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...Immigrants fly back and call home often, so they are heavy users of airlines and long- distance telephone services. Asians make three times as many overseas calls as the average U.S. consumer. Chinese Americans drink nearly twice as much Cognac per person as the general population. Koreans eat more Spam than any other ethnic group...
...better consumer-goods managers are using these facts to advantage. Distillers Remy Martin and Courvoisier regularly run Mandarin- and Cantonese- dialect Cognac ads in Chinese newspapers and magazines. And meat packer Hormel & Co. designed some of Spam's in-store promotional displays in Korean. Others have stumbled. A New York Life Insurance Co. ad designed to appeal to Koreans failed miserably because it used a Chinese model. Citibank had to drop a New Year's holiday TV ad targeted at Chinese consumers after viewers complained about the sexual innuendo of corks popping out of champagne bottles. The bank replaced...
...Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World. A little over a year ago, a dramatic ceremony commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. For God's sake, it wasn't too long ago that there was a gala ceremony to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Spam...
...Spam sandwiches flew into the audience during the presentation of the "Nutrition Prize...
...themes consistently engender the funniest jokes. Like Crowe's other films, Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Say Anything, Singles is a film whose lewd lines innumerable adolescents will memorize and chew as cud. One of the more long-lasting laughs comes after Steve, in a childhood flashback, confuses spam with sperm while discussing procreation with the boys...