Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTIL spam (as refering to online unwanted communication) came from a Monty Python sketch.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square23linkfedilinkarrow-up1269arrow-down12
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minus-squareThomasWilliams@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·2 months agoTrue story ; In Australia Hormel were ordered to withdraw an advertising campaign featuring the song “Spam - it’s real spiced ham !” because Spam is not ham and doesn’t contain any spices…
minus-square𝚝𝚛𝚔@aussie.zonecakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoWait, what is Spam then? I thought that was the whole thing… Sp(iced H)am. I’m going to be disgusted by the answer, aren’t I?
minus-squarehperrin@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoPork, ham, and salt, mostly. So it is spiced ham if you consider salt a spice (it’s not).
minus-squareAqarius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months ago…Is the implication here that Americans consider salt a spice, or pork a spice?
minus-squareiMastari@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·2 months agoWhen I was young I asked my dad what Spam was made of. He told me “Chicken lips and assholes”. My dad is a funny guy.
minus-squareteyrnon@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoLegally you need quotation marks, “pork,” and “ham,” mostly.
minus-squarehperrin@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agoNo, it is real pork and real ham. It’s mostly the shoulder cuts, but there’s still real ham in there.
minus-squarewolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoYeah, I thought it was “Shoulder of Pork and Ham”
minus-squareteyrnon@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoSpam is an abomination created to short our armed forces of real vittles in World War II, fucking MarArthur that son of a bitch he’s in hell now.
True story ; In Australia Hormel were ordered to withdraw an advertising campaign featuring the song “Spam - it’s real spiced ham !” because Spam is not ham and doesn’t contain any spices…
Wait, what is Spam then? I thought that was the whole thing… Sp(iced H)am.
I’m going to be disgusted by the answer, aren’t I?
Pork, ham, and salt, mostly. So it is spiced ham if you consider salt a spice (it’s not).
…Is the implication here that Americans consider salt a spice, or pork a spice?
When I was young I asked my dad what Spam was made of. He told me “Chicken lips and assholes”. My dad is a funny guy.
Legally you need quotation marks, “pork,” and “ham,” mostly.
No, it is real pork and real ham. It’s mostly the shoulder cuts, but there’s still real ham in there.
Yeah, I thought it was “Shoulder of Pork and Ham”
Spam is an abomination created to short our armed forces of real vittles in World War II, fucking MarArthur that son of a bitch he’s in hell now.