Spam, Spam and More Spam

Spam...not the garbage e-mails that we all get....but the canned meat product that has made by Hormel since 1937....

I'll bet that most of us never knew that there was such a thing as the Spam Museum, built to document the history of Spam!! Well, when driving down the road in Minnesota, we couldn't resist taking the turnoff to see what it was.

We had a great time. Mom said "I guess we never know what we will be doing!". The "wall of Spam" inside the museum is made from more than 3300 cans. We had our picture taken with Spammy and watched the movie "Spam - A Love Story" in the museum theatre. The museum even had a letter from General Eisenhower, expressing his thanks for the product that was enjoyed by our servicemen.

One of the displays showed George Burns and Gracie Allen who promoted the product of their sponsor on their radio show. And, we saw a video of the Spamettes who sang about the wonders of Spam (among other songs). All of certainly wished that we could have worn those costumes...which included pointed hats...kind of like a princess hats, but not nearly as nice!

The Spam gift store had every possible Spam product, including 8 varieties of Spam....who knew there were so many?? I've never seen some of these in a grocery store (like Spam with Bacon)..perhaps we could special order it??