SPAM vs spam
p2pnet.net News:- SPAM has had enough of, well, spam.
To some Britons, especially those 50 and older, it’s a word forged from ’spiced’ and ‘ham’ to represent, “pink, chopped ham and pork rammed into square tins,” as the UK’s The Guardian story describes it.
During WWII its maker, Hormel Foods, gave allied troops 15 million cans a week, says the Hormel web site.
But to the Net generations spam means garbage promo emails, “adopted as a result of the Monty Python skit in which a group of Vikings sang a chorus of ‘SPAM, SPAM, SPAM . . . ‘ in an increasing crescendo, drowning out other conversation,” says Hormel’s legal & copyright info section.
To combat the bad PR, British viewers will be subjected to another kind of electronic spam (in the Net sense) – commercials showing, “builders taking a lunch break, families enjoying fun days out and a pantomime horse doing a Spam tasting,” says the Guardian, highlighting just a few of the treats in store.
“It is a fun, feelgood commercial that reflects the fun values of the brand,” a senior brand manager Marianne Pollock, is quoted as saying in the Guardian report.
Scene:
A cafe table occupied by a group of Vikings, complete with horned helmets. Every time they hear the word “spam,” they start singing ’spam’ over and over.
A man (Eric Idle) and his wife (Graham Chapman) enter, to be served by a waitress (Terry Jones). The man and his wife don’t want spam either …………
Man: You sit here, dear.
Wife: All right.
Man: Morning!
Waitress: Morning!
Man: Well, what’ve you got?
Waitress: Well, there’s egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam…
Waitress: …spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam…
Vikings: Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!
Waitress: …or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
Wife: Have you got anything without spam?
Waitress: Well, there’s spam egg sausage and spam, that’s not got much spam in it.
Wife: I don’t want ANY spam!
Man: Why can’t she have egg bacon spam and sausage?
Wife: THAT’S got spam in it!
Man: Hasn’t got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it?
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam…
Wife: Could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then?
Waitress: Urgghh!
Wife: What do you mean ‘Urgghh’? I don’t like spam!
Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up!
Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can’t have egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam.
Wife: I don’t like spam!
Man: Sshh, dear, don’t cause a fuss. I’ll have your spam. I love it. I’m having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam beaked beans spam spam spam and spam!
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off.
Man: Well could I have her spam instead of the baked beans then?
Waitress: You mean spam spam spam spam spam spam…
Vikings: (Singing elaborately…) Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam. Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Spam spam spam spam!
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See:-
square tins – Spam is back (not the unwanted emails), The Guardian, November 2, 2004
November 3rd, 2004 at 11:41 am
sadly I know what the canned version is and no, not british or over 50
calling it ’spiced ham in square tins’ is being generous.