Hand crank can opener broke last night...

[philco]

my spam doesn't need an opener-it has a spam key

You should check the "best by" date on those Spam cans. I haven't seen a key used in years.

[fergusontd]

Any vet knows there's no best by date on any can of spam, still can't eat that stuff.

[QTCut5]

The reason there's no "Best By" date on a can of Spam is because there's no such thing...it's never "best" by, on or before any date, even fresh from the Hormel factory. Although, I will admit, Hawaii is the number one Spam consuming state in the nation, and there's nothing quite like a fresh Spam Musubi for breakfast--a slice of Spam fried in Tamari & Mirin on top of a molded brick of white rice sprinkled with Furikake (dried Bonito, sesame seeds, sea salt) and wrapped in Nori (seaweed)--a genuine local style Hawaiian delicacy.

But...to get back on topic...the best can opener I've ever owned is the Swing-A-Way Easy Crank

~Q~

[royal0014]

Q that seems like a awful lot of trouble for Spam .

I take mine straight up, sliced and between slices of white bread.
Or occasionally fried. Because of my ticker I try to limit eating the stuff . . . .

[alabama]

no one in Alabama eats spam-we use it to catch catfish-then eat the catfish...

[alabama]

we eat armor treat-made out of pig parts-that spam is nasty...(unless you fry it)..by the way big drum like spam too.

[tongueriver]

In June of 1986 my new wife and I went on a honeymoon which was largely camping out of my pickup. We bought some cans of SPAM because we thought it would be easier to use than bacon. We were not really familiar with it. Well, we had some uh... 'meals'... of it, but, now, 32 years later, we have not had it again. However, I did find this authentic recipe to share, which I have not tried. Meanwhile, I did visit the SPAM museum in Austin, Minnesota some years ago, which was really quite interesting. There was a thirty foot high pyramid of spam cans, a hundred other oddball items and ephemera, including an original letter from General Eisenhower from Europe during the Battle of the Bulge, thanking Hormel for their free tons of SPAM sent overseas to very hungry troops, who were literally living through hell on earth. SPAM is some pretty rough stuff, but worth a try every few decades, preferably fried. No high-blood-pressure clients need apply. It has some cousins, you know-- Vienna sausage, or 'Li'l Boy Peters.