[Ferretlover]

Soup sales are doing well, too:

Campbell Soup says 4Q profit, sales rise 11 Sep 2008
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')OUNT LAUREL, N.J. — The Campbell Soup Co. said Thursday its profit rose 46 percent from a year ago, as it raised prices on many of its products and got a lift from an extra week in the latest reporting period.
Company President Douglas Conant told analysts on a conference call that the company was able to turn in that performance despite unusual inflation for ingredients.
"In my 33 year career, I cannot recall a more challenging environment in the food industry," he said.
Conant said he expected costs to continue to rise for the company _ but for price increases and productivity improvements to be enough to offset it in fiscal 2009.
He reiterated the company's expectations that the company's earnings will be up 5 to 7 percent in the new fiscal year. The forecast is in line with the consensus of analysts who follow the company. …

[efarmer]

What is the current Spam to Dollar Exchange rate? When
things get shaky like this, smart dollars seek the refuge of
Spam. In a pinch, and given no other reasonable alternative,
you can actually eat the stuff in addition to using it as currency.
To stay within religious dietary laws we may have to ask Hormel
to make us Spoat from goats and Speep from sheep so we can
trade with the folks what has the oil or diamonds.

[dinopello]

Soon to be coming to a Sushi retaurant near you

[cynthia]

I had a roommate when I was a teen who used to make a little casserole that I ate a few times. Thankfully my taste buds have since matured:
Take one can of spam and place it intact in a baking dish.
Mix a small can of pineapple (any format would do but I believe she used the chunks, with a couple of tablespoons of brown sugar. Set aside.
Score top of spam in diamond shape and poke whole cloves into top in a decorative fashion.
Pour pineapple-brown sugar over top and bake in 350 degree oven until the spam is heated through. (Since it's a pork based product make sure the center temps out at no less than 155 degrees).

cynthia

[Snowrunner]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cynthia', '(')Since it's a pork based product make sure the center temps out at no less than 155 degrees).

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', 'S')oon to be coming to a Sushi retaurant near you

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cynthia', 'I') had a roommate when I was a teen who used to make a little casserole that I ate a few times. Thankfully my taste buds have since matured:
Take one can of spam and place it intact in a baking dish.
Mix a small can of pineapple (any format would do but I believe she used the chunks, with a couple of tablespoons of brown sugar. Set aside.
Score top of spam in diamond shape and poke whole cloves into top in a decorative fashion.
Pour pineapple-brown sugar over top and bake in 350 degree oven until the spam is heated through. (Since it's a pork based product make sure the center temps out at no less than 155 degrees).

cynthia

[coyote]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 's')omething that resembles meat

[hironegro]

Why not buy a chicken legs and produce, cook simple meals.

[patience]

Yup, got Spam. Our longer term pantry also has canned ham, chicken, tuna, mackerel, sardines, corned beef, and kippered herring. Not my favorite selection of meats, but by adding enough potatoes, home baked breads, and garden veggies, you can stop the wind whistling between your ribs.

[efarmer]

Wowsers Dino and Threadbear, that is some awsome looking
Spushi. My fear is that things will go more to the Hoover Hog
side and we will be contemplating Spamadillo and Spossum.

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('biofuel13', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DoomWarrior', ' ') Of the 170 calories/serving, 140 derive from FAT.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', 'S')oon to be coming to a Sushi retaurant near you

[ki11ercane]

I've got lots of Mystery Meat in the prep pile. I buy it at the dollar store - same stuff as Walmart or Sobey's for a buck. Reading this I am going out tomorrow to buy more.

Canned Mystery Meat has no shelf life. When kept at room temperature and not rust, it will never EVER spoil. When you need protein in a hurry and there is no other meat to get a hold of, Mystery Meat is the answer. Best of all it doesn't require energy to heat. Pop the top and dig in.

Again as I have said before, you cannot save a lifetime supply of it, and after a year of eating it daily you'll go insane and/or die of kidney failure. It's a stopgap only, nothing else. You need to have another solution in place (local trade, hunting, trapping, fishing, snaring, etc.) to get your meat within a year or your "dead meat."

[deMolay]

OK so I doctored the headline to enrage Cornies. Seems Spam and canned chili are the grub of choice for recession shoppers. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e9679b54-465c ... ck_check=1

[mcgowanjm]

And don't forget Vienna Sausage!

And like Saturn yesterday, you've gotten all the warnings you're
gonna get:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he decision by Penske Automotive stunned G.M. and Saturn dealers, who had hailed Mr. Penske, who has built a track record of successful turnarounds, as the savior of the brand that G.M. was forced to sell as part of its government-financed bankruptcy reorganization.

There were no indications that the negotiations — first announced in June — were faltering.

[deMolay]

Yah nothing like a chemical laced cocktail weiner and stale beer. Unless it is shake and baked Old Roy canned dogfood sliced into buirgers. Reminds me the wife and I were going through the checkout at Walmart with a huge bag of Old Roy kibble. And as I lifted the bag up for the young girl to scan. I sez, Boy am I ever getting tired of Old Roy 3 times a day. I wish Walmart would put something different on sale. I don't know if I can stand eating Old Roy for another month. The wife and I are not young anymore. And I am sure the girl believed me. The wife choked and made a swing at the back of my head, and the young girl almost fainted. Then I sez, sorry to the wife, and I know I promised not to tell anyone, but I am just gagging on Old Roy, I can't help it.

[efarmer]

If I ever get to Vienna, I think I will see if they really make and
eat the wretched little sausages they have been tagged with
producing. I will bet not.

But back to Spam. The particle board of the meat world.
The oriented strand board of porkismo.

I admit it, I bought a can recently, I thought I would try it
cubed and stirred in with scrambled eggs.
I had not had it for many decades and my first bite brought
me back to the early sixties and being a kid listening to Running
Bear loved Little White Dove on the AM, and spiking at Spam with
my little fork at the table.

Spam is a great survival food. No way you will break into your
stash and gorge on it and eat your whole stock up like it was
a bag of Doritos. The hog is already in the can, so I guess you
don't have to bring any hog to the party on your own.

[the48thronin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('patience', 'Y')up, got Spam. Our longer term pantry also has canned ham, chicken, tuna, mackerel, sardines, corned beef, and kippered herring. Not my favorite selection of meats, but by adding enough potatoes, home baked breads, and garden veggies, you can stop the wind whistling between your ribs.