Largest Spam Fritter Ever: There’s Ointment for that, You Know

A fish-and-chip shop owner in the UK has set the record for world’s largest Spam fritter at just under three kilos, or over six pounds for those who can’t do mental metric conversion.

Warning: rough language and bathroom humor ahead.

Now, anyone who’s ever seen me knows I’m not a health-food Nazi by any stretch, but a six-pound piece of breaded and deep-fried Spam?  

In any case, Francine Baker, who runs a fish-and-chip shop in Plymouth, created the giant Spam fritter as a result of a challenge meat company Hormel put out to its Spam fan-club members in the UK.

“We wanted to make the biggest Spam fritter we possibly could and admittedly there were many aborted attempts. However, we finally managed to master the perfect fritter, which has remained fully intact for all to see,” said Baker, according to a report on the online meat trade journal MeatInfo.co.uk.

Spam European brand manager, Rebecca Wilson, added: “Francine put a tremendous amount of time and effort into perfecting her giant Spam fritter and she has done herself proud. We have rewarded Francine with a check for £100 for her efforts.”

Spam fritters were reportedly introduced in the U.K. during World War II as a result of a fish shortage. They are commonly eaten with chips and mushy peas.

Hormel reintroduced Spam fritters as a prepackaged food in 2006.

But here’s the best part: Spam fritter is also reportedly urban slang for anus, supposedly because it rhymes with shitter—don’t ask me; I left hip a long time ago. Kind of makes those quotes above more fun to read, though, doesn’t it?