# Spam Anniversary

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-anniversary/843033>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 5, 2019, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-anniversary/843033 "2019-11-05T16:02:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-anniversary/843033/1 "2019-11-05T16:02:08Z")

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I’d like to commemorate 17,857 days since the premiere of Monty Python’s Spam skit with a poll.

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-anniversary/843033/2 "2019-11-05T16:40:50Z")

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A Spamiversary?

I’m in.

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**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-anniversary/843033/3 "2019-11-05T16:44:38Z")

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All Southerners have tasted the wonder of SPAM.

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-anniversary/843033/4 "2019-11-05T16:56:14Z")

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Could I have a Crunchy Frog instead of the baked beans?

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-anniversary/843033/5 "2019-11-05T16:59:08Z")

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Vegetarian, but I have seen Spamalot! and Forbidden Broadway’s parody Spamalton

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**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-anniversary/843033/6 "2019-11-05T17:03:01Z")

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It looks Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, baked beans, Spam, Spam, Spam and Spam is vegetarian except for the Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam and Spam.

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-anniversary/843033/7 "2019-11-05T17:07:40Z")

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I voted “Something Completely Different,” as I’ll have the lot.

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-anniversary/843033/8 "2019-11-05T17:09:03Z")

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_drags fingers away from keyboard_

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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-anniversary/843033/9 "2019-11-05T17:11:25Z")

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Spam musubi is delicious.`  
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**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-anniversary/843033/10 "2019-11-05T17:36:28Z")

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Don’t you have something without Spam in it?

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-anniversary/843033/11 "2019-11-05T17:40:00Z")

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> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#):
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> Don’t you have something without Spam in it?

Do you have any cheese?

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-anniversary/843033/12 "2019-11-05T17:43:27Z")

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The Spam is pining for the fjords, I tells ya.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-anniversary/843033/13 "2019-11-05T17:43:50Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> Do you have any cheese?

You know, a little fermented curd will do the trick.

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**Author:** ![Rough\_Draft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@Rough\_Draft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rough_Draft)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-anniversary/843033/14 "2019-11-05T18:01:57Z")

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Now I know what I’m having for dinner tonight! (Spam, bread, mustard, and Spam.)

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-anniversary/843033/15 "2019-11-05T18:06:30Z")

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He’ll have a bread and mustard sandwich on Spam.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-anniversary/843033/16 "2019-11-05T21:54:34Z")

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I’ve never had Spam.

But I think it was one of the ingredients in the haggis I had: Haggis, haggis, haggis, haggis, haggis, haggis, haggis, haggis, haggis, Spam, haggis, haggis, haggis, haggis, haggis, haggis and haggis.

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-anniversary/843033/17 "2019-11-05T22:14:55Z")

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I’d rather eat Johnson.

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**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-anniversary/843033/18 "2019-11-05T22:40:49Z")

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> [@terentii](#):
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> I’d rather eat Johnson.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that. So would my wife and some of her friends…oh yes and Captain Johnson.

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**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-anniversary/843033/19 "2019-11-06T00:11:36Z")

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Spam and eggs, no bacon - don’t let the bacon compete with Spam!

About 40 miles from where I live is Austin, Minnesota, home of the Spam museum. They have the Spam skit playing on a continuous loop. Hormel could have fought about the rights, but I give them credit for embracing it whole-heartedly. I recommend a visit.

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-anniversary/843033/20 "2019-11-06T16:52:14Z")

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> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#):
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> Not that there’s anything wrong with that. So would my wife and some of her friends…oh yes and Captain Johnson.

I say. Are you insinuating something? :dubious:

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