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What is SPAM And What Is It Made of, Anyway?
SPAM has been sitting on pantry shelves for nearly a century, wrapped in that unmistakable blue-and-yellow label, daring people to either love it, mock it, or try it “just once.” It’s one of those foods everyone recognizes instantly, yet most people can’t fully explain. What is it, really? What’s in it? Why did it become such a phenomenon? And why does a simple little can inspire so much curiosity? To understand SPAM, you have to go back to the late 1930s, a time when convenience foods were still in their infancy. Hormel Foods, based in Austin, Minnesota, was looking for…
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