Want to learn more about spam? The nice people from Newsday interviewed Shawn Radford, director of the Spam Museum in Austin, Minn. A couple of gems:
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The name "spam" is from Jay Hormel's original spiced ham product. At a New Year's party at Jay's house, Kenneth Daigneau (actor and brother to a Hormel exec) took the "sp" from "spiced" and the "am" from "ham" to make "spam."
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There have been 6 billion cans of spam sold worldwide.
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Spam is made from pork shoulder, water and preservatives. Yum.
1. SPAM = Squirl, Possum And Mice. SPiced hAM my rump.
Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Truth behind SPAM