“A …. delicacy.”
As a consequence of World War II rationing and the Lend-Lease Act, Spam was sold in the United Kingdom. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher later referred to it as a "wartime delicacy".
In addition to increasing production for the U.K., Hormel expanded Spam output as part of Allied aid to the Soviet Union.[13] In his memoir Khrushchev Remembers, Nikita Khrushchev declared: "Without Spam we wouldn't have been able to feed our army."[
As a consequence of World War II rationing and the Lend-Lease Act, Spam was sold in the United Kingdom. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher later referred to it as a "wartime delicacy".
In addition to increasing production for the U.K., Hormel expanded Spam output as part of Allied aid to the Soviet Union.[13] In his memoir Khrushchev Remembers, Nikita Khrushchev declared: "Without Spam we wouldn't have been able to feed our army."[
Even before COVID, Spam was coming back - the meat, not the email
With a new cookbook and a coronavirus-inspired quest for inexpensive food, people have turned once again to an old standard: Spam (the meat)
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