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SPAM may be famous now, but it wasn't always that way. Fact is, SPAM hails from some rather humble beginnings.
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Flash back to Austin, Minnesota, in 1937.
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You're right. There isn't much here, except for an ambitious company called Hormel.
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These good folks are about to hit upon an amazing little recipe: a spicy ham packaged in a handy dandy 12-ounce can.
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J. C. Hormel, then president, adds the crowning ingredient: He holds a contest to give the product a name as distinctive as its taste.
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SPAM soars. In fact, in that very first year of production, it grabs 18 percent of the market.
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Over 65 years years later, more than 6 billion cans of SPAM have been sold.
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