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[tCw*]Vindada
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SPAM IT
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ntroduced on July 5, 1937, the name "Spam" was chosen when the product, whose original name was far less memorable (Hormel Spiced Ham), began to lose market share. The name was chosen from multiple entries in a naming contest. A Hormel official once stated that the original meaning of the name "Spam" was "Shoulder of Pork and Ham".[6] According to writer Marguerite Patten in Spam – The Cookbook, the name was suggested by Kenneth Daigneau, an actor and the brother of a Hormel vice president, who was given a $100 prize for creating the name.[7] At one time, the official explanation was that the name was a portmanteau of "Spiced Ham". According to the British documentary-reality show "1940's House", when SPAM was offered by the US to those affected by WWII in the UK, SPAM stood for Specially Processed American Meats.
Many jocular backronyms have been devised, such as "Something Posing As Meat", "Specially Processed Artificial Meat", "Stuff, Pork and Ham", "Spare Parts Animal Meat" and "Special Product of Austin Minnesota".[8]
According to Hormel's trademark guidelines, Spam should be spelled with all capital letters and treated as an adjective, as in the phrase "SPAM luncheon meat".
[edit] Nutritional data
Spam is typically sold in cans with a net weight of 340 grams (12 ounces). A 56 gram (approximately 2 ounce) serving of original Spam provides seven grams of protein, two grams of carbohydrates, 15 grams of fat (23% US Daily Value) including 6 grams of saturated fat (28% US Daily Value), and 170 calories. A serving also contains nearly a third of the recommended daily intake of sodium (salt). A 56 gram serving of spam contains 767 mg of sodium, equivalent to approximately 2 grams of salt, indicating about 3.6% of spam's mass is salt. Spam provides very little in terms of vitamins and minerals (0% vitamin A, 1% vitamin C , 1% calcium, 3% iron). It has been listed as a food that is a poor choice for weight loss and optimum health and as a food that "is high in saturated fat and sodium".[9]
[edit] Varieties
There are several different flavors of Spam, including:[10]
* Spam Classic — original flavor
* Spam Hot & Spicy — with tabasco flavor
* Spam Less Sodium — "25% less sodium"
* Spam Lite — "33% less calories and 50% less fat"
* Spam Oven Roasted Turkey
* Spam Hickory Smoke flavor
* Spam Spread — "if you're a spreader, not a slicer...just like Spam Classic, but in a spreadable form"
* Spam with Bacon
* Spam with Cheese
* Spam Garlic
* Spam Golden Honey Grail — a limited-release special flavor made in honor of Monty Python's SPAMALOT Broadway musical
* Spam Mild
In addition to flavor, some of the tins come in smaller sizes than normal. A more popular option is the 7 oz size can. Recently, "Spam Singles" have been produced: a single sandwich-sized slice of Spam (Classic or Lite), wrapped in plastic instead of a metal container.
[edit] International usage
Spam advertisement on back cover of Time magazine on May 14, 1945.
As of 2003, Spam is sold in 41 countries worldwide. The largest consumers of Spam are the United States, the United Kingdom and South Korea.[citation needed]
[edit] United States and territories
In the United States, Spam is quite popular, but is sometimes associated with economic hardship, due to its relatively low cost.[11]
The residents of the state of Hawaii and the territories of Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) consume the most Spam per capita in the United States. On average, each person on Guam consumes 16 tins of Spam each year and the numbers at least equal this in the CNMI. Guam, Hawaii, and Saipan, the CNMI's principal island, have the only McDonald's restaurants that feature Spam on the menu. Burger King, in Hawaii, began serving Spam in 2007 on its menu to compete with the local McDonald's chains.[12][13] In Hawaii, Spam is so popular it is sometimes dubbed "The Hawaiian Steak".[14] One popular Spam dish in Hawaii is Spam musubi, in which cooked Spam is combined with rice and nori seaweed and classified as onigiri.[15]
Spam was introduced into the aforementioned areas, in addition to other islands in the Pacific such as Okinawa and the Philippine Islands, during the U.S. military occupation in World War II. Since fresh meat was difficult to get to the soldiers on the front, World War II saw the largest use of Spam. GIs started eating Spam for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. (Some soldiers referred to Spam as "ham that didn't pass its physical" and "meatloaf without basic training".)[16] Surpluses of Spam from the soldiers' supplies made their way into native diets. Consequently, Spam is a unique part of the history and effects of U.S. influence in the Pacific.[17]
The perception of Spam in Hawaii is very different from that on the mainland. Despite the large number of mainlanders who eat Spam, and the various recipes that have been made from it, Spam, along with most canned food, is often stigmatized on the mainland as "poor people food". In Hawaii, similar canned meat products such as Treet are referred to as "poor people Spam".
