Hormel Foods fights to save the reputation of Spam!

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-07-30 12:45pm

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,93288,00.html

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2003-07-30 12:48pm

I was just wondering why they'd not complained sooner...

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-07-30 01:11pm

The cause was lost 58 years ago, when the war ended and we could all go back to actual meat.

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-07-30 01:13pm

I'd say the damage done to that particular brand name is irreparable.

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-07-30 01:16pm

I always wondered why junk E-mail became "spam"...

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-07-30 01:35pm

my mom hella likes that meat

.... she hella likes the unwanted mail too... she signs up for hella shit, and attempts to sign me up for hella shit. I CANT EVEN GET TO MY OLD MAIL BOX BECAUSE OF ALL THE SHIT SHE SIGNED ME UP FOR! Over at my old e-mail address, im signed up for spam, that signs me up for other spam.... i get 3000 messages a day ... ( probably closer to 2500+) I cant even receive mail there anymore, i just start downloading message 1 of 20,000, and then it crashes... God damn it all to hell... the meat, and the unwanted mail should die.

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-07-30 01:42pm

aphexmonster wrote:my mom hella likes that meat .... she hella likes the unwanted mail too... she signs up for hella shit, and attempts to sign me up for hella shit. I CANT EVEN GET TO MY OLD MAIL BOX BECAUSE OF ALL THE SHIT SHE SIGNED ME UP FOR! Over at my old e-mail address, im signed up for spam, that signs me up for other spam.... i get 3000 messages a day ... ( probably closer to 2500+) I cant even receive mail there anymore, i just start downloading message 1 of 20,000, and then it crashes... God damn it all to hell... the meat, and the unwanted mail should die.

Heh, hella.

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-07-30 01:52pm

3rd Impact wrote: Heh, hella.

You mock my california slang

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-07-30 01:58pm

LOL, never tried spam. How good is it?

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-07-30 02:00pm

Vorlon1701 wrote:LOL, never tried spam. How good is it?

Think Vienna sausages...if not very low grade pork.

Very salty not much else to taste.

I've only eaten it when camping.

DeadM · Post by **DeadM** » 2003-07-30 02:04pm

Mitth-raw-nuruodo wrote:I always wondered why junk E-mail became "spam"...

Didnt it originate with that Monty Python sketch where these Vikings(I think) ordered food, but ended up with ordering just spam?

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-07-30 02:36pm

Suicidal Lifestyle wrote:
Mitth-raw-nuruodo wrote:I always wondered why junk E-mail became "spam"...
Didnt it originate with that Monty Python sketch where these Vikings(I think) ordered food, but ended up with ordering just spam?

I'm guessing that it came from junk mail being classified as low-quality crap, like SPAM, which, IIRC, is made from the stuff that isn't good enough to go into hot dogs.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-07-30 02:40pm

Ghost Rider wrote: Think Vienna sausages...if not very low grade pork.

Very salty not much else to taste.

I've only eaten it when camping.

It's a little better than vienna sausages.

I've mostly had it camping. It's good fried, either for sandwiches or as a breakfast side dish.

I only recall it being served once while I was in the Navy. It was served onboard ship as a replacement for bacon/sausage for one breakfast.

I've tried the turkey spam and it was decent, but like regular Spam a little goes a long way. The low sodium version Spam is the better than the original stuff which is very salty.

I've eaten Spam right out of the can but I wouldn't recomend it. The "jelly" that coats the spam is just nasty. Spam is much better hot and as I said before fried.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-30 02:41pm

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:I'm guessing that it came from junk mail being classified as low-quality crap, like SPAM, which, IIRC, is made from the stuff that isn't good enough to go into hot dogs.

Stuff noone wants!

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-07-30 02:46pm

Suicidal Lifestyle wrote:
Mitth-raw-nuruodo wrote:I always wondered why junk E-mail became "spam"...
Didnt it originate with that Monty Python sketch where these Vikings(I think) ordered food, but ended up with ordering just spam?

The joke what about a restaurant where every single dish contained spam. In one corner, there were some vikings who chanted "Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, lovely spam!!!" or something like that. What vikings have to do with spam is beyond me.

Still, I found that sketch hilarious.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-07-30 02:49pm

Tsyroc wrote:
I've eaten Spam right out of the can but I wouldn't recomend it. The "jelly" that coats the spam is just nasty. Spam is much better hot and as I said before fried.

Ugh...yes, the *Jelly* is something I tried once and regreted.

And yes Spam is much, much better fried...Raw is just blech in so many, many ways.

Hasler · Post by **Hasler** » 2003-07-30 02:50pm

Spam is popular in Hawaii for some reason. They actually serve it in resturants and more surprising people actually order it.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-30 04:56pm

hasler: it likely has to do with polynesian cultures relying heavilly on pigs throughout their history, and spam being cheap pigmeat that they can just buy and dont need to raise. from there it likely became a cultural thing, growing up on spam.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-07-30 05:02pm

If we can`t use the word spam when refering to junk-E-mail,what word will we use then.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-07-30 05:19pm

Montcalm wrote:If we can`t use the word spam when refering to junk-E-mail,what word will we use then.

I think that's what everyone is asking Hormel.

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2003-07-30 05:22pm

Montcalm wrote:If we can`t use the word spam when refering to junk-E-mail,what word will we use then.

Its proper name: UCE. Unsolicited Commercial E-mail.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-30 05:51pm

Montcalm wrote:If we can`t use the word spam when refering to junk-E-mail,what word will we use then.

how about.. "junk email"? o_O

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-07-30 06:21pm

How about we quit talking about it because both deffinitions give me a stumach ache

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-07-30 08:20pm

Spam is better if you fry it. Ooh, more cholesterol

Seriously, I don't think it's that bad. In Hawaii, one of the popular local foods is spam musubi...

DeadM · Post by **DeadM** » 2003-08-01 01:43am

Here, I found the script for the Monty Python sketch:

Monty Python's Spam sketch wrote: Scene: A cafe. One table is occupied by a group of Vikings with horned
helmets on. A man and his wife enter.

Man (Eric Idle): You sit here, dear.
Wife (Graham Chapman in drag): All right.
Man (to Waitress): Morning!
Waitress (Terry Jones, in drag as a bit of a rat-bag): Morning!
Man: Well, what've you got?
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam;
egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage
and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam
bacon spam tomato and spam;
Vikings (starting to chant): Spam spam spam spam...
Waitress: ...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked
beans spam spam spam...
Vikings (singing): Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!
Waitress: ...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a
Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with
truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
Wife: Have you got anything without spam?
Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Wife: I don't want ANY spam!
Man: Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage?
Wife: THAT'S got spam in it!
Man: Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it?
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam (crescendo through next few lines)
Wife: Could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then?
Waitress: Urgghh!
Wife: What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like spam!
Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!)
Waitress: Shut up!
Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can't have egg bacon
spam and sausage without the spam.
Wife (shrieks): I don't like spam!
Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it.
I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam
spam and spam!
Vikings (singing): Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off.
Man: Well could I have her spam instead of the baked beans then?
Waitress: You mean spam spam spam spam spam spam... (but it is too late and
the Vikings drown her words)
Vikings (singing elaborately): Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful
spam! Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam. Lovely spam!
Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Spam spam
spam spam!

Got it from this site a site dedicatedto wonderful, lovely spam.