Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Sales of Spam rise as consumers trim food costs - Yahoo! News

Sales of Spam rise as consumers trim food costs - Yahoo! News: "Sales of Spam rise as consumers trim food costs.

By EMILY FREDRIX, AP Business Writer Wed May 28, 4:06 PM ET MILWAUKEE

Love it, hate it or laugh at it — at least it's inexpensive.

Sales of Spam — that much maligned meat — are rising as consumers are turning more to lunch meats and other lower-cost foods to extend their already stretched food budgets.

What was once cheeky, silly and the subject of a musical (as Monty Python mocked the meat in a can), is now back on the table as people turn to the once-snubbed meat as costs rise, analysts say."

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