During the Second World War, the American company Hormel shipped more than 100 million pounds of canned Spam to Allied soldiers on every front from the Pacific islands to the Soviet Red Army — and after the war, Nikita Khrushchev wrote in his memoirs that without American Spam, the Soviet Union would not have been able to feed its army

In July 1937, the George A. Hormel and Company meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota — under the direction of Jay Hormel, the 44-year-old First World War veteran son of the company’s founder, who had learned commercial canned-ham production from German meatpackers during his 1919 postwar travels and had been progressively expanding the family firm’s canned-meat [...] The post During the Second World War, the American company Hormel shipped more than 100 million pounds of canned Spam to Allied s