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Article: Canned laughs 'Monty Python'-based musical proves that love for the Holy Grail of ham products isn't dead yet.(Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- September 15, 2007
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Byline: Lisa Bornstein, Rocky Mountain News
It all started with canned ham and ended - at least, at this point - with a Broadway show.
First came SPAM, the pride and joy of Hormel Foods.
And then, in 1970, the big bang of SPAM-related creations: a Monty Python sketch, offering a menu filled with the product and the waitress' refrain, "SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, egg and SPAM," followed by a chorus of Vikings breaking into "SPAM, SPAM, spammity SPAM."
The foodstuff got another shout-out five years later in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, as the Knights of the Round Table sang, "We dine well here in Camelot, we eat ham and jam and SPAM a lot."
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