SPAM: The Food, Not The Email
SPAM is canned processed meat made by the Hormel Corporation of Austin, Minnesota, USA. Nobody really knows what the word SPAM stands for [and for that matter how it became associated with junk email]. According to Wikipedia, it could be derived from any of these phrases : " Shoulder Pork And Ham", "Special Processed American Meat", or "Spiced Meat and Ham". Those who hate SPAM call it "Spare Parts Animal Meat" or "Something PosingAs Meat". Or it could even denote the place where SPAM is made: "Special Product of Austin, Minnesota" Nevertheless SPAM is more than a type of luncheon meat. It has become a food icon. According to its web site www.spam.com the 7th billion can of SPAM has been sold and every 32 seconds, someone in the USA is opening a can of SPAM. But its not only in America that SPAM is popular. Filipinos and South Koreans eat lots of SPAM and in the South Pacific islands of Fiji and Samoa, SPAM forms so much of...