SPAM Plant Works Overtime: The Financial Crisis Menu
SPAM:
On the Comeback Trail
SPAM Plant Workers Feast on Overtime
The NY Times discovers that SPAM is on the menu at the Financial Crisis Cafe: Spam Turns Serious and Hormel Turns Out More
Austin, MN-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.
As RidesAPaleHorse observes, “Spam is making a comeback (as if it ever really went away).”
ALSO at DBKP:
* SPAM: Ethanol Subsides Force Families to Turn to Spam to Cut Food Costs
There’s a silver lining in every financial crisis.
When life gives you pork, make SPAM.
by Mondo and RidesAPaleHorse
image: RAPH
