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.
Honestly agree, all of them funny in their own way. Gotta say I prefer James out of the other 2 he’s just so reserved and his deadpan humour is unmatched.
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.
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
@@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
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.
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.
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. 💙
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.
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.
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.
@@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"
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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 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
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.
@@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.
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]
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 🤣
That was a bit of a joke, really. They went to the *1996* location of the MAGNETIC North Pole, which constantly shifts northwestward. When they did their trip, the Magnetic North Pole was nowhere near where they went.
I’m pretty sure James had no idea how relevant this series would become - this man is going to sustain the nation during lockdown. Can we have an episode on Fray Bentos pies please Mr May?
James May’s Sandwich Stories is proving to be quite an entertaining series. Toast, cheese and chopped Spring Onion... Yum. Edit: Now lying in bed hungry.
Reminder, this man beat Chef Ramsey in a cookoff while getting drunk.
that is factual, i still dream of tasting that fish pie hahahaba
I still love that moment. 😂
@@makeit.primetime99 Sounds like you need to find a better hobby, mate.
"You dissapoint me Ramsay..." - James may while eating rotten shark
"You any good at driving cars Ramsey? "
Classic
"Half of the word spam is the same as two thirds of the word ham"
-James May, 2019
as pointless as that fact was, it made me laugh and blew my mind.
@@dudewtf1776 Pointless? Probably an accurate comparison of their equivalency in ingredients, sounds to me like.
That’s deep.
“SPAM” is a portmanteau of the words “spiced ham”
Special Processed American Meat or Specially Processed Artificial Meat
James talking about spam is more entertaining than new Top Gear.
Says a LOT about TOP GEAR? 😂😂😂
new program that can't be mentioned anymore.
Thats so true
Looking at a tin of spam would be more entertaining than new Top Gear.
Just looking at James's face is better than new Top Gear
"the closest thing we could find to 1970's margarine... 2019 margarine"
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 🤷🏻♀️
@@georgeprout42 My Mum tried, and failed , to get us kids to eat 1960s margarine. It was nothing like the modern namesakes. Horrible stuff.
Why not Lurpak, invented in 1903?
Spam, spam, spam ,spam.....
@@georgeprout42 booo
"It's a quarantined, high quality meat product."
Same
Ha! 😁😂🤣
james may has the best studio ever in this video haha
Hey, I resemble this remark.
@@ceselb Ah, I see you are omitting the "high quality" part?
Issue being I’m not high quality
Why do I feel like he’d be doing this even without a camera on him.
they would pay me a fucking lot to make a bite on that shit
With the full on commentary as well.
But it's RAW! 🤣
@@dasraffnix9471 most canned meat is cooked in the can after being sealed this kills off the bacteria in the meat
I can definitely see him doing this alone in his underwear
This is like the North Korean version of MasterChef.
this! It's a very underrated comment!
But wait i can see food?
Nah, too extravagant for NK
Even in North Korea they eat better than this
lol
"Half of the word SPAM is same as two-thirds of the word HAM."
James May is my favourite.
7:54
am
The lack of music and the echo of the room made this a very raw experience
Clarence Star bro I’m so raw after this
That makes it authentic my comrade from ww2
It's raw!
They later put a mattress in the room. Seemed to work well!
Cameraman Tom breathing into my ear added a nice bit of ambience.
I dont understand why everyone on TG/GT call him boring.
He just made Spam interesting
It’s a joke.
They're just jealous of his talent to make the mundane into interesting.
I think it's from when he started on the show and drove everything slower than my granny. And she's dead.
@@RevJamesCostello woooooosh
@Jamie Ownshe meant the vewers
We just spent ten minutes watching James May eat Spam. Don’t regret a second of it.
Is anyone going to mention the fact that he seems to keep saying "Princess Ham". I thought it was Princes?
He didn't sear it in a pan. So I regret it on his behalf.
Well this video showed up in my spam folder.
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.
Honestly agree, all of them funny in their own way. Gotta say I prefer James out of the other 2 he’s just so reserved and his deadpan humour is unmatched.
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.
😂😂
3/7 of Hammond is 100 percent ham your welcome lady’s and gentlemen I’m out
Clarkson has always been a baboon, may is the best TV presenter and Hammond is cute and appeals to children
@@GreatSageSunWukong >Hammond is cute and appeals to children
Very true. I loved him on Braniac as a kid.
Completely agree.
