Treet vs. Spam - FoodFights Review of Hormel and Armor Canned Meat Products 

I worked at Armour for 2 years. Treet is essentially Vienna Sausage meat that's formed into a loaf. It has added ingredients to change the flavor.

Grew up eating them both, easy way to remember for me is Spam rhymes with ham wich is what spam tastes like to me, the Treet tastes more like bologna or hot dogs. But both were really good sliced thin and fried crispy, on bread with mustard and tomato after getting out of the pool back in the 80's. LOL

My crack addicted wife really loves both of these. I save a lot of money on food, and she can't pawn the cans of treat or spam for crack. I was surprised when she was able to get $1.20 for 21 eggs we had in the fridge. I guess you can get some money for anything if you really are desperate enough. One day she came back with the Treet and Spam, but the eggs were gone..so I figured the pawn shop or flea market isn't taking the Treet or the Spam..It's worked out, she's put on 15 pounds. We appreciate the review! This sort of information really helps the REAL people out there, trying to get by, and figure out what food their crack addicted wife can't pawn or flea market. We appreciate it. EDIT: My crack addicted wife found a typo, so I corrected it.

When I was dirt poor Treet was the only meat I could afford. I used the sharp edge of the lid as a knife and cut pieces to eat out of the can.

I like them both. The sandwiches I make with them are amazingly good.

I live in the Republic of Panama and buy canned meats to have on hand in case of an emergency. I no longer buy Treet. The cans rust and lose their seal. After 4 or 5 years that is. If you have a lot of canned meats stored and stacked and a can leaks you have to go thru the cans, find the leaker and remove it. Then you have to clean up all the rest of the cans that have juice on them. The odor is terrible. Treet is a a bad product for prepping. I have thrown away so many cans of Treet. I have never lost a can of Spam. Even after 10 or more years of storage in my climate, Spam is still intact and safe to eat. Do not buy Treet for prepping. There are other brands that do not stay sealed as well. Stick with Spam for long term storage.

Hey Bud, the Treet Original is made with Chicken & Pork and that's why it tastes like a cheaper, non-beef hotdog. The SPAM is ham and pork. Armour makes a luncheon meat that is all pork and is pork and thus, the real competeitor to SPAM. This was an UNFAIR comparison.

Fried Tweet FTW!

Treet is the poor mans spam.

They sell em in little packets too . Ok you’re making me crave spam now 😋

As ham is better than bologna, and as sausage is better than hot dog wieners, so too is SPAM better than TREET. I’ve always loved SPAM. I used to treat TREET as simply inferior. However, once I came to a fundamental change in my attitude and thinking about both products, I began to appreciate TREET more than before. Instead of treating TREET as inferior, I began to simply consider it to be different. So then a ham sandwich is better and quite different than a bologna sandwich, also a sausage dog to a hot dog. Yet, that doesn’t mean that a bologna sandwich or hot dog is a bad thing. So too is SPAM to TREET.

They make a "reduced-sodium" version of Spam which I prefer over the original. I remember Treet from my childhood. It was cheaper than Spam which is probably why my parents bought it. When meat was almost impossible to find 2 1/2 years ago Treet was the only canned meat on the grocery store shelf. I bought several cans, thinking it should taste the same as it did 50-60 years ago. It doesn't! It was gross. I later found some of the reduced-sodium Spam, and it was great. Tasted just like I remember Treet. We always just sliced it (either one) into slices, dumped some brown sugar on top, and heated it through. Never tried it fried, but it sounds good.

Canned meat is great for camping. Have gone thru a fair amount of both products. Prefer Treet when I can get it; Spam has more market share.

