They purchased advertising space in a national writing magazine to plead with WRITERS not to call junk email s p a m. (Don't say it out loud if you're talking about unwanted email) They do not want people to confuse junk email with their unique meat food products. When we refer to s p a m, we should be referring to the food.

When we are talking about the canned meat, the parent company would like us to write it as follows, according to the ad: The SPAM® Family of Products.

Wow – when did that canned meat food have kids? I never knew. I went to the website to see pictures of the family. I thought maybe there would be vacation pictures of little Spammy playing with his brothers and sister Spamela on the beach or standing next to Mickey Mouse at Disney World or something like that.