Jerry,

It's like hot dogs, ya don't WANT to know. I was once told S.P.A.M. was made from "pork shoulder". If that's true then a case could be made for the product based on the "living high on the hog" saying. Once upon a time if you were "well to do" you could afford the better cuts of meat from the butcher shop. The better cuts on a pig come from "higher up" on the animal. So, if you hold a pig right side up then the shoulder would be "higher up" unlike the feet (hocks) that us "poor" Germans are forced to eat. But looking at pig anatomy the ears and jowls are "high up" too. Like I said Jerry, ya don't want to know. Just fry it up with some taters.