Light holiday fare:

We just found out about Hormel's website, spammobile.com, which is about something called a Spammobile.

A short excerpt:

They're the three largest SPAM® cans in the world.

Instead of containing pure pork shoulder and ham, however, each of the three cans is actually a vehicle used to prepare sample sizes of SPAMBURGER® hamburgers. The large replicas of a SPAM® can are crossing the United States to enable people to become more familiar with the great taste of SPAM® classic and SPAM® oven roasted turkey.

Be sure to check out the schedule and the pictures of the Spammobiles at various places (we liked the one at Pearl Harbor best).



BANDWIDTH ALERT! Some images of the Spammobile are very large files (1.5 meg) reduced in size by the HTML code to modest proportions (3"x4"). A small image, whose original size matches the display size, would normally be under 100k in .jpg format, but for some reason the folks at Hormel have decided to transmit the full-blown image (which can be seen by obtaining the URL and inserting that into the browser's Address field). For the pictures taken at Orlando, Florida, there are 4 images on the webpage, each 1.5 Meg in size. That's a 6 Meg download - no picnic if you are on a modem.

posted by Quiddity at 5/30/2004 08:22:00 AM