Spam and History

Austin and Spam
Well you just never know what you are going to find as you pass thru America. Remember, I told you all about the corn fields that I have been seeing. Yes just endless fields of corn, and what do you get when you have lots of corn, well you get pigs. Yes, those little porkers just love corn and so if you have a lot of corn you grow pigs and that’s what they do around here.
When you have pigs they grow up and eventually become bacon and ham and what else SPAM. Yes sirrrreeee Austin Minnesota is where Hormel is located with their large packing plant. Also in Austin is the Spam Museum. So you see all of those WWII kids and families that had spam for lunch and breakfast can take heart that someone has preserved for posterity the history of Spam. The kind in the can that is.
Who knows maybe someone will preserve for future generations the history of electronic spam.
Did you know the following:
1. Spam was first made in 1937
2. Hawaii is the number 1 Spam per capita state
3. Every 3.5 seconds someone opens a can of Spam
4. There is a Spammobile
5. There are the Spamettes ( a singing group)
6. They have an annual Spam Celebration week in Austin

Photos
1 The Hog Farmer
2 Spam Museum
3 Spam History
4 Making a ham