Some Spam Wartime Facts-- Part 1: Uncle Spam and Spam and Salad

From the World War II Encyclopedia.

**  SPAM was used as a "B" ration -- to be served in rotation with other meats behind the lines overseas and at camps and  bases in the States.  However, at times, GIs were eating it two or three times a day.

**  SPAM was incorporated into the language of the war.  Uncle Sam became Uncle Spam.  Food supply depots were  Spam Canyons  One military base in the Pacific was called Spamville.  A photo of it showed the word Spamville written on its makeshift watertower.  There is a replica of the base at the Spam museum.

**  Throughout 1943m Hormel hired  448 women to replace men who had gone to war.**  Soviet Union leader Nikita Krushchev wrote, "Without  Spam we wouldn't have been able to feed our army.

**  The British really liked the Spam they received.  Margaret Thatcher, then a teenager,  remembered opening a  tin of Spam on Boxing Day (an English holiday observed the day after Christmas).  She stated:  "We had some lettuce and tomatoes and peaches, so it was Spam and salad."

--GreSpam