Were You A Spam or Scrapple House?

What you had to eat as a kid can scar you for life!

I wrote a fun post about the kinds of cheap foods we ate as a kid and asked the peeps what kinds of food they ate as kids… and the results were SHOCKING!

Back in the day processed meats were much more available and cheaper to buy than regular meat so our parents used them to save money on the grocery bills.

And in the case of Spam, the benefit was that it was in a nearly indestructible can that had a long shelf life…. according to PrimalSurvivor.net, “The best-by date of SPAM is approximately 3 years after the manufacturing date. You can find it listed on the can.”

It does NOT surprise me that a site called Primal Survivor was the best source Chat could find me for this kind of important info!

Scrapple on the other hand doesn’t have a long shelf life, lasting only 90 days in the fridge and 5-7 days after opening, according to Stoltzfus Meats.

So I think that this one definitely goes to Spam!

That said, we were a Scrapple house because my Dad was descendent of a long line of Pennsylvania Dutch people who were willing to eat weird things to save a buck.

No, I am not going to look up what is actually in Scrapple or Spam AND I am for sure not going to tell you what is in one of his other favorite foods, Rocky Mountain Oysters, you are just going to have to learn about that delicacy for yourself!

Anyways, I am not sure this is a controversy worthy of the Pepsi versus Coke wars of the late 20th century, but I am wondering…

Were you a Spam house or a Scrapple house AND if you are emotionally okay to talk about it, how did that make you feel?

XOXO
Tara