Online epicures had their world turned upside down after learning what the acronym for the ubiquitous canned pork patty SPAM stands for.
Some flabbergasted commenters weren’t aware that SPAM stood for anything. “I was today years old when I learned that SPAM is an acronym,” one said.
As it runs out, SPAM is actually a portmanteau of “spiced ham” that Ken Digneau, the brother of a Hormel executive dreamt up during a naming contest. Daigneau spit out “Spam” as if “it were nothing at all,” company founder Jay Hormel told New Yorker writer Brendan Gill in 1945,SPAM’s popularity spiked during WW2 due to its shelf life and resultant shipability.SPAM hit shelves on July 5, 1937, helping fill the much-needed cheap eats void created during the Great Depression,Its popularity skyrocketed during World War 2 due to its seemingly interminable shelf life, which allowed the pork to be shipped anywhere in the world.
Originally devised as an affordable canned food, this upwardly block of meat has since been baptized into haute cuisine.
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