Heart attack in a bottle/can

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   I just thought I'd give you some more heart attacks.
   "Heart attack on a plate" is the big one, followed by "heart attack on a
bun" and "heart attack on a stick."  Nevertheless, there are some bottle/can
heart attacks.

HEART ATTACK IN A BOTTLE
7 Google hits
7 Google Groups hits (from 10 July 1999)

HEART ATTACK IN A CAN
6 Google hits
12 Google Groups hits (from 28 February 1998)

   What food can be "heart attack in a can"?  What food is it?  What????


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>From Minnesota fat to seoul food: Spam in America and the Pacific rim

George H Lewis
8,553 words
1 October 2000
Journal of Popular Culture
83-105
Volume 34, Issue 2; ISSN: 0022-3840

There is nothing intrinsic in food to account for it being valued or
despised. -Stephen Mennell, All Manners of Food (1985)

Watch the pink slab fry, Its grease can lubricate eggs, Get ketchup ready.

-Spam Haiku, Amazing Spam Home Page (1998)

Spam, since its introduction to American culture by Hormel in 1937, has moved
far beyond the status of a mere lunch meat in a can. People now wear the Spam
logo on their T-shirts, write Spam-inspired haiku poetry, even carve Spam
loaves into intricate pink statuettes. Comedians, from Monty Python to David
Letterman, have thrived on Spam skits and jokes. Spamburger commercials are
featured items on cable country music shows. Micronesian kids have been named after
it. South Koreans honor guests by serving Spam. It has even become a generic
term for junk e-mail in cyberspace.

Clearly, Spam today is a key symbolic element of American culture both at
home and abroad, taking on similar iconic importance as Elvis, blue jeans, or
baseball-as was solemnly intoned by Hormel executives on the occasion of their
production of the five billionth blue and yellow can on March 22, 1994. As they
noted, after more than fifty years in the marketplace, Spam is still one of
the highest volume items sold in American grocery stores, even as it is also
trademarked in 92 other countries, while being sold in 45 nations from Anguilla
to Zimbabwe (Hormel 1994).

Food-and no matter how much else, culturally, Spam has become, it is also
that-nourishes the collective mind as well as the empty stomach. Or, as Claude
Uvi-Strauss once put it, some foods are "good to think," while others are "bad
to think" (87). In the case of Spam, one might also add "ridiculous to think"
to this well-known dictum. Although Spam is taken quite seriously as a "good to
think" foodstuff in many areas of the world-and especially in the Pacific
Rim-elsewhere it is also the butt of innumerable jokes, many of which place the
alleged lack of sophistication and social worth of Spam lovers at their core.
Others, perhaps of a more nutritional bent of mind, are likely to classify
Spam, at 256 calories per 4 ounce serving, as "bad to think"; "a nutritionally
dangerous heart-attack-in-a-can" (Mennell et al. 41-47).
(...)
Mennell, Stephen, et al. The Sociology of Food: Eating, Diet and Culture.
London: Sage, 1992.