Spam is a well-known luncheon meat brand in the United States. This canned, precooked meat product, made by Hormelfc in Austin, Minnesota, was one of the most famous rations throughout World War II. At the same time, Spam luncheon meat, nicknamed "soul meat", was also a "shadow" that almost every American soldier in World War II avoided, but this less popular food did help the American army win World War II.

In 1932, Jay Hormel, son of the founder of the Hormel Company in Austin, Minnesota, invented a 12-ounce can of luncheon meat. According to its ingredient list, the brick-shaped luncheon meat is made from ham, pork, sugar, salt, water and potato starch, with a small amount of sodium nitrite added to it "to keep the luncheon meat a nice pink color." It provides 170 calories and 1/3 of the daily intake of salt. Its biggest feature is that it can be stored for a much longer period of time than fresh meat, and the price is much lower than that of ordinary meat products, so Hormel hopes to make a lot of money on it. However, the luncheon meat produced by Hormel did not open up the market at first. At first, it was called "Hormel Spiced Ham" (HSH), but few people paid attention to it, and the company's executives had to ask for a new name from the community. Kehdaigncali, the brother of Dagnew, the vice president of Hormel, is a half-red actor who proposes 'pork shoulder with ham.' The abbreviation SPAM was immediately adopted as a trademark for the new product, and Kenneth Dagnew was awarded $100 from Hormel. On June 5, 1937, the first repackaged can of Spam luncheon meat was released, and the price of 40 cents per can really appealed to many poor people, which was almost 1/3 the price of an equivalent amount of ordinary meat products.

What really made Spam's luncheon meat popular was the Second World War, which was burned all over four continents. In 1941, the United States officially declared war on the German, Italian, and Japanese fascists, and millions of American troops were sent to the hot Pacific Ocean, North African deserts, and snow-capped Arctic theaters. At that time, American soldiers saw rock-solid bacon on the table most. When the Pacific War broke out in 1941, many American sailors were even eating Civil War-era corned beef, which had become as hard as mahogany and hard to swallow. So the sailors carved them into warships, painted them, sanded them with sandpaper, and hung them on the beams of the cabins.

In this context, the easy-to-store canned Spam luncheon meat shows its important role. From 1941 to 1945, the U.S. Department of War spent $373 million to purchase billions of cans of Spam luncheon meat. Luncheon meat contains almost no vitamins and minerals and is not very helpful for health, but the calories it provides are essential for maintaining a soldier's strength. In the hot Pacific Ocean, because fresh meat is difficult to preserve for a long time, Spam has become a strategic material. Luncheon meat stewed mixed vegetables heated in tin cans became a common memory for most people in World War II.

In the rave reviews about Spa Spa's luncheon meat, there is certainly no voice of American GIs on the battlefields of World War II. Because in order to maintain the yield, Spam improved the recipe and added a higher proportion of starch to it, which saved costs and man-hours while ensuring that the heat supply remained almost constant, but the result was that Spam had almost no meat taste and became a purely filling thing. Plus, Spam was one of the few food items for American GIs on the battlefield besides energy bars. For the fastidious American Young Master Soldier -- most American kids who went to the military during World War II, the food they were accustomed to was so-called "plain American food": beef, chicken, potatoes, pumpkin, ice cream, and "mom's apple pie" -- it was an unforgivable sin to eat Spam luncheon meat.

Spam luncheon meat was a common food in the U.S. military in World War II.

As a result, American GIs gave the unlucky cans that seemed to never be eaten all sorts of sensational nicknames, such as "somethingposingasmeat", "sparepartsanimalmeat", and the most widely circulated was "mysterymeat". In their eyes, Spam luncheon meat, like enemy bullets and raging diseases, is purely "something that should be destroyed". A pre-war Spam salesman, drafted into the wartime army, wrote a letter from the Pacific Front to the owner of the Hormel Company: "Dude, I never realized how delicious can Spam was in the foxhole! Hormel advertised the letter, which caused a wave of ridicule among the U.S. military.

And the traversers who are proud of the spoof and the pride of the cottage will naturally not give up the opportunity to copy Spam, so the first can of Spam in the other world was born or the taste of Pichu beast and then the GIs had a good mouth, and then the GIs were bored and then, they almost ate before the mutiny, in order to be full, and now they eat in order to eat well.

So the GIs, after eating the spam for a week, finally made a glorious noise.

In the words of the Yaman: "The kobold chefs fry the spam for breakfast, grill the spam for dinner, and serve the spam as a meat filling for dinner, and the next morning the spam pie...... God knows where the logistics quartermaster got so many spams, they must have been in barrels and barrels. Stewed spam, sautéed spam, spam steak and smeared spam meat fat!"

This product also made up a smooth slip: "Lin Youde eats his acorn noodles, Wu Shichao is chewing rye, Wu Yu is gnawing poisonous beef, they all eat better than us, because we all have a wriggling monster in our stomachs, that is, Spam luncheon meat." ”

Truth be told, although the luncheon meat doesn't taste very good, every 2 ounces (56 grams) of Spam luncheon meat contains 7 grams of protein, 2 grams of carbohydrates and 15 grams of fat, and can provide 170 calories and l/3 of the daily intake of salt.

At the end of World War II, Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, happened to meet Corey, the president of the Hormel Company, and he humorously said: "For the past four years, I and millions of soldiers have been eating your company's luncheon meat. I must admit that I have had some unkind comments about it - under the pressure of war, you know, but in any case, I have to thank you for producing the spam. Still, as Commander-in-Chief, I think I can forgive you for your only sin, that you have sent too much luncheon meat. ”

But at a time when Spam luncheon meat was demonized by countless American soldiers, their anti-fascist allies wept at the expense of this God-given precious food. Countless Spam were distributed to Canadian, British, Australian, and Soviet troops, and were no less popular than American weapons and jeeps shipped under Lend-Lease. A veteran of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division recalled that after the Battle of Normandy, he and his buddies were once complaining about endless luncheon meat in the field cafeteria, only to be heard by two visiting British officers. Without saying a word, they picked up two slices of luncheon meat from the American soldier's plate, threw them on the ground, covered them with dust, and then picked them up and ate them in their mouths. The message of this silent performance is clear: "You pampered little Yankees have nothing to complain about." Compared to what we ate, it was a feast. ”

The common people of the occupied countries of Europe and Britain had the same view. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher recalled: "I remember that it was Boxing Day in 1943 (the first day after Christmas, on which it is customary for the British to give gifts to postmen, milkmen, etc.), and a friend came to visit...... We opened a can of Spam luncheon meat. We also had some lettuce and potatoes. Friends happily said: Luncheon meat and salad, what a sumptuous meal!"

In the Soviet Red Army, the American-aided food "Spam" was also quite popular. Red Army soldiers cooked luncheon meat into a paste, spread it directly on black leba (traditional Russian bread) mixed with wood chips and chaff, and sometimes sprinkled with salt and shallots for better taste. Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev once reluctantly admitted after his famous "kitchen debate" with Nixon: "After the Germans occupied Ukraine, the big granary of the Soviet Union, without Spam, we really had nothing to feed the Red Army." ”

In Asia, Western food such as spam is also popular. Almost overnight, South Koreans threw away Japanese sushi that they had eaten for more than 30 years and picked up canned American luncheon meat. Even in faraway China, many people used to add a few slices of luncheon meat to sandwiches, and the popularity of ham sausage in China later had something to do with this.

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