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Subject:Re: Origin of spam From:Marc Santacroce <santa -at- TFS -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 21 Mar 1995 11:49:00 PST
At 8:42 AM 3/21/95 +0000, Geoff Hart wrote:
> Spam is an acronym (almost) for "spiced pork and ham". In short,
> canned, processed meat. This is one of those things you either love (I
> don't) or hate. The verb "to spam" comes from an old Monty Python skit
> in which the proprietor of a restaurant serves almost anything you
> want, except that it has to contain spam, and usually very little
> else. (Thus, to spam... to spread the stuff everywhere.) In the skit,
> there's a bunch of Vikings sitting around in the background singing
> about the glories of spam, something I never understood until I
> married a Dane (i.e., civilized Viking) and discovered that her entire
> clan loves spam (I'm talking 100% here)... any non-North American
> Danes lurking out there who can elaborate on this contribution to
> international cuisine? <grin>
>===================
This has nothing to do with anything, but I've heard that former cannibal
cultures love spam because it tastes most like (ugh) human flesh!
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