SPAM goes on lockdown due to inflation in NYC

[Kamaji]

SPAM goes on lockdown due to inflation in NYC

By Matthew Sedacca
July 30, 2022

It’s the nation’s crises in a can.

Inflation and crime have gotten so bad in Gotham that even cheap meat like Spam has to be locked up.

At Duane Reade’s store in the Port Authority bus depot, the shelf-stable product — only $3.99 a can — is now being stocked in plastic, anti-theft cases.

“I’ve never seen that before!” one cashier laughed while using a magnet to remove a can of Spam from its cage.

The cashier was among the employees, tourists and store regulars stunned that the iconic blue-and-yellow cans are now being kept under lock-and-key — some even poking fun at the sight as “a sort of Jeff Koons homage,” per one viral tweet.

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https://twitter.com/willystaley/status/1552736176590708736

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/07/30/spam-goes-on-lockdown-due-to-inflation/

[Gefn]

Wow! 

[GtHawk]

Cheap meat? Hardly! Walmart lists the 12 0z. can at $6.40, so about $8.50 a pound. I can buy a pound of T-Bone or Porterhouse for less and I would really much prefer steak and eggs to Spam and eggs any day of the week.

[Free Vulcan]

Cheap meat? Hardly! Walmart lists the 12 0z. can at $6.40, so about $8.50 a pound. I can buy a pound of T-Bone or Porterhouse for less and I would really much prefer steak and eggs to Spam and eggs any day of the week.

Not to mention it's not even the original good stuff from back in the WWII era.

[Wingnut]

Spam in a can in glass.

[PeteS in CA]

Inflation? Or organized shoplifting? Possibly both?

[Kamaji]

Inflation? Or organized shoplifting? Possibly both?

Shoplifting, definitely.   But with inflation, everything gets more expensive so the incentive to steal goes up as well. 

[GtHawk]

Inflation? Or organized shoplifting? Possibly both?

The pilfering in stores has gotten absolutely insane! Who would have thought that items like disposable razors or laundry detergent would be locked up? Yet the creep of homeless and low lives is impacting stores that I would have considered to be in decent area even just a year ago. I attribute more to the soft on crime policies of democrats/socialists than just on poor people who often have better values than those who are even moderately well off.

[Kamaji]

The pilfering in stores has gotten absolutely insane! Who would have thought that items like disposable razors or laundry detergent would be locked up? Yet the creep of homeless and low lives is impacting stores that I would have considered to be in decent area even just a year ago. I attribute more to the soft on crime policies of democrats/socialists than just on poor people who often have better values than those who are even moderately well off.

[Elderberry]

Spam under lock and key


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSldF7ZkoSM&t=21s

[roamer_1]

Cheap meat? Hardly! Walmart lists the 12 0z. can at $6.40, so about $8.50 a pound. I can buy a pound of T-Bone or Porterhouse for less and I would really much prefer steak and eggs to Spam and eggs any day of the week.

Crazy money. I think the two-pack is around 5-6 bucks here... The single can ought to be maybe 3 and change.

[Smokin Joe]

Crazy money. I think the two-pack is around 5-6 bucks here... The single can ought to be maybe 3 and change.

The Walmart lunchmeat is purt'near as good, and cheaper.

[roamer_1]

The Walmart lunchmeat is purt'near as good, and cheaper.

My information is tangential anyhoo. It's pig. I don't eat pig. 

[Wingnut]

Not to mention it's not even the original good stuff from back in the WWII era.

Two things my FIL would never eat after serving in the NAvy during WWII.  "Shit on a Shingle" and Spam.

By war’s end, the military had bought, shipped, and served roughly 150 million pounds of Spam. How much of it was actually eaten will never be known. Rumor has it that soldiers sometimes used it to grease gun barrels.

[roamer_1]

Two things my FIL would never eat after serving in the NAvy during WWII.  "Shit on a Shingle" and Spam.

By war’s end, the military had bought, shipped, and served roughly 150 million pounds of Spam. How much of it was actually eaten will never be known. Rumor has it that soldiers sometimes used it to grease gun barrels.

I MISS fried spam and eggs in the morning. Most of my time out in the sticks was long before freeze-dried meals were around. I packed in a helluvalot of tinned meat in my day.

Mostly spam... And them little vienna sausages. Fried spam was a big part of my life for many, many years.

But there is NO WAY I would ever pay 6 bucks a can for it. Not gonna happen.

[catfish1957]

My information is tangential anyhoo. It's pig. I don't eat pig. 

Life without bacon? 

More for me.   

[roamer_1]

Life without bacon? 

More for me.   

I eat butt-tons of bacon. It just ain't made of pig. Tons of sausage too.

[Elderberry]

I eat butt-tons of bacon. It just ain't made of pig. Tons of sausage too.

I have a friend that I hunt with that can't eat pork. She takes venison to a sausage maker that always makes her sausage first thing in the morning so that no pork touches any of his equipment until after her sausage is made.

[roamer_1]

I have a friend that I hunt with that can't eat pork. She takes venison to a sausage maker that always makes her sausage first thing in the morning so that no pork touches any of his equipment until after her sausage is made.

venison bacon ain't bad either. you can make bacon from the belly of any animal.

I am likely less welded to pork than the rest of rural America - less hillbillies in the Ozarks and Appalachia... Breakfast meat tends to be what's in the pot, and what's in the pot is usually a fairly diverse field. And I have found that to be a hill folk trait.

But I do like hot (spicy, salty) meat with breakfast, and especially sausage. And who knows what's in sausage anyhow?  Bacon, likewise... though I have a penchant toward turkey bacon, which is designed, very frankly, to mimic actual pork bacon. And even at that, there can be quite a search. All turkey bacon is not equal.

[Elderberry]

I'm a big fan of Chorizo, Mexican not Spanish, sausage. What you see in the stores is always pork, but it can be made with any meat. The key is in the spices. I've experimented on the spices for some time, using venison and beef.

[roamer_1]

I'm a big fan of Chorizo, Mexican not Spanish, sausage. What you see in the stores is always pork, but it can be made with any meat. The key is in the spices. I've experimented on the spices for some time, using venison and beef.

I have had beef chorizo... brought up this way by my buddy's kin down in Kingman Az. It was great!
Another buddy is a butcher hereabouts. I will see if he has a chorizo recipe for venison or elk. If he does I will pass it on.

[catfish1957]

I'm a big fan of Chorizo, Mexican not Spanish, sausage. What you see in the stores is always pork, but it can be made with any meat. The key is in the spices. I've experimented on the spices for some time, using venison and beef.

Same here.  Big hit around here is making hamburgers with a Chorizo/hamburger mix. Maybe 4:1.

I've experimented all over the map, but you can't go wrong as a spice.