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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"/>

The televised sketch and several subsequent performances feature [[Terry Jones]] as the waitress, [[Eric Idle]] as Mr. Bun and [[Graham Chapman]] as Mrs. Bun, who does not like Spam. The original sketch also featured [[John Cleese]] as The [[Dirty Hungarian peoplePhrasebook|The Hungarian]] and Palin as a historian, but this part was left out of the audio version of the sketch recorded for the team's second album ''[[Another Monty Python Record]]'' (1971). A year later this track was released as the Pythons' first [[Single (music)|7" single]].

The use of the term ''[[Spamming|spam]]'' for unsolicited [[electronic communications]] is derived from this sketch.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spam |title=Spam &ndash; Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary |publisher=Merriam-webster.com |date=31 August 2012 |access-date=5 July 2013}}</ref>