Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 13 May 1998.
Spam (tm)
alt.ascii-art
· 2 messages · 13 May 1998
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| `---..._______...|<[Hormel | |
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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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Bye,
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