Jill's Journal: Spam, who would've 'thunk'?

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Jill Meie,r Journal editor

Coming off of Saturday’s 38th annual Ed Polzine Wild Game Feed, my head is spinning in wonderment. And the reason? SPAM.

But, it’s not the kind that comes in emails. It’s the version that comes in a tin can.

That’s right, canned ham.

As it turns out, the cases of SPAM our Wild Game Feed committee put up for auction were highly popular in the bidding process. To coin a phrase, they sold like hotcakes!

Who would’ve ‘thunk’ that cases of the canned meat would bring such excitement. But it did. And as our Game Feed’s history has shown, it’s been a popular item for the wild game feeds that came before this one.

No disrespect to Hormel Foods, the company which processes the canned meat, but I’ve never been a much of a SPAM fan. I much prefer “real ham.” Growing up, that’s what I’d tell my folks when a loaf of Spam hit our family dinner table. They liked it cold and as the SPAM commercial that features the tagline, “Fryday,” they also liked it fried in the pan, too.

I, on the other hand, grabbed the peanut butter out of the cupboard and the jelly out of the frig. (I did the same for liver and onion nights, too, but that’s a column subject for another time.)

A few weeks before the Game Feed, a committee member made sure to mention to one of last year’s buyers of a case of SPAM that there would be more cases of it on the auction block or a raffle board or two. He seemed pleased to know that we’d done our due diligence in securing this canned meat product, which in recent years has expanded into several different varieties … think jalapeno, teriyaki, hickory smoked …

I do have to admit that not a single morsel of SPAM has passed through my lips since I was learning to read and write so many years ago. Maybe one of these other varieties would change my mind. After all, I wasn’t a big fan of onions as a kid – like most kids – but my palate expanded with my age, as today, I’m a full-on onion lover, so much so, sometimes they even bring me to tears.

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