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When I was a kid we sometimes had Spam sandwiches and it was popular when cooking in the woods. Fried in a skillet and it was pretty tasty. I learned that they loved it in Hawaii but most people seemed to be snooty about Spam.
Then I met my dearest friend ever. She was a Brit and spent the Blitz in London. We were in the grocery one day and I said jokingly, "Want some Spam?" I was shocked when she grabbed a couple of cans.
"Oh, Pat, you can't understand what it was like when Spam started to arrive in England in the war. We didn't have meat and Spam was heavenly."
Spam is hated and does have an interesting history.
"[FONT="]It may be common knowledge that Spam was popular with American servicemen during WW II, a whopping 100 million pounds of the stuff was consumed by Russian forces during the war as well. “Without Spam, we wouldn’t have been able to feed our army,” Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev later said."
[/FONT]http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2016/09/28/6-things-never-knew-about-spam/
Then I met my dearest friend ever. She was a Brit and spent the Blitz in London. We were in the grocery one day and I said jokingly, "Want some Spam?" I was shocked when she grabbed a couple of cans.
"Oh, Pat, you can't understand what it was like when Spam started to arrive in England in the war. We didn't have meat and Spam was heavenly."
Spam is hated and does have an interesting history.
"[FONT="]It may be common knowledge that Spam was popular with American servicemen during WW II, a whopping 100 million pounds of the stuff was consumed by Russian forces during the war as well. “Without Spam, we wouldn’t have been able to feed our army,” Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev later said."
[/FONT]http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2016/09/28/6-things-never-knew-about-spam/