SPAM - from a can not your email inbox

It's been a while since I've posted here, mostly due to focusing on launching my online book selling website http://www.antiquarianbooklounge.com/ . And since we have had no rain here in several weeks there hasn't been much glass or other interesting things being coughed up.

However, I recently saw some rusted metal sticking out of the ground and dug it up to find that it was a can of SPAM in it's previous life. Although it was flattened and rusted I could still see and read the SPAM label clearly.

It got me wondering about the contents of the can. When was SPAM created? What is really in it? Who ate it? How was it prepared? And how did it end up in what is now my yard?

I found the answer to some of these questions by visiting the world of Spam, starting with a time line from its creation in 1937 (history of SPAM: Spanning The Decades), what it's made out of, the SPAM museum, the SPAM mobile, and anything else you could ever want to know about SPAM.

Yes, we ate SPAM (although it was many, many decades ago) in our family back in my younger days. We even had a recipe for "SPAM burgers", kind of an open face burger bun with SPAM cut into pieces, relish, cheese, mayo, broiled for a few minutes to melt the cheese. At least that is what I can recall, although I probably still have the recipe somewhere. If someone wants it let me know and I can probably find it.

It will be interesting to get an approximation of the date of this and other dump sites on my land as the earth coughs up what was once dumped and buried here.

Thanks for reading,


Jill

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