what does S.P.A.M. mean? as in the FOOD?

Answer 1

Believed to mean "spiced ham".

Hormel Foods, who makes Spam, tells the story on its website. In late 1936 they needed to name a new a new product they had concocted. so at the company's New Year's, President Jay Hormel held a naming contest, offering a drink for each entry and $100 to the winner. Actor Kenneth Daigneau, whose brother was a Hormel VP, was attending, and late that night (after many drinks?) he proposed the winning name, SPAM.

No one really knows what the drunken actor had in mind -- if anything! Maybe he was thinking of 'spiced ham', maybe Shoulder of Pork And Ham.

Answer 2

Hey, there's a lot out there on this important food group so don't laugh. Including it's own domain:

www.spam.com

And the story of SPAM:

http://www.cusd.claremont.edu/~mrosenbl/spamstory.html

Introduced on July 5, 1937, the name "Spam" was chosen in the 1930s when the product, whose original name was far less memorable (Hormel Spiced Ham), began to lose market share. The name was chosen from multiple entries in a naming contest. A Hormel official once stated that the original meaning of the name spam was "Shoulder of Pork and hAM".

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPAM

Thanks for asking this important question.

Answer 3

Well the right answer is Spam is a canned precooked meat product made by the Hormel Foods Corporation. The labeled ingredients in the variety of Spam are chopped pork shoulder meat with ham meat added, salt, water, sugar, and sodium nitrite. It has gained a peculiar infamy, along with something of a place in pop culture, and has even entered into folklore and urban legend.

Answer 4

Hormel claims it is a contraction of Spiced and Ham giving us Sp'am, then they just lost the apostrophe.

Joking liy i have seen it salled:

Stuff
Posing
As
Meat

Answer 5

It's an anagram for Some Paupers Awful Meal

Answer 6

A tinned meat product made mainly from ham.

Answer 7

Spam is a meat product, which has been processed for quick heating.

Answer 8

spam meat that stands for specially presented abattoir meat

Answer 9

it doesnt really match, but it's "pork shoulder and ham"

Answer 10

This is my definition:

Sh*t posing as meat.