> From: David F. Skoll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Yam? Should keep even the hardest core vegans happy and like ham, it
> > rhymes with spam.
>
> :-) I love it. "Spam" is offensive to many groups (Jews, Muslims,
> vegetarians, people with taste buds) while "Yam" is sweet and
> inoffensive.
>
My problem with the term "Ham" - as the opposite of "Spam" - is that, in a
literal sense, SPAM *is* ham. (Not all ham is SPAM, though.) SPAM is an
abbreviation of the phrase SPiced hAM.
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