My only complaint about any & all of these is ---- SALT.

They load them up to add flavor,and it just tastes like salt.

And yes,I happen to love the use of salt,and if missing the taste is terrible [ think pasta ].

Would love to find a version with no salt taste !

 

HORMEL Spam 25% Less Sodium 12oz

 

It's here can't remember if it's food and water or recipes. I'll try my luck finding it since it's several pages.

 

Here is what you're looking for it covers all of them. SPAM vs DAK Smack Down`

I didn't go through all of the thread titles in this forum, and I know there are several threads in the recipe forum too. Some of them are at least twice as long as this. All I did was search spam in this forum titles only and this was on page two.

 

I wouldn't even feed it to my dog much less eat it myself. Its like eating a lump of salty pork fat, I'm not sure I could eat it if it was the last type of food left on earth...LOL

 

I currently stock Spam, hickory smoked spam, bacon spam, turkey spam, Treet & Bristol Cooked Ham. I will have to swing by Aldi to give the Brookdale a try.

 

I have Spam and Bristol Hickory Smoked Ham because they are the cheapest and we all like them.

 

I like SPAM and DAK ham, I'll fry them and eat sandwiches, or if you want to dilute the salty taste, chop the meat up and scramble it in with some eggs, it makes a good breakfast.

 

I like the Brookdale canned ham better than Dak. As a plus the stuff from Aldis is cheaper.

 

Dak is nasty according to my taste buds, it’s Spam only for me but the Walmart brand is pretty dang good, I can’t really tell the difference, I don’t like Armor Treet either

 

Hard Pass, please help yourself to my rations. I'll stick to my sardines and Hereford corned beef.

Godspeed

 

I can't stand Treet either. I buy the Walmart generic. I don't much care for Spam but I can eat it in recipes. I prefer DAK but since it's no gourmet treat either, I'll just take the Walmart stuff and spend the difference on something I do like.

Since I haven't been out shopping during the recent situation, I've been tinkering with ways to use the canned meats. I don't like any of them by themselves, but diluted in a recipe they're plenty edible. Except Treet. That stuff completely ruins anything I put it in.

 

SPAM also has a 25% less sodium choice.

 

The bacon flavor has less sodium than the “”25% less sodium”. Having said that, I stock dry beans for protein in my shtf stores, $4 will buy several lbs of Dry beans that will last decades. I can buy pork roasts on sale for $1/lb, I keep many lbs in the freezer till the power goes off. . Small generators for short term power failure.

I vacuum pack beans and rice, instant potatoes, oatmeal, etc.

 

We stock 3 different versions of Spam.
We keep the Dak around.
We keep the Treet around.
The Brookdale. I picked up 2 cans the last Aldi run and we've tried one. It's ok, I'll buy more.
We keep the GV (walmart) around.

The Dollar Tree spam. Luncheon Loaf is what they call it. I wouldn't feed that stuff to our dogs. It's plum nasty.

 

I dice up the Dak ham, then nuke it for 5 or 6 minutes to enhance the flavor. I then add it to buttered egg noodles. Mmmmmmmmmm.

 

Meet “Mama Chops”, she makes the best ham and bacon ever. Beats Spam, Dak, etc. Actually made a 14 pound boiled ham from one of her kin just this past week. Served with some mustard on homemade rye bread.....👍

 

Meet “Mama Chops”, she makes the best ham and bacon ever. Beats Spam, Dak, etc. Actually made a 14 pound boiled ham from one of her kin just this past week. Served with some mustard on homemade rye bread.....👍

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I've got 2 of her very distant relatives. Mr Bacon and Ms Sausage.
Mr Bacon has a vacation planned next month.

 

Buy the generic brand at Walmart. Great value I believe. It taste so much better than Spam or the AldI brands

 

So ham, being a preserved product by nature, should be the best non-sea meat out of a can. And yet I find I prefer beef and chicken products out of a can. I even liked a pulled pork offering I had out of a can one time better than a canned ham product. Same animal!

Mind you, I don't dislike ham. But I'd rather eat the most basic chopped glop ham sliced from the deli case. Like those big pink blocks with the FUD brand label, lol. I can't believe the can is all to blame. Otherwise other canned meats would be less edible.

I'm chalking it up to the brands trying to squeeze every nickel they can from it. I think because Spam has a baseline they won't go below is why they still rate as one of the best ham(-ish) canned choices.

Someone should try upping their canned ham game and charging for it.

Btw, I found a lot more can ham brands than I expected to find. Besides the common DAK, Bristol, and Brookdale, I've seen Swift, Goya, Iberia, Dutch Colony, Royale, Celebrity, and Hostess. No clue on taste comparison.


