SPAM on the Range

America, shall I compare thee to a can of SPAM? Thou art more decadent, salty and sweet, container of even greater mystery. In this three-part series, some of the meatiest questions the United States faces about how we work for the food we eat play out in the story of special processed American meat. The Experiment embarks on a remarkable journey to the heart of SPAM—from remote Philippine provinces, where American GIs disseminated the American dream through cans of SPAM, to Austin, Minnesota, SPAMtown U.S.A., where SPAM employed generations of meatpackers, and tore the town apart. SPAM inspired aspirations and opened wounds in the American worker’s psyche that we still yearn for and ache from today. SPAM: How the American Dream Got Canned . New weekly episodes start February 3. A transcript of this episode is available. Be part of The Experiment . Use the hashtag , or write to us at theexperiment@theatlantic.com .

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SPAM on the Range is an episode from The Experiment by The Atlantic and WNYC Studios.

This episode is 00:02:05 long.

This episode was published on Jan 27, 2022.

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