{"id":163,"date":"2004-03-08T18:43:27","date_gmt":"2004-03-08T18:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/03\/jelly-coated-meatloaf\/"},"modified":"2004-03-08T18:43:27","modified_gmt":"2004-03-08T18:43:27","slug":"jelly-coated-meatloaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/03\/08\/jelly-coated-meatloaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Jelly-Coated Meatloaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heh, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunstar.com.ph\/static\/net\/2004\/03\/07\/all.spam.restaurant.is.serious.business.for.the.philippines.(11.01.a.m.).html\" target=\"_blank\">restaraunt that specializes in Spam based dishes<\/a> opened in the Phillipines last year and is doing some kick-ass business. I wonder how my fellow Japanese living in Kumamoto would react to Spam musubi&#8230; I think that I will sneak some thinly sliced slabs of Spam in to my next enkai (drinking party) and change them out with the basashi. I am willing to bet that small browned slices of Spam will taste pretty good when coupled with onions that are cut paper-thin, a leaf of shiso, and some thick shoyu.<br \/>\nWhy is spam so reviled in the continental U.S. and so celebrated by Asians? I wonder what Europeans make of spam- do Norwegians celebrate spam like their <a href=\"http:\/\/home.triad.rr.com\/spamchef\/spamskit.html\" target=\"_blank\">Viking forefathers<\/a> did? In any case, the reason why I don&#8217;t eat spam on a regular basis isn&#8217;t because I don&#8217;t like it. I just think the price of spam is a bit too high, and I only like to eat a little spam at a time. One thing that really creeps me out about spam, though, is the jelly that helps the loaf to ooze out of the can- watching the loaf work its way out of the canal somehow brings to mind nature documentary footage of wild animals giving birth. After that, I cannot help but feeling a little bit like <a href=\"http:\/\/myhome.hanafos.com\/~julyhood\/img\/kronos.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Kronos eating his young Titan children<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heh, a restaraunt that specializes in Spam based dishes opened in the Phillipines last year and is doing some kick-ass business. I wonder how my fellow Japanese living in Kumamoto would react to Spam musubi&#8230; I think that I will sneak some thinly sliced slabs of Spam in to my next enkai (drinking party) and &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/03\/08\/jelly-coated-meatloaf\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}