Four different types of Spam. Clockwise from top left: Garlic, Oven Roasted Turkey, Hot and Spicy, and the Japanese released version (Spam Less Sodium) of Spam.
In these locales, varieties of Spam unavailable in other markets are sold. These include Honey Spam, Spam with Bacon, and Hot and Spicy Spam.[17]
In the CNMI, lawyers from Hormel have threatened legal action against the local press for running articles decrying the ill-effects of high Spam consumption on the health of the local population.[18][19]
Austin, Minnesota has a restaurant with a menu devoted exclusively to Spam, called "Johnny's SPAMarama Menu".[20]
[edit] Europe
In the United Kingdom Spam was a popular addition to the menu of fish and chip shops[citation needed], where slices are battered and deep-fried and are known as 'spam fritters', However this tradition has faded out in recent decades. It gained popularity in the 1940s during World War II, as a consequence of the Lend-Lease Act.
After World War II, Newforge Foods, part of the Fitch Lovell group, were awarded the license to produce the product in the UK (doing so at its Gateacre factory, Liverpool),[21] where it stayed until production switched to the Danish Crown Group (owners of the Tulip Food Company[22]) in 1998, forcing the closure of the Liverpool factory and the loss of 140 jobs.[23] By the early 1970s the name Spam was often misused to describe any tinned meat product containing pork, such as pork luncheon meat.
The image of Spam as a low cost meat product gave rise to the British colloquial term "Spam valley" to describe certain affluent housing areas where residents appear to be wealthy but in reality may be living at poverty levels.
[edit] Asia
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Spam is often served with rice in Asia.
In Okinawa, Japan, Spam has become very popular. The product is an ingredient in the traditional Okinawan dish chanpurū, and a Spam burger is sold by local fast food chain Jef.
In China, Spam is a popular food item, and often used in sandwiches.
In Hong Kong, Spam is commonly served with instant noodles and fried eggs, and is a popular item in cha chaan teng.
In the Philippines, Spam is a popular meal, especially when eaten with eggs and fried rice. It is often eaten for breakfast.
In South Korea, Spam (Hangul: 스팸; RR: seupaem) is popular in households as an accompaniment to rice. A local television advertisement claims that it is the most tasty when consumed with white rice and gim (laver seaweed used for some types of handrolls). Spam is also an original ingredient in budae jjigae ("army base stew"), a spicy stew with different types of preserved meat.
Spam and similar meat preserves can be bought in gift sets that may contain nothing but the meat preserve[24] or include other products such as food oil or tuna. When invited to another person's home, guests may present their hosts with such a set, or with other food gifts such as fresh fruit, beverages or tteok.
The surfeit of Spam in both North and South Korea during the Korean War led to the establishment of the Spam kimbap (sushi roll). With no more fish or other traditional kimbap products,[clarification needed] Spam was added to a rice roll with pickle and cucumber and wrapped in seaweed. In Australia, Korean shops sell these as "sushi rolls", as an alternative to the traditional style of Japanese sushi rolls - but without the Spam.
[edit] Spam celebrations
Hormel Spam Museum in Austin, Minnesota.
Spam is celebrated in a small local festival in Austin, Minnesota, where Hormel corporate headquarters are located. The event, known as Spam Jam, is a carnival-type celebration which coincides with local Fourth of July festivities, featuring parades and fireworks which often relate to the popular luncheon meat. Austin is also home to the Spam Museum, and the plant that produces Spam for most of North America and Europe. In addition to the annual celebration, there is a national recipe competition where submissions are accepted at the top forty state fairs in the nation.
Hawaii also holds their own version of Spam Jam in Waikiki during the last week of April.
The small town of Shady Cove, Oregon is home to the annual Spam Parade and Festival, celebrating its 8th year in 2007.
