Any answers? Nooks and crannies. Semantic enigmas. The body beautiful. Red tape, white lies. Speculative science. This sceptred isle. Root of all evil. Ethical conundrums. This sporting life. Stage and screen. Birds and the bees. It sounds like it has something to do with ham, but why the sp-? Carmen Lichi, London It's a contraction of spiced ham.
The next question is why is unsolicited email called spam. I believe the name was coined in a competition at the factory which made it - out of what we do not know. Sean, Perth Australia It stands for 'spiced ham' and was a name suggested in a competition launched by the Geo.
Hormel Company in , to find a name for their new product, which they described as 'The Miracle Meat', and marketed as a health food. Diner staple loco moco, a dish featuring rice topped with a hamburger patty, fried egg, and brown gravy often features Spam as an additional protein. And the meat pops up in everything from fried rice to omelets to saimin the Hawaiian noodle soup dish. Today, Spam fervor in Hawaii has sustained a decade-old Spam festival in Waikiki, where chefs and Spam-lovers gather to appreciate and explore the lunchmeat's role in Hawaiian culture.
Earlier this spring, the 12th-annual Spam Jam saw more than 24, attendees converge to sample dishes like Spam lettuce wraps, Spam and corn chowder, Spam-and-basil on Sicilian-style pizza, and a dessert dubbed "Mom's Puerto Rican Spam flan. Like crazy," says festival co-founder Karen Winpenny, who has memories of the ingredient dating back to when she was eight or nine years old.
According to Winpenny, the first edition of Spam Jam was devised as a way to get local Waikiki residents to intermingle with tourists and vice versa. Something new. Most importantly, the event has emerged as a way to raise money and awareness for the Hawaii Food Bank.
The Hawaii Food Bank's most-requested item is cans of Spam. The story found its way across the Pacific, with Winpenny bringing it up during our conversation: "I read an article: I guess New York's starting to do something with Spam, too. But Spam on upscale restaurant menus is not a recent phenomenon. James Beard Award-winner Alan Wong has experimented with a housemade version dubbed "Spong" , which shows up in breakfast dishes at his Honolulu restaurant Pineapple Room.
His new spot, POT, offers a version of budae jjigae. And in , Vinny Dotolo and Jon Shook of LA's Animal created a cult classic mash-up with their Spam and foie gras loco moco, re-imaging the Hawaiian dish with Carolina gold rice, hamburger patty, foie gras, and Spam straight from the can.
The spam-and-foie loco moco, which Dotolo says was inspired by his curiosity toward Hawaiian food, soon became an icon: When Animal was profiled later that year in both the New York Times and The New Yorker , its use of Spam and foie in one dish became the emblem of the restaurant's " giddy, sophisticated-stoner sensibility. Animal's Spam and foie gras loco moco. Thanks to California's foie gras ban, the dish is currently off the menu at Animal, but Dotolo says the dish was reflective of "who we are in Los Angeles.
But Animal's take on the dish was bestowed with an air of "punk attitude" in the press, its mash-up of highbrow, lowbrow, and a surfer's appetite considered a new approach to fine dining. The use of Spam — the most processed of processed meats — seemed to be central to the digression.
Dotolo is one of those chefs, admitting he first ate Spam as an adult, experiencing musubi for the first time. As Spam lands on more restaurant menus, researchers at Hormel are watching closely to see how culinary trends can influence new Spam flavor profiles. Behne notes that Teriyaki Spam, which launched in Hawaii in Fall , is "already the number four variety of Spam on the island. The comedy group's now-iconic "Spam" sketch birthed not only the name of Monty Python's musical but also the internet usage of "spam" to describe annoying, indiscriminately sent emails.
Later this year, the museum will temporarily close to move into a new space, losing about 3, square feet of space in exchange for a downtown Austin location.
The move, Behne says, will hopefully draw more tourist dollars to the Austin community. Not counting those working for the Spam Museum and other offshoot businesses, Hormel Foods, the maker of Spam, employs more than 4, people in the Austin area.
That excites me too. It just kind of shows versatility of [Spam] — both ends of the spectrum. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.
By choosing I Accept , you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. Filed under: Brief Histories. Eisenhower said Spam played a huge role in the victory. In fact, Khrushchev claimed that without the canned meat, Russia wouldn't have been able to continue feeding its soldiers.
Spam has had its fair share of the limelight. What is thought to be the first singing commercial, produced in , was an ad for Spam.
It has been featured in a Monty Python skit, and sponsored the No. A Spam tin was donated to the Smithsonian in , and in , it was featured on lottery tickets in Minnesota. Each year, 90 million cans of the Spam family of products are sold in the United States, which works out to three cans every second, according to Hormel. Hawaii is the state with the highest consumption per capita it's sold in restaurants and convenience stores there. The most popular way to eat it is in a sushi-type roll , called Spam musubi.
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