The Spam Museum / Unusual and Interactive Attraction
Visited The Spam Museum in Austin , Minnesota . Admission is Free and full of fun facts and exhibits . Worth stopping by if you're in the area .
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welcome everyone Adam is the womb here
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coming to you from Austin Minnesota and
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today we're gonna delve into the
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wonderful world of meet a little
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tongue-tied there out of excitement for
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the one and only spam Museum join me
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shall you you might be thinking I had no
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idea place like this existed you are not
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allowed but rest assured it does it does
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first impression this this establishment
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looks pretty freakin cool a few
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interactive experiences you can put a
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puzzle together or flip these around you
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got Paul Bunyan you turn it there's a
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sandwich you can spell out and produce
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your own can but mess it up your own can
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it's a lot more difficult than it looks
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this labyrinth of challenging labyrinth
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of fun is another mind scramble try to
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give to get this little red marble down
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to the can alright well I think I think
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I just lost up on the roof you got your
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bun you got your tomato your cheese and
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don't forget that epic delicacy there's
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a conveyor belt of it just perusing
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around almost like a toy miniature train
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but it's not it's not a train at all
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it's it's spam first things first we
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should start off with a little history
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and a story of the way the company began
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for more than 30 years George a Hormel
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had tended the company that bore his
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name I just I'll just press the button
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and let him tell the story
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the packing plant is your money what do
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you do with yourself if you don't come
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to the office every day well you're
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right about one thing son if I'm going
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to retire I have to move away from the
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plant and Austin it's a solid company at
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a firm financial footing the time has
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come for you to give up wings what
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helped them survive the financial panic
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of 1893 the sausage States here it was
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this it was the sausage and cleanliness
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clean food he stayed it doesn't spoil in
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a hurry dirty food spoils while you're
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looking at it huh lots of other products
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came out of Hormel beef stew which I'm a
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big fan of and tasty tasty chili even a
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clever advertising campaign called
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Hormel girls these lovely ladies would
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pose for photos with
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tim tracker ask mustaches and even play
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stand-up bass guitars just to promote
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the product will will will whoa what the
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heck boxed roids
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originally I thought this was the only
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spam facility of this stature the spam
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museum that was told to those who work
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here this establishment has been open
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two years but there are some other ones
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similar you know produce the product
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across whoa what
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look at this guy looks like a friendly
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dude oh look he's over there dancing on
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the TV is that you I had no idea you
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fancied yourself as a as a bit of a
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dancer you got the moves
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bizarre interactive game begins now I
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take my finger I pulled down the
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catapult I shoot this fork into the
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building yes yes yes victory has been
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achieved there it goes there it goes
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there it goes all the delicious entrees
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you can create with the product these
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all look - whoa little piggies I hear a
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frying pan yeah
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it's cooking it's it's cooking don't
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want to get it any closer than this we
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don't want to get burned by the grease
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you can hear it sizzling
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getting hungry marketing in Hawaii is
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very clever even has the the hang loose
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hand symbol on it I like it this whole
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section is full of gazebos built to
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represent different countries that have
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embraced the product and enjoy eating it
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it was very popular during World War two
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with the troops look at this
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paraphernalia stating slammin spammy and
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over here you can lend a hand by pulling
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on this rope
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let's pull on the rope
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I did it I sent an overseas shipment
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it's getting heavy though even during
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Desert Shield and Desert Storm the
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company shipped more than 14 million
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pounds 350 truckloads to the Troops and
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that's why this section has been named
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spam ville
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you just any time for another meal and
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spam fill its full mystery about what's
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under make me tonight
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I mean Jim and he's the cat history
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Jim said we've got a good this backwater
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mostly a dry biscuit or else nothing at
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all so
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how it's made work salt water potato
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starch sugar and don't forget the sodium
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nitrates if the time has come the time
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has come for me to
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go to work first step grab the can
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second step fill it get in there get in
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there meet number three a lid you got to
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put the lid lid on it cook it in the
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oven get in the oven get in there
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pressing it alright we're heating it up
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see blue inside that's hot that's warm
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put a label on it
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prease spam bull's expendabulls
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these are called spam bulls awesome
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thank you
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he has distracted me from my work we
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could multitask I could pretty sure
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oh boy
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very warm though they have just been
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converted maybe I do
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maybe one day I can be a meat warrior
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like this guy when do I get a when do I
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get armor here at the Monty Python cafe
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you can take a seat and enjoy some time
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with Vikings quite possibly the most
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fashionable flip-flops ever and if you
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fancy yourself as a musician grab the
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washboard this bass guitar or even one
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of these get fiddles you see a lot of
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these on the road in this current day 18
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wheelers with this transportation
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through the air a display shows the
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progress over time we're going backwards
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through some of the classic Hormel
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vehicles even even some train cars from
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the 1920s that's a good question
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how many spam cans tall am i just shy a
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25 between 23 and 24 I would say
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I'm six foot three and in ratio of
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I'm almost 25 first introduced in the
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year 1937 with over 13 different types
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of varieties sold in 44 countries around
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the world eight billion cans eight
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billion cans have been sold it makes me
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wonder though how many of the lip-balm
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have people walked away with I never
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knew so much about this tasty treat oh
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this has us rocketing directly into the
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gift shop where there is just an
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overload of merchandise cute little
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socks water bottles pot holders are
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those spatulas the mystery has been
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solved what it stands for
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sizzle pork and mmm I should have
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guessed can even purchase that night now
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I know his name sir can sir can't a lot
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notepads computer mouse pad got of
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course classic bumper stickers pencils
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here is this a fishing bobber hydrate
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yourself by slurping out of this pig and
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then fight cavities
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after with this toothbrush even a few
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that you don't normally see on the
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grocers shelf bacon garlic hickory smoke
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even jalapeno chorizo black pepper and
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once Steve Urkel could be proud of
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cheese football and basketball they are
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available for purchase but you have to
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reach your hand inside the torso of this
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I think hopefully he's sleeping or
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sleeping a sleeping Pig
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these are tempting I want to purchase
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one I'm holding out but even more
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tempting than those is look how freaking
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cute is this guy this is a cutting board
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I know I'm telling the truth that's a
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cutting board
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and these are shot glasses party time I
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can't forget the postcards and I'm
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noticing with this one Bigfoot
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at least we know he's not gonna go
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hungry oh my goodness can you say
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cosplay win that's gonna do it for today
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from the Museum of spam costs of
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admission to gain entry through the
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doors absolutely free so I supported the
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these pigs are wandering all these pigs
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want to know is why can't he just eat
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corn why can't he just be satisfied with
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corn