# True or False? \[Does spam have maggots in it?\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 6, 2008, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-or-false-does-spam-have-maggots-in-it/459066 "2008-08-06T19:10:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-or-false-does-spam-have-maggots-in-it/459066/41 "2008-08-11T21:07:27Z")
[QUOTE=LouisB] During WW ll\*, we ate a ton of Spam; I was very young and didn’t know any better. We continued eating the stuff for a couple of years after war and I actually got to like it. I ate it in college and on fishing/camping trips right to my early thirties. I tried to eat Spam a year or so ago and couldn’t stand it. Age robs one of so many previously enjoyable things. \*Yes, I remember several things about the war years and I vividly remember the day my Father came home and announced that the war was finally over. [/QUOTE] You ate a ton of Spam during WWII? Jebus, we were lucky to get half a roofing tile thinly smeared with lard. And that was at Christmas ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-or-false-does-spam-have-maggots-in-it/459066/42 "2008-08-11T21:16:48Z")
I think if you cut a few chunks of Spam and leave them out on the counter, they’ll dry out - and in doing so, shrink, causing the extrusion of little sticks or threads of semi-solid fat, which probably look a bit like maggots. I haven’t tried this though, because it’s a waste of Spam. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-or-false-does-spam-have-maggots-in-it/459066.md?page=2)