"<RJ>" > wrote in message
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>
> I was skimming a Better Homes & Gardens Cookbook ca 1962
> when I found a recipe suitable for "Mockery & Derision"
>
> "15 Minute Banquet"
>
> Cut Can of SPAM into 12 slices
> stud with cloves, brown in fry pan.
>
> Add 1 X 11oz can of yams, drained
> sprinkle with salt !
>
> Spoon 1/3 c pineapple jam over meat & yams
>
> Heat uncovered, basting often.
>
> Serves 4
>
> People really ate like that 40 years ago ?
> SPAM and a small can of yams to feed four ?
>
> Amazing !

Reminds me of a recipe I got from my Betty Crocker cookbook for kids. Spam
Loaf Hawaiian. It was supposed to make dad's day. It was suggested as a
Father's Day meal. You took a can of Spam and another can of Pineapple
rings. You put the Spam in a baking dish, cut as many slits in it as there
were rings of pineapple, inserted the pineapple and baked it. I believe it
was to be accompanied with canned green beans and some white rice.

I can still picture the look on his face as I proudly served that up!
Hehehe.