SPAM on the Range

The Experiment

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🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

America, shall I compare thee to a can of SPAM? Thou art more decadent, salty and sweet, container of even greater mystery. In this three-part series, some of the meatiest questions the United States faces about how we work for the food we eat play out in the story of special processed American meat. The Experiment embarks on a remarkable journey to the heart of SPAM—from remote Philippine provinces, where American GIs disseminated the American dream through cans of SPAM, to Austin, Minnesota, SPAMtown U.S.A., where SPAM employed generations of meatpackers, and tore the town apart. SPAM inspired aspirations and opened wounds in the American worker’s psyche that we still yearn for and ache from today.

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0:00.0	Okay, you ready?
0:03.7	Nice and...
0:05.5	Okay, alright, so this is a song about spam.
0:12.3	Me and my festival today Lucdie, you must hate this game, I can't remember.
0:34.9	When cooked in a hot frying pan.
0:41.9	Oh, no, I missed a first, wait just a minute.
0:50.1	Coming soon on the experiment is a story of America told through the history of spam.
0:57.9	Spam or bitter and hand is loved by all in the land.
1:12.9	We chop and we slice and combine it with rice and grind it whenever we drink.
1:31.9	So that's so cool.
1:37.9	From the Atlantic and WNYC studios, a mini series, starting February 3rd.

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