SPAM Hot Dogs | The Tasty Island

Hopefully by now your recurring nightmares from my recent SPAM Spread post have long since gone away and you can finally sleep tight once again. Well, not to rudely awaken you, but here we have yet another form of the infamous Hormel mystery meat, this time in the shape of a Hot Dog. This is news to me. Never seen them before now.

Which begs to question: what other shapes might the good folks at Hormel SPAM’s product development headquarters think of next? Dinosaurs? Zoo Animals? Simon Cowell’s hairdo? The Hawaiian Island chain? Hey, that last one could be a valuable collectible item, right there!

I’m willing to bet Hormel has received numerous consumer requests asking for SPAM produced in hot dog form, which actually addresses an idea I once had when thinking of taking a block of SPAM and manually cutting it into this shape so I could turn it into an Andadog. Or better said, “SPAM-DA-DOG”. Now I don’t have to do any custom cutting, as it’s good-to-go now, straight out of the package!

I heard about this from Diner A, who’s wife picked up a bulk pack of 3 from Sam’s Club just recently to try it out.

Here at this angle you can see the color of the uncooked SPAM weiners…

So Diner A brought a couple SPAM Hot Dogs to work, including hot dog bun and condiments. Only thing, instead of frying it until crispy and golden brown, he nuked it, so it didn’t taste like how I’m normally used to eating SPAM, which is fried. Just nuking it versus frying it had it tasting like raw (although technically it’s cooked), albeit hot SPAM. If nuking them doesn’t work, I’d say boiling them – like you could do with traditional hot dogs – is certainly out of the question. Would you boil regular SPAM? Me thinks not.

An important thing to note is they don’t have any casing on them. It’s all exposed SPAM. Although you can tell they were cooked in casing at the factory, then the casing is removed for packaging.

With that, even though it was just heated up in the mircowave, it did indeed taste like SPAM, thank goodness, and certainly not no SPAM Spread stuff. Ack!

These beg to be pan-fried though, just like regular SPAM. Even better if it were rolled in a Teriyaki glaze afterwards, then put in a toasted hot dog bun along with Takuwan and Beni Shoga for the condiment. Oh yeah!

You might recall I made a hot dog like that not long ago using a Redondo’s Arabiki Hot Dog…

Pomai’s Tonkrazy! Dog on the left with shredded cabbage, takuwan (yellow stuff), beni shoga (red stuff) and tonkatsu sauce, and an American style Arabiki Hot Dog on the right. The hot dog buns are standard Love’s Bakery brand.

Another no-brainer idea for these SPAM Hot Dogs would be to make a Musubi with it, but instead of using a block-shaped musubi form, roll it in the middle Maki Sushi style, like how Masa & Joyce Okazuya makes theirs…

Speaking of hot dogs, I snapped a couple of action photos this past Sunday at the beach of a dog fetching a frisbee from its owner, catching some air in the process…