The Power of SPAM: How a Canned Meat Went from Wartime Necessity to Hawaii Delicacy - Hormel Foods
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In 1937, in Austin, Minnesota, Hormel Foods combined pork, water, salt, sugar and sodium nitrate, looking for a way to profit off the then-undesirable pork shoulder.
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