STRANGE QUESTION? CANNED SPAM

[frank_f15]

Think i have started a SPAM CLUB /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I also think SPAM got more free advertising from this thread than they spend in a year(actually i don;t think they advertise) dang it I THINK I SHOULD GET A FREE CAN /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[PineRidge]

Spam?

My daughter, Rhonda worked for several years with Hormel Foods, She was a supervisor in quality control. She said that the plant wasted no part of the pig. They rendered even the waste down to a useable sellable product. She said that in certain parts of the plant it was hard to breath because of the odors. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif Even she wouldn't eat Spam, but she used to get mad at me whenever I told her that email spam or (junk mail) was named after the food variety. I really don't know if it was or not but it sounded good for a dig. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Bird]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Even she wouldn't eat Spam )</font>

It's not at all uncommon for someone who works in most any food processing or preparation business to not want to eat that product. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif One of my grandmothers worked briefly in a sardine cannery when she was a young woman, and of course, would not eat a sardine. I once worked with a guy who worked in canning maraschino cherries and he said there's no way he'd eat one of them. And some officers found a door unlocked one night on one of the most popular seafood restaurants in Dallas. They searched the building to see if it was being burglarized, and said, after seeing the kitchen, that they'd never eat in that place. So I'm not at all surprised that anyone who worked in the place that cans Spam wouldn't eat it. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[JDgreen227]

Back about 1975, I was having a burger and draft at a popular downtown Lansing, Michigan, hotel bar and grill. I was a state employee and met another fellow who also worked for the state, a Dept. of Agriculture inspector. After a half hour of talking and a few more draft beers, he wanted to show me his notebook with pictures about certain things.

"Things" were very graphic photos about the parts of the animals that were permitted to be included in the manufacture of hot dogs, lunch meats, etc. Although he told me the burger I had just consumed "probably didn't contain any of the animal parts" shown in the pictures, I was glad I had not consumed two of them, and even gladder that I had a strong stomach, especially considering all the beer I had drunk.

Needless to say, I didn't buy any hotdogs or lunchmeat for a long time after that incident, and even today the scent of a grilled tube steak brings back memories... /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[riptides]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( but she used to get mad at me whenever I told her that email spam or (junk mail) was named after the food variety )</font>

Actually not really related at all. Just an unfortuante chain of name events for the Hormel product. But they don't mind, anymore.

-Mike Z.

 

[PineRidge]

Nope not me either. Something about meat in a can doesn't excite me, but each to his own.

 

[rozett]

Just watching Food Network..... Hawaii has the highest per capita consumption of Spam.