“Smells a bit like cat food, but that’s not a bad thing.”
Some of my dogs all natural treats actually smell quite appealing but never smelled cat food before
Well I’d always eat the cat food
What
Hello James 👋🏽
We tasted the cats' food when we were kids and it's definitely edible. 😂
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.
Well it does come from the man who can spend an hour of time on a real tv program disassembling a vacuum cleaner.
Technically he managed to make two sandwiches in ten minutes
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
@@Mklg not only that, he made me want to go out, buy white bread, spam and salad cream. (I have to admit to having margerine at home already...)
@Tom Bowman Just a little joke, wasn't expecting such a reply, I forgot to use sarcasm font sorry :D :D :D
“A TV show I can’t mention anymore” RIP classic Top Gear 😢😢
But why cant they mention it?
@@sBinotto-od6no Because the BBC don't wish to really be associated with those three anymore after Clarkson's incident, I'm assuming
I'm assuming that he was just joking.
@@thedoctorray1782 Hey! I don't really know about the 'Clarkson incident'. Could you give some details?
@@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
I've just spent 10 minutes of my life watching James May comparing Spam and Ham.
I don't regret a single second of it.
That’s lucky, because what a regret to have
In fact, I wish it was a lot longer.
Over the past year, I've watched this about a dozen times. Still no regrets.
We got shorted a minute or so when he was getting the Spam out of the tin...
"The closest thing to 1970 margarine... 2019 margarine"
If your from the 70s you know it's different
U didn't even quote it right
It is official then. I indeed could watch anything James talks about.
I have been watching mr.slow's show for years. Trust me, it is quite addicting, for some unknown reason
I was thinking the same thing lol
Rubbish subject, rubbish food but hey it's James May so we'll all watch it and enjoy it :D
Glad you say this... next week is testing two different mold and mildew bathroom sprays.
@Selfspot I've seen videos showing how well sheets on the ceiling work as well. Just pad the room lol.
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.
James May has a magical way of making being boring actually entertaining. He's just too likeable!
drives ferarris and such, eats spam with margarine. interesting man
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.
jeff bazos and bill gates are friend and when they go out to eat they go to mcdonalds and make sure to use coupons
@@thehouseofcha1nsaw_ he eats spam, s p a m. im not even entirelz sure what spam is to be frank
@@reliantncc1864 huh, sounds like ratatouille (the movie)
reliantncc1864 what show is this ur talking of
“Half of the word spam is the same as two thirds of the word ham. I dont know why the hell I said that” - James May
Yes you 'am' right
I love him
He said it because he's James May. Saying amusing stupid things is his trade mark.
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. 💙
"The washers aren't part of the meal.
I just got those because I like them"
James May
It make me happy knowing someone else remembers that XD
I love how he’s gone from pissing about in luxury super cars every week to reviewing ham and spam sandwiches. 😂
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.
That's why we love James May!
This is EXACTLY why I adore and respect James. 😅❤
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.
I wonder if you eat piles of salt to this day!
Seriously though, that is a smart way to get your kids to willingly eat.. let's say cost-effectively.
Lol your dad is a legend
Once told a 13-year-old girl that the "pickled ginger" they serve in sushi restaurants is actually dolphin noses in brine. The reaction was priceless!
RKG Austin your dad was a gent
Mine painted the gas meter red and told me it was a money box
Yup same here. Also my parents fed me Raman Noodles as a special rare treat and later in life they were only 25 cents a brick.
Now imagine if he actually fried the spam like a normal person.
And put either a slaba smoked gouda or american cheese depending on the fanciness of the day.
Wait.... Frying spam is a thing?!?!?! Why have I never tried this?
@@Artyomthewalrus yeah, just put it in a hot skillet, the fat does the work. gets nice and crispy.
@@Artyomthewalrus have you ever looked at the packaging of spam?
@@user-ve9tu5rv6e
Nah, I just open it and eat it. I assumed it would be a food I wouldn't want to know the ingredients of
Nobody:
James May: Half of the word Spam is the same as two-thirds of the word Ham.
well, it's spiced ham, isn't it? i guess this is the reference, yet the joke is iffy.
@@zloychechen5150 Selected processed American meats.
@@opkb4e Something Presented Abbreviately Meaninglessly
@@BaldMancTwat Spook Presenting Abbreviations Misleadingly
Spam, spam, spam, wonderful spam
“Spam, white bread, salad cream, margarine... no artificial or unwanted ingredients”
And a bit of HP sauce?
