What is Hormel SPAM made of?

Answer 1

Goat innards and tennis shoes.

Answer 2

Spam is a canned meat product made by the Hormel Foods Corporation. It has gained a peculiar infamy, along with something of a place in pop culture, and has even entered into folklore and urban legend.

Spam is produced in (among other places) Austin, Minnesota, USA (aka Spam Town USA). The labeled ingredients in the original variety of Spam are chopped pork shoulder meat with ham meat added, salt, water, sugar, and sodium nitrite.

Other varieties of Spam differ; Spam Lite contains pork and chicken, and Spam Oven Roasted Turkey is a halaal food, meaning that it is allowed under Islamic law, and is especially popular in Muslim markets. It also comes in a low-salt variety.

Like most other luncheon meats, Spam is precooked. However, Spam is often pan-fried or otherwise heated through again to impart a pleasing texture and flavor.

As of 1997, over 5 billion tins had been sold worldwide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(food)




I have also included a couple of URLs for you to read about Spam which were kind of amusing.

Answer 3

According to Hormel: ''The ingredients are ground to a medium-coarse texture. Spices are then added to enhance the product's natural flavour. After the blending process is completed, the meat is mechanically filled into cans, sealed, and cooked in a ret ort oven. Upon leaving the retort, the cans are dried and transferred to the packaging area. A caser then automatically unscrambles and distributes the cans into the feed section, forms the corrugated tray, and loads the cans into each tray. the packed cases are conveyed through an automatic code dater and a shrink film tunnel. The sealed cases are then transferred to the storage and warehouse area to await shipment.'' Wow!

Answer 4

According to the The Amazing SPAM Home Page, the ingredients of SPAM are as follows:
chopped pork shoulder meat with ham meat added
salt (for binding, flavor, and firmness)
water (to help in mixing)
sugar (for flavor)
sodium Nitrite (for color and as a preservative)
And here are some other interesting SPAM-related facts to consider:
In the United States, 3.8 cans of SPAM are consumed every second.
Hawaiians eat an average of four cans of SPAM per person per year (this is the highest SPAM consumption rate per capita in the world).
Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia eats a SPAM and mayonnaise sandwich three times a week.
Nikita Krushchev credited SPAM with the survival of the WWII Russian army. Quothe the Krushchev: "Without SPAM, we wouldn't have been able to feed our army."

Answer 5

Yes I do like Spam. I am from Hawaii and it is really popular here. The way that most people prepare it on the Big Island is in a Spam musubi. It is just cooked spam with rice wrapped in nori (seaweed). And let me tell you, it is ono (delicious).

Answer 6

Shoulder
Picnic and h
A
M

(shoulder picnic ham and spices)

Check out www.Hormel.com for great SPAM recipes.

Answer 7

What is SPAM?

Stuff
Posing
As
Meat

Answer 8

no one really knows but its rumored that there are no cats or dogs living within a 50 mile radius of the hormel processing plant

Answer 9

SPAM comes from the refuse that is not used in Hot Dogs. SPAM is primarily pork based animal parts and is the production discarde from the manufacturing of the Hot Dog. SPAM is most popular in the State of Hawaii.

Answer 10

When I was a kid, the TV commercials always used to say SPAM was made from "pork shoulder and ham."

And it turns out they weren't lying:
http://www.spam.com/sp/sp_fq.htm

Answer 11

It is spiced ham. Thus the name SPAM. This was developed and given to the troops during WWII as part of their rations.