SPAM? The real meaning.?

I agree with the Annick.

"Spiced Pork And Ham"

Seriously? It's spam and a scam! You can't fall for stuff like that, the government will NEVER email you and tell you that you are randomly selected to get a green card. I've seen online that if you guess who is the correct president of the US, you get your green card. When you read stuff like that, you have to think twice about it, don't you get a gut feeling that it's wrong? If you need a green card, you have to apply for it the old fashion way, just like everybody else. The website address doesn't even look safe but its just a bunch of people wanting to rip you off, if you did go ahead with this, you would've gotten ripped off! Besides "dot COM" the government is ".gov" that's how you know its fake!

Yes, but for some reason SPAM did not become popular here in UK until WW2 - at which point, (no doubt with tongue in cheak) Winston Churchill decided that SPAM was a non-meat product and therefore not subject to rationing restrictions impossed upon meat products at the time.

SPAM then became the most 'must-have' food here in UK and a BLACKMAREKET soon sprang up selling it at bloated prices to a meat hungry population.

Monty Python's SPAM sketch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODshB09FQ8w

Spamalot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h8XlW5S0tI&feature...

More SPAM info : -

SPAM

The 34th American president Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote to Hormel Foods after World War II about SPAM® saying, "I…officially forgive you your only sin: ...

http://www.spam-uk.com/info/timeline.asp

Spam (food) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[2] Spam for the UK market is produced in Denmark by Tulip under license from

.... [20] The book details Spam's origins and contributions to World War II as ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(food)

1. SPAM was not available until 1937. World War One ended in 1918.

2. The Hormel Company, which makes the product, says the acronym stands for "Spiced Ham", which is the original name given it by the Hormel Company.

Shi**y Processed American Meat -SPAM.

Thats what I thought it was as well, also when the American soldiers came over they would bring extra so they could trade it in for other things (personal favours)

so I agree that the one one the 'best of answers' is wrong

Specially Produced American Meat

one other explanation (which I don't myself buy) is

Shoulder of Pork And haM

SPAM was not around during WW I, It was created in 1937. It was widely used in WW II and given to the troops.

Service Pressed American Meat.

Basically, it is the US equivalent of salami except in a tin.

Or is it spiced ham? A bit of an urban legend, eh?