SPAM Production at all time high!

[Canned Nerd]

"AUSTIN, Minn. — The economy is in tatters and, for millions of people, the future is uncertain. But for some employees at the Hormel Foods Corporation plant here, times have never been better. They are working at a furious pace and piling up all the overtime they want.

 

The workers make Spam, perhaps the emblematic hard-times food in the American pantry.

 

Through war and recession, Americans have turned to the glistening canned product from Hormel as a way to save money while still putting something that resembles meat on the table. Now, in a sign of the times, it is happening again, and Hormel is cranking out as much Spam as its workers can produce.

 

In a factory that abuts Interstate 90, two shifts of workers have been making Spam seven days a week since July, and they have been told that the relentless work schedule will continue indefinitely....

 

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SPAM turns Serious....

 

 

[sassenach]

Maybe thats for the civvie natl army? whaddya think?

Spam is so laden with salt I cannot eat it!

[Fritz_Monroe]

I absolutely love SPAM. I have to wait for my wife to not be around for dinner to have it. She's off shopping today, won't be back until tomorrow. So the kids and me will be having SPAM and mac'n cheese. They love it.

 

Of course I grew up eating SPAM. My favorite dish that my mother makes is SPAM and potatoes.

 

Yum.

[Stephanie]

How funny....we have two SPAM threads going...!