The Spam Jam is not to be confused with Spamarama, which is a yearly festival held around April Fool's Day in Austin, Texas. The theme of Spamarama is gentle parody of Spam, rather than straightforward celebration: the event at the heart of the festival is a Spam cook-off that originated as a challenge to produce an appetizing recipe for the meat. The festival includes light sporting activities and musical acts, in addition to the cook-off.[25]
[edit] Cultural references
[edit] Monty Python sketch
Main article: Spam (Monty Python)
Spam was not included in the meat ration in the British World War II rationing: it was - like most tinned products - an optional foodstuff acquired using the rationing points system.[citation needed] When rationing ended, Spam was a frequent menu item in institutional cooking, such as work canteens and for school meals, and popular as a cheap and easily-prepared replacement for expensive and perishable fresh meat.[citation needed]
The Monty Python comedy troupe used this as the context for their "Spam" sketch, in which the menu at a greasy spoon cafe consists almost entirely of dishes containing one or more portions of Spam.
The Hormel company have always seemed supportive of Monty Python and their sketch. The Monty Python musical Spamalot opened on Broadway in New York City in early 2005. It combines themes of the quest for the Holy Grail — previously explored in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail — and Spam. Hormel released a collector's edition "honey" Spam in connection with the musical, and a "Stinky French Garlic" edition for the London opening of the show.[26]
[edit] Internet spam
Main article: Spam (electronic)
The repetitious nature of the Monty Python sketch, in which the customer becomes more and more exasperated by the appearances of "Spam" in every menu item, gave rise to the term spam as the common term for unsolicited bulk electronic messages. Hormel does not object to the term, but insists that it be spelled in lower case so as to distinguish it from its capitalized SPAM trademark. Hormel objects to Spam's "product identity" (for example, images of Spam cans) being used in relation to spamming, and has filed lawsuits against companies which have attempted to trademark words containing "Spam".
In 1998, the New Oxford Dictionary of English, which had previously only defined "spam" in relation to the trademarked food product, added a second definition to its entry: "Irrelevant or inappropriate messages sent on the Internet to a large number of newsgroups or users."[27]
[edit] Trivia
Since its introduction in 1937, Spam has been the subject of intense advertising. Featured in the major publications of the day, Spam's spokesmen included many contemporary film and radio stars, including Burns and Allen.[citation needed]
The North American P-51 Mustang fighter plane of World War II and Korean War fame was sometimes nicknamed the "Spam Can", presumably because of the distinctive shape of the ventral air inlet for its radiator. The term is also casually used by both proponents and opponents of single-engined Cessna aircraft to describe the simple aluminium monocoque construction of the planes.
Several films have used 'Smeat' as a prop food, including Waterworld, Children of the Corn V, Buddy Boy, and Dawn of the Dead. A tin of 'Smeat' also features in the US drama series Millennium, in the season 1 episode "The Thin White Line", as well as in Beck's "Sexx Laws" music video.[28] Smeat also appears in the webcomic Pokey The Penguin, where it is seen enteringEarth's atmosphere from a seemingly extraterrestrial source.[29] Smeat was most recently featured in "Supernatural" in the season 5 episode "Changing Channels".[30]
The 1948 film Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House makes several references to a fictional product named "Wham".
The 1996 movie Muppet Treasure Island featured a character who was a chieftain islander pig named "Spa'am". Hormel Foods Corporation sued Jim Henson Productions over the name in a court case that Hormel Foods eventually lost before the film was released.[31] On Muppets Tonight, there was another pig character named "Spamela Hamderson".[32]
The television series M*A*S*H frequently made fun of the many uses of the product.[33][34]
In the early days of Spam, there was a photograph of a handmade knife from Randall Made Knives featured on the can's label. Such items are now a collector's item among knife enthusiasts.[citation needed]
From 1995 until 2002, John Nagamichi Cho compiled a web archive of Spam haiku. During this time, 19,696 haiku about Spam were submitted by users from all over the world. Cho published some of the haiku the book Spam-Ku: Tranquil Reflections on Luncheon Loaf.[35]
The American parody singer "Weird Al" Yankovic often references Spam in his songs, including a song titled "Spam" (a parody of the R.E.M. song "Stand"), the lyrics of which explore the vocalist's obsession with the product. The song is included on the soundtrack album for Yankovic's film UHF.[36]
The ska band Save Ferris included a song dedicated to Spam in their album It Means Everything.
In absurdist American author Christopher Moore's book Island of the Sequined Love Nun many formerly cannibalistic islanders have an attachment to Spam because it has a very close approximation of human flesh.
In the video game Fallout 3, the player can find cans of food named "Cram" which closely resemble actual cans of Spam.[37]
SPAM is referenced in the song "Your Only Friends Are Make Believe" by alternative/punk rock band, The Bloodhound Gang, where band frontman Jimmy Pop repeatedly claims to "eat SPAM from the can" within the song lyrics.[38]
[edit] See also
Food portal
* Meat by-product
* Potted meat food product
[edit] References
1. ^ Campbell, Belinda; Clapton, Barbara; Tipton, Catherine (2002). Food Technology. Heinemann. p. 20.
