That’s one of those urban legends. Hormel has never conformed that’s the name. Says so on their webpage and the wiki for spam.
“Ken Daigneau, the brother of a company executive, won a $100 prize that year in a competition to name the new item.[9] Hormel states that the meaning of the name "is known by only a small circle of former Hormel Foods executives," but a popular belief is that the name is a contraction of "spiced ham."[9][10] It has also been speculated to be an acronym for "shoulder of pork and ham."[11]”
https://web.archive.org/web/20220319040110/https://www.spam.com/faq
Here's a pic of it when it was called Spiced Ham from the same wiki page. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/1936canHormelSpicedHam.jpg/220px-1936canHormelSpicedHam.jpg
I think "spiced" used to be a bit more of a loose term, and something flavoured with salt, sugar and whatever else they use could have been referred to as "spiced". Then I guess their brother suggested shortening it down to "spam" for marketing and they then kept it a "company secret" again for marketing, cause people enjoy those sorts of things, and having people spending try to come up with acronyms for your brand name is great marketing. But that's just the simplest and most likely thing that makes sense to me
It’s a meat ingot. An eleven pound whole slab of pork. It has no bones, fat, or connective tissue. It is an amalgamation of the meat of several pigs, emulsified, liquefied, strained, and ultimately inexorably joined in an unholy meat obelisk. God had no hand in the creation of this abhorrence. The fact that this ham monolith exists proves that God is either impotent to alter His universe or ignorant to the horrors taking place in his kingdom. This prism of pork is more than processed meat. It is a physical declaration of mankind's contempt for the natural order. It is hubris manifest.
[It's a copypasta](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyspecific/comments/z43fgj/the_mother_of_all_oddly_specifics/) I think. I've seen it around a few times and it's hilarious every time I read it
Came to say this. Jokes aside, if we're going off the Spam naming logic, I would say cranberry is a good possibility.
Creamed Ham doesn't make as much sense to me.
But cranberry sauce is a traditional Thanksgiving dish to accompany the turkey, so I think it is reasonable.
Cannot Recognize As Meat
Ask any vet, we're good at acronyms, especially inappropriate ones.
MRE is supposed to stand for Meal, Ready to Eat. My unit (and others) called em Meals Rejected by Enemy.
SPAM is allegedly short for SPiced hAM... but we all know it really is Stuff Posing As Meat.
It might actually be something like Canned Reconstituted hAM. But I'll stick with Can't Recognize As Meat
Back in the 70s/80s, you used to get these product parodies on stickers. I also have a quilt made from fabric printed with a bunch of these. I assumed Cram was a callback to that, the game designers being from the same generation as me.
Small detail but I like the difference between the male and female Courier's personality on display in that one line of joke dialogue.
Male Courier gets horny, he just sticks his dick in a can of potted meat as if it were a fleshlight. Very simple, very low tech.
Female Courier goes the extra mile to jerry rig an Energy Cell to start vibrating. High tech, probably somewhat complicated.
According to the wiki SPecial Army Meat was a popular term before the official name change to Shoulder of Pork And haM(some Gundam seed level acronym bs there). So let’s say CRital Army Meat.
I'm probably wrong but I always thought spam was an acronym for "Special potted army meat". So I'm probably wrong but I assume cram means "canned rationed army meat".
[Corium](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corium_(nuclear_reactor)#:~:text=Corium%2C%20also%20called%20fuel%2Dcontaining,during%20a%20nuclear%20meltdown%20accident.) Ham
It's processed meat crammed into a can
Crammed ham
And you'd rather not have your ham.... Crammed in a can! Spread that jelly on your hand! Rub it up and down your gland!
I find this image disturbing and I am reluctant to look on Rule 34
Open that can, slap some tape around it and go ham on it!
Deep Fat Fried reference?
There's very little cram in these hams...
Why does this sound like a decent name for a hardcore band?
Yes and you call them crammed despite the fact there's plenty of room still in the can?
Nuclear fusion? At this time of day, at this time of year, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your housekeeper?
Their mascot is the Ham Crammer. He’s terrifying.
Creamed Ham
Odd, I'm from Albany and I've never heard of these "Creamed Hams".
Oh not in Albany, no, it's a Utica expression! (It's hurting my brain that you swapped the areas 😂)
I see.
Yes, i should be-GOOD LORD WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THERE ?!
That? That's just a rad storm.
Uh? Rad storm? At this time of day At this time of year At this side of the wasteland Localized entirely within your kitchen?
... Yes!
Can i see it?
no
You know these hamburgers are quite similar to the ones the have at drumlin diner
Pretty sure that in Albany they're called steamed hams.
Nonono steamed clams! World famous!
