Net SpamIt’s well-known that some people care...

Net Spam

It’s well-known that some people care passionately about Spam. There’s an Internet site for Spam limericks and haiku--6900 of the latter--and it now boasts a Spam sonnet page. More than a dozen are currently posted there (though not always classical in meter), and additions are welcomed. So if you think you can do better than:

“O! SPAM, thy glories always manifest

“In pinkish mass, and jelly shim’ring sweet

“Atop unfathom’d mystery of meat,

“Encased in tin your honesty is truest,”

here is the address:

https://pemtropics.mit.edu/~jcho/spam/sonnets.html

The Foodie Mafia

Four years ago, Joseph “Joe Dogs” Iannuzzi, a witness in the federal witness protection program, published “The Mafia Cookbook” on the strength of having cooked for members of the Gambino crime family. Now, Crown Books has signed a $1-million contract for two novels and a combination family history and cookbook by Victoria Gotti. Her father, Gambino boss John Gotti, is serving a life sentence for murder and racketeering.

Hey, cookbook editors, what’s going on here? Like, are the Gambinos the only mob that can cook?