Brad Templeton's nice summary of the history of spam (bulk unsolicited e-mail, not the Hormel meat product) at http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamterm.html says the first spam was in 1978 from DEC: http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamreact.html
Mall of America is in Minnesota Mayo Clinic, Rochester Hormel Foods, Austin Spam Museum, Austin Lake Pepin, Birthplace of Water Skiing, Lake City
Spam was originally a way to use up scrap meat left over from commercial processing. It became a staple food during the Great Depression, since it was cheap and lasted a long time in the can, and was a mainstay for the military during World War II, for the same reasons. Some people were glad to see the last of having to eat Spam, after the war; others had developed a taste for it, and continued to eat it often.Spam has experienced a popular resurgence in recent years, after years of negative perceptions and jokes about it, for the same reasons it became popular in the first place.AnswerIn the 1930's depression and crisis was all over the nation. So to make life easier some companies decided to sell cheaper products so people could at least eat. SPAM was one of them, it did help alot, and until today we're still eating it.
It's a contraction of "spiced" and "ham" ie. principal ingredients to form a memorable product name. SPiced hAM equals SPAM.
Spam, the modern day shopping cart, the first ever walkie-talkie, Turboprop engine, Jet engine, O-ring.
Spam was introduced to the world by the Hormel Food Co. on July 5th 1937.
Yes, Hormel Foods makes Spam, the food.
The Hormel Foods Corporation makes SPAM
The Hormel Foods Corporation makes SPAM
The Hormel Foods Corporation makes SPAM
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Spam was [, unfortunately ,] created in 1937 by the Hormel Foods Corporation .
Hormel Foods main office is located in Austin, Minnesota. Hormel is best known for producing Spam, a luncheon meat product that is very popular in the United States.
Hormel created Honey Grail Spam in honor of the Monty Python Spam sketch. The can's label was very much in the Monty Python style ... very funny.
Yes, SPAM and other Hormel products are Gluten-Free. Here is the link to their list of gf foods. http://www.hormelfoods.com/brands/glutenfree/default.aspx
The Legend of Spam: Back in 1937, the Hormel Foods company invented a canned, spiced ham that became super popular back during WWII due to the scarcity of fresh meats. In the 1960s the British TV show "Monty Python's Flying Circus" had a regular skit about a restaurant that served spam with everything, spam burgers, spam omelets, spam mashed potatoes, spam apple pie, spam spam, etc. In the skit there was a table of customers that would sing "Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, beautiful spam, wonderful spam!" until someone would make them shut up. At some point the term made the cultural jump to describe junk e-mail that repeats itself everywhere, and because of its repetitive, annoying nature. Additional Information: Introduced in 1937, the original name was Hormel Spiced Ham. Later the name of SPAM was derived from SP (from spiced) and AM (from ham). In humorous circles it was called Something Posing As Meat - or Spare Parts Animal Meat
Hormel began developing the canned meat product Spam in 1936, but the company had no name for it. Jay C. Hormel, the grandson of the company founder offered a $100 prize for the best name. Actor Kenneth Daigneau, brother of company VP Ralph Daigneau came up with the name Spam, allegedly a combination of the words spiced ham, and Hormel began production May 1937 in Austin, Minnesota.