Me: Does SPAM count as Swine?
Cale: Chopped pork shoulder is definitely swine
Me: Awesome, because these vintage SPAM ads are making my day
Via Wikipedia
The labeled ingredients in the classic variety of Spam are: chopped pork shoulder meat with ham meat added, salt, water, sugar, and sodium nitrite to help keep its color. Spam's gelatinous glaze, or aspic, forms from the cooling of meat stock.
What you are about to see though may actually make you want to try it again: the recipes, the George Burns and Gracie Allen "fill in the blanks" campaign, the "7 meats in one" solution-it is all pure (American) advertising genius that Don Draper would be proud of.
God loves a cheerful giver.
For more vintage fun: http://www.lileks.com/institute/index.html
Those Hawaiians love them some Spam. It comes with the breakfast meals at McDonalds and at the Honolulu Zoo instead of hotdogs they sell Spam and sticky rice with an eel wrap. I make the bold assumption that 78% of the U.S. Spam consumption is Oahu-based.
John - may also explain why they're all immense fatties.
peep saturday night's meal of half buried spam slices...
Mmmmmm -- spam musubi = Hawaiian soul food. This fattie won't leave home without it.