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Old Sep 17th 2009, 6:54 pm
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Originally Posted by Oink
I'm not a young person but I've never eaten Spam or know any of my friends back in the UK that had Spam for school dinner or for their tea. For us, crap food meant Pot Noodle or a cardboard tasting frozen pizza.

Then in my mind you are a young person.

When I left England there was no such thing as pizza and certainly not frozen ones nor were there pot noodles.
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Old Sep 17th 2009, 6:55 pm
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I'm not a young person but I've never eaten Spam or know any of my friends back in the UK that had Spam for school dinner or for their tea. For us, crap food meant Pot Noodle or a cardboard tasting frozen pizza.
I'm an approaching middle aged person. Spam is a guilty pleasure I sometimes crave but invariably feel dirty after eating. Rather like fried bread.
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I'm not a young person but I've never eaten Spam or know any of my friends back in the UK that had Spam for school dinner or for their tea. For us, crap food meant Pot Noodle or a cardboard tasting frozen pizza.
Have you really not eaten it? My gran used to have it, I remember it coming in tins with a key - you just don't see those now-a-days. Pity.
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Then in my mind you are a young person.

When I left England there was no such thing as pizza and certainly not frozen ones nor were there pot noodles.
Wasn't rationing still in effect back then?
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Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat
Rather like fried bread.
Oh one can only dream.
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Wasn't rationing still in effect back then?
I think it had just ended.

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But we dont ban people on BE do we??????
Whatever gave you that idea? 99% of the time its spammers though.
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Other than fatty and salty does it have a particular flavour?
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Other than fatty and salty does it have a particular flavour?
more peculiar than particular...
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Then in my mind you are a young person.

When I left England there was no such thing as pizza and certainly not frozen ones nor were there pot noodles.
If these were our cultural benchmarks you didn't miss much.
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Whatever gave you that idea? 99% of the time its spammers though.
I know a 1% - so harsh, so sad . . .
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Other than fatty and salty does it have a particular flavour?
Yup - spam flavour!!
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Originally Posted by Oink
If these were our cultural benchmarks you didn't miss much.
I'm still trying to figure out when curry became the national dish.
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I'm still trying to figure out when curry became the national dish.
I'm going to guess that this was in the early nineties.
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Might be showing my age, but maybe the OP is referencing Monty Python.
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