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Article: Spam on a shtick; Spam, the much-maligned Minnesota meat product, already has a museum in Austin, its hometown. But now a grander shrine is in the works.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- March 30, 2001
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The new specialized museum opening here later this year will have a 45-seat movie theater, a gift shop, a cafe ("Want some canned luncheon meat with that?") and interactive displays.
It will have 20,000 square feet of space inside and sculpted grounds outside, crested by a bronze statue of noble figures: two giant pigs followed by a farmer carrying a prod and a bucket of feed corn.
And it all will be devoted to Spam - not computer junk mail, but the luncheon meat that won World War II.
Hormel Foods Corp., the Austin company that introduced SPiced hAM (ergo Spam) canned luncheon meat in 1937, opened a small museum 10 years ago in a corner of ...