I think James thought the same thing after saying "no artificial" which is why he tacked on "or unwanted".
Yes.Morning.
😂 right
HAHAHAHAHAHA
"Put it back in the can and it's good for another 2 or 3 decades"
-James May ladies and gentlemen
He is half right. Canned food can stay good for years as long as it hasnt been opened and is stored at room temperature.
@@richardbutton1179 In the arctic though...
@@Megalomaniakaal even better, the colder it is the harsher the environment for bacteria to grow
It's hard to believe this vid was recorded 2019; it has such strong 2020 vibes
Because of the word "quarantine"
James May is a man deeply ahead of his time
That was possibly the most pointless video I have ever watched. I enjoyed it.
here where i live in italy spam doesn't even exist and ham is really rare
@@zcarcollerotez8121 that is interesting. What is the substitute for ham there?
Awaiting the episode where James shows how to order a pint and overall pub etiquette.
I wanna se that
can i donate somewhere to make this happen?
@kie dude weed lmao
THAT would actually be awsome.
That's a brilliant idea
“Smells like cat food but that’s not a bad thing”
Ham = cat food. Spam = dog food.
I heard "Camp Food"
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, “Filming a programme we’re not allowed to mention anymore”
Why isn't he allowed? And is the program top gear?
@@akuvillejaakkola9491 Ofcourse it is . . . And it ended with season 22 . . . ;)
@@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.
@@reliantncc1864 ^^'
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"
I can feel that white bread sticking to the roof of my mouth already
the pain.
You must be very familliar with that . . . XD
that feeling of peeling it off makes it worth it.
I hate the fact he only buttered one side of the bread. That is heathenry.
@@ling2186 Most people only butter one side.
I'm not sure he has ever seen a millimeter, let alone 4 of them.
Yeah
That was definitely 9-12mm
@@celticbarry9877 They were nowhere near a centimetre. It was 6mm at most
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.
@@lukewarmwater6412 xD
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.
Clarkson voice* “ On this episode of our car show: James may makes sandwiches”
In this episode, James chews and thinks
The great thing about Clarkson voice is that it works perfectly when you read things.
Someone needs to introduce James to proper fried Spam on a sandwich.
Yeeeeeeesssss! Plain ol' spam is fine but fried spam is soooo much better! I actually prefer treat but to each their own.
fuck off boomer
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 uhhhh....
@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...
"part of filming for a television program I cant mention anymore" xD
Because they own drivetribe, theyve got no higher ups to answer to
I wonder what he was referring to...
We'll never know. He can't mention it anymore.
Why can’t he talk about topgear?
@@danielmacintyre4877 For legal reasons Top Gear never happened
How is this so entertaining? I don't regret a second of this. Just delightful.
Love how James stands there chewing a spam sandwich like he’s tasting a fine wine 😂
But then cleanses the pallet with a red wine 🤔.......😂😂😂
Only James May can make eating Spam seem sophisticated 😅💯👌🏼
And talked about how the ham had a "more delicate flavor"
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.
he's possessed by the spirit of Keith Floyd.
6:52 Outlook when i get an important email I need to see.
LOL! Dude I choked laughing then xD
Email does that to all my steam emails
😂 mate this was far funnier to me than it had any right to be
Too real
HAHA that was actually funny
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.
Can't remember the exact quote but it was something like "Even vinegar tastes sweet when free."
Boohoo
@@bjm4148 do u feel better now
@@thehabit635 much better thanks
@@bjm4148 can you touch me zaddy!!!!
1:06 I think he's talking about Fifth Gear.
I thought it was the top gear polar special
Shhhhh we don't talk about it
Bottom Gear
Middle gear
I can't decide if I'm upset with myself for being entertained by a man simply sipping wine while making processed meat sandwiches.
wait, what? entered? it's up to you i guess, it's a modern society.
@@zloychechen5150 entertained*
Do you mean entertained? entered is something else;) I mean I certainly wouldn't be upset if James entered me :)
Are you not entertained?
Entering people while sipping wine and making processed meat sandwiches sounds like something James does in one of his special clubs.
1989, "2020 the world will be so different"
2020, led in bed and quite seriously watching James May eat a spam sandwich.
Look at 2020 now..
Yes
1990: i wonder what people will use computers for in 30 years
2020: why am i awake at 3am only to watch james may make a sandwich
It’s 4:44
I don’t like how 30 years ago was the 90’s. To me, 30 years ago is still the 70’s.