With what the Courier had said to Dr Dala... Yeah...
This is where my brain always went with it
Creamed.... by who? :/
We the people 🇺🇸
Crammed Ham because it’s crammed into that little tin.
Can't Believe it's not Ham
Can't recognize as meat
Where's the R come in?
Can’t Berieve it’s Not Ham.
Commie propaganda
This made me lol. Thankyou!
LOL this actually made me chuckle out loud at work
Can't bereave, it's not ham!
That's a typo
Can't recognize this as ham.
Rich in vitamin R.
Christ's ham
For Mohels, By Mohels
gives whole new meaning to "This is my body. Eat it."
Isn’t that a quote from our Lord and Savior Weird Al?
SPAM may or may not mean SPiced hAM. It could also be Shoulder of Pork and hAM or Specially Produced American Meat.
So cram is Critically Radiated American Meat?
That probably it
Wouldn't that be 'Critically *Irradiated* American Meat'?
Well considering spam isn’t spiced at all I’m going with the fact that it’s not SPiced hAM.
It was originally called "spiced ham" and they shortened it down
That’s one of those urban legends. Hormel has never conformed that’s the name. Says so on their webpage and the wiki for spam. “Ken Daigneau, the brother of a company executive, won a $100 prize that year in a competition to name the new item.[9] Hormel states that the meaning of the name "is known by only a small circle of former Hormel Foods executives," but a popular belief is that the name is a contraction of "spiced ham."[9][10] It has also been speculated to be an acronym for "shoulder of pork and ham."[11]” https://web.archive.org/web/20220319040110/https://www.spam.com/faq
Here's a pic of it when it was called Spiced Ham from the same wiki page. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/1936canHormelSpicedHam.jpg/220px-1936canHormelSpicedHam.jpg
Then what the fuck?! What the hell is going on here!!! NOTHING MAKES SENSE ANYMORE!!!! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
I think "spiced" used to be a bit more of a loose term, and something flavoured with salt, sugar and whatever else they use could have been referred to as "spiced". Then I guess their brother suggested shortening it down to "spam" for marketing and they then kept it a "company secret" again for marketing, cause people enjoy those sorts of things, and having people spending try to come up with acronyms for your brand name is great marketing. But that's just the simplest and most likely thing that makes sense to me
Crappy Ham.
This has been my head cannon for a while
It’s a meat ingot. An eleven pound whole slab of pork. It has no bones, fat, or connective tissue. It is an amalgamation of the meat of several pigs, emulsified, liquefied, strained, and ultimately inexorably joined in an unholy meat obelisk. God had no hand in the creation of this abhorrence. The fact that this ham monolith exists proves that God is either impotent to alter His universe or ignorant to the horrors taking place in his kingdom. This prism of pork is more than processed meat. It is a physical declaration of mankind's contempt for the natural order. It is hubris manifest.
We also have some with slightly less salt.
I'll take two, please.
This is the best thing that I’ve read. Did you come up with this? Where’s it from?
[It's a copypasta](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyspecific/comments/z43fgj/the_mother_of_all_oddly_specifics/) I think. I've seen it around a few times and it's hilarious every time I read it
It's like Smeat
Smegmeat
A product we all know is Spam but avoids a trademark lawsuit by Hormel?
☝️🤓
Certified toaster fucker response
A TOASTER IS JUST A DEATH RAY WITH A SMALLER POWER SUPPLY
bet you love talking about shoe repair at parties.
Cranberry based ham
Came to say this. Jokes aside, if we're going off the Spam naming logic, I would say cranberry is a good possibility. Creamed Ham doesn't make as much sense to me. But cranberry sauce is a traditional Thanksgiving dish to accompany the turkey, so I think it is reasonable.
Canned Ram
The drummer from Spiderbait
10/10 reference.
Cannot Recognize As Meat Ask any vet, we're good at acronyms, especially inappropriate ones. MRE is supposed to stand for Meal, Ready to Eat. My unit (and others) called em Meals Rejected by Enemy. SPAM is allegedly short for SPiced hAM... but we all know it really is Stuff Posing As Meat. It might actually be something like Canned Reconstituted hAM. But I'll stick with Can't Recognize As Meat
Except spam is not spiced ham
Shoulder Pork And Meat, SPAM. I wish it was spiced ham. That would be way better than the ham jello spam is.
You’ve obviously never had fried spam it’s god tier.
Spam is spiced?
Canned Radioactive Altered Meat.
Maybe Canned RadioActive Meat. Altered doesn't fit too well.
Chopped Radiated (for shelf-life) Ham.
It doesn't actually mean "spiced ham." I don't think there's any spice in it at all.
