SPAM: The OG 'Mystery Meat'

Leading the charge of 'questionable content' since 1937

A fried SPAM Sandwich - those were the days…

What an invention.

Canned meat.

Whose bright idea was this?

Nonetheless, whomever thought up this culinary delicacy was clearly an entrepreneur. They found a way to take the cheapest way out - package a cheap and plentiful commodity in the most economically-efficient manner and watch the money roll in.

SPAM - the OG “mystery meat” has been around for decades.

Heck, it even predated us Gen-Xers, making its debut amongst Boomers, back when even they were indeed babies (not yet Baby Boomers, to be clear).

According to Wikipedia, SPAM was invented in 1937; a product created to “increase the sale of pork shoulder, a cut that did not sell well.”

Imagine: in the midst of a Depression, there was a cut of meat was so distasteful that it sat languishing in the butcher shop while more (literally) palatable cuts were taken. Even without much money (it was the ‘Dirty Thirties’ after all) pork shoulders were passed over. Only, of course, until an intrepid compa…