Little Malice wrote:
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> I like Spam. It hasn't changed since I was a kid and Mom would fry
> some up for breakfast. It's certainly no worse than the ever-popular
> Scrapple...


A few times a year I'll buy Spam that's on sale at Walgreen's ($1.99), it
makes a pretty good sandwich...AFAIK Spam also comes in lower - fat and
lower - salt versions too.

Now one thing that is truly VILE is that Armour Star "Treet" stuff, it has a
slimy mien about it...tried it once earlier this year and no way would I
have it in the house again.

Speaking of Spam, I recently read an old article from the late 50's, a US
journalist in Moscow (he was covering the US National Exhibition in Moscow
in 1959, scene of the famous Nixon - Khrushchev "Kitchen Debate") was
commenting that Russians at that time were familiar with three things about
the US: Studebaker trucks, Deanna Durbin movies, and Spam...all these dated
from when we and the USSR were allies during the war, the Spam and
Studebaker trucks were shipped over to Russia in massive quantities as part
of Lend - Lease, and Stalin allowed US movies starring Deanna Durbin to be
shown because he was a big Deanna Durbin fan. She was and still remains a
huge star in Russia because of the wartime showings of her movies...as
fondly remembered as Judy Garland is here (Deanna is in her 80's and has
happily lived in France for many decades, she gets hundreds of fan letters
still per month - many from Russia.).

Spam is also hugely popular in the Pacific islands, largely as a result of
US troops introducing it during WWII, for many it was the first "meat" they
ever knew...and we all know of the Hawaiian Spam "sushi",

Your useless trivia 'o the day...

:-)

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Best
Greg