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4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In Hawaii, Spam is served at grandma’s house and in high-end restaurants. It’s beloved. But in the continental U.S., the canned pork product is often the punchline of jokes. Why does Spam have such different meanings in different places? The answer involves World War II, Monty Python, and a troupe of singing saleswomen.

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0:00.0

Spam means different things to different people.

0:05.4

These days for me, it means robocalls.

0:08.1

Hi, good morning and this message is concerning your unsecured credit sentence flu shot is now

0:12.8

available at your native local online.

0:15.6

No, why you could fool me fool.

0:17.8

For others, it might be emails.

0:19.5

10% off socks from your favorite online site.

0:22.4

Or an all expense paid vacation getaway.

0:24.8

You do remember entering, don't you?

0:26.8

And then there's this really exciting development, spam text.

0:30.3

Do political ads count?

0:31.7

In my book, yes.

0:33.4

However, you slice it, no one really asks for spam.

0:37.2

Unless that is, you are literally slicing it.

0:40.2

As in spam, the canned pork product.

0:42.6

So you would eat it at home.

0:43.9

You would eat it out.

0:45.0

You would eat it in techniques.

0:46.5

You would eat it at schools.

0:47.8

When it comes to this kind of spam, the one with 180 calories per serving, you'll find

0:52.2

people who will tell you,

0:53.2

they're going to love it.

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