Here's the gourmet section at Soriana:
And what's in there with the paté, pickles, wine, balsamic vinegar, asparagus, and other canned and bottled goodies ready to grace the table at your next fiesta?
I've never eaten it, only made fun of it, but let's see what the ingredients are:
chopped pork shoulder meat, with ham meat added, salt, water, modified potato starch as a binder (think glue), and sodium nitrite as a preservative. It can be made with other kinds of meat, too. Doesn't sound so bad (except for the potato starch and sodium nitrite), but eating just one serving of it (100 grams) will provide the lucky consumer with 57% of the recommended daily intake of sodium and 49% of his/her Daily Value of saturated fat.
Why is it in the gourmet section? It could be that its manager is a member of a Cargo Cult. Or maybe SPAM is thought of as the paté of the US midwest.
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