I grew up in West Africa and SPAM and Nedo powdered milk were luxuries
where we lived!  Although give me asparagus and a cornish game hen any day.
Is Monty Python the originator of the jokes about SPAM, or the GIs? I
enjoyed your culinary tour.

>I agree with Patrick Boylan's comments.  While I enjoy joking about Spam as
>much as anyone, in my opinion it's as good, taste-wise, as any canned food
>product on the market, and I find that few of the people who deride it and
>are astonished that I claim to like it have ever actually tasted it.  There's
>nothing "infamous" about it.  And as an historian, I'm rather intrigued by
>its importance in World War II and can't help musing about its history when I
>indulge in it.
>
>I assure you that my tastes are not strictly proletarian.  Tonight I attended
>a lecture at the National Gallery of Art, followed by a dinner provided by
>their excellent chef, consisting of the best mussels I've ever had (better
>than I've had in Brussels), Cornish game hen, wonderful asparagus, etc., etc.
> Last week I went to a fine Indian restaurant, and I've dined at expensive
>restaurants in New York, Paris, Italy, and Japan.  I can tell the difference
>between good and bad French food and wine (two of the worst meals I've ever
>had were in France--a coq au vin that consisted of the stringiest, driest
>chicken I've ever seen and a "cassoulet" that was merely a wretched, watery
>bean soup).  I'm a fan of sushi, risotto, Spanish tapas, Peking duck,
>quenelles de brochet, cold herring with aqvavit, Vietnamese food,
>bouillabaisse, cognac, Calvados--you name it.  I've been around the
>gastronomic block.  But tomorrow night I'll get home from work late and won't
>have time or energy to prepare anything resembling a gourmet meal, so I'll
>probably have a few slices of Spam, some canned baked beans, cole slaw, and a
>good English ale, and will thoroughly enjoy it.  I find no contradiction in
>this.
>
>Three cheers for Spam the Famous.  And I don't even have any stock in Hormel.
>
>David Haberstich
>
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