@@sydneym8412 bestie i think you are just old
Hey, quite predicting my future
these videos are works of art. i hope someone makes a museum and puts these in them. the credits are just artistic perfection
Nobody:
James May: "Smells a bit like cat food, that's not a bad thing."
A special, special man this James May. Like a intelligent Karl Pilkington.
You saying Karl's not intelligent
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.
Karl you idiot play a record
Don’t talk shite twice
@Ku I dont think you quite get what I'm trying to say. Karl is almost certainly acting!! James May is not.
Subway: We make the best Sandwiches
James May: Hold my Spam...
itsy which hand?
Me: *hungrily watching the SPAM get cut
James: I can sense you salivating through the Internet...
Me: He knows! o___O
Yeah you can't get the same out of Gordon Ramsey videos to be honest
"Half of the word 'spam' is the same as two-thirds of the word 'ham'." This might be the most James Mayian sentence James May has ever uttered.
"Spam, Salad cream White Bread and Margarine" - "Nothing artificial in it"....
At the very least his corpse will be perfectly preserved.
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
@@hanstun1 You forgot the margarine.
There is nothing disgusting about corned beef and salad cream. I went to the shop after watching this to buy more corned beef.
You have to fry the Spam in a skillet beforehand, but I imagine in the 70's this would have been viewed as witchcraft.
Not here in the US! Fried bologna and Spam was a staple here!
In many countries, they don't bother to cook the spam, just eats it as is. It's lazy, but it works.
Yeah we always browned SPAM before eating it or else the gelatinous stuff doesn’t melt. Lol
@@thetman0068
Mmmm. Fried bologna is the most delicious shit.
Yeah it tastes way better fried
All scientific literature: spam is bad for you
James May: hold my quarantined high quality meat product
5:47
When I was a kid I'd fry up spam on the stove and drizzle it with honey. Its pretty bomb
Missed opportunity: spamwich vs hamwich
@@oliverkarlsson1653 which one
wait whats a sandwich then
Mum: why are you watching James may eat a sandwich
Me: You wouldn’t get it
Me: Watch it and you'll understand.
For those who understand, no explanation is needed, for those who do not, no explanation will suffice.
@@haroldellis9721 correct
This is my favorite exchange I've read on TH-cam today.
@@haroldellis9721 hear hear, well said lad
“Smells a bit like cat food but that isn’t a bad thing”
Isn’t it? 😂😂
Exactly
She gave me Chlamydia
This is the sandwiches of the GODS
THIS MAN BEAT GORDON RAMSEY WHILE HAMMERED 🔨
That's right. Fish pie I believe.
Every youtube channel ever: "2$ spam vs 2000$ spam"
James may: " 10 min video about 1$ ham vs 1$spam"
£ you philistine!
And it's 2.79£
£2.79 for a tin of Spam? It's like they don't understand the object of the exercise.
@@nicks.2612 what the fuck is that? Is that brail?
@@Cody-ch2lc tf
"That's... for something else"
We found the weapon used in the future to finally kill Jeremy Clarkson.
Other home cooking channels: Here's a rundown on the french mother sauces
FoodTribe: "half of the word SPAM is the same as two thirds of the word Ham"
Lol I love Alex (who I assume you're referencing) and FoodTribe!
7:50 “Half of the word Spam is the same as two-thirds of the word ham.” Even James himself thought it was a bit much.
“Half of the word spam is the same as two thirds of the word ham” is the most James may esque phrase ever spoken.
Classically trained pianist James May trying to convince us he was ever poor
I don't think that stopped him eating sandwiches
@@InLiveLife definitely would have stopped him eating spam tho
I grew up poor, we couldn't afford tinned ham or spam, that was for middle class kids. So he could well of had them
You have to be rich to be a classically trained pianist?! phft
@Rod Rebman grilled spam on toast. Mmmmhm. It's the lack of real butter that disturbed me lol
Of the three Top Gear blokes, James May is the one I think I would enjoy hanging out with.
I would have to agree with you James May just seems like a really personable guy. I'd say he'd be a joy to chat with over a nice cold one.
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.
Dennis Moore James may sleeping would be more entertaining than top gear without the trio
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.
Okay this is the funniest thing I've seen all week
The awkward silence and Tom' wheezy breathing makes it so authentic
"That's around 4mm"
Slices off at least 10mm
Way too thick for 70s or even in modern times actually.
one shot of vodka
1cm?
