Spam Mail was named after the canned meat, SPAM meat

In an episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus that aired in the 1970’s, patrons are seated in a restaurant enquiring about the day’s menu items. However, it appears that every dish includes at least a little Spam (i.e. ‘spiced ham’ from a tin). The more they enquire, the more spam appears in each dish. By the end of the sketch, a dish that previously featured ‘egg, bacon, sausage and Spam’ now only consists of ‘Spam, Spam, Spam and Spam’. In other words, Spam was taking over the menu, much the same as spam email messages can take over an inbox today. 😎