I’m still not sure why there is vegetarian Spam, but…
they use the word meat a lot on the shelf tag, considering it’s not meat
Meatn’t
That’s good to know if I ever start craving Hawaiian food
why not just eat fucking vegetables? asking as a vegetarian
Vegetables don’t exist as a block I can cut slices of, fry, and put in a sandwich.
Well eggplant does but if I’m buying canned spam substitute I’m not in the mood for breading something.
Because that don’t taste like that?
They taste better
Spam is one of the grossest food i ever tried
Spam is just pork sausage in a rectangle.
Got me. I prefer decent meals made with vegetables like Indian food.
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.
Though we’ve just met I’m already ready to un-meet UnMeat.
I can imagine this tasting like actual spam since I find the vegan hot dogs and vegan Bologna actually taste just like the meat ones. It gets harder to replicate the meat taste as you get into bed m ground beef and steak substitutes
I found plant burger patties that were damn near meat flavor wise, but they were hard for me to get cooked right. They were a little mushy.
Impossible whoppers are pretty good. Impossible burgers from the store are too salty for me and leave a weird taste. I like the vegan chicken burgers though
I doubt the original is legally meat either.
TIL there’s such a thing as luncheon meat. I thought that was just what they did in junior league.
I’m all for vegan and vegetarian alternatives, but … I don’t even know what to say. How bad must your meat cravings be to eat UNmeat ugh.
Not Meatloaf ?
They’ll do anything for love but they won’t do that.
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.
What??? I gotta find me some of this Spam!
Why is there regular Spam?
SPAM is great. I will hear no slander.
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.
Lips and assholes, in cube form!
Your face isn’t worse than a hot dog
Thank you, I moisturize.
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.
That’s a good question.
You just declared war on the entire country of Hawaii.
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TIL that Hawaii is a country…
And don’t they rely on fishing? They have a severe lack of farm land…
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 South Korea.
This stuff is great. Not a vegetarian but I eat plenty of protein alternatives because of family. Un-Meat Plant Based Luncheon Meat Style (you have to say the whole thing) is actually preferable to spam.
Whilst both forms of processed meat, luncheon meat and spam are not the same things.
Here’s the thing. You said “vegan luncheon meat is spam.”
Is it in the same USDA classification? Yes. No one’s arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies processed food, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls luncheon meat spam. If you want to be “specific” like you said, then you shouldn’t either. They’re not the same thing.
If you’re saying “luncheon meat category” you’re referring to the economic grouping of the USDA, which includes things from Armour to Great Value to Walmart brand.
So your reasoning for calling a vegan luncheon meat spam is because random people “call the one in the tin spam?” Let’s get King Oscar and Tuna of the Sea in there, then, too.
Also, calling something meat or spam? It’s not one or the other, that’s not how nutrition classification works. They’re both. Spam is spam and a member of the luncheon meat category. But that’s not what you said. You said luncheon meat is spam, which is not true unless you’re okay with calling all tinned meat spam, which means you’d call great value, armour, and other luncheon meat spam, too. Which you said you don’t.
It’s okay to just admit you’re wrong, you know?
Jackdaw
