The product was launched in 1937. The name came from a Broadway actor at a New Year’s Eve party in 1936, won a $100 prize, and may or may not have stood for “Spiced Ham” — Hormel won’t officially say.

AUSTIN, Minn. — Spam is just canned meat with a catchy name. Yet its cultural legacy rivals any of Minnesota’s other famous exports. It fueled countless soldiers during World War II, inspired new ...

It's a wartime leftover, a palatable protein in shelf-stable loaf form, it's soft, it's pink, it's equal parts retro-futurist promise and comfort-food nostalgia. And in contemporary Hawaii, Spam is ...

The Spam Museum is a museum of hte infamous canned precooked meat products made by Hormel Food Corporation. The museum features the origin of Spam and the history of the Hormel company. It is located ...