Shingles are awful. I've never had them, but I'm downright scared of getting them.Originally Posted by Zincubus
My buttie / sandwich idea was inspired by a meal I had in hospital years ago
I'd been very ill due to a real bad reaction to penicillin which resulted in me getting shingles !!
Anyways the first meal I had when i got through the worst of it was Gammon, potatoes and garden peas with apple sauce - hence the spam and peas butty ( the apple sauce holds the sweet garden peas in place and enhances the flavour ) .
Remember you can have cooked Spam as well as having it straight out of the tin .. cooked gives it a very , very different taste and texture.
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My mom is a really tough person. Nothing much gets her down. She can handle pain well, too, not a whimp by any means.
When she got shingles it was awful. Even more so for me, since I felt so helpless being across an ocean. I could hear through the phone and by what she said how terrible it was.
She had my brother and sister and other family nearby, so she had help and support, still, those are the times I wish I didn't live so far away. I was close to just book a flight when she finally, finally got a little better.
She later admitted that the pain of shingles is enough to drive someone to want to jump of a bridge.
I'm really considering to get the vaccine for it, I need to look into it.
There is a thing in Germany that is called "Fleisch Kaese". It sort of resembles spam, but is a million times better. I actually love (and miss) that stuff something awful. We usually put a fried egg on top of a fried slice of "Leber Kaese".
But the actual Spam, the stuff out of the can, YUCK !! LOL
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