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FOOD NEWS
Monty Python Turned Spam Into A Pop Culture Legend
By Wendy Gould
Stacked cans of Spam
Spam has ascended to the heights of popular culture in Britain, which can be attributed in full to a single absurdist skit by British comedy collective Monty Python.
Slices of spam with lettuce and tomato
In the famous skit, which you can watch on Dailymotion, the late Terry Jones plays a waitress at a diner yelling the restaurant’s menu to a husband and wife.
A menu board where every meal includes Spam
As the waitress continues reading the menu aloud, the audience realizes the joke—every single dish on this diner's menu contains Spam.
Stacked cans of Spam
Just when it seems like Spam has been said as many times as is physically possible, a group
of Vikings begins singing an operatic Spam chorus.
cans of Spam
Monty Python's absurdist Spam sketch is uproariously funny and transformed Spam into a veritable supermarket legend.