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Pork with Ham, Mechanically Separated Chicken, Water, Salt, Modified Potato Starch, Sugar, Sodium Phosphates, Potassium Chloride, Sodium Ascorbate, Sodium Nitrite.
          
          Nutrition Facts
          
          Serving Size: 2 oz (56g); Servings: 6
          
          Calories: 180 ; Total Fat: 16g (24.62);Saturated Fat: 6g (30); Cholesterol: 40mg (13.33); Sodium: 580mg (24.17); Total Carbohydrates: 1g (0.33); Dietary Fiber: 0g ; Sugars: 0g ; Protein: 7g ;
          
          

Having to cut back on sodium can take a lot of tasty things out of the equation. Fortunately, SPAM® Less Sodium is not one of those things. It provides the same delicious SPAM® Classic flavor with 25% less sodium. There’s no sacrifice with this meat treat!
          
          
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          See alsoEdit
          
          Bologna sausageBreakfast foodCorned beefLoco moco – a Hawaiian dish that uses Spam in some versionsPotted meat food productTreetTushonka – a canned, stewed meat
          
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As listed on the official Spam website, there are numerous different flavors of Spam products, including:
          
          Spam Classic – original flavorSpam Hot & Spicy – with Tabasco flavorJalapeño SpamSpam with Black PepperSpam Low Sodium – "25% less sodium"Spam Lite – "33% fewer calories, 25% less sodium, and 50% less fat" – made from pork with ham, and mechanically separated chickenSpam Oven Roasted TurkeySpam Hickory SmokedSpam Spread – "if you're a spreader, not a slicer ... just like Spam Classic, but in a spreadable form"Spam BaconSpam CheeseSpam GarlicSpam TeriyakiSpam ChorizoSpam Boricua – seasoned Puerto Rican-style flavorSpam Macadamia Nuts – Partnered with Hamakua PlantationSpam TurkeySpam TocinoSpam Portuguese SausageIn addition to the variety of flavors, Spam is sold in tins smaller than the twelve-ounce standard size. Spam Singles are also available, which are single sandwich-sized slices of Spam Classic or Lite, sealed in retort pouches.[71]
          
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The ingredients of Spam vary according to variety and market; those of variety "Spam Classic" are: pork, ham, salt, water, potato starch, sugar, and sodium nitrite.[69]
          
          Nutritional Information for Original Spam[70]
          
          Net weight per package: 340 grams (12 oz.)
          
          Serving size: 100g
          
          Quantity per 100gEnergy1,300 kJ (310 Calories or kilocalories)Protein13g (26% Daily Value or DV)Total Fat27g (41% DV)  – saturated fat10g (49% DV)Carbohydrates3g (1% DV)Sodium1369 mg (57% DV)Cholesterol70 mg (23% DV)Vitamins and Minerals (% DV)1% Vitamin C, 1% Calcium, 5% Iron,
          
          3% Magnesium, 9% Potassium, 12% Zinc,
          
          and 5% Copper
          
          
          

Austin is also the location of final judging in the national Spam recipe competition. Competing recipes are collected from winning submissions at the top 40 state fairs in the nation. The Spamettes are a quartet from Austin who only sing about Spam in parodies of popular songs. They first performed at the first Spam Jam in 1990 and continue to perform at various events.[65]
          
          Hawaii holds an annual Spam Jam in Waikikiduring the last week of April.[66] The small town of Shady Cove, Oregon is home to the annual Spam Parade and Festival, with the city allocating US$1,500 for it.[67]
          
          Spamarama was a yearly festival held around April Fool's Day in Austin, Texas. The theme of Spamarama was a gentle parody of Spam, rather than a straightforward celebration: the event at the heart of the festival was a Spam cook-off that originated as a challenge to produce the most appetizing recipe for the meat. A rule of the event was that contestants had to be prepared to eat the Spam dish if requested by a judge. The festival included light sporting activities and musical acts, in addition to the cook-off.[68]
          
          

Beginning in 1940, Spam sponsored George Burns and Gracie Allen on their radio program.[54]
          
          During WWII, Spam was not only eaten but was also incorporated into many other aspects of the war (grease for guns, can for scrap metal, etc.); it was so prominent that Uncle Sam was nicknamed "Uncle Spam".[55]Other terms influenced by the product’s name include the European invasion fleet, or the "Spam Fleet". Furthermore, the United Service Organizations (USO) toured the "Spam Circuit".[11]
          
