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Which spam flavor is best?

I declare that it is time for a break from email headers and spam traps to talk about ... actual spam. The canned kind. That you eat. Hormel has gone far beyond the original salty pink brick -- there are now more than a dozen different SPAM flavors on grocery store shelves, and…

Friday fun: How Has SPAM Stayed So Popular?

You know that I blog about spam. And sometimes about SPAM. I'm a fan of one but not the other. Who wouldn't love something salty that tastes a bit like bacon, and fries up nice with eggs in a pinch? So I guess it's not much of a mystery to me; I know why SPAM remain…

Email newsletters are everywhere!

Email newsletters are so hot right now. Even the Original Rainbow Cone wants in on that sweet, sweet newsletter action. Yeah, they got me. I scanned the QR code and signed up, when I stopped in for a Rainbow Cone (a uniquely Chicagoan way of doing up an ice cream cone) last we…

New from Hormel: Korean BBQ Spam

Yum! It was just last week I was sitting down to lunch in Chicago's Time-Out Market with a couple of my coworkers (it's my boss's favorite lunch spot), enjoying Korean fried chicken from Urbanbelly (and finding myself slightly confused by the tubular rice cakes th…

TSA finds bag full of ... SPAM!

Here's a question that we've all wondered at some point or other in our lives: What happens when you try to take a case of Hormel's delicious SPAM through an airport security checkpoint? Joel Libed's life experience now includes an answer to that question. Thank…

Spotted at Aldi: Maple SPAM!

Apparently this isn't THAT new, as I can find some blogs and recipe sites talking about it back in summer 2023 . But it's new to me! And personally observed by yours truly at an Aldi grocery store near home here in Chicago, IL, which means it's a limited time Aldi s…

Spam Fried Rice: Doesn't this sound delicious?

Yes, I do have various Google alerts set up watching for food-related spam articles. Or SPAM, in this case! Without those alerts, I wouldn't have stumbled across this deliciously described spam fried rice recipe courtesy of the Recipe Critic. A simple combination of pan-fri…

Hormel donates 264,000 cans of SPAM to Hawaiians

Here's the tiniest bit of happy news after a week of FTC compliance actions, DNS downtimes and blocklist glitches: Hormel, makers of the beloved food known as SPAM, have kindly donated more than a million dollars worth of the stuff to help Maui wildfire victims. Here's …

Friday fun: It's not spam, it's SMEAT!

Yum! Is it as delicious as it looks? Alas, we likely will never know, as it it is not real. It's SMEAT, the fake prop meat product originally created for the movie Waterworld and later re-used in many, many other TV shows and movies. Thankfully, there's a website where…

Figgy Pudding Spam....why?

Well, Figgy Pudding Spam is a thing that exists, apparently. Laurel Wamsley for National Public Radio explains that this limited edition concoction is apparently so popular, that you may have already missed your opportunity to purchase it this holiday season. Oh, well. Inciden…

Vegan SPAM is here! Finally?

Well, we were warned that this was coming . Hormel's name is conspicuously missing from the latest news article, but it sounds like Shinsegae Food's Better Meat is indeed moving forward with a vegan SPAM-like product, and going so far as to form a US subsidiary company …

Lifehacker: Make Spam Fries in Your Air Fryer (yum)

Lifehacker's Claire Lower wants you to know: "Spam was made to be air fried." She adds: "Thanks to its large amount of inherent grease, it’ s one of the few foods that you can actually “fry” with nothing more than the hot, whipping winds of the air fryer.&quo…

Mashed: Mistakes Everyone Makes While Cooking Spam

Slice it up thin and fry it up nice; it goes great with eggs and hash browns for breakfast. But what to do with the rest of it? Don't forget to refrigerate the now half-filled open tin; apparently folks don't always remember to do this! To remind yourself how to avoid t…

Spam and melty cheddar sandwiches fit for a party

Yum! From the Daily Herald of Everett Washington, I share with you a wonderful recipe from Taylor Goebel that will allow you to make make cheesy little SPAM sandwiches, suitable for a snack or party appetizer. These "Thursday Night Sandwiches" sound simple to make but…

SPAM: How the American Dream Got Canned

From the Atlantic and WNYC: Uh...finally? The podcast you've been waiting for! This is "a story of America told through the history of SPAM." In this three-part series as part of the Experiment podcast, they'll try to answer "some of the meatiest question…

How to make shockingly delicious burnt ends out of SPAM

I'm on the road this week, dealing with family stuff, and I've ordered BBQ twice to the hotel for dinner. I must be hungry, and I've got BBQ on the brain. Anyway, while the source here is not not quite the Wall Street Journal, this article from Travis Sams for WKDQ …

Spam sales hit record high for seventh straight year in 2021

It's always good to hear about growth of the good kind of spam. Hormel seems to be doing very well during these crazy times. From CNBC : “That’s incredible. We’ve had to announce new capacity that we’re going to bring online in 2023 to meet the demand, so Spam is as strong…

Happy holidays, long weekend or not...

I hope everyone has a happy and safe Thanksgiving Holiday. Maybe you've got a long weekend ahead or perhaps you'll need to be up and ready to provide deliverability support for those Black Friday email campaigns. Either way, I hope things go smoothly and that you have a…

Cornbread Dressing with Spam and Sun-Dried Tomatoes

I'm saddened to find that pumpkin spice spam didn't seem to be available this year, but if you're looking for a spammy meal in the spirit of the season, this recipe from Caroline Choe of the Today show might just do the trick . Cornbread Dressing with Spam and Sun-D…