# SPAM® conquers the world!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-conquers-the-world/565464>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 26, 2010, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-conquers-the-world/565464 "2010-12-26T23:14:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2010, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-conquers-the-world/565464/1 "2010-12-26T23:14:28Z")

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A friend sent this to me, and I thought I’d share.

[How the US cemented its worldwide influence with Spam](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12066768)

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**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2010, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-conquers-the-world/565464/2 "2010-12-27T00:13:25Z")

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> Spam trivia  
> The US supplied huge amounts of Spam to the USSR in WWII  
> Its original name was Hormel Spiced Ham - the name Spam was chosen in a competition  
> Production in the UK (in Liverpool) ceased in 1998  
> **Hormel Foods sued Jim Henson in 1995, after an “evil” boar called Spa’am featured in a Muppets movie**  
> Spam email is said to have been named after the Monty Python sketch, where the word takes over the dialogue  
> A web archive of haiku about spam (or “spam-ku”) contains 19,000 poems

Bolding mine.

What ever became of that lawsuit?

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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:** [December 27, 2010, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-conquers-the-world/565464/3 "2010-12-27T00:20:52Z")

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> [@Foggy](#):
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> Bolding mine.
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> What ever became of that lawsuit?

From the Wiki article about [_Muppet Treasure Island._](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muppet_Treasure_Island)

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> Hormel Foods Corporation, makers of Spam, sued the film production company for using the name “Spa’am” for one of the film’s warthog characters.[4] Their suit was defeated on September 22, 1995. The judge dismissed it after a trial for failure to prove damages, noting, “one might think Hormel would welcome the association with a genuine source of pork.”[5]

Moral: Don’t fuck with the Muppets. 😃