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09 March, 2007

Got some spiced ham?

Question by Shamanth Rao

This term originally comes from ‘spiced ham’ and referred to the surplus quantities of spiced ham that were circulated in England during WWII. Now, because this was bland and tasteless nobody really wanted it, yet people were forced to buy it because the Government was diverting all other food to the war effort, due to which it was parodied by Monty Python. Many years later, this term got its present meaning in another field. Which term?