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Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek
I know this is a...well...silly question, but I'll ask anyway. What in the heck is Spam? My mom and dad used to send me care packages when I was in undergrad, and one time they put Spam in there. I thought it was ham when I saw it. When I put it in my mouth I was like..."Yuck, what kind of ham is this?" My roommate at the time was like, it's Spam. I never asked or knew what it was made out of. I just knew that it was really disgusting, to me. My parents never packed it in my care package again.
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Very interesting read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam
Funny thing – Phired Up Productions (the fraternity and sorority recruitment experts!) use Spam as a “reality check” for us Greeks at the beginning of their presentations. I was fortunate enough to sit through one of these a few years ago, and it was actually quite eye-opening. The presenter started off talking about Spam, and then brought a volunteer to the front. He gave the volunteer a Spam hat, Spam t-shirt, tote bag, banner, etc. and completely decked him out in Spam stuff. Everyone was laughing. Then the presenter turned to the audience and said, “I don’t know why you’re laughing – this is what all of you look like to every non-Greek on your campus.”
Then the presenter asked everyone to yell out words that came to mind when they thought of Spam, and he walked around the audience looking for specific answers. “Gross,” “Disgusting,” and “Horrible,” were just some of the things people said. After he received a good number of answers that were all pretty similar, he said, “By a show of hands, how many people here have actually tried Spam?” Maybe only 5 hands went up. Of course he was demonstrating stereotypes, and how people tend to listen to what others tell them, regardless of whether or not they’ve experienced something for themselves (relating to how some non-Greeks view us, even if they’ve had little to no experience with Greek life)
Again, very enlightening.
See, Spam is good for something!
