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Old 11 Nov 2018, 09:22 PM   #26
Berenburger
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BritTim View Post
If you know exactly what spam is, you should be able to figure it out. Spam is a kind of low quality canned pork meat product. It was used for spam after a Monty Python sketch where someone trying to tell someone something normally was drowned out by shouts of 'SPAM SPAM SPAM!!!'. Ham is usually a higher quality pork meat product. The use of spam (for fake email) led to ham (for real email). It is a kind of joke.
Originally spam is canned ham.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(food)?wprov=sfti1
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