We may be officially in a recession, but you can’t tell that by the smoke being spewed at the Spam manufacturing plant in Austin, Minn.The demand is so great for the canned meat “product” that some call Something Posing As Meat that two shifts of workers are making Spam nonstop seven days a week.
Spam “seems to do well when hard times hit,” Dan Bartel, a union rep, told the New York Times. “We’ll probably see Spam lines instead of soup lines.”
Hormel Foods Corp. makes Spam by combining ham, pork, sugar, salt, water, a “little” potato starch and a “mere hint” of sodium nitrite “to help Spam keep its [pink] color,” according to an Internet site on Spam by Hormel.
“Sounds delicious, and it is!” booms a Hormel spokesman. Without the sodium nitrite, all pork products would turn gray, and “no one wants that,” he claims.
Uh, yes, sounds, um, appetizing. But thanks, anyway. I think I’ll stick to tuna fish for my canned product fix.
Kevin, have you checked your can of tuna lately? The last label I saw said the tuna had soybeans in it. It also contained a warning that there might be bones in it.
ReplyDeleteSpam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam....Monty Python would love this.
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