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Spam Dogs Are a Thing Now. May God Have Mercy On Us All.

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Just in time for beach bod season, Hormel Foods, the purveyors of fine pulverized and canned meat products of unknown but still delicious origins, has announced that they have played God once again. This time, they’ve taken good old-fashioned SPAM and changed its form factor from mysterious gelatinous meat cube to mysterious gelatinous meat tube.

Pop your Lipitor and raise your Ozempic syringe into stabbing position, because SPAM hot dogs are here, and may God have mercy on us all.

Officially and elegantly called the “Spam Dog,” the new product is exactly what it sounds like: SPAM reshaped into a hot dog. I always fully capitalized SPAM, and I don’t know why. Please don’t question me on this.

According to Hormel’s press release, the........

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