I, like thousands of others, use Google’s Gmail for certain things. It’s a good interface and has an excellent spam filter. Anyway part of what makes Gmail Gmail is its ability to search emails and also to mine the content of those emails to throw up news clips or other things it thinks are related to the content of the email.
I don’t take much notice of such things as I’m there to read email, not catch up on the news, but I couldn’t help noticing the odd things thrown up at the top of Gmail’s spam box. Most of them are recipes including Spam, you know, Hormel’s lovely canned meat product that used to be the main use of the word. Some of my favorites include:
Spam Fajitas – Serves 8, add extra salsa if desired [because just some salsa can’t be enough can it?]
Creamy Spam Broccoli Casserole – Makes 8 servings
Vineyard Spam Salad – Combine grapes, spam, peapods and onions in large bowl [for the more adventurous among you spam lovers]
French Fry Spam Casserole – Bake 30-40 minutes [that has to have been dreamt up by an impoverished student]
but my favorite of all is…..
Ginger Spam Salad – Serves 1, refrigerate overnight
Serves 1? Who would have thought it? He could have got all his mates round to share in the ginger spam salad loveliness. Oh, I see.