Should you serve Spam on a first date?

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Just because. Take it where you will. Discuss.

Also, menu ideas for girls who are inviting boys over for dinner for the first time (not really including Spam) might be appreciated.

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She doesn't like spam.

If you''re in the Philippines, then it would be cool otherwise I don't think so

Lol, nothing wrong with the classic spam sandwich, red sauce and all... Sounds alright for a cheap romantic British picnic

Don't know about menu ideas without asking the people involved what they prefer first...

You know, I've been mulling over doing the exact same thread for guys for months now, since I get a lot of mileage out of cooking for women, and it's a relatively non-threatening way to invite them back to my house. I keep thinking simple Italian comfort food, since I'd be assuming my audience isn't experienced in cooking, and dishes like caprese salad, bruschetta, or fettuccine Alfredo are really more of an exercise in shopping than in cooking. Throw in a bottle of red wine, or if you're feeling fancy, a couple of Moscow Mules (juice a lime into a cup with ice, add a shot of vodka, and top with ginger beer*), and you're set for the evening.

* DO NOT use ginger ale, it isn't the same thing at all and will ruin the drink. Good brands are Cock and Bull, Gosling's, and Goya, which is spicy; avoid Reed's. Make the same drink with dark rum, preferably Gosling's, and you've got a Dark and Stormy, a classic tropical highball.

Makes me think of the meatloaf on Misery,she used Spam in it.I'm not serving spam,ever,I'll serve real food.The grossest sandwich I can think of would be velveeta,miracle whip,spam on white bread.I'd gag for real,not joking,I couldn't even swallow a bite of that.
I'd grill for a first date,most people love burgers and for vegetarians a grilled portobello mushroom works great.Then I'd have all the goodies from the garden to grill,corn,squash and vine ripe tomatoes for the burgers,on good buns,no white bread.

Dox, inviting a girl back to your house and you cooking for her is a pretty smooth thing to do. It's honestly always been a major hit among me and my friends, and we do discuss that kind of thing. A few tips for you would be to make sure that whatever it is, you can cook it quickly. You don't want to leave her in the other room or have her sitting in the kitchen talking to you and watching you for a long time unless you have fancy chef moves with a knife and flipping things in a frying pan that you want to show off to her. Back in the day, scrambeled omlettes were the thing guys cooked for girls at their houses. Scrambled eggs with onions, peppers, cheese, seasonings, and chopped meat. It's quick and it's good.

I do have a few thoughts on sexism itself that I'm planning to post here simply to even the posting karmic derailing score. But I'm always up for food discussions, and smooth move discussions.

Do you do your food prep before you go get your date or do you do it all right there so it's as fresh as possible? Both have their own advantages.

Regarding spam on a first date. Sex on a first date without a condom would be preferrable. Deep fried twinkies? Possibly,though I personally would wait until at least marriage, maybe even divorce. Just remember, there is nothing as important as a good reputation.

Yes. Properly prepared, Spam makes and excellent entrée or side.

As a rule I hate spam.

However, there is ONE dish made with it that is quite delicious and unique.

Musubi (Spam Sushi).

It's super easy to make.

You need:
Sushi Rice
Spam
Nori (Sushi seaweed)

Sushi rice:
2 cups of short grain white rice.
2 cups of water
half a cup of Rice vinegar (white or cider vinegar works too)
1 soup spoons of salt
half a soup spoon of sugar.

Preparation:

The first step is the most important: Pour the rice into a bowl of water and swirl it around with your hand until the water is milky white. Drain the water out and repeat until the water does not turn milky white anymore when you swirl. This removes a lot of the starch from the grain which makes the sushi rice taste clean/clear and be sticky.

Once you drain the rice from the swirl water, you put it on a pot (or rice cooker if you have one) and add the 2 cups of water and cook it exactly the same way you'd cook 'normal' rice. Sushi rice is literally cooked just like normal rice except you do not add salt or oil and you use a 1:1 water to rice ratio.

When its done, put the vinegar to boil in a separate small pot and mix the salt and sugar in until it dissolves. Sprinkle the vinegar over your warm rice as you GENTLY mix the rice (if you do it strongly you end up mashing the rice into paste and you dont want that). This gives the sushi rice the vinegary-good taste.

Set the rice aside in an open pot so it starts to cool down. While it cools down you make the spam.

Spam:
-You will need to make 1 can of spam per every 1 cup of rice you cooked.

-Take the can of spam and open it. Take the spam out of the can without damaging the can.
Now take the can and use a can opener to cut the bottom end open as well. You end up with a can of spam with no top or bottom.

-Heat up a skillet to medium high (if you do it on high you'll burn the spam).
-While the skillet heats up, cut the spam half an inch thick. See images to see which way to cut the spam.
-Place spam in the skillet and let it cook until they are golden brown and well cooked. You do not want the inside of the spam cuts to taste as if they were just taken out of the can.
-When cooked, place the spam in a plate with paper towels so it absorbs any grease left on it.

Now comes the last and easiest step!

Take the spam can, put it on a plate face-down and pour half an inch of rice into it. Then take a spam cut and put it inside the can, on top of the rice. Use a plastic or wood utensil that fits inside the can to press the spam into the sushi. Press hard.

DO NOT USE YOUR HAND. You will cut yourself with the spam can.

Finally, lift the spam can leaving behind your spam-on-top-of-sushi-rice creation.

Cut nori seaweed into strips or into pieces that you can wrap most of the rice&spam in (see pics below). To make the ends of the seaweed stick to each other, moisten your finger with water and rub the edges as if it was paper then press them together.

Voila. You're done. All this takes less than 30 minutes to make. 2 cups of rice and 2 cans of spam make enough Musubi to feed 4 people @ 3 Musubi per person.

Serve with a side of salad and a soda or lemonade or wine... basically you want a side dish or drink that will help wash off the little grease the spam still has..otherwise by the 2nd Musubi you eat you'll just be tasting the spam, not the seaweed or sushi rice.

(Personally I serve it with vodka or medieval mead ... or with ginger ale or sprite. Coke/Pepsi never worked that well for me)

The cooked spam itself has a strong salty taste so this is one sushi you do not want to dip into soy sauce. Because of this, it makes one of the best office-lunch / school lunch there is.

*Flipping omlette for my date*

Me: Um....is that egg on your hair?

Her: <death look>

Honestly? I believe that no matter what a guy does on a first date would change nothing if there's no attraction (Aka "Chemistry", I so hate that stupid word lol).

A guy can go from Chemistry to No Chemistry if he does something too stupid or reveals a major turn off.
But from Nul Chemistry to Chemistry? Hell, won't happen no matter what you do with your cooking skills.

I think it's wiser to do a simple outdoor first date, coffe shop or a small activity like bowling or wtv, but inviting to home(which could be taken as code for sex) and cooking for her? That would be great for further dates, not for the first one.

How about if you season everything with Molly?

I wouldn't serve Spam to someone at their funeral.

You mean the Elixir from a lady named Molly?

At least they will be happy.