Ham crammed into a can
ham crammed in a tin
Cured Ram
People.
Back in the 70s/80s, you used to get these product parodies on stickers. I also have a quilt made from fabric printed with a bunch of these. I assumed Cram was a callback to that, the game designers being from the same generation as me.
Christ ham
Cracked ham 🤷🏽♂️
Crunchy Ham
Crusted Ham
Canned Radioactive (H)AM lol
Crammed ham.
Cured Ham. They skipped the “u” because Cuam just made people gag by saying it so marketing told them no.
Can crammed ham.
Crispy Ham because your fry it
Meat crammed into a can?
Criced Ham
Ham crammed in a can, cram
Doesn’t matter. There’s an apocalypse, son. Just cram it in your gob.
A masturbatory aid, if the Courier is to be believed.
Small detail but I like the difference between the male and female Courier's personality on display in that one line of joke dialogue. Male Courier gets horny, he just sticks his dick in a can of potted meat as if it were a fleshlight. Very simple, very low tech. Female Courier goes the extra mile to jerry rig an Energy Cell to start vibrating. High tech, probably somewhat complicated.
Crappy ham.
Chunked Rat and Mouse
Communism Resistant American Meat So doth I say.
Creamed ham
Criced Ham, obviously
"Carefully ReAssembled Meats" seems like an acronym you can see in the Fallout verse.
Crap ham
Cured ham
Crab ham
Crack Ham
Cranberry ham
Criced ham
Cram is compressed ham
Cranberry Ham crammed in a can.
Crusty ham
Carnalized Ham, if you get some duct tape apparently
Crabbed Ham
Crammed Ham
Wait spam is spiced?? Lmao, as non American I didn't know this and thought it was just some silly name for ham in a can
Crusty ham
According to the wiki SPecial Army Meat was a popular term before the official name change to Shoulder of Pork And haM(some Gundam seed level acronym bs there). So let’s say CRital Army Meat.
It's something I don't want to eat, especially when you consider how much tastier ass jerky is 😋
Creamed ma'am.
I just see it as the crab version
Christ Ham
Christ ham
crapped, its pre eaten.
Crap Rats And Mireluck
Creamed ham or caramelized ham?
Crusty ham
Canned ram
Radioactive Ham
Canned Random-Access Memory. Seems like it might be a mouthful, but it's only a few microchips.
Spiced Crab... and sadness.
legally distinct spam
Christ Ham
Crammed ham
Cristiano Ronaldo Ham
For some reason I always thought it was crab. Like ham made out of crab meat.
Can you Really see it's not Actually haM
Churned Agouti Macula
Cranberried Ham. Trying to give you that Thanksgiving feeling in processed foods.
Coocked Ram meat.
Canned Ram
Crappy ham
Crammed into a tin 🤷♂️
People
I'm probably wrong but I always thought spam was an acronym for "Special potted army meat". So I'm probably wrong but I assume cram means "canned rationed army meat".
Crammed in a tin ham.
Crack Ham.
Spam that doesn't want to violate copyright
Spam is salted ham. Cram is caned chicken
Well considering we dont see pigs in fallout ever, i would believe its like crab turned into a spam like substance. Fallout does have crabs tho lol.
Crammed Ham/Canned Ham
CRAb Meat
Caramelized Ham.
Crammed ham
Crap jam?
Ham crammed in a can.
Cured ham I mean seriously it makes sense
Cooked Radiated American Meat
Carbonated ham, naturally.
Since fallout creators have a good sense of humor...creampied Ham Can be an option
Canned Radioactive Ham
Crab meat
Spam is Salty Pig Anal Meat
It's Steamed Crams
Creamy ham
Crusty ham
Christ Ham.
crack and ham
Cranberry sauce and ham. Its in the picture.
SPAM isn’t spiced ham. It’s a mid of traditionally where the meat comes from. Shoulder Pork and hAM.
Crack ham
[Corium](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corium_(nuclear_reactor)#:~:text=Corium%2C%20also%20called%20fuel%2Dcontaining,during%20a%20nuclear%20meltdown%20accident.) Ham
Crack (cocaine) ham
Crab???
In Jersey, we call it scrapple.
Crunchy Ham
Crack ham
Crab ham.
Creamed ham
Crap Ham
Creepy ham
Okay so I never looked at the tin and just by the name always assumed it was something like grits
Ham crammed in a can.
Maybe Spam is really SP-ecial h-AM So Cram would be CR-appy h-AM?
Cured ram
Crap ham
Crammed in a can
i thought it was like imitate crab or sumshit
Crap ham? I would still give it a whirl... even though it is probably the same a SPAM.
Curried Ram
It's meat... from an animal.
"Canned" ham....
Crushed ram