Spam canned meat sales

American belief in God declining as American Spam sales rise. Two completely unrelated household trajectories on opposite sides of the regression line: one a long secular drift, one an inflation-and-pandemic-driven canned-meat rebound.

Americans expressing belief in God has trended down over the past decade, with Gallup polling showing belief fall from about 92 percent in 2011 to roughly 81 percent by 2023 as religious affiliation declined among younger cohorts. Spam sales grew from about 144 million cans annually in 2011 to a record 240 million during the pandemic. Two completely unrelated lines on opposite trajectories sharing a window because the same twelve years saw one cultural shift away from organised religion and one inflation-driven shelf-stable-meat resurgence.

Faith retreated. Canned meat returned. The decade rebalanced its pantries.