I never knew how popular Spam was until I started watching South Korean food videos-like they eat it with nothing on it...fry it up and just take bites out of it: amazing

The problem is the type of people that eat a lot of TV dinners canned food and bologna. Tend to like the taste of the treat better. Because those types of people do not prefer fresh tasting in fresh ingredients. I have a 68-year-old mother-in-law. That has the pallet of a five year old from the 1980s. For instance I grew up eating and making sauce with my Italian immigrant grandparents. So when I make a I use all fresh ingredients in seasoning. I use fresh diced onions for onion flavor same with garlic fresh garlic fresh parsley etc. My mother-in-law prefers sauce made with what I call mummified seasonings dehydrated and a shaky shaker. Her idea of a good homemade sauce. Is to start off with either hunts or the cheapest store brand tomato puree plopped into a pot with a generous shake of mummified seasonings from her cabinet from the '80s. A big shake of onion powder garlic powder and a big giant shaking of a dried out Italian seasoning mix that says authentic Italian seasonings. Which is a shaky bottle of everything but the kitchen sink. I read the back of that Italian seasonings. It consists of dry basil dry parsley Rosemary tyme cumin chili flakes and four or five other things that I forgot that are not Italian. She thinks any food made with fresh seasonings or vegetables are disgusting. She has grown up her whole life eating only processed foods and 90% of her cooking is microwavable. Her poor husband has suffered eating her terrible food for years. Because when I made them a fresh sauce. She was very vocal of how she did not like it. She asked her husband if he liked it and he was quickly like yes. She said is it better than the sauce I make any quickly said yes.lol sorry for the long story but I really like the psychology of why people prefer some other foods than others.

Spam cannot be beat.

For some reason, we always had fried Treet with stewed potatoes when I was growing up. I think Treet was the choice because it was much cheaper than Spam back then. I still have still eaten the combo but Treet is now a bit too salty for my taste now so I'll probably be switching to Spam, which I like.

We have an item locally called scrapple... which is a mixture of lived and cornmeal and is generally fried... I’ve never had it (hate liver) but some people here adore it...

Treet is much cheaper than Spam. As of now, Spam is $3.58 per 12 oz can while Treet is only $2.08 at Walmart. But there are several varieties of Spam (Lite, less sodium, various flavors) while there is only one Treet version.

I Put it in the frying Pan. And some scrambled eggs

Armour Treet Spam Original: Sodium 480mg SPAM Classic: Sodium 790 mg Figure out the taste and which one is more MSG

They both look like something you would feed your cat.

Both are better fried. I’ll use treet in a grilled cheese over spam any day.

I know a lot of people who love spam! I’ve never had either and don’t intend to, but if I had to try one it’d be spam as I hate hotdogs and bologna... I also hate mushy textures...

Just tonight my son cooked some slices of meat. I went to kitchen and thought it looked funny because we usually have spam. So I cut off bite and I could immediately tell it wasn't spam. I asked him. He said it was treet I told him th

For those saying Spam, Treet, and the like, are too salty, watch this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SF63mmFf7zw.html length 5:02 Easy-Peasy Lemon-Squeezy.

I eat canned meats all the time. I eat it all straight outta the can including the spam type products.

There's a company called Hereford that makes a version of this stuff. Has anyone tried it? I bought it recently but haven't tried it yet.

its actually the fat that makes a canned meat taste good, whiter meat loaf means more fat.

I bought 2 cans of Treet opened 1 can and had to force myself to eat it! Didn't expect it to taste like that. Spam more expensive but has a better taste.

I actually like the treat better plus it's about half the price and I think it tastes better and crisps up better..

for all those who think spam is better than treat then get ready because your next meal is coming it's called the human stake

Spam taste better!

Hit job.

SPAM beats Treet

Armour is the correct name.

Spam worth the extra cash.

I Love both

Not a fair test as it appears Spam is a comfort food from your childhood... However, I agree that the differences are quite real. Of course, I love vienna sausage..

Spam taste better than Treet hands down.

My grandmother calls spam spork

Treet has less sodium, you person. Treet is better for you , of the two.

Spam is good, Treet is awful

Yuck. Hot dog meat (?) without the casing.

I hate raw spam...

EZ. Treet wins! Don't forget the Miracle Whip!

How dumb, spam has 710mg sodium, threet has 790.🙄 keep saying it taste like ham and salty. Anything made with pig is automatically salty. Plus look at bacon. Of course it’s pig, the more you that, the more saltier it gets.

I bet the food people give to their pets is better than this stuff for poor people. Oh well, so is the plight of being low-class.

Some of you just don't no what you are talking about treat is an all was Will be the best spam will never make it I have tried both an I will eat treat an it will be here after spam is long gone

My friend you are supposed to wash them before eating them pre cooked