2. ^ "Spam — The Official Spam website". https://www.spam.com/Shop/ProductList.aspx?Category={505D2888-EF00-4C99-BDFE-4AACCF5CE0E6}.
3. ^ "the Spam timeline section under 1990s'' "In 1997, Hormel Foods awards Tulip UK with the licence for supplying SPAM to the UK market." '' Retrieved May 29, 2008". Spam-uk.com. You must login or register to view this content.. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
4. ^ ""Where is the Spam family of products made?" on spam.com.". You must login or register to view this content..
5. ^ "SPAM Brand History". You must login or register to view this content.. You must login or register to view this content.. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
6. ^ Terry O’Reilly, on The Age of Persuasion on CBC Radio, broadcast 12 January 2009
7. ^ "Spam.com — Spam Timeline". You must login or register to view this content..
8. ^ Boxcar, Ruby Ann (2004). Dear Ruby Ann: Down Home Advice about Lovin', Livin', and the Whole Shebang. Citadel Press. ISBN 0-8065-2560-6. , p. 244
9. ^ "Nutritional Facts and Analysis for Spam". You must login or register to view this content..
10. ^ Welcome to SPAM.com
11. ^ ""Spam Turns Serious and Hormel Turns Out More", New York Times, November 14, 2008". You must login or register to view this content..
12. ^ "Burger King to Serve Spam in Hawaii". You must login or register to view this content..
13. ^ Boyd Huppert (May 17, 2007). "Land of 10,000 Stories — Spam in Paradise". KARE11 News. You must login or register to view this content..
14. ^ "The Spam That Isn't Via E-Mail". The New York Times. You must login or register to view this content.. Retrieved 2007-12-28.
15. ^ "Spam — Hawaiian Spam Musubi". You must login or register to view this content..
16. ^ American Eats, History Channel Programme
17. ^ a b Jaymes Song (June 11, 2007). "Burger giants wage Spam war". The Star. You must login or register to view this content..
18. ^ "Organic smoke (and mirrors)". Saipan Tribune. 2006-07-21. You must login or register to view this content.. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
19. ^ "A junkie waiting to happen". Saipan Tribune. 2006-07-14. You must login or register to view this content.. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
20. ^ "Spam Turns Serious and Hormel Turns Out More",, NYTimes, Nov 14, 2008, You must login or register to view this content.
21. ^ The story of Fitch Lovell Ambrose Keevil Phillimore Press 1972 ISBN 0-85033-074-2
22. ^ "Bot generated title ->". english.tulip.dk<!. You must login or register to view this content.. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
23. ^ "Spam firm faces closure after serving its last slice". Telegraph.co.uk. You must login or register to view this content.. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
24. ^ Image of a ?44,800 Spam gift set
25. ^ "Spamarama website". You must login or register to view this content.. Retrieved 2006-08-11.
26. ^ Nigel Reynolds, Arts Correspondent (October 27, 2006). "Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam... and garlic?". Telegraph.co.uk. You must login or register to view this content.. Retrieved 2007-03-17.
27. ^ ""Oxford dictionary adds Net terms" on News.com". You must login or register to view this content..
28. ^ "Screen captures of Smeat in movies and video". You must login or register to view this content.. Retrieved 2007-05-27.
29. ^ "Pokey The Penguin: Enjoy Smeat". You must login or register to view this content.. Retrieved 2008-02-17.
30. ^ "Supernatural: Changing Channels (online video)". You must login or register to view this content.. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
31. ^ "Appellate court decision in Hormel Foods vs. Jim Henson Productions". You must login or register to view this content..
32. ^ ""https://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Spamela_Hamderson" on Muppet Wiki". You must login or register to view this content..
33. ^ M*A*S*H episode Private Charles Lamb, December 31, 1974
34. ^ ""You know you watch too much M*A*S*H when..."". You must login or register to view this content..
35. ^ "To a Haiku Writer, Spam Is Poetry in a Can". The New York Times. You must login or register to view this content.. Retrieved 2007-12-04.
36. ^ ""Weird Al" Yankovic's Studio Albums". You must login or register to view this content..
37. ^ "https://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Cram". You must login or register to view this content..
38. ^ ""Bloodhound Gang - Your Only Friends Are Make Believe Lyrics". You must login or register to view this content..
