The next closest thing to spam that I can think of is braunschwieger. How would like to have to check your emails 'braunschwieger' folder?

OK... but I'm still going to go for food as nice as I can manage. There's a strong psychological component to survival. Morale matters. If all I have to eat is spam, I'm not sure I'll want to bother.

It may be a cultural thing. I think we in the UK have an antipathy towards spam that Americans may lack. It doesn't apply to other tinned foods, such as corned beef. (I have found tinned corned beef is better than the "fresh" corned beef sold in my local supermarkets.)

It's worth remembering the mantra, "Buy what you eat, eat what you buy". I stockpile tinned corned beef because I like it enough to eat it all before it expires. I have tried tinned salmon and similar, but because I don't really like fish it just sits on a shelf and never gets eaten.

Socratem audio dicentem, cibi condimentum essa famem, potionis sitim. ~ Cicero, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (II, 28)

[I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.]

illegitimus non carborundum

AND never let them see you sweat.

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It may be a cultural thing. I think we in the UK have an antipathy towards spam that Americans may lack. It doesn't apply to other tinned foods, such as corned beef. (I have found tinned corned beef is better than the "fresh" corned beef sold in my local supermarkets.)[/quote]

It's not just cultural; many Americans don't like it either and it's actually made here in Minnesota. That's why I tried the turkey spam. It's actually better tasting and better for you than the pork spam. We like canned corned beef too, especially mixed with diced potatoes. We buy canned meat for the long shelf life, but in an urban survival situation the high salt content means neither would be ideal unless you had a lot of fresh water.

Surely that is not an issue in Minnesota. I understand your streams actually contain water year round. Incredible if true.

They don't call Minnesotans 'Mud Ducks" for nothing. The name Minnesota is an Indian phrase meaning 'Land of Sky Blue Waters". There are some prairie areas where water is available but a little more sparse. We live 1/4th mile from two 5 acre ponds.

Hikermor..not only that but all the water here in Minnesota flows out of the state so we are not getting someones re-used several times water to drink..at the end of my street there is a large spring--Cold Water Spring--that was running even under the glacier that covered this part of the state.
but on the subject of canned meat..i always thought that people ate it not because it was something they had to buy, because you can buy burger just as cheap,but because they like the taste.

As in Bemidji's sewer outflow that is eventually recycled at last in New Orleans?