On March 22, 1994, Hormel Foods Corporation celebrated the production of its five billionth can of SPAM.

 

SPAM is produced in the United States at two Hormel Foods in plants that can produce a combined total of more than 44,000 cans per hour.

 

A can of SPAM is consumed in the United States every 3.1 seconds.

 

Today, SPAM is sold in 41 countries and is trademarked in more than 100 nations on six continents.

 

If five billion cans of SPAM were placed end to end they would circle the globe 12.5 times.

 

The SPAM trademark is registered in 111 countries.

 

Hormel Foods’ Austin, Texas, plant can store 20,736,000 cans of SPAM.

 

The SPAMburger first appeared on cans of SPAM luncheon meat in 1991.

 

The Official SPAM Fan Club was launched in 1998.

 

Austin, Texas and Fremont, Neb., are the only two United States locations where the SPAM products are produced.

 

Austin, Minn., is officially recognized as SpamTown USA.

 

Hormel Foods’ Austin, Tex., plant produces 435 cans of SPAM per minute.

 

Hormel Foods developed the country’s first canned ham, Hormel Flavor-Sealed Ham, in 1926. Eleven years later the company developed SPAM, the first canned meat product that did not require refrigeration.

 

SPAM was launched by Hormel Foods in 1937 as “the miracle meat” and promoted as “an anytime meat.”

 

The SPAM Museum, a 16,500 building at 1937 SPAM Boulevard in Austin, Minn., opened in September 2001. (1937 is the year SPAM was introduced by Hormel Foods.)

 

The SPAM Museum, a 16,500 building at 1937 SPAM Boulevard in Austin, Minn., opened in September 2001.

 

The SPAM Museum houses 4,752 cans of SPAM from all over the world and throughout the 65-plus year history.

 

As visitors enter the lobby of The SPAM Museum (Austin, Minn.), they walk directly beneath a towering wall of SPAM that is built of 3,390 cans.

 

A 400-foot long conveyor belt runs through portions of The SPAM Museum, carrying more than 800 cans of SPAM,

 

A five-foot replica of a SPAMburger hamburger is suspended in the exit corridor of The SPAM Museum in Austin, Minn. The burger hangs next to a 17-foot long spatula.

 

The SPAM Museum (Austin, Minn.) houses a letter from President Dwight D. Eisenhower that was written during World War II about the role SPAM played in feeding the Allied Forces.

 

The gift store at The SPAM Museum in Austin, Minn. – The SPAM Shop – sells more than 275 different SPAM items.

 

The SPAM Museum in Austin, Minn., features a SPAM Exam, an interactive quiz show that allows participants to show off their SPAM knowledge.

 

The SPAM Museum in Austin, Minn., offers a rendition of Monty Python’s classic SPAM skit, which has fun highlighting the ubiquity of SPAM in Britain since World War II.

 

One section of The SPAM Museum in Austin, Minn., called Global SMAM, features a world map showcasing the countries were SPAM is sold and eaten.

 

SPAM is considered a delicacy in South Korea.

 

A simulated SPAM production line gives visitors to The SPAM Museum in Austin, Minn., the chance to put on hard hats and frocks just like the people who work at a real SPAM plant.

 

A vignette at The SPAM Museum in Austin, Minn., features life-sized representations of Hormel Foods founder George Hormel and his son Jay. The vignette includes George Hormel’s circa 1903 desk and an original time clock from the early days of Hormel Foods.

 

During its first year of production SPAM captured 18 percent of the market.

 

The first SPAMmobile™ vehicle, shaped from a trolley car chassis, was unveiled in March 2001.

 

The first SPAMmobile™ vehicle, shaped from a trolley car chassis, was unveiled in March 2001. A second SPAMmobile™ rolled out in mid-April 2002, and a third unit went into service at the end of that month.

 

Each SPAMmobile™ vehicle is designed to resemble a blue and yellow can of SPAM. The sides of the vehicles portray the front of a can of SPAM and the front of each vehicle displays two eyes and a smile to give the vehicles friendly demeanors.

 

Each SPAMmobile™ is approximately 28 feet long, eight feet wide, and ten feet high.

 

Each SPAMmobile™ is approximately 28 feet long, eight feet wide, and ten feet high. Inside electric sandwich grills are used to prepare miniature SPAMburger sandwiches.

 

Each SPAMmobile™ is approximately 28 feet long, eight feet wide, and ten feet high. Inside electric sandwich grills are used to prepare miniature SPAMburger sandwiches. Approximately 500,000 SPAMburgers will be served each year by each SPAMmobile™.

 

The first SPAMmobile™ vehicle, shaped from a trolley car chassis, was unveiled in March 2001. Now there are three vehicles, and the three will travel a combined total of about 120,000 miles, operating year-round to attend nearly 675 events each year.

 

The first SPAMmobile™ vehicle, shaped from a trolley car chassis, was unveiled in March 2001. Now there are three vehicles, and each is supported by a field manager/driver and a crew of trained SPAMbassadors™.