Fruity Spam

I haven’t writ­ten about spam in a long while. Not because I’ve stopped get­ting it (there is as much chance of that hap­pen­ing as there was of me win­ning the Miata raf­fle the other day), but because it has become rou­tine. There hasn’t been any­thing new since I started get­ting spam in kanji.

For a while there 2 months ago the Pos­tini report I get for my work address was telling me it was stop­ping over 200 pieces a day, but now it has fallen to an all time low of around just 25 a day. A few more seem to mak­ing it through the fil­ter though, I get 4 or 5 a day when it used to be 4 or 5 a week. How they are get­ting past is a mys­tery as they are eas­ily rec­og­niz­able as spam. I got one this morn­ing that I can see how it made it by, but for the life of me can not fig­ure on its purpose:

From: Assis­tant [temp5@utlya.com]
Sent: Sun­day, Decem­ber 09, 2007 7:38 PM
To: Bog­a­r­dus, Brian [ASCO/AK]
Sub­ject: Infor­ma­tion, as instructed.

Recipe: Overnight Fruit Salad

Ingredients

1 small head cab­bage, shred­ded (about 5 cups)
1 15oz can pineap­ple chunks, well drained
2 11oz cans man­darin orange sec­tions, drained
2 cups seed­less green grapes
1/3 cups light raisins
1 1/2 cups cubed Edam cheese
1 8oz car­ton lemon yogurt
1 cup dairy sour cream

Instructions :

1. Place cab­bage on bot­tom of large salad bowl.
2. Top with pineap­ple chunks, man­darin orange sec­tions, grapes and raisins. Sprin­kle cheese atop.
3. Com­bine yogurt and sour cream; spread over salad, seal­ing to edge of bowl.
4. Cover and refrig­er­ate for 4 to 24 hours. If desired, gar­nish with lemon and lime twist, curly endive, and a grape.

National Asso­ci­a­tion of Cab­bage Pro­duc­ers rais­ing aware­ness?
Del Monte try­ing to boost sales of canned fruit?
Ter­ror­ists deliv­er­ing a toxin in seed­less green grapes?