[edit] External links
Search Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Spam
* The official Spam web site
* Spam - The Official UK website
* The Book of Spam
* More Spam Recipes
* Gallery of vintage graphic design featuring SPAM
* Saving 'Spam:' Hormel's Fight to Protect Its Famous Product's Name According to ABC News, Hormel is involved in a multi-million dollar trademark dispute with Spam Arrest, a company which blocks obnoxious emails.
Many jocular backronyms have been devised, such as "Something Posing As Meat", "Specially Processed Artificial Meat", "Stuff, Pork and Ham", "Spare Parts Animal Meat" and "Special Product of Austin Minnesota".[8]
According to Hormel's trademark guidelines, Spam should be spelled with all capital letters and treated as an adjective, as in the phrase "SPAM luncheon meat".
[edit] Nutritional data
Spam is typically sold in cans with a net weight of 340 grams (12 ounces). A 56 gram (approximately 2 ounce) serving of original Spam provides seven grams of protein, two grams of carbohydrates, 15 grams of fat (23% US Daily Value) including 6 grams of saturated fat (28% US Daily Value), and 170 calories. A serving also contains nearly a third of the recommended daily intake of sodium (salt). A 56 gram serving of spam contains 767 mg of sodium, equivalent to approximately 2 grams of salt, indicating about 3.6% of spam's mass is salt. Spam provides very little in terms of vitamins and minerals (0% vitamin A, 1% vitamin C , 1% calcium, 3% iron). It has been listed as a food that is a poor choice for weight loss and optimum health and as a food that "is high in saturated fat and sodium".[9]
[edit] Varieties
There are several different flavors of Spam, including:[10]
* Spam Classic — original flavor
* Spam Hot & Spicy — with tabasco flavor
* Spam Less Sodium — "25% less sodium"
* Spam Lite — "33% less calories and 50% less fat"
* Spam Oven Roasted Turkey
* Spam Hickory Smoke flavor
* Spam Spread — "if you're a spreader, not a slicer...just like Spam Classic, but in a spreadable form"
* Spam with Bacon
* Spam with Cheese
* Spam Garlic
* Spam Golden Honey Grail — a limited-release special flavor made in honor of Monty Python's SPAMALOT Broadway musical
* Spam Mild
In addition to flavor, some of the tins come in smaller sizes than normal. A more popular option is the 7 oz size can. Recently, "Spam Singles" have been produced: a single sandwich-sized slice of Spam (Classic or Lite), wrapped in plastic instead of a metal container.
[edit] International usage
Spam advertisement on back cover of Time magazine on May 14, 1945.
As of 2003, Spam is sold in 41 countries worldwide. The largest consumers of Spam are the United States, the United Kingdom and South Korea.[citation needed]
[edit] United States and territories
In the United States, Spam is quite popular, but is sometimes associated with economic hardship, due to its relatively low cost.[11]
The residents of the state of Hawaii and the territories of Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) consume the most Spam per capita in the United States. On average, each person on Guam consumes 16 tins of Spam each year and the numbers at least equal this in the CNMI. Guam, Hawaii, and Saipan, the CNMI's principal island, have the only McDonald's restaurants that feature Spam on the menu. Burger King, in Hawaii, began serving Spam in 2007 on its menu to compete with the local McDonald's chains.[12][13] In Hawaii, Spam is so popular it is sometimes dubbed "The Hawaiian Steak".[14] One popular Spam dish in Hawaii is Spam musubi, in which cooked Spam is combined with rice and nori seaweed and classified as onigiri.[15]
Spam was introduced into the aforementioned areas, in addition to other islands in the Pacific such as Okinawa and the Philippine Islands, during the U.S. military occupation in World War II. Since fresh meat was difficult to get to the soldiers on the front, World War II saw the largest use of Spam. GIs started eating Spam for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. (Some soldiers referred to Spam as "ham that didn't pass its physical" and "meatloaf without basic training".)[16] Surpluses of Spam from the soldiers' supplies made their way into native diets. Consequently, Spam is a unique part of the history and effects of U.S. influence in the Pacific.[17]
The perception of Spam in Hawaii is very different from that on the mainland. Despite the large number of mainlanders who eat Spam, and the various recipes that have been made from it, Spam, along with most canned food, is often stigmatized on the mainland as "poor people food". In Hawaii, similar canned meat products such as Treet are referred to as "poor people Spam".
Four different types of Spam. Clockwise from top left: Garlic, Oven Roasted Turkey, Hot and Spicy, and the Japanese released version (Spam Less Sodium) of Spam.
