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Spam is being kept locked in plastic cases in stores after several heists of the tinned meat...
Daily Mail ^ | 10/19/17 | Jessica Finn

Posted on 10/19/2017 7:05:07 PM PDT by markomalley

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To: Justa

Read years ago, we shipped 520,000 tons of SPAM to the Soviets under the Lend-Lease program. That is about 87 million cans of the stuff.


61 posted on 10/20/2017 3:10:43 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: markomalley

There is a Spam museum in Austin, Minn. Very interesting and worth the visit. Plus, you can buy every version of Spam that is made.


62 posted on 10/20/2017 5:42:32 AM PDT by ops33 (SMSgt, USAF, Retired)
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To: markomalley
I'm one of the early Baby Boomers, born a year after WWII ended. I grew up in a (lower) working class family. My eighth grade educated dad held a steady job, and we lived in a comfortable rented house. My mom was not so lucky while growing up. She grew up during the Depression, raised by a widowed mother, and sometimes had to go to bed hungry. My dad grew up on a farm, and never had any money, but always had enough to eat. Our family wasn't rich, but I didn't know it. Our lives were quite typical of most of the kids I knew in our small mid-western town.

Spam was a staple of our diet. I remember often having the 'privilege' of opening the can with the attached key, and rolling back the top of the can. The fat had a waxy texture, and was not very desirable when cold. There were often globs of it in the can. However, when the span was warm from frying, or baking, it was quite acceptable to eat. Once a year, or so, we would have a dinner of real steak, usually after my uncle would butcher a cow. Us kids knew this was the meat where "you could eat the fat". We would eagerly look forward to this great event.

63 posted on 10/20/2017 5:49:47 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: ponygirl

People have no clue about peacocks. Brother lived in NorCal in a brand new development that had been a peacock preserve. When they built the houses they left an old barn with about 2-3 acres of green space right in the middle of it. Unfortunately they left the peacocks too. They were everywhere. Digging up everyones front yards. Screaming all night so no one could sleep. Sounded like they were hollering ‘FIRE!’ all night. They pooped on their front steps.
I was really glad when he moved. lol


64 posted on 10/20/2017 6:40:32 AM PDT by sheana
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To: TruthWillWin

Thanks.


65 posted on 10/20/2017 7:34:59 AM PDT by Mears
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To: Justa
The meal served was a baloney sandwich.

It may have been beef or turkey bologna.

66 posted on 10/20/2017 10:41:36 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Spam used to be a cheap feed, but now it costs as much (or more) per pound as a round roast on special.


67 posted on 10/20/2017 10:43:56 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Spam and Tide laundry soap are major theft items.

Can SOMEONE explain this to me?

Tide gets Spam grease out of your clothes and napkins.

68 posted on 10/20/2017 10:49:14 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Autonomous User

“Spam is huge in Hawaii.”

When we lived there, there was even Spam on pizza. Probably still is.


69 posted on 10/20/2017 10:53:10 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (A person's greatest strength is his greatest weakness.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I like it fried in a sandwich with mustard.


70 posted on 10/20/2017 10:54:36 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (A person's greatest strength is his greatest weakness.)
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To: lee martell

The Spamburglar!


71 posted on 10/25/2017 11:24:24 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Mariner
I would wish to argue the point as Im a liverwurst and sharp brick with horseradish, onions, and dill pickles on pumpernickel for breakast kind of guy but, I do like the occasional spam sandwich too.

Ive even been known to eat the turkey kind, thats kind of like someone admitting they like white chocolate, I know. What I question is what took so long to finally make an obvious big seller like the bacon flavor?

72 posted on 10/25/2017 11:38:07 AM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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