Spam Macadamia Nuts From Hawaii

[Yul Lose]

My daughter just dropped in for a surprise visit for my birthday. During Thanksgiving her and my SIL and grandson were in Hawaii. She texted me a picture of these macadamia nuts while they were there and asked me if I’d like to try them because she knows I like Spam. When I opened the can I could definitely smell the Spam smell and then there was a subtle Spam taste when I tried a few. 

[Blackwater 53393]

🤪🤣👍

[watab kid]

my wife was born in Hawaii about the time it got statehood , she loves macadamia nuts , i think she might take issue with those 

[Buckshot Bear]

3 hours ago, watab kid said:

my wife was born in Hawaii about the time it got statehood , she loves macadamia nuts , i think she might take issue with those 

 

Macadamia trees are Australian and were imported into Hawaii. 

[Horace Patootie, SASS #35798]

3 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

 

Macadamia trees are Australian and were imported into Hawaii. 

Does that mean that Macadamia trees can kill you like everything else in Australia ?

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Well I’ll be!   I typed spam macadamia nuts into Amazon.  
 

one of its search suggestions was spam flavored macadamia nuts

 

but there weren’t any for sale.

[Eyesa Horg]

Happy Birthday Yul 

[Colorado Coffinmaker]

 

🤮

[Pat Riot]

1 hour ago, Colorado Coffinmaker said:

 

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This ^^^^ times 3

[Texas Maverick]

6 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

 

Macadamia trees are Australian and were imported into Hawaii. 

How are you doing Bear? Hope they found all that was wrong and got ya on the mend.

 

TM

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

16 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

This ^^^^ times 3

Only 3?

[Alpo]

It is always tickled me how garbage food - trash that was fed to either the lower classes or to animals - has now become expensive and "oh boy we really want that".

 

In the 1700s they passed the law in Massachusetts that you could not feed your indentured servants lobster more than 3 days a week. Because lobster was trash fish. And now look at it.

 

Before the War of 1861, the owners ate certain parts of the animal and certain parts of the vegetable, and they fed what was left over - the stuff they would not eat - to the slaves. Hog jowl. Pig's feet. Turnip tops. Chicken wings. Cow peas. Now this stuff is soul food, and can cost you a pretty penny at a restaurant.

 

In Texas in the late 1800s and early 1900s they gave the workers flank steak. One of, if not the, toughest cuts of meat on the cow. And the workers came up with something to make this hunk of shoe leather edible. Fajitas. Then fajitas got popular. Now flank steak costs more than sirloin.

 

In Hawaii they grew macadamia nuts. They fed them to the cows. They were not people food. They were certainly not high dollar ritzy people food. It was cattle feed.

[Subdeacon Joe]

3 hours ago, Horace Patootie, SASS #35798 said:

Does that mean that Macadamia trees can kill you like everything else in Australia ?

 

Yes, but slowly.  Every 100 ounce single serving of those highly addictive nuggets is known to contain 200 ounces of fat.

 

 

That said,  Spam Flavored Macadamia Nuts sounds pretty good. 

[Subdeacon Joe]

11 minutes ago, Alpo said:

It is always tickled me how garbage food - trash that was fed to either the lower classes or to animals - has now become expensive and "oh boy we really want that".

 

Other examples are "baby back ribs," which used to be trim that butchers almost couldn't give away.   Salt pork,  used to be dirt cheap because it was made from trim and used for the cheapest of military rations or for seasoning.  Bacon was just a  small step up from that.   I looked at some salt pork in the "managers special" section and it was marked down to $6.49/#.  Pork picnic shoulder I ove $4.50/# around here.

[Blackwater 53393]

I find macadamia nuts to be mostly flavorless on their own. Spam is a VERY popular food in Hawaii!  
 

Kinda’ makes sense!!

 

 

[Subdeacon Joe]

Hamakua Macadamia Nuts Spam, 4.5oz. https://a.co/d/bZ3tqpu

 

 

[Yul Lose]

I have to admit……the more I eat these things the more I like them.

[Subdeacon Joe]

2 minutes ago, Yul Lose said:

I have to admit……the more I eat these things the more I like them.

