Bad news for the economy is good news for... Spam? (buy, job)
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“We are scheduled to work every day except Thanksgiving and Christmas,” said Darwin Sellers, 56, a Spam “formulator” who adds salt, sugar and nitrates to batches of Spam. “Mr. Ettinger is negotiating with the man upstairs to get us to work eight days a week.”
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Every day since July, except for holidays. Man! At least his job is safe. Safer. Whatever.
Canned Spam and canned tuna. It's the fact that it's "canned" that makes it so popular. As in, it will keep. For a few years. You can stock up and stash it away.
And that, my friends, is behind the great sudden attraction to Spam!
1999 I bought some spam to stock up on Y2K....yeah, yeah crazy, crazy....point was that I liked it and it stored well. But we were buying cans of spam for $1.00 a can on sale. I went to Wally world today and it was $2.38 a can, now I can't afford spam!! I bought the Walmart brand for $1.58 a can.
Spam is gross. Spam is also very popular in Hawaii. One aspect of Hawaii I definately don't miss!
SPAM™ Festivals | SPAM.com (http://www.spam.com/museum/spam_jams.aspx - broken link) 4th Annual Waikiki SPAM Jam to be Held on April 29, 2006
I have switched to some peasant food to get used to it. However the beauty of it is I can make my peasant food from scratch. My hand made tortillas filled with refried pinto beans made from dry are better than what most people are eating out.
Here is a ground cherry pie. $30 a pop but under $2 for me.
My dad said he ate Spam every day for about 3 months during WW2. He still ate it once in a while. I can see it fried in the morning with eggs but it would be a good survival meal or something to take camping.
My bunker staple: canned Chicken ala king. Put it on toast and you have a tasty meal.
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