Mar 18 2009
SPAM®—The Meat We Hate to Love
No health-conscious person would ever admit to craving a meal loaded with fat, salt, or “mechanically separated chicken” (whatever that is). But ‘fess up, now—don’t you sometimes sneak off to savor an InfarctBurger dripping with LipidSauce? Or scarf your way through a bag of glazed donuts like a beaver gnawing through a tangle of birch limbs? I thought so. The upshot? You needn’t feel guilty if you can’t resist tossing a can or two of SPAM into your food pack on your next trip. Armies have marched on it, after all. Canoeists, kayakers, hikers, and bike tourers shouldn’t find it hard to get in step. That’s alimentary, right? Read more…



