... when Spam and egg salad sandwiches are way better?
I use a 7-ounce can of Spam, 4 hard-boiled eggs, mayonnaise, and mash all together. It makes at least 8 sandwiches. It tastes better and is more filling than egg salad.
Sometimes I like Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, egg, Spam, Spam, Spam, and Spam
interesting, I have never thought about that. I might give that a try soon. I did see at the store they are now selling spam singles. and why is spam so dang expensive?
shareI read a review about Spam singles that said they had a different taste and texture than normal Spam from a can, so I don't know if those would be good to use or not. I've never tried them.
The price of processed meat in general (e.g., hot dogs, Spam and other luncheon meats) has gotten absurd.
Spam is a little harder to mash than hard-boiled eggs are. I use a potato mashing utensil like this - https://www.amazon.com/Potato-Masher-Stainless-Professional-Vegetable-10-24/dp/B08TCJMQGK - which makes quick work of it, and then I mash it a little more with an ordinary dinner fork to make the chunks of Spam and egg smaller.
When I was growing up in the 1980s, Mom usually made Spam and egg salad rather than plain egg salad, so the latter has always tasted to me like it's missing something, and not as filling as it should be.
I was curious and bought one. they are ok, but I think the canned version is better.
thats funny, I have one that looks almost like that. it works great on everything.
my mom used to make fried spam sandwiches, man I loved those. we never thought about mixing it in egg salad though. eggs in general are not very filling. I remember eating a egg salad sandwich and being hungry 30 minutes later. I need the meats!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioGEI_UO81Q&t=12s
You are presenting me with a bit of a conundrum. Let's say I like brownies. Actually, we don't have to say it, I DO like brownies. But someone like you comes along and tells me brownies with a bunch of chocolate icing slathered all over them is 'better'. But I like brownies just exactly as they are.
That's how I feel about egg-salad sandwiches. Your recipe might be fine, might even be 'better', but based upon much experience, I have my doubts. It would probably be just 'different'.
I'm that way with some things, like ordinary toasted cheese sandwiches vs. adding tuna salad to make a tuna melt. Sometimes I'm in the mood for the former and sometimes the latter. I don't consider one to be intrinsically better than the other, aside from tuna melts being more filling.
I'm not that way with egg salad sandwiches though, because I've never really liked them all that much to begin with. I've never even made egg salad myself because if I'm going to the trouble of peeling several hard-boiled eggs (one or two of them almost always refuse to peel easily; sometimes all four), I want something I really like, so I always add Spam. The only egg salad sandwiches I've ever had were always made by someone else.
That sounds pretty good!
share“Oh man, Friday, I really wanted an egg salad sandwich and I was just obsessing about it and I was like, 'Man, I'm gonna make one of those.'
So Saturday, I went out and got, like, a dozen eggs and then I boiled them all and I just, I spent, I dunno, probably three hours, like three and a half hours making, you know, the mayonnaise, and the onions and paprika and, you know, the necessary accoutrement.
And then, by the time I was done, I didn't really feel like eating it.
And I didn’t have any bread.”
—Andy Stitzer
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Not a fan of spam. Also, egg salad sandwiches are plenty filling without spam, no?
share"Also, egg salad sandwiches are plenty filling without spam, no?"
Eggs have around 44 calories per ounce. Spam has around 90 calories per ounce, so Spam is about twice as filling per unit of weight than eggs.