On Wednesday, August 27, American Sardine Bar will be hosting a special evening celebrating America’s favorite canned meat product—SPAM.
Photographer Neal Santos, chef Scott Schroeder and Drew Lazor are all huge fans of the versatile Hormel miracle meat, and they’re expressing their love with a lineup of original SPAM-centric snacks.
Even more exciting for SPAM-fanatics, the trio has wrangled the powers-that-be at SPAM HQ into sending a variety of rare or outright unavailable specialty flavors (hot & spicy, teriyaki, jalapeño and bacon—yes, bacon SPAM), which they’ll be working into the dishes that night.
Spammy options will include:
SPAM Pandesal Sliders: seared thick-cut SPAM on homemade pandesal, a sweet Filipino breakfast roll, with mango/papaya slaw and mayo (shown in the photo)
SPAM Fried Rice Lumpia: Spammy fried rice twisted into spring roll wrappers and deep-fried until ludicrously crispy
SPAM Corn Dog: battered and served with beer mustard
And … SPAM tacos, SPAM mac ‘n’ cheese & more
The ASB kitchen will begin serving the special a la carte SPAM menu at 6 p.m. and will go til it runs out. American Sardine Bar is located at 1800 Federal St. in Philadelphia; phone: (215) 334-2337.
- Photography: Neal Santos
