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Article: We just can't get enough Spam... Food.(Features)(Recipe)
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- Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
- Article date:
- March 7, 2009
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Byline: ANN EVANS
IT'S Spam Appreciation Week. That good old traditional chopped pork and ham in a can that's been around since the 1930s.
While young computer buffs might think that Spam is just a load of unwanted junk mail, others will know its the canned meat that helped win the Second World War, with British, American and Russian troops tucking into it on the battlefront.
Spam was first developed back in 1937 by George A Hormel of Minnesota, and became available in the UK in 1941. These days its eaten in more than 50 different ...