I think something went wrong down the line. I can remember when canned hams were big. Several pounds at least, and you had to open them with a can key. They were a whole ham cut, not this chopped and formed stuff. You opened the can and there was a big gelatinous mass that melted when heated and was some serious flavor. I can't even remember when I last saw gelatin in canned meat. If you home cook meat well and cool it in a closed container you end up with meat, broth, gelatin, and fat. Where did the meat gelatin go to? Whatever happened to the big Oscar Meyer and Rath brand multipound canned hams as well? Those were serious tasting ham. Now it's all chopped and formed, no fat or gelatin, just a few broth drops, and suffering shrinkflation where they keep making the formerly 1lb cans an ounce lighter every year. It's a race to the bottom of the barrel, I tell you. Pretty soon those tiny cans will just be enough for a sandwich.

 

Those 5# hams were reasonably priced and tasted just dandy. "Shelf" life was problematical? maybe that's why they disappeared.

 

So we went from great to nasty in a couple decades and no one made an effort? No one has even tried to put whole ham in a can since. If they told me that it has to be smashed and squeezed through a tube into a can in order to make it last longer my BS meter would peg to the right. Anyone who home cans knows you can put a decent sized slab of meat into a canning jar. These canning companies also have higher pressure gear and are working with an already preserved product from the start. So saw off a hunk of ham, trim it to fit the can, sell the trim lunchmeat makers, and zap that ham slice in those huge industrial canners. Whole ham has got to taste better than the chopped mush they shape to fit. So my idea costs more on the shelf. OK, I'll pay if it's worth the extra effort. Call it gourmet, proudly made in the USA, and all the pigs are happy until the axe falls. Marketing is easy.

I get your point. But someone has had to have learned a trick or two in the past few decades. All they've done is made the product less appealing. No one can seem to struggle past Spam's example that is almost a century old. Time for some canned ham progress.

 

Not only that Zeke but when I started grocery shopping in the late '90s I could buy a whole chicken in a can pretty cheap. Can't remember the last time that I saw one now that I think of it. I might be a little young for the big canned hams because I don't remember them.

 

Sue Bee Whole Chicken. It tastes fine if you can still find it, but it is pretty nasty to see sliding out of the can. It became a bit of an internet meme for being gross to see. Then again, the kids making the memes thought that meat comes from a Hot Pockets Tree. Hand them a hatchet and a live chicken and we are talking about decades of expensive PTSD therapy for them. Unless they get rich they are going to have a rude awakening when their blushing bride complaints about the tub always clogging up and they have to clean out the pipe themselves instead of paying off a plumber to snake it. They can kill COD nazis all day, but cut their finger in the kitchen and they cry for a medivac team instead of slapping some electrical tape on it and getting back to the sandwich they wanted. Food should be both tasty and attractive on the serving plate, but the path to the plate can visit some rude stops along the way.

 

So,those of you that have cans of different varieties,how do the labels of nutrition contents compare.I know sodium is an issue,but what about the highest amount of vitiams etc...?
They about the same per serving/oz?Any clear winner/most bang for your buck?

 

ok.... Below is a bunch of pics with the front of the cans and the nutrition info for each in the picture under it.
First pick is overall view of what I am posting

Armour Treet Original (do they have any other versions?)

Spam Classic

Spam Bacon

Spam Turkey

The rest will be continued in another post because the forum only allows 10 pictures in a single post.....

 

Part 2 of the pictures comparing meats and nutrition info...

Spam Hickory Smoke

Great Value Roast Beef (I know, not pork, ham or spam but I had it out and figured what the hell)

Great Value Chunk Chicken Breast (yeah, also not pig)

Armour Vienna Sausage (three pics to get all the info to show on the small can)

Bristol Cooked Ham Will be in a third post (damn ten pic limit again)

 

And last but not least...

Bristol Cooked Ham

 

To mostly compare apples to apples look at the fat, protean, carbs, and sugar in the Treet, the Spam classic, the Bristol ham, and the Spam turkey. You don't even need to see the ingredients to see which has the most fillers. Of course canned chicken beats them all.

 

Spam w Bacon !!!!!!
Now I am on the hunt !.
Thank you bro .

 

$2.92 a can at my local walmart

 

Walmart brand is 3/$6 online if they have it in stock, they have bacon spam right now

 

JFount..thanks for taking the time and work to post all that!!

Very suprised,a serving is 2 oz.??!!Figured at least 1/2 can..whole thing if camping/working.

 

I'm surprised at how low the protein is. That tells ya that the stuff is mostly water and fat. Tastes like it's about 10% salt by weight too.