Travel Bug Dog Tag la Clef d'Hormel

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Owner:
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Released:
Saturday, July 3, 2004
Origin:
Rhode Island, United States
Recently Spotted:
In In Between

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We'd like you to post a description (or photo with la Clef) of your guiltiest junkfood pleasure. The one Martha Stewart wouldn't touch with a bargepole. Thrice-baked meatloaf with mustard? PB&J on Melba toast? Cold spaghetti? Ho-Ho's? M&M's? Suzi-Q's? Out with it! If your body is a sacred temple and you simply don't eat things like that, pass la Clef on to the next cache where a more truthful human being might be willing to share.

Here's my vice: crispy fried Spam and melted Muenster cheese, served on a Portuguese bolo with mayonnaise and barbeque sauce. Just like Mama Weasel used to make down on the farm!

And here's his: fruitcake. No, really.

About This Item

Recognize this thing? Once upon a time, tins of Spam came with a little key like this welded to the top. The key had a slot, like the eye of a needle, and you threaded a bit of the metal through it, and slowly, slowly turned it to tear the lid off and get to the treasure. It was a painfully difficult and savagely dangerous process (don't worry - I've sanded this one so it isn't the nine-inch whippy razor they usually were), and only the most vigilant could make it all they way around the can without wobbling off-course.

When I got down to my very last can of Spam with a key instead of a pull-tab, I let it mellow in the cabinet for years, until it became rather bulgy and frightening and I simply had to open it or call the HazMat guys. This, then, is the last of the Spam keys. The very Key. The Key of Keys.

La Clef d'Hormel!

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Tracking History (7430.1mi) View Map

Dropped Off 4/3/2011 DeltaMikeAlpha placed it in In Between Minnesota - 21.26 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 1/2/2011 DeltaMikeAlpha retrieved it from Thing #1 Minnesota   Visit Log

Mmmm, Can still smell the SPAM (or is it my childhood memories playing tricks on me).
Dropped Off 11/29/2010 D_T05 placed it in Thing #1 Minnesota - 9.75 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 11/23/2010 D_T05 retrieved it from The Woods by the Marsh Minnesota   Visit Log

Will keep it moving. Can always enjoy chips!!!!
Dropped Off 10/10/2010 NYSandy23 placed it in The Woods by the Marsh Minnesota - 257.62 miles  Visit Log
Discovered It 8/15/2010 snake_lips discovered it   Visit Log

Had a blast going through all the trackables at Cache Ba$h, along side Nebraska. Great couple. We sure did giggle alot!

Discovered It 8/14/2010 Tallpines discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered at the BA$H
Discovered It 8/14/2010 toolmans crew discovered it   Visit Log

We discovered this at the West Bend Cache Ba$h.

Retrieve It from a Cache 8/14/2010 NYSandy23 retrieved it from West Bend $1000 Cache Ba$h 2010 Wisconsin   Visit Log

Picked this up at the Cache Bash in West Bend and will take it home to Minnesota with me. You know that Hormel has its home in Austin and there is a Spam museum there. Perhaps someone will take it down there and have a picture taken. BTW, cans of sardines and coffee used to have the same key opening process
Discovered It 8/14/2010 Averith discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered while at the 2010 West Bend Cache Bash.
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