The Real Story Behind Spam
Short for Scientifically Processed Animal Matter, the popular canned ‘meat’ has been popular since the first world war. Only one part of that sentence was true, which one was it? If you guessed the war part, ding, ding, ding!
No matter where you stand on how you use Spam, it is used in a wide variety of cooking, including Polanisian cooking and lots of other Asian dishes. You’ll be happy to learn that the real reason for the name for Spam is a lot less gross-sounding. It is a combination of two compound words. The “Sp” comes from “spice” and the “am” comes from “ham.”