Spam now comes in bite-sized pieces in foil packs. (Photo by William Porter)
OK, Mile High readers: Thursday is here, and today we have another reason to go on living: Spam, that pressed-meat product that has sold millions, if not billions, of cans around the globe, now comes in a snack-pack of bite-sized, um, treats.
Yes, we were stunned, too. But Spam’s publicists contacted us this week and offered to send us a few packs of Spam Snacks. We were game. This morning, they arrived, a trio of three flavors: classic, bacon and teriyaki. $2.39 for a 1.4-ounce pack, if you need to know.
The stuff arrived in a sealed envelope with a cold-pack, plus a facsimile of a Spam tin made out of some kind of squishy foam, which oddly, closely approximated the niblets inside the packs.
OK, we know Spam is huge in Hawaii, . But still.
We gave the Spam Snacks, which remain a Hormel Foods product, the old college try. The stuff resembled, in taste if not texture, the gelatinous squares sold in grocery stores for more than 78 years. They now sit rather forlornly atop a file cabinet, waiting for a taker. Me, I’m betting some hungry sportswriter swoops in on them over the weekend.
With apologies to Henny Young: “Spam Snacks are fit for a king. Here King! Here King!”
Down boy!
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