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Date:         Tue, 10 Oct 1995 09:23:00 -0700 (PDT)
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From:         "Maher, Steve (SD-MS)" <SMAHER@PO2.GI.COM>
Subject:      Re: /f in Defense of Spam

>> wonder who ever thought up Spam? and why? every wonder why you don't have >> chicken spam? or fish spam? or pork spam? (actually, the army had some >stuff > >..Spicken..........Spish.........Spork? What about Speef? or Spurkey? >Spalmon and Speal for the richer among us... Spofu for the Vegetarians... > > >> in c-rations that was pretty close to pork spam ... with a lot of tabasco >> sauce, it wasn't tooooo bad. just couldn't take those Ham and MF's, though!) >> ;)

In the modern era, those C-rats are referred to officially as MRE's, for "Meal, Ready to Eat".

Among the people who actually have to eat them (I had the pleasure more than once in Thule, Greenland), this is called "Three lies for the price of one".

-Steve Maher smaher@gi.com '71 VW Transporter, still FS


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