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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Can't seem to get out of OT mode at
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>There is a certain kitsch appeal
attached to Spam, aka luncheon meat. It is still eaten, but Monty Python
obviously pickedup on its naffness for their famous skit. It is to
finest beefwhat crimpleneis to finest wool. Most greasy spoons
(cafés) these days would not have it on the menu, but I think it was ubiquitous
in the post-WWII era, up to the 1970s. You can probably pick up a brown
paper package of it from behind a beaded curtain if you know where to
shop....</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>As a child, I did most of my own
cooking and Irecall fondly frying up pallid-pink slabs of Spam in a pool
of weeks-old lard to accompany my chips or instant mashed potato and tinned
peas. Dessert ('Afters') would probably have been a Penguin - chocolate
biscuit, not flightless bird -before you ask...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>My ex's brother's wife works for a
publisher and she was put in charge of UK promotion for a recent Spam recipe
book, produced by the Spam Marketing Board (something like that -it
may;as wellbe the Spam Damage Limitation Taskforce). She
indicated that the book was a bit tongue-in-cheek, but mostly a serious attempt
to raise the profile of Spam. Hmmmm. During this time she secured
the nickname "The Spam Woman" and now has to wear a wig and dark glasses
whenever she leaves the house.</FONT></DIV>
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blood from his nose, <BR>was rising gently into the air, his fist held high, a
glint <BR>of gold in his hand." ["The Quidditch World Cup", GoF]</FONT></DIV>
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