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Spam production is up while stocks are down

joepunk

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AUSTIN, Minn., Nov. 16 (UPI) -- One factory in the United States has been busy for months as the rest of the economy slows down -- the Hormel Foods (NYSE:HRL) plant that makes Spam.
The factory in Austin, Minn., has been operating two shifts a day seven days a week producing the canned lunch meat, The New York Times (NYSE:NYT) reported. Workers, with all the overtime they can handle, have been told the long hours are likely to continue indefinitely.

Dan Bartel, a business agent for United Food and Commercial Workers Local 9, told the Times that Spam "seems to do well when hard times hit." The lunch meat is reasonably priced protein, if not gourmet food.

Other budget food items are doing well. A spokeswoman for Safeway said sales of rice and beans are up and surveys found that pancake mix and beer sold well in October.

"We'll probably see Spam lines instead of soup lines," Bartel said.
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I tried it once when my college roommate bought some. I gagged and spit it out. <shudder>
 
Yeeesh, I don't think I want to try it after taking a look at their packaging again.

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Raw Spam is an acquired taste. :mad:

But fried up in some butter is an entirely different matter.

Had many a fried Spam sandwich in my youth. We were skint, to put it mildly.

Spam!!

An afterthought. Swift's Prem was the cream-de-la-cream of luncheon meats for us. :D
 
iJohnHenry said:
Raw Spam is an acquired taste. :mad:

But fried up in some butter is an entirely different matter.

Had many a fried Spam sandwich in my youth. We were skint, to put it mildly.

Spam!!
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Years ago I was a YMCA camp counselor and when camping we would make "Boxcars"

A small slab of SPAM fried up with some brown sugar and a 1/2 slice of cheese on top...

Mmmm....I still make them occasionally, but my wife hates them so it is a rare treat...
 
Last time I had Spam - I was in the woods in Maine for 3 weeks. (well over a decade ago)

I'd like to keep it that way. :eek:

Does anyone else think of cat food when they open the can and get that first whiff?
 
SPAM is good. Was just at the store and picked some up. Didn't know you can buy it in individually sliced packages! How cool!
 
As if a gelatinous mass of protein was hard to cut in the first pace. ;)

Random thought.

Does anyone else's cat look at them like they're an @$$hole when they pop open a can of Spam, and then cook it. (the cat thinking, WTF?!? that's MY food!)
 
Big-TDI-Guy said:
Does anyone else's cat look at them like they're an @$$hole when they pop open a can of Spam, and then cook it. (the cat thinking, WTF?!? that's MY food!)
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Yes, Especially when you don't give the cat any. And the cat won't leave you alone until it is gone.
 
Big-TDI-Guy said:
As if a gelatinous mass of protein was hard to cut in the first pace. ;)

Random thought.

Does anyone else's cat look at them like they're an @$$hole when they pop open a can of Spam, and then cook it. (the cat thinking, WTF?!? that's MY food!)
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Hahaha, I don't make it enough for our cats to know what it is. I can tell you that tuna drives them crazy! And my wife is a push over for her cats, so if she's making the tuna sammich (Yep, now I'm stealin' that term as well ;) :p) the cats get more of the tuna then my sammich. :(
 
Mmmmm...spam.

My family is from Hawaii so I grew up on spam, egg and rice for breakfast. LOL, I'm surprised I turned out so petite as I did considering I ate spam so much as a kid.

I rarely eat it now but the smell of fried spam brings back memories.
 
I used to work at Macromedia on a development team. Whenever we were working on a new product, we referred to it by a code name in all communications to prevent word of an unreleased product leaking to the outside world. One time we chose "Spam" as a code name for one of our products (I think it was a version of FreeHand).

We called Hormel and told them that we were using "Spam" as a code name for one of our products and asked if they could send some fun Spam-related stuff for our development team. They sent a ton of stuff. Spam t-shirts, Spam toys, Spam stickers, you name it. I think they even sent us a bunch of Spam. It was wacky, Spammy fun.
 
SPAM is eaten by 3 types of people:
- Stoners
- Hawaiians
- University Students


But with that said I have on occasions had some SPAM.... mmmmm SPAM :rolleyes:
 
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