Spam production can't keep up with demand

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I wonder if we will see a Poom in Spam?

By ANDREW MARTIN
Published: November 14, 2008
AUSTIN, Minn. — The economy is in tatters and, for millions of people, the future is uncertain. But for some employees at the Hormel Foods Corporation plant here, times have never been better. They are working at a furious pace and piling up all the overtime they want.


The workers make Spam, perhaps the emblematic hard-times food in the American pantry.


Through war and recession, Americans have turned to the glistening canned product from Hormel as a way to save money while still putting something that resembles meat on the table. Now, in a sign of the times, it is happening again, and Hormel is cranking out as much Spam as its workers can produce.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/bu...=2&oref=slogin

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Re: Spam production can't keep up with demand

I wonder if we will see a Poom in Spam?

Through war and recession, Americans have turned to the glistening canned product from Hormel as a way to save money while still putting something that resembles meat on the table. Now, in a sign of the times, it is happening again, and Hormel is cranking out as much Spam as its workers can produce.

I am thankful that I am not yet desperate enough to buy spam.:cool:

And of course can't resist throwing in the Monty Python sketch about spam.:p

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