More SPAM please!
OK, I decided that I would go ahead and give you some facts about this type of SPAM -->. People wonder what this product is made of. The ingredients are actually quite simple and a short list compared to a lot of other food products with all their chemical preservatives, etc. The ingredients include:
Chopped pork shoulder meat with ham meat added.
Salt (for binding, flavour, and firmness)
Water (to help in mixing)
Sugar (for flavour)
Sodium Nitrite (for colour and as a preservative)
By World War II, Hormel had sold twenty thousand tons of Spam. Then, during the wartime meat rationing, Spam became very popular.
If all the cans of Spam ever eaten were put end-to-end, they would circle the globe at least ten times.
Residents of Hawaii eat an average of four cans of SPAM per person per year, more than in any other place on Earth.
By 1959, a billion cans of SPAM had been sold. The two billion mark was hit in 1970, followed by three billion in 1980, four billion in 1986, and five billion in 1993. That's a lot of SPAM!
In Korea, SPAM is sold in stylish presentation gift boxes of nine cans each. SPAM stolen from army PXs can be found on the Korean black market. And there are Korean imitations called Lo-Spam, Dak, Plumrose, and Tulip.
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.
SPAM is sold in over 99% of U.S. grocery stores.
Over 141 million cans of SPAM are sold worldwide each year.
posted by whaaaat! at
8:33 AM
3 Comments:
May I respond to both SPAM posts?
I hate spam.
I LOVE spam.
By
Joe, at 3:03 PM
I went to school every day with a Spam sandwich. It's not something I like to brag about.
By
Fred, at 5:00 PM
mferris@jupiterimages
I think SPAM is bad for you.
By
Anonymous, at 7:46 PM
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