In these locales, varieties of Spam unavailable in other markets are sold. These include Honey Spam, Spam with Bacon, and Hot and Spicy Spam.[17]
In the CNMI, lawyers from Hormel have threatened legal action against the local press for running articles decrying the ill-effects of high Spam consumption on the health of the local population.[18][19]
Austin, Minnesota has a restaurant with a menu devoted exclusively to Spam, called "Johnny's SPAMarama Menu".[20]
[edit] Europe
In the United Kingdom Spam was a popular addition to the menu of fish and chip shops[citation needed], where slices are battered and deep-fried and are known as 'spam fritters', However this tradition has faded out in recent decades. It gained popularity in the 1940s during World War II, as a consequence of the Lend-Lease Act.
After World War II, Newforge Foods, part of the Fitch Lovell group, were awarded the license to produce the product in the UK (doing so at its Gateacre factory, Liverpool),[21] where it stayed until production switched to the Danish Crown Group (owners of the Tulip Food Company[22]) in 1998, forcing the closure of the Liverpool factory and the loss of 140 jobs.[23] By the early 1970s the name Spam was often misused to describe any tinned meat product containing pork, such as pork luncheon meat.
The image of Spam as a low cost meat product gave rise to the British colloquial term "Spam valley" to describe certain affluent housing areas where residents appear to be wealthy but in reality may be living at poverty levels.
[edit] Asia
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Spam is often served with rice in Asia.
In Okinawa, Japan, Spam has become very popular. The product is an ingredient in the traditional Okinawan dish chanpurū, and a Spam burger is sold by local fast food chain Jef.
In China, Spam is a popular food item, and often used in sandwiches.
In Hong Kong, Spam is commonly served with instant noodles and fried eggs, and is a popular item in cha chaan teng.
In the Philippines, Spam is a popular meal, especially when eaten with eggs and fried rice. It is often eaten for breakfast.
In South Korea, Spam (Hangul: 스팸; RR: seupaem) is popular in households as an accompaniment to rice. A local television advertisement claims that it is the most tasty when consumed with white rice and gim (laver seaweed used for some types of handrolls). Spam is also an original ingredient in budae jjigae ("army base stew"), a spicy stew with different types of preserved meat.
Spam and similar meat preserves can be bought in gift sets that may contain nothing but the meat preserve[24] or include other products such as food oil or tuna. When invited to another person's home, guests may present their hosts with such a set, or with other food gifts such as fresh fruit, beverages or tteok.
The surfeit of Spam in both North and South Korea during the Korean War led to the establishment of the Spam kimbap (sushi roll). With no more fish or other traditional kimbap products,[clarification needed] Spam was added to a rice roll with pickle and cucumber and wrapped in seaweed. In Australia, Korean shops sell these as "sushi rolls", as an alternative to the traditional style of Japanese sushi rolls - but without the Spam.
[edit] Spam celebrations
Hormel Spam Museum in Austin, Minnesota.
Spam is celebrated in a small local festival in Austin, Minnesota, where Hormel corporate headquarters are located. The event, known as Spam Jam, is a carnival-type celebration which coincides with local Fourth of July festivities, featuring parades and fireworks which often relate to the popular luncheon meat. Austin is also home to the Spam Museum, and the plant that produces Spam for most of North America and Europe. In addition to the annual celebration, there is a national recipe competition where submissions are accepted at the top forty state fairs in the nation.
Hawaii also holds their own version of Spam Jam in Waikiki during the last week of April.
The small town of Shady Cove, Oregon is home to the annual Spam Parade and Festival, celebrating its 8th year in 2007.
The Spam Jam is not to be confused with Spamarama, which is a yearly festival held around April Fool's Day in Austin, Texas. The theme of Spamarama is gentle parody of Spam, rather than straightforward celebration: the event at the heart of the festival is a Spam cook-off that originated as a challenge to produce an appetizing recipe for the meat. The festival includes light sporting activities and musical acts, in addition to the cook-off.[25]
[edit] Cultural references
[edit] Monty Python sketch
Main article: Spam (Monty Python)
Spam was not included in the meat ration in the British World War II rationing: it was - like most tinned products - an optional foodstuff acquired using the rationing points system.[citation needed] When rationing ended, Spam was a frequent menu item in institutional cooking, such as work canteens and for school meals, and popular as a cheap and easily-prepared replacement for expensive and perishable fresh meat.[citation needed]
The Monty Python comedy troupe used this as the context for their "Spam" sketch, in which the menu at a greasy spoon cafe consists almost entirely of dishes containing one or more portions of Spam.
