In article <1994Jan8.193352.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu>, sbrooks@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
> Hi!  It's me again, the vegetarian.  I got a great book for Christmas.  It's
> called "I'm a Spam fan" by Carolyn Wyman.  It's a great book that traces the
> histories of many of America's prepared foods, including, of course, Spam.
> Here are some Spam-bits from the book:
> 
> Hawaii is the state with the largest consumption of Spam per person.
> 
> Spam is the most popular canned meat product in America, with a 75% share
> of the market.
> 
> The name Spam comes from "spiced" and "ham".
 
     The wonderful housing cafeteria here at USU serves many tantalizing
Spam-like pseudo-food-byproduct items:

spiced chiken : Spiken
spiced turkey : Spurkey
spiced salad  : Spalad
spiced steak  : Speak     (w/ custom hand painted grill lines)
spiced Bacon  : Spacon
spiced eggs   : Speggs
spiced cereal : Spereal
spiced juice  : Spuice
spiced milk   : Spilk
spiced oatmeal: Spoatmeal
spiced donuts : Sponuts   (tasting suspiciously like the fried chiken from the
                           night before)
spiced meatloaf:Speatloaf
spiced fish   : Spish

 
     Even vegetarians like us aren't safe.