That's why, in our definitive ranking of the best Spam flavors (and there are more flavors than you might expect), Tasting Table awarded first place to the brand's 25% less sodium offering.It ...

SPAM hit shelves on July 5, 1937, helping fill the much-needed cheap eats void created during the Great Depression, per the Hormel Foods website. 3 SPAM is actually a portmanteau meaning “spiced ...

Spam demand is surging as cash-strapped shoppers look to stretch their paychecks amid relentless food inflation. Getty Images. The canned-meat frenzy comes as grocery prices have spiked 21% in the ...

You can grill it, fry it, or eat it right out of the can: Spam. For over 80 years the salty canned meat has been feeding America. From its start in a small Minnesota town to its global presence ...

“When the food shortage started due to COVID, ... On his truck, he uses a device similar to an egg slicer that can chop a hunk of Spam into 10, ⅜-inch slices. Then the meat is fried.

I tried six canned meat products — Libby's corned beef, StarKist tuna, Underwood deviled ham, Armour potted meat, Hormel chicken breast, and Spam — to see which was the best.

Spam was first launched by Hormel in 1937. During World War II, the canned meat became a staple in soldiers' meal kits and the popularity of the product continued to rise through the 1950s.

Spam — the square can of pork, salt, water, sugar, potato starch and sodium nitrite that first rolled off the assembly lines 80 years ago during the Great Depression — was invented “as a way ...

Author Ted Genoways traces the origins of canned spam in his book The Chain; Farm, Factory and the Fate of Our Food. The regular host of this program, Michel Martin, is on the road this week for ...