Why is lunch meat called lunch meat?

The reason why lunch meat is called lunch meat is because during World War II, only people above the middle class were entitled to eat spam, a brand of meat, for lunch, and when the brand expanded its market to China, it was named lunch meat, and to preserve lunch meat, you can put it into the refrigerator to chill it.

Merlin lunch meat is not new to any of us, but there are two producers of Merlin, one is Shanghai Merlin and the other is COFCO Merlin. The earliest Shanghai Merlin did not have export qualifications, by the COFCO responsible for export, and then Shanghai Merlin export qualifications, but COFCO is not willing to give up "Merlin" this old brand, so the relationship between the two is more delicate. Although they are called Merlin lunch meat, but from the taste of Shanghai Merlin taste better, traditional flavor, only pork and auxiliary materials, taste more lean meat, the overall not oil, meat Q and more solid, flavor is also online.