The city of Austin, Minnesota is home to a free museum that really hams it up. That’s right, Spam, the canned meat that comes in those shiny, blue rectangle cans, operates a museum dedicated to ...

in the late 1920s. According to the company’s Spam Museum, Ken Digneau, the brother of a Hormel executive, came up with the name — a portmanteau word for “spiced ham” — in a naming ...

AUSTIN, Minn. — The tall teenager with the buzz cut opened the museum door, extended a large hand and said cheerily, “Welcome to the Spam Museum.” Samuel Ehret is an official “Spambassador ...

“People always want to tell me their Spam stories,” said Savile Lord, manager of the Spam Museum in Austin. “Nobody ever comes in and shares their tuna fish stories.” It’s those Spam ...

There's a Spam festival in Hawaii, a Spam museum in Minnesota, US. Spam fed soldiers throughout the Second World War, is seen as a luxury meat in Korea, where it's used in ramen, and is now ...

But if you're lucky enough to visit the Spam museum in Austin, Minnesota, their take is that a Hormel executive's brother submitted it during a naming contest, winning himself a hefty $100.

They were performing in Austin, Minnesota. The city is the headquarters of Hormel. The company has a SPAM museum there. On his lunch break, he went to check it out. "The SPAM Museum is very nice.

In 1991, the first Spam Museum opened in Austin, Minnesota. A brand new Spam museum opened in downtown Austin. A year later, Spam introduced the Spamburger. And meat lovers rejoiced in 2004 when ...

Traveling from Minneapolis back to the Boston area after a work trip, Libed had visited the Minnesota SPAM museum during the trip. "I was traveling with a show, and we hit Austin, Minnesota ...