Spam
Today I bought two cans of SPAM (yes they use all caps in the name) at the grocery store. The first observation is that spam doesn’t get a lot of respect, even at the grocery store it did not get much shelf space. Next observation was that the predominant type was turkey spam. That’s right turkey spam. Even spam is on the health kick! I did not buy the turkey spam, I wanted the real deal. I did purchase an original SPAM and a SPAM Lite to report what the difference might be. A serving size is defined as 2 ounces (the can is 12 ounces). I would think that a typical serving should be 3 – 4 ounces but based on 2 ounces we get in the traditional spam 180 calories, 16g of fat, 6g of saturated fat, and 40mg of cholesterol. In the lite version we get 110 calories with 8g of fat, 3g of saturated fat and also 40mg of cholesterol. Sodium drops from 790mg to 580mg. Spam has done a reasonable job of making their product more healthy! Now I might have to open both at the same time to give you my taste evaluation – later. The other thing that has always interested me about spam is that they eat a lot of it in Hawaii. For some humorous and factual trivia about spam, visit their website, SPAM FAQs.
So what is the real reason that I am writing about spam? I am really getting tired of the spam on the Internet. There are the spam emails (we all get them) and there are the spam forms (any website with a contact form gets tons of spam) and now there are the spam blog posts. It’s time consuming, frustrating, and annoying to have to deal with so much spam! It’s caused me to wonder if this blog was such a good idea and to loose some motivation for writing here. So now that I have that off my chest, time to go delete some more spam posts.
Coming soon, New Years Resolutions including writing more here, loosing weight, getting rich, being healthy, the usual stuff.
P.S. Just found a timely article from Computerworld on the Same Subject, Spam: The digital coal in your stocking.