Spam Turns Serious and Hormel Turns Out More - NYTimes.com: "AUSTIN, Minn. — The economy is in tatters and, for millions of people, the future is uncertain. But for some employees at the Hormel Foods Corporation plant here, times have never been better. They are working at a furious pace and piling up all the overtime they want.

The workers make Spam, perhaps the emblematic hard-times food in the American pantry."
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Spam, spam, and more spam, plus an occasional zoo animal. Recession vittles.