What's this? Pre-SPAM®? Looks kind of plain. Not so sure about it.
Now we're talking! Yum yum yum! This is where it all begins. Get ready world!
Stop the presses! Looks like someone thought up a tagline. "The Meat of Many Uses" is not bad. But it's no "Crazy Tasty!TM"
Wartime! Everything except SPAM® was being rationed, even ink and paint. So these cans had to do without. Pretty cool looking, huh?
Looks like someone wanted a new picture on the front and larger letters. SPAM® is much fancier cooked with cloves.
New logo alert! New logo alert! This new typeface and newer, prettier picture will last until 1997. Don't you just love it?
For two whole months (or 15 million cans) this limited edition label reminded everybody what a real HAM burger is. Then they went back to the 1987 label.
The can goes through its first complete make-over in 60 years. Everything is new, even the label itself. no longer printed on the can, it is a polypropelene label wrap. Neato mosquito!
SPAM® is born! Originally called HORMEL Spiced Ham, the company holds a contest to create a name as distinctive as the taste. The winner, Kenneth Daigneau, receives the grand prize... $100.
SPAMMYTM the pig, the SPAMTM mascot, makes a guest appearance on the George Burns and Gracie Allen hit radio show to help pitch SPAM®. SPAMTM radio jingles were everywhere. 
According to Nikita Khrushchev's book, Khrushchev Remembers, SPAM® is fed to Russian soldiers in WWII. Also, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher calls SPAM® a "war-time delicacy."
Haile Selassie I, Ethiopian emperor and father of the Rastafarian movement, visits the Hormel Foods plant in Austin, Minn.
SPAM® goes global as agreements with companies to sell SPAM® are established in Ireland, Canada, England and Venezuela.
SPAM® produces its 1 BILLIONTH can! That's like a thousand million cans!
Hormel Foods buys a hydrostatic cooker to keep up with the demand for SPAM®. (It takes only one operator and turns out 350 cans of SPAM® per minute.) Mmmmm. Hydrostatic.
A joint venture to market SPAM® begins "down under" in Australia.
SPAM® produces its 2 BILLIONTH can! SPAM® makes its own television debut on a sketch of Monty Python's Flying Circus - the Green Midget Café serves eggs and SPAM®, eggs, bacon and SPAM®, eggs bacon, sausage and SPAM®...
Hormel Foods introduces SPAM® smoke-flavored. 
The 3 BILLIONTH can of SPAM® is produced! That's like three thousand million!
Only six years after producing its 3 billionth can, SPAM® reaches the 4 BILLION mark! SPAM® less sodium is introduced.
SPAM® turns 50! A huge party is thrown with SPAMTM balloons and SPAMTM cake and SPAMTM appetizers and soft drinks. There may have been a piñata, too.
Hormel Foods introduces SPAM® Lite. Apparently because everybody started a diet that year.
SPAM® produces its 5 BILLIONTH can! That's a lot of SPAM®.
SPAM® changes its look to a gold can and a label featuring the world-famous SPAMBURGER® hamburger. SPAM® also merges onto the information superhighway with the launch of SPAM.com.
Hormel Foods opens the SPAMTM Museum in Austin, Minn. Over 100,000 people visit every year. Admission is free. 
SPAM® produces its 6 BILLIONTH can! How much SPAM® can the world hold? Only time will tell.
The true essence of SPAM® is finally defined with the truest words ever spoken: Crazy TastyTM!
SPAMTM Singles is released to a few regional markets. Single-mindedly delicious! 
SPAMALOT wins the Tony for Best Musical. SPAM® Honey Golden Grail is there to help with the celebration.
The long-awaited unveiling of the new SPAM.com is finally here. SPAMTM Fans around the world rejoice.
SPAMTM Singles will be launched nationally. Hooray for single servings!