          In the United States in the aftermath of World War II, a troupe of former servicewomen was assembled by Hormel Foods to promote Spam from coast to coast. The group was known as the Hormel Girls and associated the food with being patriotic. In 1948, two years after its formation, the troupe had grown to 60 women with 16 forming an orchestra. The show went on to become a radio program where the main selling point was Spam. The Hormel Girls were disbanded in 1953.[56]
          
          Spam gained a reputation in the United Kingdom and the United States as a poverty food. The image of Spam as a low cost meat product gave rise to the Scottish colloquial term "Spam valley" to describe certain affluent housing areas where residents appear to be wealthy but in reality may be living at poverty levels.[57]
          
          Spam was featured in an iconic 1970 Monty Python sketch called "Spam".[7] Set in a café which only served dishes containing Spam, including "egg and Spam, egg bacon and Spam, Spam egg sausage and Spam, Spam egg Spam Spam bacon and Spam ",[58] the piece also featured a companion song. By the 1990s, Spam's perceived ubiquity led to its name being adopted for unsolicited electronic messages, especially spam email.[59] Because of its use in a line of a song in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the title of the musical version of the film became Spamalot.
          
          Spam is 

demand for kosher canned meats increased as Spam became more popular during World War II. Canned meat was briefly mentioned during wartime from 1939–43, but the true boom in kosher canned meat came in 1945. This is when kosher canned meat became the key item in Europe's Jewish war victim relief packages. Then in 1946, the Chicago Kosher Sausage Manufacturing Company registered a patent for a kosher canned meat product called Breef. Made of beef, Breef has a similar texture to Spam but tastes like corned beef.[52] Also, a kosher variant of Spam, known as Loof (Hebrew: לוף‎, a Hebrew linguistic play on meatloaf), was produced by Richard Levi, and mostly used as part of field rations by the Israel Defense Forces. A Glatt kosher version was also produced. It was phased out of field rations during the early 2000s and was finally removed from rations when production ceased in 2009.[53]

Spam is especially popular in the state of Hawaii, where residents have the highest per capita consumption in the United States. Its perception there is very different from on the mainland.[24]
          
          A popular native sushi dish in Hawaii is Spam musubi, where cooked Spam is placed atop rice and wrapped in a band of nori, a form of onigiri.[25] Varieties of Spam are found in Hawaii that are unavailable in other markets, including Honey Spam, Spam with Bacon, and Hot and Spicy Spam.[26]
          
          Hawaiian Burger King restaurants began serving Spam in 2007 to compete with the local McDonald's chains.[12][27] In Hawaii, Spam is so popular that it is sometimes referred to as "The Hawaiian Steak".[28] There is even an annual Spam-themed festival on the island of Oahu that takes place every spring, known as the "Waikiki Spam Jam.[29]Local chefs and restaurants compete to create new Spam-themed dishes, which are then sold in a massive street fair on Kalakaua Avenue in Waikiki.
          
          In 2017, Hawaii was plagued by a rash of thefts of Spam.[30] Spam had long been a target of thieves in Hawaii, but the magnitude of the thefts ramped up, with incidents in which multiple cases of Spam were stolen at once. Local retailers believe organized crime was involved.[30] This came alongside increases in thefts of some other retail goods, such as corned beef and liquor. The president of the retail merchants of Hawaii attributed the rise in retail thefts to a recent change in criminal law, which raised the threshold at which a theft .[41] In the summer of 2011, Burger King introduced its own version of a burger made of Spam, called 'BK Shot' Spam Burgers. These small burgers are filled with slices of the canned meat and were an attempt by Burger King to capitalize on Spam's  with 

United States and territoriesEdit
          
          Domestically, Spam's chief advantages were affordability, accessibility, and extended shelf life.[11] At the time it was introduced, it was the only canned meat product on the market that needed no refrigeration.[19] Statistics from the 1990s say that 3.8 cans of Spam are consumed every second in the United States,[20] totaling nearly 122 million cans annually. It became part of the diet of almost 30% of American households, perceived differently in various regions of the country.[21]It is also sometimes associated with economic hardship because of its relatively low cost.[1]
          
          Spam that is sold in North America, South America, and Australia is produced in Austin, Minnesota (also known as "Spam Town USA") and in Fremont, Nebraska. Austin, Minnesota also has a restaurant with a menu devoted exclusively to Spam, called "Johnny's SPAMarama Menu".[22]
          
          In 1963, Spam was introduced to various private and public schools in South Florida as cheap food and even for art sculptures.[citation needed] Due to the success of the introduction, Hormel Foods also introduced school "color-themed" spam, the first being a blue and green variety which is still traditionally used in some private schools of South Florida.[23]
          
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