Money & Business
An American Classic: How Spam became a success
...resourcefulness. Spam ‘hits the spot’ Spam isn’t exactly the most exciting product. The original recipe included chopped pork shoulder meat with ham, salt, water, sugar and sodium nitrite. (This remained unchanged until 2009, when Hormel added potato starch in an effort to eliminate one of the product’s less attractive features: the gelatin layer created by the...
