I’m still not sure why there is vegetarian Spam, but…
Apparently this is a soy and wheat gluten loaf and is made in the Phillipines.
Sounds delicious.
It does. Honestly SPAM is a good choice for unmeatification.
Maybe! Idk, I used to like mock duck. Soy based lunch meat is pretty good too. Alas, I’ll never be able to try this company’s stuff as it all has wheat in it.
Sounds like its essentially seitan, and frankly you can do amazing things with wheat gluten. My personal fav is the hilariously named WTF method (wash that flour).
For spam I imagine they just salt the hell out of it. 😂
It is!
It could be better, from my experience.
Meatn’t
For that price I’d happily try it.
However good or bad it is. It can’t be worse than luncheon meat. Treet meat and it’s offbrand variants.
The price of spam is just criminal nowadays. Costs more than corned beef.
they use the word meat a lot on the shelf tag, considering it’s not meat
What??? I gotta find me some of this Spam!
There’s a vegan sushi/ramen place near me that makes something between musubi and onigiri with vegan spam and they’re crazy good. So that’s one use for it.
I’m still not sure why there is vegetarian Spam, but…
Because there are Hawaiians who don’t eat meat.
Haven’t had this particular brand, but I’ve made vegan musubi before with another. Turned out great and tbh I couldn’t tell the difference. The only downside was the price difference.
Whilst both forms of processed meat, luncheon meat and spam are not the same things.
Here’s the thing. You said “vegan luncheon meat is spam.”
Is it in the same USDA classification? Yes. No one’s arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies processed food, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls luncheon meat spam. If you want to be “specific” like you said, then you shouldn’t either. They’re not the same thing.
If you’re saying “luncheon meat category” you’re referring to the economic grouping of the USDA, which includes things from Armour Treet to Great Value to Swift Prem.
So your reasoning for calling a vegan luncheon meat spam is because random people “call the one in the tin spam?” Let’s get King Oscar and Chicken of the Sea in there, then, too.
Also, calling something meat or spam? It’s not one or the other, that’s not how nutrition classification works. They’re both. Spam is spam and a member of the luncheon meat category. But that’s not what you said. You said luncheon meat is spam, which is not true unless you’re okay with calling all tinned meat spam, which means you’d call prem, treet, and other luncheon meat spam, too. Which you said you don’t.
It’s okay to just admit you’re wrong, you know?
Jackdaw
That’s good to know if I ever start craving Hawaiian food
TIL there’s such a thing as luncheon meat. I thought that was just what they did in junior league.
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I can imagine this tasting like actual spam since I find the vegan hot dogs and vegan Bologna actually taste just like the meat ones. It gets harder to replicate the meat taste as you get into ground beef and steak substitutes
I found plant burger patties that were damn near meat flavor wise, but they were hard for me to get cooked right. They were a little mushy.
Impossible whoppers are pretty good. Impossible burgers from the store are too salty for me and leave a weird taste. I like the vegan chicken burgers though
I’m all for vegan and vegetarian alternatives, but … I don’t even know what to say. How bad must your meat cravings be to eat UNmeat ugh.
Not Meatloaf ?
They’ll do anything for love but they won’t do that.