@@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 wonder if James is still mad at Clarkson for shooting his victory spam
I think he still is a little bit. I consider destroying food JUST WRONG. I actually kind of like spam, though cold out of the can.
@@alexfogg381 I open the tin and grab a spoon. Rarely does the spam see mayo and bread. Never did get why people put butter on sandwiches.
Binging all of these a year later is bringing joy to my lockdown life 😂
"it's quarantined meat" didn't know that this sentence was gonna have a whole bigger meaning now than back there
It doesn't.
@@jeck8005 it does
@@jay_frfx what the different meaning then?
@@jeck8005 have you been living under a rock this year?
@@jay_frfx nope.
May could upload videos of any topic and I would still watch and enjoy it. He seems to be the intellectual of the trio.
Runs fingers through hair, now hair smells like spam. Cats following him for days.
Spam spam spam...
LOVELY SPAAAAM
WONDERFUL SPAAAAAM
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]
He actually built a studio for this...
7:54 - “Half of the word spam is the same as two thirds of the word ham” ~Captain Slow 2019
Why wasn’t this blocked by my spam filter?
you're probably using the more delicate ham filter instead
😆
Thanks I had a mouth full of pallet quenchin"er" when I read this! after spitting it out I'll need another.
Fuck me this is clever
Henry Pattinson comment of the decade 👍
How was James making quarantine content 4 months before it started? This man is a prophet and he must be stopped!
James May opening Spam from the 60s: "Nice Hiss"
Tomas de Mena Top Gear field rations review
@but ton nice
Nice!
now that's a decadent treat, huge boost to morale.
“Spam very simple, these days it has a ring pull” mans got bars
What the Top Gear Polar special could have been if Jeremy didn't shoot mays spam
That would have made one awesome episode. xD
No artificial or unwanted ingredients
Read the label James...
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 🤣
When James May has sex, he makes his own condoms out of a sheep’s intestine because by god, that’s how they did it in the old days.
I very much doubt this man can achieve an erection, and his heart medication is not compatible with vasodilators (Viagra, etc)
i am the 69th like, how appropriate
@@stealthymonk8808 shut up
His wife must love him, he's captain slow for a reason.
They do the same in New Zealand, only they don’t remove it from the sheep first.
James: I was once on my way to the North Pole...
Me: oh top gear
James: ... part of a programme I can’t mention anymore
Me: yep top gear 😂
That was a bit of a joke, really. They went to the *1996* location of the MAGNETIC North Pole, which constantly shifts northwestward. When they did their trip, the Magnetic North Pole was nowhere near where they went.
the way James says *margerine* makes it sound like he's talking about an old love in his life, and it is a Lullaby to my ears.
Bush!
@Dave C. i literally just checked the lyrics to Glycerine to see if "lube my face" was in it.
"The meat may be quarantined, but less so than you are."
I’m pretty sure James had no idea how relevant this series would become - this man is going to sustain the nation during lockdown. Can we have an episode on Fray Bentos pies please Mr May?
who else can imagine jeremy going nuts at james taking 10 seconds to choose the correct knife to cut his spam
Andy Craig - I thought the exact thing
James May, the best 2019 food vlogger.
“1/2 of the word spam is the same as 2/3 of the word ham”
- James May
Dont like your own comments
I just watched an old man make a sandwich for 10 minutes and I'm not upset about it.
I'm more worried that you consider him an old man rather than a contemporary. Oh, where did all the years go?
James May’s Sandwich Stories is proving to be quite an entertaining series.
Toast, cheese and chopped Spring Onion... Yum.
Edit: Now lying in bed hungry.
I've never seen spam eaten without first being pan fried
Is spam good? I've never tried it
@@realloud999 its alright. not very good but not terrible
@@microsoftword9728 is it worth trying out?
@@jacobanon9516 is it like salty and hammy taste?
@@jacobanon9516 that actually sounds tasty cooked
Incorrect. Lightly fry Spam in a pan. Mayo. Slice of cheese. Enjoy.
There is no, “correct” way to eat SPAM, it’s food. You eat it.
I'm still waiting *Jeremy Clarkson* to making *Food Videos*
Me 2
The V8 powered food blender is probably going to return!
@@somegoodfella damn.. beat me to it by seconds
Yea, have him tenderize a steak with a hammer. Somehow I think he would master that.
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