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Demand for Spam, canned meats ‘on fire’ as relentless food inflation forces cash-strapped shoppers to scale back

Demand for cheap canned meats like Spam and Vienna Sausages is surging as cash-strapped shoppers look to stretch their paychecks in the face of relentless food inflation, according to US grocery executives.

Conagra — the conglomerate behind Duncan Hines, Hunt’s ketchup and Birds Eye — said this week its canned-meat portfolio which includes Armour Star Vienna Sausage and Manwich sloppy joes — “is on fire,” according to a Reuters report.

Miguel Garcia, who owns supermarkets in the Bronx under the Foodtown, Keyfood and Met Foodmarket brands, said his stores have started to showcase Spam, Libby’s Corned Beef and Chef Boyardee Spaghetti & Meatballs as sales have leaped 10%.

“Spam is a regular item again,” Garcia told The Post. “I’m selling them at a discount now because I’m buying more.”

Over at PJ Media, Stephen Green says that, thanks to Bidenflation, it’s time to sit in the dark and eat canned meats, but he’s unduly pessimistic, because there is another inexpensive, plentiful food source, one that’s personally endorsed by Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab:

Related article, courtesy of the Washington Post, for subscribers to read to their maids and gardeners: Lucky Little People, we’re in for a bumper crop of cicadas this year, with literally billions, even trillions of them scheduled to crawl out of the ground beginning next month.

Can you eat cicadas? Yes, and here’s the best way to catch, cook and snack on them.

Insect-eating — a.k.a. entomophagy — is not common in the United States, where prevalent cultural norms include a disgust factor. But since a 2013 report from the United Nations, advocates here have promoted insects as a sustainable protein source, leading to a wave of high-tech bug powders and snacks over the past few years. And cicadas are eaten in many other cultures. They have also historically been a food source for some Native American tribes.

What the WaPo fails to point out in this exuberant article on fun foods is that, like other stone age cultures, our Indians ate insects out of desperate necessity, not choice; soon we will be back there with them.