Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 23, 2023

I guess salt is considered a spice a Minnesota.

Don’t say Spam in front of a pig WA!

After all that climbing, Pig must be hungry. He could go to the diner and have some Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, baked beans, Spam, Spam, Spam, and Spam.

always look on the bright side of life

One of my relatives told me about something else they ate during World War II that was similar to Spam. I don’t remember the name of it.

Go forth and spread the SPAM, just remember it is illegal to spam.

Rather misleading that they call it spiced ham. There’s no spice at all, just pork, ham, salt, potato starch, sugar and sodium nitrite.

I had originally heard that it stands for Shoulder Pork and hAM.

Which is right?

In that case, I will stop deleting it from my computer.

Great answers first require great questions.

Canned cooked pork the internet says! I used to love it, but too salty for me now!

Not since they tried to rebrand it a few years ago…

Spam could be Pig’s stage name.

I hate the stuff, I consider it… Sh!t Passing As Meat.

SPAM stands for Shoulder Pork and Ham.

Salt Pork and hAM.

No it doesn’t… Guess we now know the difference between a Wise A$$ and a Smart A$$. (Also love how Pastis can spell the word properly in the strip, but the website prevents it in the comments!)

Pretty close to the truth in the fall. Spam puts out pumpkin spiced fake meat. That’s disgusting.

When you’re sitting all day in the clean air of a hill and suddenly some meaty pig post-exercise stands upwind from you spiced ham comes natural.

I’ve been told that SPAM stands for Squirrels Possum And Mice.

What kind of contraction is that?

I did not know that before. Wow.

SPAM: Squirrels, Possums, And Mice

Baked beans are off.

I’d ask what scrapple stands for.

Try this instead; “Self-Propagating Auto-Mailer”

It used to…now it’s “Sizzle, Pork, And Mmm,” according to the ad.

salt is a preservative

More like the wisdom of the eggs.

Pig is empowered….he’s so special!

Speaking of Spam, when are you coming to Minnesota again?

While true, this doesn’t account for Turkey Spam, which should be called, “Spurkey.”

On a personal note, I find Spam disgusting.

Spiced Ham and Shoulder Meat, actually…

Due to my advancing age and apparently deteriorating health, any food stuff that has any shape, appearance, texture, flavor, aroma, or any appealing trait as a foodstuff in any way whatsoever – I can’t have it anymore. :>(

Actually, I once read that SPAM is an Army abbreviation for “Shoulder of Pork and Ham.”

A pig’s version of “Soylent Green is people”.

I’ve always considered Spam, along with Velveeta cheese, to be non-food products.

Did he somehow knew that Pig was going to ask him about Spam?

From Wikipedia:

Hormel states that the meaning of the name “is known by only a small circle of former Hormel Foods executives,” but a popular belief is that the name is a contraction of “spiced ham.” It has also been speculated to be an acronym for “Shoulder of Pork And Ham.”

I haven’t had spam in over fifteen years but now I’m craving it. And of course I just gave up the meat of mammals for Lent.

Spam,spam,spam,spam……….Somebody had to do it.

I thought it was acronyms for Shoulder Pork Arm Meat? Spicy ham! Who’da thunk it.

When I was a kid, there was a lunch-meat called spiced ham. Ground ham, formed in a loaf, did not taste like Spam.

Did he say, ‘Move to Hawaii?’

Pig should’ve asked for “wisdom” not “knowledge.”

When I was a kid my older brother told me SPAM was “Substance Posing As Meat”

Knowledge is knowing that tomatoes are a fruit.

Wisdom is not adding tomatoes to a fruit salad.

Learn something every day here

How long have you been sitting on that one. Sheer profundity.

Deja Vu :)…

I was told, “Sam-I-Am Porked A Mother.” Is that wrong?

Conversely, “spork” does not stand for “spiced pork”.

I remember as a child Mom serving us SPAM and fried corn meal mush for breakfast. I wouldn’t eat it then and I won’t eat it now.

A long time ago I read an article on the origin of SPAM. According to it Hormel came up with the idea when they had great success with canned ham, but needed something to do with the rest of the pig and in particular the shoulder. What they did was grind it up, add a little bit of spice (mostly salt it seems), cook it in a can and call it Spam. So the Shoulder of Pork was masquerading as Ham. Wish I could find the article, but I do remember investigating it enough to decide it appeared to be legitimate.

It’s Shoulder of Pork and Ham, not a single spice in it.

Pig could use a little spice in his life.

I’ve said before- sliced thin, slice of cheese and lots of mayo between two pieces of whole grain bread.

Portmanteau or Acronym?

SPAM is an acronym: Special Processed American Meat.

From the guys that brought you Mystery Science Theater 3000, we have Rifftrax (https://www.rifftrax.com/)/

And this gem shot at the Hormel Plant in Austin.

Enjoy (best viewed BEFORE lunch).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EagPzmaVc38

I ate Spam for 20 years when i lived in Hawaii and never knew this. lol

Despite all the stories, “Spam” is just a made-up word. It doesn’t actually stand for anything, backronyms notwithstanding.

I’ve eaten Spam once in my life, sometime in the last couple of years. I was curious about all the fuss over it, and wondered what this All-American “ham” was all about (that’s in quotes because I’m not sure it actually qualifies as ham).

I like ham. There are a variety of good deli hams out there, and sometimes my wife and I buy a “ham steak” in the meat section of our supermarket, and I broil it for dinner. As for Spam, it was tolerable, but overall it was a bland, low quality ham. So I tried it in order to find out what I was missing, and the answer to that was “nothing.”

Careful, Pig lest you become the wisdom of the ages, which is to say, Spam….

Well, when you’re a pig… Nah, it’s too easy.

Actually, Pig holds the ingredients of Spam.