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Item: SPAM Introduced into the Market (1937)
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Event Introduced in 1937 by the Hormel Foods Corporation as "Hormel Spiced Ham," the precooked, canned-meat product was renamed "SPAM" when it began to lose market share. SPAM is now popular worldwide and is sold in more than 40 countries, including South Korea, where it is said to be so popular that it is sometimes given as a gift. The product has become a part of pop culture as the butt of many jokes and urban legends about mystery meat. What ingredients are used to make SPAM?
Date Published Mon, 5 Jul 2010 05:00:00 GMT
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Total: 2 Latest: 28/09/2010 18:59:50 by Gladys

reviewed by Gladys
18:59:50 | 28 Sep 2010
Spam
Spam, spam, sam, spam, spam, spam,spam, spam......Cannot bear to think what might be in it but light years ago it was Friday night Spam fritters with chips. How healthy was that! How doubly awful would it have ben if pudding had been Angel Delight...............
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reviewed by Daddy Papersurfer
07:57:13 | 5 Jul 2010
I can't see Spam ....
...... without thinking about the Monty Python sketch ....... it was Monty Python wasn't it?
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I'd never heard of this story before.. interesting.
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