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From the 3 May 98 edition of Edupage:

Today's honorary subscriber is George A. Hormel (1860-1946), the man

who brought us Spam.  No, not junk mail -- Spam with a capital S, 
Spam the food.  During the Great Depression, Hormel's company sold 
1.5-pound cans of beef stew for only 15 cents, providing an 
affordable, filling, and nutritious meal for the families of 
unemployed workers.  The beef stew and other "poor man's dishes" 
(including canned products such as corned beef and cabbage, 
spaghetti and meat balls, and chili con carne) were highly regarded 
in those lean years.  

 Authors Joseph J. & Suzy Fucini write:
"Encouraged by the success of its poor man's dishes, Hormel & Co.  
introduced an economical pork loaf in 1937.  The canned meat ran 
into a major problem before it even got to market, however, when the

U.S. government would not allow the company to call it ham, because 
it was made from pork shoulder instead of the hindquarters.  

"In an effort to come up with a substitute name for the humble 
luncheon meat, Princeton-educated Jay Hormel turned to his country-
club circle of friends.  The younger Hormel threw a party at his 
170-acre Austin estate and asked guests to 'pay' for cocktails by 
suggesting a name for the new product every time they ordered a 
drink.  'Along about the third or fourth drink they began showing 
some imagination,' the executive later recalled.  It was Kenneth 
Daigneau, a visiting New York radio actor who suggested the name 
that was eventually chosen -- Spam.  

"Like its predecessors, inexpensive Spam found a ready market in 
depression America.  Sales of the proletarian pork dish were greatly

aided by an advertising campaign featuring George Burns and Gracie 
Allen, which urged people to try a "Spamwich" or "Spambled eggs" for

an economical lunch." 

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