Oh yes, James May's home cooking videos are back. In the second episode of 'Seventies Sandwiches', he pits Ham against Spam to see which is the ultimate canned meat.
And they're completely different things. Hydrogenated oils and trans fats are long gone, the modern "spread" (to give it it's proper name) isn't marge. It's also now about 1/3rd of the fat content of the 70s marge. It's not just a name change, the flavour really isn't comparable either. Marge simply doesn't exist anymore. Google it, it's actually quite complicated, I've just tried to make a tldr 🤷🏻♀️
I hope we keep Clarkson, May, and Hammond in our lives for as long as possible. This trio is such a treat to watch. Whether they drive cars, go on adventures, or make spam sandwiches.
@@ashishdimri5660 Basically Clarkson had a history of yelling at producers and getting really angry at the crew, and the last time it happened was the last straw and they sacked him
Please don’t fast forward when James is delicately getting the spam out of the tin; he is speaking, and every word out of his mouth is ludicrous and essential. 💙
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate that this is a ten minute video about making a sandwich? Only James May could pull this off with such brilliance.
He wastes a good amount of time shaking the salad cream like a ponce, I mean, who shakes it side to side? Up and down is the most efficient and doesn't make you look like a complete bell end
Spam sandwiches used to be pan fried in my household. Eating them while in my corrugated iron dugout at the bottom of the garden really is a throwback. Almost surreal.
James May - the man ahead of the quarantine game... who also makes ten minute videos on applying margarine to bread, opening two cans of Spam/ham, placing said Spam/ham in slices, and placing the top bread to top it off.
When I was young I agreed a lot with Clarkson, but as I've gotten older Clarkson really feels like an orangutan and May is actually quite interesting. Hammond is still just Hammond.
I feel the same WTF was i just watching. Yeah James May talking about spam. Such a unpleasant food item. I need to spend my time better in live i think.
When I was a kid my father convinced my brother and I that spam was an expensive delicacy. Whenever we went to the store we would beg him to buy it. Eventually, he'd "give in" and we would cheer.
There's a Korean cooking show where they try to impress a famous critic with all this fancy food, and he's just not interested. Then they researched his life, found out what he ate as a kid, and made that. It was basically a throw-it-in soup of whatever they could collect back then (Korea was extremely poor and they frequently ate supplies given to them by American soldiers, including SPAM). He was literally crying as the taste brought him back to some of his earliest memories. He said they'd finally succeeded.
I think that was the joke! British humor.... He literally listed some of the fakest things out there (margarine, white bread) and then proceeded to act like they were healthy. Just James May / British things 🤣
an american dime is about one milimeter thick. six milimeters is about a quarter inch... a 5/16 wrench is the same as a 7mm wrench.... 3/4 an 19mm interchange as well, as do 9/16 and 14mm . now you know something useless.
Yep, he's moving up in the world. This gives me far more actionable knowledge than top gear ever did, and in a more concise, straight to the point, format.
Nothing beats spam. I grew up on spam. We were so poor that a christian group heard about us. They showed up with boxes of dry and canned goods. Very few families had refers in our area. Mom cooked up some rice and opened a can up. Fed us children from a bowl of rice and spam straight out of the can. It was the most incredible meal we had in a long time. Free meat in a can. I still buy it regularly from Costco by the case now that I live in the states lol.
@@FunteX I'm extremely pleased that this weekend I discovered season 22. I stopped watching when they announced the firing, but I forgot that they had yet to release the season they'd already filmed.
Clarkson mentioned it on the last episode of the Grand Tour when they got to the end. "we're still alive" he said. "and on that terrible disappointment, for top gear, it's time to end. See you soon"
Calm yourselves. We're just giving our input on what is clearly a better sandwich. Btw I'm not a Boomer... I'm unfortunately a millinial, but I too prefer fried spam over straight out the can. I don't like the consistency of it.
@Jobe would you mind elaborating on what "Boomer" means? It's obviously derogatory and you're talking shit so I'd like to know exactly what you're calling him, or me...
@@mEDIUMGap Almost certainly. I'm British and half his age, and I still use inches for some things because my parents imposed them on me, even though school did its level and perfectly sensible best to get me to use the frankly superior metric system.
He is exactly right however and red wine goes great with Spam sandwiches. Princess Ham does have a delicate flavor profile and should be smeered on toast or crackers.
I kept thinking he said sour cream, well I thought he said salad cream but I was unsure what that was so I convinced myself he said sour cream. Is salad cream just a more pungent mayo? My quick googling shows it has more oil and vinegar than traditional mayo, but the ingredients are very similar. Just different proportions. I might go buy some salad cream next time I am at the shop. Probably never noticed it before because, well, salad cream sounds awful.
He is correct. There is nothing artificial in either of those products unless you get some weird white bread with a 6 year shelf life. Spam is simply (over salted) canned and ground up pork shoulder and salad cream is the same as miracle whip basically which is extra sour mayo. Having said that, it isn't the most healthy thing to eat in the world but that is a very different story. It also looks absolutely fucking disgusting ..... lol
As a consequence of World War II rationing and the Lend-Lease Act, Spam was sold in the United Kingdom. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher later referred to it as a "wartime delicacy."[13][14] In addition to increasing production for the U.K., Hormel expanded Spam output as part of Allied aid to the Soviet Union.[15] In his memoir Khrushchev Remembers, Nikita Khrushchev declared: "Without Spam, we wouldn't have been able to feed our army."[7][16]
Karl is way more intelligent, anyone who doesnt realise hes playing a simpleton is kinda dumb, it takes a very smart man to act like a simpleton. Also anyone who eats 40 year old canned ham whilst stuck in the middle of the North pole is pretty stupid. By all means bring it home and try it where it doesnt matter too much if you get sick, but in the middle of the North pole is pretty retarded. I love that he tried it, but not in the middle of nowhere.
I love the simplistic brutalism of their set- literally a white drywall room in a garage with absolutely zero proper lighting or soundproofing. Just two intelligent blokes making simple sammies.
@@davidgutierrez8297 Yes. You understand the conversion. :) I do a lot of machining and woodworking in metric. The measurements are almost always given in mm rather than cm, even when the size is well over a meter.
I've recently discovered pan fried spam slabs. It takes on a better more sausage-y texture as opposed to the atypical pork mush were all so accustomed to. Also tastes better imo
I would go with Hammond. He seems the most normal person out of the three. Would have an heated argument about the necessity of curbstones between street and walkway with jeremy tho.
Of the three, Hammond is empirically the most "normal". May is a doddering fuss-pot, willing to argue the intrinsic worth of one blade of grass over another., and if you have anything but 100% English blood in your veins, you'd be wondering if Clarkson would launch an attack of racial and/or ethnic epithets and possibly assault you.
The "personality quirks" of May, Hammond and Clarkson have been "expanded" into commercial success... and all three have become quite wealthy from that process... but in the end, while all three are brilliant, Hammond IS Hammond, Clarkson IS an intolerant lout and May IS a doddering fuss-pot. I "appreciate" all three, but none of the three are "faking" their basic personalities. They are simply capitalizing on their individual personalities, despite you're thinking they are fundamentally "different" from them. I'll spare you "my interpretation" of the expression of particular "celebrity" individual personalities, as mine would mean no more than yours.
