WATCH: Americans taste tocino for the first time

MANILA - "It tastes like candied flesh."

This is how one of the staff of social news and entertainment website BuzzFeed described the taste of tocino or sweetened pork, which is a breakfast staple in the Philippines.

In a video uploaded on Thursday, several food testers came together to try out different flavors of Spam, which included Spam Bacon, Spam Tocino, and Spam Hot & Spicy.



"I'm trying to figure out what a tocino is," said one of the taste testers, before trying out the version of Spam exclusively available in the Philippines.

"Tangy," added another, who quipped that he could eat it all day.

His partner in the two-and-a-half minute clip echoed his love for the taste of tocino, saying: "It's amazing. I'm blowing my mind over here. And it's orange. That's fun."

In a separate article dated May 2014, BuzzFeed included tocino in a write up titled "24 Delicious Filipino Foods You Need In Your Life." It also featured the lumpia -- a Filipino version of spring rolls -- and sinigang, among others.

BuzzFeed similarly placed the spotlight on offerings of homegrown fast food chain Jollibee, Filipino street foods such as fish balls and kwek kwek, as well as popular Filipino snacks.

source: www.abs-cbnnews.com

LOOK: Spam offers tocino variant

MANILA – Did you know that the precooked meat brand Spam has a variant that is inspired by a Filipino breakfast dish?

Spam is currently offering a “limited edition” Tocino variant at $3 each, according to its website. The label shows the popular meat product with a glaze similar to tocino, a sweet pork dish usually served for breakfast in Filipino homes.



Nutrition facts of Spam Tocino show that it has less sodium (590 mg per 2-oz serving) compared to its original variant (790 mg), although it has one gram of sugar per serving.

Some netizens have been talking about Spam Tocino on Twitter after the restaurant smartphone app Looloo shared the trivia via the microblogging site.

Other variants of Spam include Less Sodium, Black Pepper, Teriyaki, Chorizo, With Cheese, Hickory Smoke, Jalapeño, With Bacon and Hot and Spicy.

source: www.abs-cbnnews.com