 

Fat, salt, crunch, and porky goodness all is one tiny nugget!  How could you not like it?

[Pat Riot]

SPAM - Sodium Packed Almost Meat

 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Be still my beating heart…

 

 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

 

 

     ...... well, ...... y'all can have my share ........  🤢

[Buckshot Bear]

6 hours ago, Horace Patootie, SASS #35798 said:

Does that mean that Macadamia trees can kill you like everything else in Australia ?

 

I reckon spam flavoured ones could come close. 

[Blackwater 53393]

When you think about it, Spam is just canned sausage without the sage an smoke!!

[The Original Lumpy Gritz]

Hey Yul, did they find a cake big enough to hold ALL the candles? 

[Buckshot Bear]

5 hours ago, Texas Maverick said:

How are you doing Bear? Hope they found all that was wrong and got ya on the mend.

 

TM

 

So much better TM, appreciate the kind thoughts mate.

[Old Man Graybeard]

We live not too far from Austin,Minnesota...the home of SPAM. They even have a SPAM museum there. Have been to it several times. They have SPAM for sale that you can't find. SOme is special runs for export...some is for certain regions. I need to go back again and see what different varieties they have.

[Buckshot Bear]

[Yul Lose]

2 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Mrs. Lose took a trip to Europe a few years ago and since she won’t allow SPAM in the house I tried a number of different flavors while she was gone and the Jalapeño SPAM is my favorite. She hasn’t said anything about the macadamia nuts yet,

[Pat Riot]

SPAM - Something Pat Ain’t Masticating 

[Subdeacon Joe]

3 hours ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:

 

 

     ...... well, ...... y'all can have my share ........  🤢

 

 

Try it with Vegemite.

 

And Pineapple.

[Alpo]

What's the difference between tocino and bacon? I see it comes in both flavors. I looked up tocino and according to the all-knowing Internet it's just the Spanish word for bacon.

[Subdeacon Joe]

12 minutes ago, Alpo said:

What's the difference between tocino and bacon? I see it comes in both flavors. I looked up tocino and according to the all-knowing Internet it's just the Spanish word for bacon.

 

Tocino is usually somewhat sweet and/or savory and not smoked.  It also is much fattier than bacon,  more akin to salo (see Viands and Victuals) than American bacon. 

[watab kid]

17 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

 

Macadamia trees are Australian and were imported into Hawaii. 

thats an interesting fact - back then it seems sailors were moving all konds of cargo all around the world , theyt didnt have the regulations back then we have now 

[Sedalia Dave]

12 hours ago, Alpo said:

It is always tickled me how garbage food - trash that was fed to either the lower classes or to animals - has now become expensive and "oh boy we really want that".

 

In the 1700s they passed the law in Massachusetts that you could not feed your indentured servants lobster more than 3 days a week. Because lobster was trash fish. And now look at it.

 

Before the War of 1861, the owners ate certain parts of the animal and certain parts of the vegetable, and they fed what was left over - the stuff they would not eat - to the slaves. Hog jowl. Pig's feet. Turnip tops. Chicken wings. Cow peas. Now this stuff is soul food, and can cost you a pretty penny at a restaurant.

 

In Texas in the late 1800s and early 1900s they gave the workers flank steak. One of, if not the, toughest cuts of meat on the cow. And the workers came up with something to make this hunk of shoe leather edible. Fajitas. Then fajitas got popular. Now flank steak costs more than sirloin.

 

In Hawaii they grew macadamia nuts. They fed them to the cows. They were not people food. They were certainly not high dollar ritzy people food. It was cattle feed.

 

12 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

Other examples are "baby back ribs," which used to be trim that butchers almost couldn't give away.   Salt pork,  used to be dirt cheap because it was made from trim and used for the cheapest of military rations or for seasoning.  Bacon was just a  small step up from that.   I looked at some salt pork in the "managers special" section and it was marked down to $6.49/#.  Pork picnic shoulder I ove $4.50/# around here.

 

Add Brisket to that list as well. One upon a time it was considered a less than desirable cut.

 

Then along came competition BBQ and making it edible became the test of a master BBQ cook. Now it costs more per pound that a good steak.