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Workers begin cooking up Spam in Hormel’s expanded Iowa plant
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Workers in Dubuque have begun cooking up Spam — a pork product loved by many and mocked by others — after the completion of a $36 million expansion of a Hormel Foods plant.
Production of the canned meat began Monday, and officials toured the plant Thursday.