy, slimy imitation cheese product, or oily glue ( I mean peanut butter) on extra dry, tasteless crackers, and the ever so precious little square of toilet paper to add to the collection for when you literally s@#t a brick a few days later. I was in when the Army transitioned to MRE from C-RAT which were better tasting IMO, and came with one of those nifty P-38 openers (anyone else save one of those?). I hear the MREs have gotten much better, but those early ones were pretty nasty albeit easier to carry around. Edited February 16, 2015 by Vinnart 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLSTK Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Breast milk's sounding better all the time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Breast milk's sounding better all the time. You know you want it sonny!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLSTK Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 (edited) Mom, is that you? (It's all coming back to me now. I gave up smoking the same day I gave up drinking from mammy's teat.) Edited February 16, 2015 by BLSTK 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLSTK Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 From now on, it's Spam or nothing for me! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 You guys are soooo elitist (well, except BLSTK). I love Spam for breakfast when I am camping. Cowboy coffee, Spam, eggs and biscuits. Mmmmm...... It's the ambience, believe me. I have eaten—and more importantly enjoyed—things while camping that I would never eat in any other environment. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 I have a neighbor with digestive problems. For some reason, Spam is one of the things she can tolerate. Go figure. She makes soup with it. A few years back after noticing that our local groceries were carrying several varieties of it, I bought a can after not having eaten it for over 50 years. It was truly awful. I ended up throwing most of it away. At the other end of the spectrum, I like corned beef hash just fine. So what happens? About a year ago our local stores stopped carrying it. One more proof that the world is sliding into a new Dark Age. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agusto Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Great, a spam thread. I plan on reaching 2000 posts this year anyways. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjkerner Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Go figure. She makes soup with it. OK, now that's just sick! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLSTK Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 You know you want it sonny!! That wouldn't be the Gramma Nazi, would it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agusto Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 ALRIGHT! Walmart had like 10 different flavors. I got the Jalapeno and the Turkey. Sunday morning breakfast at kohlenklau's house!!! Come on by if you are near Burnet, TX. My house: 30°41'34.18"N, 98°16'11.67"W Next time I will try "Hot and Spicy" and maybe "Chorizo"....! Interesting...according to my calculations, it would take me 120 days to get there on foot. But only winter, i would have to walk all accross Russia and then hope the Bering Strait is sufficiently frozen to get accross. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kohlenklau Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 (edited) 120 days! Take plenty of SPAM for that kind of outdoor experience... Edited February 16, 2015 by kohlenklau 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLSTK Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 "What do you cook at home for dick?" English 101: Today's lesson is the appropriate use of capitalization. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLSTK Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Would you serve red or white wine with that? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketman Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 I'm surprised no one has linked to Monty Pythons SPAM-bit yet. Google it... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 (edited) I ate SPAM three ways as a child: 1) fried, typically served with eggs and toast 2) baked with brown sugar on top, which caramelized, yum, plus spuds and veggie or salad; and, occasionally, 3) SPAM salad, typically eaten in sandwiches. None of which has squat to do with the topic. What is relevant to WW II is what follows. SPAM as the basis for Hawaiian cuisine. Spam was one of the key aspects of the development of the cargo cult among the Melanesian people in the South Pacific. Hows this for topicality? SPAM in World War II. Anyone inclined to diss Lend Lease would do well to ponder what bellicose "We will bury you" Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev said of SPAM's critical importance to Russia during the GPW. "Without Spam," he reasoned "we wouldn't have been able to feed our army." He was, pardon the expression, far enough up the food chain during the GPW to know something like that, since he was on a bunch of military councils, was at Kharkov, Stalingrad, Kursk, etc. K. was one of Stalin's leash holders for the field commanders, apparently. "Stalin sends his greetings, tovarisch Front Komandir. Historian Walter S. Dunn reinforces the above in his The Soviet Economy and the Red Army, 1930-1945 (a book I clearly need to read), p. 86, where we learn SPAM was a key part of the frontovik's daily ration in 1944. A can per day per man. The US provided 20% of the meat consumed in Russia during the GPW, much of which was SPAM. Also, not only did US Lend Lease supply SPAM in vast quantities to Russia, but US meat packing companies also duplicated a kind of traditional Russian qua SPAM called Tushonka, which you can learn about here. It's on a blog devoted specifically (how groggy is this?) to the 20th Century (I'd expand it) history of field rations. There's even a recipe so you can make your own Tushonka! Regards, John Kettler Edited March 9, 2015 by John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLSTK Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 John, John, John. How can you talk food at a time like this? Can? Food? Food in a can? Who needs tanks and trucks? Send us some Spam! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLSTK Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 The previous post was sent courtesy of Doctor Seuss. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banex Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 Haven't had spam in years but spam and chips was creme de la creme if you were totally broke. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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