Topic: Hey Erik Is it true about South Korea and spam

[Khalee]

Just saw a special about spam on the travel chanel and in it they said South koreans are nuts about it, sence you live there is it true or not.  

[Taldren_Erin]

I don't know about South Korea, but it's fairly popular in Japan, and in (mostly just "home cooked") Japanese food over here. My family is still quite fond of spam sushi. They even have a special name for it, which escapes me at the moment. It's pretty funny considering how hated that substance was for so long since it was for awhile the only meat people had access to. My dad won't touch the stuff for that reason, he had too much of it as a kid.  

[KATChuutRitt]

Nothing wrong with SPAM

 

I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam beaked beans spam spam spam and spam!

 

[Falaris]

It's kind of fun how food changes from 'cheap' food to delicacy (and back).

Few cases in point:
Salmon used to be luxury food, and prices were very high.

Then fish farming became standard, and prices dropped to the point where it was suddenly 'common' food. (Except salmon has a peculiar, 'fat' taste that, while good, isn't something you can eat often without getting severely tired of it.).

Same with lutnakke (a part of lutefisk) - with lutefisk packed in barrels for export to portugal in old days, the 'neck' of the fish was chopped off to make it fit in barrels. Since they were 'surplus' the workers got to take it home for dinner for free. It was considered very 'low' food, but as barrel exports ended, people realized it was one of the best bits and it became luxury food.

You can probably think of other local versions of the same.
 

[Khalee]

Just saw a special about spam on the travel chanel and in it they said South koreans are nuts about it, sence you live there is it true or not.  

[Taldren_Erin]

I don't know about South Korea, but it's fairly popular in Japan, and in (mostly just "home cooked") Japanese food over here. My family is still quite fond of spam sushi. They even have a special name for it, which escapes me at the moment. It's pretty funny considering how hated that substance was for so long since it was for awhile the only meat people had access to. My dad won't touch the stuff for that reason, he had too much of it as a kid.  

[KATChuutRitt]

Nothing wrong with SPAM

 

I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam beaked beans spam spam spam and spam!

 

[Falaris]

It's kind of fun how food changes from 'cheap' food to delicacy (and back).

Few cases in point:
Salmon used to be luxury food, and prices were very high.

Then fish farming became standard, and prices dropped to the point where it was suddenly 'common' food. (Except salmon has a peculiar, 'fat' taste that, while good, isn't something you can eat often without getting severely tired of it.).

Same with lutnakke (a part of lutefisk) - with lutefisk packed in barrels for export to portugal in old days, the 'neck' of the fish was chopped off to make it fit in barrels. Since they were 'surplus' the workers got to take it home for dinner for free. It was considered very 'low' food, but as barrel exports ended, people realized it was one of the best bits and it became luxury food.

You can probably think of other local versions of the same.
 

[Khalee]

Just saw a special about spam on the travel chanel and in it they said South koreans are nuts about it, sence you live there is it true or not.  

[Taldren_Erin]

I don't know about South Korea, but it's fairly popular in Japan, and in (mostly just "home cooked") Japanese food over here. My family is still quite fond of spam sushi. They even have a special name for it, which escapes me at the moment. It's pretty funny considering how hated that substance was for so long since it was for awhile the only meat people had access to. My dad won't touch the stuff for that reason, he had too much of it as a kid.  

[KATChuutRitt]

Nothing wrong with SPAM

 

I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam beaked beans spam spam spam and spam!

 

[Falaris]

It's kind of fun how food changes from 'cheap' food to delicacy (and back).

Few cases in point:
Salmon used to be luxury food, and prices were very high.

Then fish farming became standard, and prices dropped to the point where it was suddenly 'common' food. (Except salmon has a peculiar, 'fat' taste that, while good, isn't something you can eat often without getting severely tired of it.).

Same with lutnakke (a part of lutefisk) - with lutefisk packed in barrels for export to portugal in old days, the 'neck' of the fish was chopped off to make it fit in barrels. Since they were 'surplus' the workers got to take it home for dinner for free. It was considered very 'low' food, but as barrel exports ended, people realized it was one of the best bits and it became luxury food.

You can probably think of other local versions of the same.