Spam canned meat salesUK average pint of lager price
American Spam sales and the British pint, both more expensive every year. Two completely unrelated 2010s and 2020s inflation stories, sharing the same upward path. The graph is, in places, almost a portrait of the cost of living.
Spam sales grew from about 144 million cans annually in 2010 to a record 240 million during the pandemic, with sustained higher levels since as inflation kept cheaper shelf-stable meats relevant. The British pint climbed in price across the same span thanks to Brexit-era input costs, the 2022 energy crisis, and incremental beer-duty rises. Two completely unrelated inflation lines sharing a window because the same thirteen years saw both an American canned-meat resurgence and a British pub-pricing inflation. Different jurisdictions, same era of price compression.
Two completely independent inflation stories shared a decade. The can and the pint, both pricier.
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