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About This Page: This is a discussion on Food and Beer Reviews within the LetsGoKings.com forums, at Los Angeles Kings Hockey Fan Forum. Sales of Spam rise as consumers trim food costs - Yahoo! News
Sales of Spam that much maligned meat are rising as consumers are turning more to lunch
Sales of Spam that much maligned meat are rising as consumers are turning more to lunch meats and other lower-cost foods to extend their already stretched food budgets.
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Name origin
Introduced on July 5, 1937, the name "Spam" was chosen in the 1930s 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".[citation needed] 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 coming up with the name.[3] At one time, the official explanation may have been that the name was a syllabic abbreviation of "SPiced hAM", but on their official website, Hormel states that "Spam is just that. Spam."
Many jocular backronyms have been devised, such as "Something Posing As Meat", "Stuff, Pork And haM" and "Spare Parts Animal Meat."[4]
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". As with many other trademarks, such as Xerox or Kleenex, people often refer to similar meat products as "spam". Regardless, in practice, "spam" is generally spelled and used as a proper noun.
Spam
Its pink and its oval
Spam
I buy it at the mobil
Spam
Its made in chernobyl
Spam
Now when I was a child
My family was so poor
They didnt have the finer things in life to eat
So we had a plan
In a big blue can
The government substitute for meat
To get me to eat it at dinner
They said Id grow up like bruce jenner
He was a winner that never knew defeat
And when he got hungry
When he got hungry
He cracked open that special treat
It was
(repeat chorus)
S-p-a-m
Dont you know its my best friend
S-p-a-m
Again and again and again
S-p-a-m
Dont you know its my best friend
S-p-a-m
Again and again and again and again
So go and forget your o-s-c-a-r
Theres one meat by-product thats best by far
It's Spam!
Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam 
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