The Hormel company have always seemed supportive of Monty Python and their sketch. The Monty Python musical Spamalot opened on Broadway in New York City in early 2005. It combines themes of the quest for the Holy Grail — previously explored in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail — and Spam. Hormel released a collector's edition "honey" Spam in connection with the musical, and a "Stinky French Garlic" edition for the London opening of the show.[26]
[edit] Internet spam
Main article: Spam (electronic)
The repetitious nature of the Monty Python sketch, in which the customer becomes more and more exasperated by the appearances of "Spam" in every menu item, gave rise to the term spam as the common term for unsolicited bulk electronic messages. Hormel does not object to the term, but insists that it be spelled in lower case so as to distinguish it from its capitalized SPAM trademark. Hormel objects to Spam's "product identity" (for example, images of Spam cans) being used in relation to spamming, and has filed lawsuits against companies which have attempted to trademark words containing "Spam".
In 1998, the New Oxford Dictionary of English, which had previously only defined "spam" in relation to the trademarked food product, added a second definition to its entry: "Irrelevant or inappropriate messages sent on the Internet to a large number of newsgroups or users."[27]
[edit] Trivia
Since its introduction in 1937, Spam has been the subject of intense advertising. Featured in the major publications of the day, Spam's spokesmen included many contemporary film and radio stars, including Burns and Allen.[citation needed]
The North American P-51 Mustang fighter plane of World War II and Korean War fame was sometimes nicknamed the "Spam Can", presumably because of the distinctive shape of the ventral air inlet for its radiator. The term is also casually used by both proponents and opponents of single-engined Cessna aircraft to describe the simple aluminium monocoque construction of the planes.
Several films have used 'Smeat' as a prop food, including Waterworld, Children of the Corn V, Buddy Boy, and Dawn of the Dead. A tin of 'Smeat' also features in the US drama series Millennium, in the season 1 episode "The Thin White Line", as well as in Beck's "Sexx Laws" music video.[28] Smeat also appears in the webcomic Pokey The Penguin, where it is seen enteringEarth's atmosphere from a seemingly extraterrestrial source.[29] Smeat was most recently featured in "Supernatural" in the season 5 episode "Changing Channels".[30]
The 1948 film Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House makes several references to a fictional product named "Wham".
The 1996 movie Muppet Treasure Island featured a character who was a chieftain islander pig named "Spa'am". Hormel Foods Corporation sued Jim Henson Productions over the name in a court case that Hormel Foods eventually lost before the film was released.[31] On Muppets Tonight, there was another pig character named "Spamela Hamderson".[32]
The television series M*A*S*H frequently made fun of the many uses of the product.[33][34]
In the early days of Spam, there was a photograph of a handmade knife from Randall Made Knives featured on the can's label. Such items are now a collector's item among knife enthusiasts.[citation needed]
From 1995 until 2002, John Nagamichi Cho compiled a web archive of Spam haiku. During this time, 19,696 haiku about Spam were submitted by users from all over the world. Cho published some of the haiku the book Spam-Ku: Tranquil Reflections on Luncheon Loaf.[35]
The American parody singer "Weird Al" Yankovic often references Spam in his songs, including a song titled "Spam" (a parody of the R.E.M. song "Stand"), the lyrics of which explore the vocalist's obsession with the product. The song is included on the soundtrack album for Yankovic's film UHF.[36]
The ska band Save Ferris included a song dedicated to Spam in their album It Means Everything.
In absurdist American author Christopher Moore's book Island of the Sequined Love Nun many formerly cannibalistic islanders have an attachment to Spam because it has a very close approximation of human flesh.
In the video game Fallout 3, the player can find cans of food named "Cram" which closely resemble actual cans of Spam.[37]
SPAM is referenced in the song "Your Only Friends Are Make Believe" by alternative/punk rock band, The Bloodhound Gang, where band frontman Jimmy Pop repeatedly claims to "eat SPAM from the can" within the song lyrics.[38]
[edit] See also
Food portal
* Meat by-product
* Potted meat food product
[edit] References
1. ^ Campbell, Belinda; Clapton, Barbara; Tipton, Catherine (2002). Food Technology. Heinemann. p. 20.
2. ^ "Spam — The Official Spam website". https://www.spam.com/Shop/ProductList.aspx?Category={505D2888-EF00-4C99-BDFE-4AACCF5CE0E6}.
