Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTIL spam (as refering to online unwanted communication) came from a Monty Python sketch.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square51linkfedilinkarrow-up1388arrow-down12
arrow-up1386arrow-down1external-linkTIL spam (as refering to online unwanted communication) came from a Monty Python sketch.en.wikipedia.orgQuilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square51linkfedilink
minus-square𝚝𝚛𝚔@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoWait, what is Spam then? I thought that was the whole thing… Sp(iced H)am. I’m going to be disgusted by the answer, aren’t I?
minus-squarehperrin@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 months agoPork, ham, and salt, mostly. So it is spiced ham if you consider salt a spice (it’s not).
minus-squareiMastari@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·2 months agoWhen I was young I asked my dad what Spam was made of. He told me “Chicken lips and assholes”. My dad is a funny guy.
minus-squareislandcoda42@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 months agoHormel uses only the finest assholes available!
minus-squareteyrnon@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoThat is funny, but not true. They use the most diseased assholes.
minus-squareHubertManne@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoyour dad can’t tell the difference between spam and hot dogs.
minus-squareAqarius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months ago…Is the implication here that Americans consider salt a spice, or pork a spice?
minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 months agoWhat’s the difference between pork and ham? Aren’t they both just pig corpse?
minus-squarehperrin@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoHam is a specific cut, and is cured. Pork is any pig meat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham
minus-squareteyrnon@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoLegally you need quotation marks, “pork,” and “ham,” mostly.
minus-squarehperrin@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agoNo, it is real pork and real ham. It’s mostly the shoulder cuts, but there’s still real ham in there.
minus-squarewolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoYeah, I thought it was “Shoulder of Pork and Ham”
minus-squareteyrnon@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoSpam is an abomination created to short our armed forces of real vittles in World War II, fucking MarArthur that son of a bitch he’s in hell now.
Wait, what is Spam then? I thought that was the whole thing… Sp(iced H)am.
I’m going to be disgusted by the answer, aren’t I?
Pork, ham, and salt, mostly. So it is spiced ham if you consider salt a spice (it’s not).
When I was young I asked my dad what Spam was made of. He told me “Chicken lips and assholes”. My dad is a funny guy.
Hormel uses only the finest assholes available!
That is funny, but not true. They use the most diseased assholes.
your dad can’t tell the difference between spam and hot dogs.
…Is the implication here that Americans consider salt a spice, or pork a spice?
What’s the difference between pork and ham? Aren’t they both just pig corpse?
Ham is a specific cut, and is cured. Pork is any pig meat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham
Legally you need quotation marks, “pork,” and “ham,” mostly.
No, it is real pork and real ham. It’s mostly the shoulder cuts, but there’s still real ham in there.
Yeah, I thought it was “Shoulder of Pork and Ham”
Spam is an abomination created to short our armed forces of real vittles in World War II, fucking MarArthur that son of a bitch he’s in hell now.