Yesterday, a random thought came into my mind as I drove to Home Depot about an experience years ago with a woman where I saw an eyelash on her cheek and told her “oh, you have an eyelash” and she let me take it away. Later, I had regrets, thinking that might have been too intimate a gesture for a casual friendship. So, I tossed that around again for no good reason yesterday. What made me think that? I needed to think about what I needed to get at Home Depot so I wouldn’t have to go back again in an hour. Not some random person and their random eyelash from years ago.
Several hours later, I decided to try some Spam and eggs for dinner since I had forgotten to thaw anything and too lazy to go to the store. I was a little amazed how retro the can looked when I broke into my stash but.. whatever. I tried it. Not great, not bad. Definitely needs more texture if you add it to eggs. It was OK.
Amused yet? Lol, I am sorry for dragging you into this.
Then I watched “Operation Mincemeat.” Have you seen it? Recommended! Anyway, the first scene shows a formal dining table and there are cans of SPAM oddly sitting at each place setting. This was minutes after eating mine. Way too informal of a food to be sitting on a fancy dinner table and absolutely no point in it but there it is.
Spam?? I know that isn’t a big deal, but I had to see if I was really awake.. Just too much Spam in a short period of time.
Later in the movie, there was the whole “main character picks eyelash off of a woman” scene... and it seemed a bit intimate of a gesture for their platonic relationship and it’s integral to the operation. If you’re following me, I had that same incident in my head just hours ago.
There are no coincidences. What if we are IN the movie? Mind control, showing us what they want us to see, causing random memories to resurface, causing us to change our behavior and perhaps, contact that person we thought about? Why was the woman I thought about important? It was during my military years. Is she important to the story? Did the listening devices in my home know I was having Spam? Is that why Netflix suggested it, because I was just surfing. Is the spying and mind control THAT intricate? It just seemed a little matrix glitchy to me.
But then, the whole point of the movie is about the lengths our military and govt go to deceive. The false flags, military operations, coups and what we’ve been living lately? Highly intricate, complicated acts of planning and deception, with people so caught up in the lies that they start to believe their own characters are real.
“In any story, if it's a good story, there is that which is seen and that which is hidden. This is especially true in stories of war. There is the war we see, a contest of bombs and bullets, courage, sacrifice, and brute force. As we count the winners, the losers, and the dead. But alongside this war, another war is waged. A battleground in shades of gray, played out in deception, seduction, and bad faith. The participants are strange. They are seldom what they seem, and fiction and reality blur. This war is a wilderness of mirrors in which the truth is protected by a bodyguard of lies.”
operation-mincemeat
Here's some Spam trivia for you, fren:
Spam: A Luxe Gift in South Korea
The humble Minnesota export has been popular there for generations
https://www.nextavenue.org/spam-luxe-gift-south-korea/
That was pretty interesting! I had no idea. I can see how it would go well with Korean cooking. Thanks! I’ll keep mine for emergencies. It’s like ham but too soft. I fried the crap out of it in a cast-iron pan but it never got very brown or crispy. Just like mushy ham.
A friend of mine was in South Korea and sent me back photos from one of the grocery stores. There were rows of fancy boxes filled with tins of Spam. It was a big deal to give them as gifts.
We always make jokes about Spam, but to the South Koreans, it literally saved their lives during the war, hence their reverence for it.
Spam was actually a major breakthrough in preserving meat via canning. The problem had always been getting the heat high enough throughout the entire chunk of meat in order to kill off any pathogens in it, without overcooking the outside and leaving the inside undercooked. The trick turned out to be the jelly that you find inside the can. Something about that jelly allowed for even cooking throughout the entire piece of meat.
That’s really interesting. So that’s what the jelly is for! I thought it was just fat that congealed. I’m probably going to go down a rabbit hole regarding the history of it in Korea. It’s fascinating. That’s why I originally got hooked on Serpentza and Laowhy86 on China. They used to talk about food differences all the way down to MREs in China vs US military MREs. All kinds of mundane things you take for granted. Bathrooms, apartments, washing clothes, you name it. So you’ve inspired me :) thank you!
You can read some of the history of Spam if you go to amazon and look up this book. It will allow you to see some of the pages in the book:
https://www.amazon.com/Spam-Cookbook-Marguerite-Patten/dp/0600635384/ref=sr_1_5?crid=31O015ZIO004F&keywords=spam+cookbook+and+spam+book&qid=1652752231&sprefix=book+on+SPAM%2Caps%2C134&sr=8-5