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'''"Spam"''' is a [[Monty Python]] [[sketch comedy|sketch]], first televised in 1970 (series 2, episode 12) and written by [[Terry Jones]] and [[Michael Palin]]. In the sketch, two customers are lowered by wires into a [[Cafe (British)|greasy spoon café]] and try to order a [[breakfast]] from a [[menu]] that includes [[spam (food)|Spam]] in almost every dish, much to the consternation of one of the customers. As the waitress recites the Spam-filled menu, a group of [[Viking]] patrons drown out all conversations with a song, repeating "Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam… Lovely Spam! Wonderful Spam!".<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.thegoodword.co.uk/2010/09/20/the-origin-of-the-word-spam/| title = The Origin of the word 'Spam' |agency=The Good Word| access-date = 23 August 2019}}</ref>
The excessive amount of Spam was probably a reference to the ubiquity of it and other imported [[Potted meat|canned meat products]] in the [[United Kingdom]] after [[World War II]] (a [[Rationing in the United Kingdom|period of rationing in the UK]]) as the country struggled to rebuild its agricultural base. Thanks to its wartime ubiquity, the British public had grown tired of it.<ref name="Longmate"/>
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