It’s not just ketchup preservation methods that are blowing people’s minds online. Internet gourmands had their world turned upside down after they learned just what the acronym SPAM, referring to the ubiquitous canned pork patty, stands for.
First released in 1937 by Minnesota-based food firm Hormel Foods, the infamous meat rectangle has become synonymous in culinary circles with the ultimate mystery meat.
Fortunately, the ingredients of this epicurean in-joke are not an enigma: they entail a rather simple (especially in today’s additive-saturated supermarket aisles) assemblage of pork, water, salt, potato starch, sugar and sodium nitrate.
However, the acronym has continued to frazzle minds, with food-unsavvy social media users conjuring up their own theories for what the letters represent.
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