3. ^ "the Spam timeline section under 1990s'' "In 1997, Hormel Foods awards Tulip UK with the licence for supplying SPAM to the UK market." '' Retrieved May 29, 2008". Spam-uk.com. You must login or register to view this content.. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
4. ^ ""Where is the Spam family of products made?" on spam.com.". You must login or register to view this content..
5. ^ "SPAM Brand History". You must login or register to view this content.. You must login or register to view this content.. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
6. ^ Terry O’Reilly, on The Age of Persuasion on CBC Radio, broadcast 12 January 2009
7. ^ "Spam.com — Spam Timeline". You must login or register to view this content..
8. ^ Boxcar, Ruby Ann (2004). Dear Ruby Ann: Down Home Advice about Lovin', Livin', and the Whole Shebang. Citadel Press. ISBN 0-8065-2560-6. , p. 244
9. ^ "Nutritional Facts and Analysis for Spam". You must login or register to view this content..
10. ^ Welcome to SPAM.com
11. ^ ""Spam Turns Serious and Hormel Turns Out More", New York Times, November 14, 2008". You must login or register to view this content..
12. ^ "Burger King to Serve Spam in Hawaii". You must login or register to view this content..
13. ^ Boyd Huppert (May 17, 2007). "Land of 10,000 Stories — Spam in Paradise". KARE11 News. You must login or register to view this content..
14. ^ "The Spam That Isn't Via E-Mail". The New York Times. You must login or register to view this content.. Retrieved 2007-12-28.
15. ^ "Spam — Hawaiian Spam Musubi". You must login or register to view this content..
16. ^ American Eats, History Channel Programme
17. ^ a b Jaymes Song (June 11, 2007). "Burger giants wage Spam war". The Star. You must login or register to view this content..
18. ^ "Organic smoke (and mirrors)". Saipan Tribune. 2006-07-21. You must login or register to view this content.. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
19. ^ "A junkie waiting to happen". Saipan Tribune. 2006-07-14. You must login or register to view this content.. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
20. ^ "Spam Turns Serious and Hormel Turns Out More",, NYTimes, Nov 14, 2008, You must login or register to view this content.
21. ^ The story of Fitch Lovell Ambrose Keevil Phillimore Press 1972 ISBN 0-85033-074-2
22. ^ "Bot generated title ->". english.tulip.dk<!. You must login or register to view this content.. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
23. ^ "Spam firm faces closure after serving its last slice". Telegraph.co.uk. You must login or register to view this content.. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
24. ^ Image of a ?44,800 Spam gift set
25. ^ "Spamarama website". You must login or register to view this content.. Retrieved 2006-08-11.
26. ^ Nigel Reynolds, Arts Correspondent (October 27, 2006). "Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam... and garlic?". Telegraph.co.uk. You must login or register to view this content.. Retrieved 2007-03-17.
27. ^ ""Oxford dictionary adds Net terms" on News.com". You must login or register to view this content..
28. ^ "Screen captures of Smeat in movies and video". You must login or register to view this content.. Retrieved 2007-05-27.
29. ^ "Pokey The Penguin: Enjoy Smeat". You must login or register to view this content.. Retrieved 2008-02-17.
30. ^ "Supernatural: Changing Channels (online video)". You must login or register to view this content.. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
31. ^ "Appellate court decision in Hormel Foods vs. Jim Henson Productions". You must login or register to view this content..
32. ^ ""https://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Spamela_Hamderson" on Muppet Wiki". You must login or register to view this content..
33. ^ M*A*S*H episode Private Charles Lamb, December 31, 1974
34. ^ ""You know you watch too much M*A*S*H when..."". You must login or register to view this content..
35. ^ "To a Haiku Writer, Spam Is Poetry in a Can". The New York Times. You must login or register to view this content.. Retrieved 2007-12-04.
36. ^ ""Weird Al" Yankovic's Studio Albums". You must login or register to view this content..
37. ^ "https://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Cram". You must login or register to view this content..
38. ^ ""Bloodhound Gang - Your Only Friends Are Make Believe Lyrics". You must login or register to view this content..
[edit] External links
Search Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Spam
* The official Spam web site
* Spam - The Official UK website
* The Book of Spam
* More Spam Recipes
* Gallery of vintage graphic design featuring SPAM
* Saving 'Spam:' Hormel's Fight to Protect Its Famous Product's Name According to ABC News, Hormel is involved in a multi-million dollar trademark dispute with Spam Arrest, a company which blocks obnoxious emails.
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