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LIST OF DISCONTINUED SPAM
- Spam Golden Honey Grail (2004-2005)
- Spam with Stinky French Garlic (2005)
- Spam Pumpkin Spice (2019 - one day only)
- Spam Figgy Pudding (2022-2023)
- Spam Hot Dogs (Late 1990s/Early 2000s - Mid-2000s)
SPAM GOLDEN HONEY GRAIL
Discontinued: 2005
This collector’s edition Spam flavor launched with Broadway’s “Spamalot” musical in December 2004. Hormel gave just 100 cans to the first fans at the box office, then sold limited quantities at New York retailers and the Shubert Theatre. The can showed Spamalot graphics and taught fans how to “cooketh” their Spam in mock-medieval language. After the food’s discontinuation, these cans became collector’s items, with some selling for hundreds of dollars online.
SPAM WITH STINKY FRENCH GARLIC
Discontinued: 2005
Hormel created this flavor for the UK only. The garlic was so strong that it buried the pork taste completely. Food writers called it overwhelming. The flavor never crossed the Atlantic, making it one of the rarest Spam varieties ever made. Novelty is a hard sell in the canned-goods aisle generally—Chef Boyardee ran through a dozen pasta shapes and flavors before giving up on most of them.
SPAM PUMPKIN SPICE
Discontinued: 2019
This fall flavor sold out in under seven hours. Hormel blended pork with cinnamon, clove, allspice, and nutmeg, creating a breakfast-friendly meat that paired well with waffles. The idea started as a 2017 Facebook joke, but fan demand forced the company to make it real two years later. They sold it online only, in two-packs for $8.98.
SPAM FIGGY PUDDING
Discontinued: 2023
This holiday flavor mixed traditional Spam with fig, orange, cinnamon, and other spices. Hormel sold it online for $10 per two-pack, hoping to introduce Americans to British figgy pudding in meat form. The company made a cartoon called “We Wish You A Figgy Christmas” to promote it, but reviews said it tasted like spiced nothing with no pork flavor left. Even the steadiest corner of the grocery store loses varieties this way, as the roster of canned soups pulled from shelves shows.
SPAM HOT DOGS
Discontinued: Mid-2000s
These frankfurter-shaped sausages used the same Spam recipe but failed because Americans expected hot dogs to taste like beef or pork franks, not canned meat. The familiar Spam flavor didn’t work in sausage form. Hormel quietly pulled them from stores after a few years of poor sales, one more name among the foods that didn’t make it out of the 2000s.
