The Sporkful production team includes Dan Pashman, Emma Morgenstern, Andres O'Hara, Johanna Mayer, Tracey Samuelson, and Jared O'Connell. You can listen to the rest of “SPAM: How The American Dream Got Canned” here. Special thanks to Noella Levy and Craig Santos Perez. Sound design by David Herman with additional engineering by Joe Plourde. ![]() Fact-check by William Brennan and Michelle Ciarrocca. Editing by Kelly Prime, with help from Emily Botein, Jenny Lawton, Scott Stossel, and Katherine Wells. This episode was produced by Gabrielle Berbey and Julia Longoria with help from Peter Bresnan and Alina Kulman. Thanks to our friends at The Experiment from WNYC Studios and The Atlantic. Gabrielle sets out on a journey to understand how SPAM made its way into the hearts of generations of Pacific Islanders, and ends up opening a SPAM can of worms. It is now a staple Filipino food: a beloved emblem of Filipino identity. But 80 years later, SPAM no longer feels American. Producer Gabrielle Berbey of The Experiment podcast is familiar with that story: It’s how her grandfather first came to know and love SPAM as a kid in the Philippines. ![]() When American GIs landed overseas, they often tossed cans of SPAM out of trucks to feed hungry people. During World War II, wherever American troops were sent, they left the canned meat known as SPAM in their wake.
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