Also known as The Pandemonious Potted Pork Festival , SPAMARAMA ™ attracts 10,000 people with a unusual sense of humour to one of the wackiest festivals in America. Held each year in Austin on a weekend close to April Fool's Day, the festival is famous for making  good old fashioned fun out of a product people either love or love to hate.

Awards are given not just for the best - and worst-tasting - recipes, but for creativity as well. Past entries have included various flavours of SPAM™ ice cream, Moo Goo Gai SPAM™, GuacaSPAMole™, and SPAMalama™ Ding Dong, a concoction made with the pink coloured meat, whipped cream, and chocolate.

Recipes books are for sale on the day, should you, god forbid, want to purchase one...