Spam

[The Great Wallsendo]

Believe it or not I actually like the stuff...and a fave of mine for the boat is Spam and Brown sauce sangas

Seems other people are more adventurous...

Spam Recipes

[tonyfromalnwick]

Spam fritters....mmmmmmmmmm.

[5150]

Oddly.. every day I have to send out a particularly dull and boring mail at work. So to make it less boring I look for useless information about things... back on 5th March this was the info:

SPAM!!!
For those who prefer to spread rather than slice, Spam is now available in spreadable form with all the great taste of Original Spam. If you're on a low salt diet, did you know that Spam "Low Sodium" has been available since 1986? For the garlic and spicy food lovers amongst us there's Spam Garlic and Spam Hot & Spicy. Remember as a kid when you were told that the moon was made of cheese? Well it's not. But you can get Spam with Cheese, yum!


The Spam Story:
Hormel developed America's first canned ham (''Hormel Flavor-Sealed Ham'') in 1926, and eleven years later developed the first canned meat product that did not require refrigeration. It was a ''distinctive chopped pork shoulder and ham mixture'' developed by Jay C. Hormel, son of Hormel founder George A. Hormel, and marketed as ''Hormel Spiced Ham'' - not a terribly inspiring name for an innovative product fated to save lives, win wars, and balance diets of people world wide.

Hormel Spiced Ham got off to a slightly rocky start. Other meatpackers began to introduce their own canned luncheon meats, and Hormel lost its controlling share of the market. Soon, however, they came up with a cunning plan to rectify this situation - they would give Hormel's luncheon meat a truly catchy name. Kenneth Daigneau, an actor and the brother of a Hormel executive won $100 in a meat-naming contest in 1936. The name "Spam" is a contraction of "spiced" and "ham", which is rather odd since there are no spices in it anyway.

SPAM was launched with much high-profile advertising in mid-1937. It was called ''the Miracle Meat'', and promoted as an anytime meat. In 1940, SPAM was the subject of quite possibly the first singing commercial. The jingle was to the tune of the chorus of ''My Bonny Lies Over The Ocean'', and the lyrics were ''SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM/ Hormel's new miracle meat in a can/ Tastes fine, saves time./ If you want something grand,/ Ask for SPAM!''. Hormel also sponsored George Burns' and Gracie Allen's network radio show, which included ''Spammy the Pig''. During World War II, sales boomed. Not only was SPAM great for the military, as it required no refrigeration, it wasn't rationed as beef was, so it became a prime staple in American meals. SPAM supported the war effort more directly, too. Nikita Kruschev credits SPAM with the survival of the Russian Army during WWII. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, the Hormel Girls performing troupe advertised SPAM as they performed throughout the country, distributed SPAM door-to-door, and even had a national weekly radio show. Ads proclaimed, ''Cold or hot, SPAM hits the spot!''

In 1960, SPAM began to be sold in 7 oz cans alonside the original 12 oz ones. SPAM began to spawn variations in 1971, when smoke-flavored SPAM was introduced. Next came less salt/sodium SPAM, in 1986, and with it the honour of being considered ''state of the art in its industry'' by the Minnesota Association of Commerce and Industry." In the early 1990s, SPAM Breakfast Strips were introduced, as was SPAM lite.


Spam Trivia:
*In America, it's consumed at the rate of 3.8 cans a second by more than 60 million Americans.
*It's trademarked in 92 countries, and sold in 45, from Anguilla to Zimbabwe
*If laid end-to-end, 5 billion cans would encircle the earth 12 1/2 times
5 billion cans of SPAM would feed a family of four, three meals a day, for 4,566,210 years
*You can grill more than 29 billion SPAMburgers with it, and that supply would last 5.4 days if everyone on Earth ate one spamburger for dinner each night
*Each year, 100 million pounds (45 million kg) of SPAM are sold around the world.
*SPAM is made in two U.S. locations - Austin, Minnesota, and Fremont, Nebraska - and seven other countries: England, Australia, Denmark, Phillipines, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea.
*The average consumers of Spam are families with several children, especially in the southeastern U.S.
*In 1989, the U.S. armed forces bought 3.3 million pounds of SPAM.
Hawaii, Alaska, Arkansas, Texas, and Alabama rate the highest in SPAM consumption respectively.
*Among the 50 foreign countries where SPAM is sold, the UK and South Korea are the largest markets.
*In South Korea, SPAM is considered an upscale food and one of the most popular American imports. The Wall Street Journal recently spotted a Seoul executive in search of the perfect gift. The executive deliberately skipped over traditional gift items such as wine and chocolates in favor of SPAM, explaining, "It is an impressive gift."
*Hormel PR man Allen Krejci says: "SPAM has endured because of it's convenience and versatility. You can eat it hot or cold. You slice, dice, or cube it. You can eat it for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snacks. In fact, the only thing that limits your use of SPAM is your imagination."
*Nikita Krushchev once credited SPAM with the survival of the WWII Russian army. ''Without SPAM, we wouldn't have been able to feed our army,'' he said.

[Oblickta]

YouTube - Monty Python - Spam

[kela66]

a thinly sliced & fried spam sanga with red sauce is a top hangover cure washed down with a pint/ can/bottle of course

[Norman]

and it doubles as bait if the mackerel are shy .............

[Charlton]

carp quite like a good piece of SPAM.