Monday, 3 July 2017

My salad days are definitely over


I found this rather splendid picture on the old t'interweb a few weeks back, and felt the need to share it. Donald Trump's face, hewn from SPAM, like a meaty Mount Rushmore. It's vastly better than the lame portrait of the great orange one that I made from SPAM last year, just prior to the presidential elections, but it reminded me that I had intended to revisit my creation at some point, or at least the SPAM Family Cookbook from which the recipe came, which I had purchased on eBay.


The booklet is packed full of all sorts of weird and wonderful recipes, all involving SPAM in some way or another, including a SPAM risotto, Chilli Con SPAM, "Devilled Nuts and SPAM", SPAM en Vin, Gazpacho (with fried SPAM cubes on top), SPAM en croute and Glazed SPAM Loaf (as illustrated on the front and back covers, both of which look like alien lifeforms of some kind) and for the kids, the "SPAM Special", which is "an old-time Wild West puffer train" fashioned from several tins of SPAM and a few tomatoes. No childrens' party would be complete without one.