Nipping across to the Room of Viewing to see Celebrity Mr & Mrs. We're all very fond of Fern in the Community, although we don't see quite what Phillip Schofield brings to the party. And what do I see but an advert for Spam.
An inspiration to us all, I thought. I imagined Spam had gone out with half-crowns in the 1970s era - maybe that the Punk Rockers had eaten it all, or at the least that as the 1980s came round that the New Romantics had refused to sully their delicately painted lips.
But it's back! A sure indication of the Credit Crunch, perhaps - or maybe it's been stored in silos deep beneath the Wiltshire countryside since the end of the Cold War, and is only now being released under some culinary 30 Years Rule.
But in any event. I feel we should rejoice. I now have a cheap form of foodstuff I can give the troops, without any more risk of roadkill-related food poisoning. Hnaef will be happy. Once he's recovered.
Spam and Canned Corned Beef were the staple food of my childhood in the 1950's, cheap, cheerful and you could do so much with it. It could be fried in batter, baked into pies, made into sandwiches, put into salads or just eaten in slices.
ReplyDeleteIt brings back memories of Measles, Chicken Pox, Rickets, Diptheria, Dixon of Dock Green, Hancocks Half Hour, Drum Beat, Duke Box Jury, Noddy & Big Ears on TV, Cliff Richard (when he was young), The Shadows, Lonnie Donegan. Drainpipe trousers, winkelpickers, Ahhhhhhh. Nostalgia.
"Reasons to be cheerful. Part 3".
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