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Subject:Origin of spam From:Geoff Hart <geoff-h -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA> Date:Tue, 21 Mar 1995 08:42:27 LCL
Spam is an acronym (almost) for "spiced pork and ham". In short,
canned, processed meat. This is one of those things you either love (I
don't) or hate. The verb "to spam" comes from an old Monty Python skit
in which the proprietor of a restaurant serves almost anything you
want, except that it has to contain spam, and usually very little
else. (Thus, to spam... to spread the stuff everywhere.) In the skit,
there's a bunch of Vikings sitting around in the background singing
about the glories of spam, something I never understood until I
married a Dane (i.e., civilized Viking) and discovered that her entire
clan loves spam (I'm talking 100% here)... any non-North American
Danes lurking out there who can elaborate on this contribution to
international cuisine? <grin>
