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Re: Python-esqueapades

Written by Rood at 06 Sep 2002 10:00:51:

As an answer to: Python-esqueapades written by Paul B. at 03 Sep 2002 14:30:21:

Wonder of wonders. I haven't seen Spam on a counter for years, but tonight, walking down the grocery aisle, I discovered a special display of the stuff. These are the listed contents:


pork, mechanically separated chicken, American processed cheese, water,
cream, sodium, potato starch, sugar, sodium nitrite.

fat 15 g 23% daily requirements ?
saturated fat 6 g 30%
chlorestral 35 mg 12%
sodium 710 mg 30%
calcium 2%
iron 4%
carbohydrate 2 g 1%
fiber 0 g 0%
sugar 1 g
protein 8 g

And, yes, it is still made by the Hormel Company of Austin, Minnesota.

>> Spam employs meat products previously discarded in the butchering process, including God only knows what.
>That is exactly what I was saying. It is no doubt composed of the otherwise unwanted bits of meat, such as cartilage and tendon, but as long as it does not contain substantial amounts of cholesterol (such as offal), fat and salt, is it most likely quite good in the nutritional sense. In fact, as I was pointing out, cartilage and not meat, contains certain quite important nutrients.
>> I can remember opening a container or two when I was a boy, and I distinctly remember the thick gelatinous coating that must be discarded before eating.
>As would be expected to some extent from canned, well-cooked meat. So do you recall from what, jelly (Aeroplane Jelly) is made? The flavoured stuff you eat for dessert is really just the same as this.
>
>> Believe me, Paul, you don't want to know what's in it. Could be a few foreskins, along with the Python, itself?
>Yeah, how do you suppose Cleese and gang thought that name up? I wonder . . .


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